InDesign CS4 One-on-One

Deke's experience and approach have you creating professional-quality documents in no time.

There's no better way to learn InDesign than with Graphic Master Deke at your side, taking you through hands on projects that will lead you to professional results. 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: $49.99USD
Length: 560 pages with 4 hours of video instruction on DVD
ISBN 13: 9780596521912 / ISBN 10: 059652191X

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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