Adobe InDesign CS4 One–on–One - Softcover

McClelland, Deke; Futato, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059652191X ISBN 13: 9780596521912

Publisher: O′Reilly, 2008

Synopsis

Master the fundamentals of Adobe InDesign with One-on-One, Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system. Abode InDesign CS4 One-on-One includes step-by-step tutorials, more than four hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and hands-on projects to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills. Once you read about a particular technique, you can see how it's done first-hand in the video. The combination is uniquely effective.

Whether you're new to InDesign or a creative professional interested in the groundbreaking features of CS4, Deke's conversational style and carefully structured lessons guide you easily through the program's fundamental and advanced concepts and techniques. More than 900 full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots illustrate every key step. With this book, you will:

• Learn at your own speed with 12 self-paced tutorials
• Create professional-looking documents with InDesign's powerful text and graphic tools
• Discover how to create, import, and modify artwork
• Apply a sequence of style sheets to format an entire document in one operation
• Compose a fully interactive document with bookmarks, hyperlinks, buttons, sounds, and movies
• Test your knowledge with multiple-choice quizzes in each chapter

And more. Written and produced by a Photoshop expert with well over 20 years of experience, Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One simulates a classroom environment that provides one-on-one attention as you proceed from lesson to lesson. You'll learn to use InDesign faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.

About this title

About the Author

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.David Futato has a bachelor of science in creative writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, so -- with such a unique degree -- O'Reilly seemed like the logical choice. He's worked for O'Reilly for almost eight years, doing a little bit of everything, including production, editorial, and most recently book interior design. He lives just outside of Boston with his husband Ron, their two cats, Cairo and Minsk, and more CDs and vinyl than any one person should own.

Edition details

• Publisher: O′Reilly
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059652191X
• ISBN 13: 9780596521912
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 530