Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-one - Brossura

McClelland, Deke

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ISBN 10: 0596100973 ISBN 13: 9780596100971

Casa editrice: O'Reilly Vlg. GmbH & Co., 2006

Riassunto

Digital publishing guru Deke McClelland has written over 80 books on computer design and imaging that have won numerous industry awards. An Adobe Certified Expert, Deke is a featured speaker at The InDesign Conference and a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team. Deke hosts the exhaustive and entertaining DVDs Total Training for Adobe Photoshop and QuarkXPress to Adobe InDesign CS-Making the Switch. In 2002, Deke was inducted into the National Association of Photoshop Professionals' Photoshop Hall of Fame.

Nothing speeds up learning like personal training from a skilled tutor. Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One delivers that invaluable learning experience by giving you the closest thing possible to private lessons with author Deke McClelland, a world-renowned expert on digital graphics and design. You can proceed at your own pace, working on relevant, real-world projects, while mastering fundamental and advanced concepts, theories, techniques, and best practices for making the most of InDesign. With over two hours of Deke's professional instruction and advice, and 600 full-color images, diagrams, and screenshots to illustrate every key step, you'll soon be on the fast track to becoming a real InDesign expert.

This comprehensive multimedia training solution shows you how to:

Create professional-looking documents with InDesign's powerful text and graphic tools

Import text from a word processor, move and scale existing text frames, and check spelling

Use the line, pen, and geometric shape tools to draw complex graphic objects

Apply fill and stroke, specify process and spot colors, and design custom rules

Use the new Adobe Bridge to organize and manage your digital assets

Import and modify layered artwork from Photoshop and Illustrator

Create inline graphics and anchored objects that move automatically with your text from one page to the next

Create, edit, and link paragraph styles, complete with nested character styles

Apply a sequence of style sheets to format an entire document in one operation

Build object styles with embedded paragraph styles in order to format entire frames at a time

Use master pages to automate repeating page features

Automatically generate a table of contents

Compose a fully interactive document-with bookmarks, hyperlinks, buttons, sounds, and movies-and export your creation to a PDF file that can be played on most computers

When you're finished with Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One, you'll use InDesign smarter, faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you ever thought possible.

"The combination of hands-on lessons and video demonstrations is invaluable. Deke really brings InDesign to life." -David Blatner, coauthor of Real World Adobe InDesign CS2

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Informazioni sull?autore

Electronic publishing pioneer Deke McClelland is a popular lecturer on Adobe Photoshop and the larger realm of computer graphics and design. He has hosted the interactive "Video Workshop" CD that shipped with Photoshop Versions 7, CS, and CS2, as well as hundreds of hours of tutorial-style video training for industry leaders lynda.com and Total Training. In addition to his video work, Deke has written 84 books translated into 24 languages, with more than 4 million copies in print.One of the most award-winning writers in the technology market, Deke received the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Computer Book in 1989. Since then, he has garnered more than 20 honors, including seven independent citations from the Computer Press Association. In 2002, he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.In 2004 Deke created the One-on-One™ book series, which uses video, step-by-step exercises, and hundreds of full-color illustrations to provide readers with the closest thing possible to private instruction from a recognized expert. These ambitious, self-paced guides include the bestselling Adobe Photoshop CS2 One-on-One and Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One. Late in 2006 Deke teamed up with vanguard online training company lynda.com to bring the One-on-One training strategy to a line of video products, beginning with Photoshop CS3 Beta One-on-One Preview, the first series available for the public beta of Photoshop CS3. In addition to the full 20-plus hour Photoshop CS3 One-on-One, his plans include Illustrator One-on-One and InDesign One-on-One. Among Deke's current lynda.com videos are Photoshop Elements 5 Essentials and the #1 ranked Photoshop CS2 Channels and Masks (available for immediate viewing at www.lynda.com/deke).Deke is an Adobe Certified Expert, a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team, and a regular speaker for the Photoshop Fling cruise seminars. Deke lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two super-powered boys.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: O'Reilly Vlg. GmbH & Co.
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0596100973
• ISBN 13: 9780596100971
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 493
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile