Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One

By Deke McClelland
December 2007
Pages: 560
ISBN 10: 0-596-52976-7 | ISBN 13: 9780596529765
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Nothing speeds up learning like personal training from a skilled tutor. With Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One, you get the equivalent of private lessons with author Deke McClelland, a world-renowned expert on digital graphics and design. Deke offers you DVD video with more than two hours of professional instruction and advice to accompany the book's easy-to-follow text. The book itself includes 600 full-color images, diagrams, and screenshots to illustrate every key step.
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Nothing speeds up learning like personal training from a skilled tutor. With Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One, you get the equivalent of private lessons with author Deke McClelland, a world-renowned expert on digital graphics and design. Deke offers you DVD video with more than two hours of professional instruction and advice to accompany the book's easy-to-follow text. The book itself includes 600 full-color images, diagrams, and screenshots to illustrate every key step.

This highly popularly learning approach is quite simple: "read the book, watch the video, do the exercise". Each chapter has corresponding video lesson that demonstrates the techniques covered. The combination of text and video instruction is uniquely effective. You proceed at your own pace and work on relevant, real-world projects as you master fundamental and advanced concepts, theories, techniques, and best practices for making the most of InDesign.

This comprehensive multimedia training solution teaches 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 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

Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One puts you on the fast track to becoming a real InDesign expert. Once you're finished, you'll use InDesign smarter, faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.

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Deke does it again, April 29 2008

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Submitted by FireboyCreative - Vancouver InDesign User Group [Respond | View]

Adobe Indesign CS3 One-On-One by Deke McClelland is a tremendous resource for the new and experienced InDesign user. Written for the new user, it starts with the basics of the ID CS3 user interface and starting your first document. As you progress thru the project based material you are exposed to invaluable tips and tricks that will make you an ID pro in no time.

"Pearl of Wisdom" are insightful little bits of info found throughout the book, that are like pull out quotes, but are Deke's thoughts about some unique experience that he thinks you should know about to make the project go smoother.

The book comes with nearly 3 hrs of video training that is unique to this book (not extracted from his nearly 150hrs of training on lynda.com). It's advised that you watch each video before or after reading the accompanying chapter in the book. The process of Read, Watch, Do is one of the most effective ways of learning InDesign. As well, Deke's humorous writing style makes you think he's right next to you.

For experienced users, Deke successfully explains complex subjects such as XML tags. As well, even thru the basics chapters, experienced users can pick up productivity tips and hidden features that only Deke can find.

I recommend this book for all users.

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Media reviews
"Deke really gets it. He understands what it takes to pick up InDesign CS3 for the first time and make it work for you. I recommend this book to anyone who needs immediate results."
-- Michael Ninness, Senior Product Manager, Adobe InDesign

"What I like about Adobe InDesign CS3 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 522 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...If you are looking for a training package to learning InDesign, then Adobe InDesign CS3 One-On-One is truly a must own book. It is highly recommended."
-- T. Michael Testi, Blogcritics Magazine

"What was really impressive to me was how well each topic was illustrated with screenshots and overall design templates and tips. By skimming through the first 4-5 chapters I was able to get up to speed very quickly just reading the book and doing a selected few exercise in InDesign where I wanted to tryout some publishing variations. But the gradual step up and the chapter on Bridge and Photoshop CS3 were just what the doctor ordered. And the included CD had some wonderful live tips - I was surprised, normally I am not enamored of CD content(I think of it as the stuff that didn’t make the cut for the book proper)...In sum, Deke’s InDesign CS3 One on One more than met my needs. And I am a traget hard to please: not a beginner, but not a pro either. I have already returned to it for additional tips and recipes."
-- Jacques Surveyer, Photo Finishings

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"Deke really gets it. He understands what it takes to pick up InDesign CS3 for the first time and make it work for you. I recommend this book to anyone who needs immediate results."
--Michael Ninness, Senior Product Manager, Adobe InDesign