Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One

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Learn InDesign by following step-by-step tutorials that help you create stylish layout projects

InDesign is Adobe's layout tool extraordinaire, and you can learn it's power with Deke at your side, benevolently taking you through step-by-step tutorials on real-world projects in Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One. Each of the 12 lessons takes you through real world layout design projects, covering InDesign essentials like creating and flowing text; applying text, table, and object styles; drawing and importing artwork, and using InDesign's transparency and effects tools. You can reinforce your study by watching the companion video pieces that come on DVD. When you finish each excercise, you'll have a completed piece that will prove you have the knowledge to go out and efficiently and confidently create sophisticated (or puppet-loving) layout designs of your own.

Product Details:

List price: $54.99USD
Length: 560 pages with 3 hours of video instruction on DVD
ISBN 13: 978-0596529765 / ISBN 10: 0596529767

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1. STARTING A DOCUMENT

  •      What Is InDesign?
  •      Opening an InDesign Document
  •      Setting Up a New Document
  •      Adjusting Margins and Guides
  •      Creating Custom Workspaces
  •      Using the Bridge with InDesign
  •      Saving Your Document 

Chapter 2. CREATING AND FLOWING TEXT

  •      The Mechanics of Frames
  •      Flowing Text into Frames
  •      Adjusting Text Blocks
  •      Editing Your Text
  •      Checking Your Spelling
  •      Joining Type to a Curve

Chapter 3. BASIC TEXT FORMATTING

  •      Applying Formatting Attributes
  •      Font, Size, and Color
  •      Kerning and Tracking
  •      Paragraph Spacing and Alignment
  •      Hyphenation and Composition
  •      Accessing Special Characters

Lesson 4. LISTS AND TABLES 

  •      The Power of the Indent
  •      Adding a Drop Cap
  •      Lists and Hanging Indents
  •      Dashes, Spaces, and Breaks
  •      Setting Tabs
  •      Creating a Full-Fledged Table

Lesson 5. DRAWING INSIDE INDESIGN

  •      Homegrown Graphics
  •      Drawing Lines and Shapes
  •      Fill, Stroke, Color, and Gradients
  •      Aligning and Distributing Objects
  •      Compound Paths and Pathfinder Operations

Lesson 6. IMPORTING AND MODIFYING ARTWORK

  •      The Anatomy of Import
  •      Cropping and Scaling Artwork
  •      Rotating, Slanting, and Flipping
  •      Wrapping Text around Graphics
  •      Inserting Inline Graphics
  •      Working with Anchored Objects

Lesson 7. TRANSPARENCY AND EFFECTS

  •      Gradations in Translucency
  •      Adjusting Opacity and Blending Colors
  •      Applying Dynamic Effects
  •      Using Clipping Paths and Alpha Channels
  •      Importing Layered Photoshop Artwork

Lesson 8. USING STYLE SHEETS

  •      Assembling a Custom Style
  •      Creating and Applying Paragraph Styles
  •      Updating a Paragraph Style
  •      Augmenting Text with Character Styles
  •      Employing Nested and Numbered Styles
  •      Using Table and Cell Styles
  •      Creating and Using Object Styles

Lesson 9. PAGES, LAYERS, AND XML

  •      Structure, Structure, Structure
  •      Pages, Sections, and Text Variables
  •      Setting Up Master Pages
  •      Creating and Using Layers
  •      Assigning XML Tags and Structure
  •      Separating XML Content and Design
  •      Importing XML-Formatted Text

Lesson 10. WORKING WITH LONG DOCUMENTS

  •      Binding, Synchronizing, and Indexing
  •      Assembling Documents into a Book
  •      Synchronizing Book Documents
  •      Creating a Table of Contents
  •      Generating an Index

Lesson 11. HYPERLINKS, BOOKMARKS, AND PDF

  •      Tools for Interactivity
  •      Creating Bookmarks
  •      Setting Up Hyperlinks
  •      Making Buttons
  •      Embedding Sounds and Movies
  •      Exporting to PDF

Lesson 12. PRINTING AND OUTPUT

  •      PostScript versus Inkjet
  •      Printing a Draft of Your Document
  •      Trapping and Overprinting
  •      Preflight and Packaging

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Comments

For Deke

Submitted by sisu on 10 December 2009 - 3:06pm.

