Video description
This is the complete DVD that comes with the
bookAdobe InDesign CS3
One-on-One.
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-Oneputs 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.
Table of Contents
Navigation and Text
A Quick Overview
Navigation
Text and Frames
Typeface, Style, and More
Tables and Graphics
Spaces, Indents, and Tabs
Pencil, Pen, and Shapes
Ways to Place Art
Dynamic Effects, Styles, and Pages
The New Effects Palette
Duplicating Formatting Attributes
Managing Your Pages
Books, Hyperlinks, and Output
Making a Book
The Final PDF File
Previewing Color Separations
Final Comments