Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One

By Deke McClelland
First Edition  February 2006 
Pages: 528
ISBN 10: 0-596-10097-3 | ISBN 13: 9780596100971
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This unique, hands-on book comes with two hours of video instruction (hosted by McClelland himself) on DVD to get you working with InDesign right away, building relevant, real-world projects while mastering fundamental and advanced concepts, theory, best practices, and techniques for making the most of InDesign--to make the most of your page designs.
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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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    Great teaching tool for beginners & Quark users....,  August 23 2006
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    Submitted by k daniels   [Respond | View]

    thank you for donating this great book!

    it has been a great help to a long term Quark user and beginning In-Design user. The video lessons along with the exercises in the book plus the tests at the end of each chapter make it seem as if you are in class with a teacher. It is a very through system of learning.

    i won the book at an In-Design Users group meeting in Orlando, Florida and did not know what a prize that I had!

    Quark really has to step up to the plate. In-design gives such precise movement to the smallest detail that it is amazing..

    Thank you, Mr. McClelland!!!




    Adobe InDesign CS2 one-one one by Deke McClelland,  July 12 2006
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    Submitted by Judy Grieve   [Respond | View]

    This book is a fabulous "teacher." The video clips followed by the exercises made InDesign more manageable and understandable for me. I do not use InDesign to its fullest and Deke showed how to better utilize the InDesign "power." I won this book as a door prize at the Orlando InDesign Group meeting. I am so glad I attended the meeting because I definitely understand InDesign much better now. Judy Grieve, Orlando FL


    Confident Competent Complete,  April 18 2006
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    Submitted by Steve Carr   [Respond | View]

    At last I've found a book that I can really learn from. Deke's lessons stick in my mind and I feel I can really engage with real world projects. The demonstrationson the DVD focus your mind for lessons in the book.

    I'm not a pro designer but the book is pitched at the right level and the book reads like a conversation, rather than a lesson. I can pace since though each chapter covers a lot everything is in managable chunks.

    The sample lessons are reaalistic but more importantly fun and as said give you confidence that "hey I can do this". The text and I really do mean the type is readable and the screen shots are detailed and clear.

    This is the first software book that I am learning from and yes I will be buying Photoshop CS2 1:1 when I finish this book on In-Design.

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    "Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One is 528 pages of extremely intuitive training for Adobe’s page-layout application. It truly is the book I wish I had when I first started using InDesign several years ago...O’Reilly has a well-known reputation of publishing quality books with very helpful information, tutorials, and support material. Adobe Indesign CS2 One-on-One is no exception."
    -- Lee Bennett, About This Particular Macintosh (ATPM)


    "A book/media package that delivers personal training via a full-color, step-by-step guide supported by a two hour DVD-ROM produced by Total Training, and presented by the author, publishing expert Deke McClelland. The text is arranged in a course fashion, and presented as if the author were teaching the reader in a formal training environment. This is an excellent way to get guided hands-on instruction. The book is beautifully designed and a joy to read or skim. Any Adobe InDesign CS2 user would find something new and interesting in this well-done volume."
    -- Michael Kleper, The Kleper Report on Digital Publishing


    "What I like about Adobe InDesign CS2 One-On-One is that not only is it a great learning tool that reinforces what you are learning, by showing and explaining, but it takes its time to do so. These are not short chapters. At 528 pages the average lesson is 30 to 40 pages in length. There is a lot of information, but you have the time to learn at your own pace."
    -- T. Michael Testi, Blogcritics Magazine



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    "O’Reilly has a well-known reputation of publishing quality books with very helpful information, tutorials, and support material. Adobe Indesign CS2 One-on-One is no exception."
    --Lee Bennett, About This Particular Macintosh (ATPM)