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Books : Adobe Indesign 2.0 Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book (Adobe)) |
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Books : Adobe Indesign 2.0 Classroom in a Book (Classroom in a Book (Adobe)) |
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Dewey Decimal Number: 686.225445369 EAN: 9780201787207 ISBN: 0201787202 Label: Adobe Manufacturer: Adobe Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: April 16, 2002 Publisher: Adobe Sales Rank: 576640 Studio: Adobe Editorial Review: Readers begin with a Quick Tour tutorial that briefly covers all of the basics--working with tools and palettes, placing graphics and text. It's a great first dip into the water for those coming from Quark XPress. From there, the lessons go further in-depth on specific areas: the work environment, setting up a new document with master pages, working with colours and gradients, importing and linking graphics, drawing with vectors, adjusting typography and editing text, creating tables, working with XML, exporting to PDF, colour management and much more. The lessons work best when followed sequentially; each includes many smaller tips that become helpful in later lessons. Sidebars feature handy information from the User Guide. (Although a trial version of the application does not come on the CD, it is available for download at Adobe.com.) It's the Photoshop and Illustrator-type features within InDesign that make it so much more fun to use than rival, Quark. This book shows you how to do cool things with transparencies, blending modes, feathered edges and drop shadows, a lot of which is new to version 2.0. There are also exercises that cover less wow-inducing (but just as time-saving) tools for creating indexes and making tables. Frequent illustrations and screenshots help readers monitor their progress. Chapter summaries and review questions let beginners test their confidence in the material before moving on and allow experienced users to skip material they already know. The book has a few minor errors, a couple of which might just be platform related. Despite these, Adobe InDesign 2.0 Classroom in a Book is the best way to learn a powerful application that makes print design a breeze. --Angelynn Grant Related Items:
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 Rating: - Highly recommended but beware the typosThe Adobe Creative Team has made a very good job of teaching the principal skills required to start using InDesign 2.0 productively. It is different from the usual beginners' guides by being completely free of boring anecdotes and waffly sections about how great the software is. Instead, you get 14 big lessons (complete with ALL required tutorial files on CD-ROM), no-nonsense explanations and advice, and a surprisingly comprehensive chapter on colour management across InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator. My only warning is that in Adobe's hurry to get this publication out quickly after the release of InDesign 2.0 itself, it suffers from a number of errors. I don't mean poor spellings (no complaints here) but fast-checking problems such as references to commands under the wrong menus, incorrectly named dialog windows and so on. It's not a big deal, and only occurs a few times in the entire book, but it may just be enough to stop the beginner dead in his tracks halfway through a lesson. More savvy users will spot the errors immediately and skip over them, but if you're InDesign-savvy, why are you reading this book in the first place?
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