I just finished your Illustrator CS4 One-On-One serie. It was awesome and I got so much from it. I am just wondering if I'll start to learn this next or maybe your photoshop CS4 One-One-One serie. I am going to use my skills for webdesign so maybe photoshop would be the right choice and I can learn this later after photoshop.

I have to say that I have had awesome time with your videos. With you, learning is so much fun. You are really multitalent guy. I don't even have word to describe how much I have been enjoying. :)

Greetings from Finland. Would be nice to see you at live course. An expert with sense of humour, rare but awesome.

Keep up the good work.

Adobe is widely used to

Submitted by rinky on 10 December 2009 - 6:13am.

Adobe is widely used to design the web based designs.

Actually, I heard

Submitted by deke on 10 December 2009 - 2:05pm.

That the Adobe is used to design the designs by designers of Web-based designs.

I love using Adobe.

Yeah, we heard that

Submitted by colleen on 10 December 2009 - 1:26pm.

That Adobe is very useful in general.

Missing Fonts

Submitted by kdock on 19 September 2009 - 9:33pm.

I have this wonderful book and CS3 Design Pro, but sadly have come across at least three files in the enclosed lessons that require fonts not provided with the program. Only one font (so far) has presented an issue -- ITC Zapf Dingbats Medium on the Pirates Cove map. Each dot displays as a box with an X through it.

Any suggestions as to which font is a good substitute?

Other than that, this book is excellent! Thanks!

Explain

Submitted by widewebway on 5 August 2009 - 7:28am.

Good Explanation!! Every Explanation should explain like this comment.

Older comments?

Submitted by graber on 10 January 2009 - 1:46pm.

How do you review older comments not in the Recent comments list?

Go here for older discussions

Submitted by androsine on 10 January 2009 - 5:19pm.

http://www.deke.com/dekeblog

Mmm Cookies！

What's on the DVD?

Submitted by onlymr2 on 9 January 2009 - 12:07am.

I'm trying to find out if there's a table of content for the DVD - just want to know what's being covered on the DVD. O'Reilly site has a dead link for the DVD content.

Any info?

Thanks,

~ Mila

Benevolently? :•)

Submitted by MACinTUTOR on 13 October 2008 - 3:59pm.

"....and you can learn it's power with Deke at your side, benevolently taking you through step-by-step tutorials......?

OK, being curious, I looked it up in an online dictionary and was rather amused to find this possible definition = "the performance of good or charitable acts and not seeking to make a profit"

Eeek! Hopefully, this does not express a sub-conscious desire on the part of your publisher to have you doing free work.

Seriously, although I have this book already, thanks for publishing the table of contents. For instructors who design lesson plans around your books as class text books, being able to copy and paste this is a helpful time-saver.

Wishing you great profits this year, O benevolent one, for you are worth every shekel you profit.

sincerely,
Thomas

p.s. I am excitedly (and patiently) awaiting the table of contents of your new Illustrator book so I can redesign my Illustrator class around it. Huzzah!... 'cause I've seen the videos and know it will be an excellent textbook.

Thomas Benner
Art Institute of Austin
http://www.masteradobe.com

Benevolence, thy name is profit

Submitted by deke on 14 October 2008 - 3:37am.

Well, Colleen wrote this one, so yes, it's possible she was hoping I might be obliged to work for free. Then again, Colleen is Wordygirl, so it's possible she has a deeper understanding of benevolence than we mere twelve-word troglodytes might imagine.

For my part, while I derive monetary profit, I would never invoke a psychological one. Not consciously, anyway. (Tho perhaps secretly I do.)

Re:

Submitted by halloween on 13 October 2008 - 6:15am.

very interesting DVD-rom, thanks