Adobe InDesign CS4 One-On-One
by Deke McClelland, David Futato
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Author: David Futato, Deke McClellandEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-19
ISBN: 059652191X
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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Book Review: Best guide out there for novice to intermediate use.
Summary: 5 Stars
I read Amazon.com reviews and thumbed through various CS4 InDesign guides at local retailers for a week before deciding to purchase this book. I couldn't be happier with my choice to buy the One-on-One guide. This book and accompanying disc present 3 specific benefits for me:
1. Method. With each chapter, step one is to watch a video (each is approximately 10 minutes). The video shows an actual project being manipulated (in high resolution, so you can see all the icons clearly) and "sets the hook," so to speak, with regard to what the reader will learn in that chapter. With so many tools and options, it's nice to be able to see and say, "Oh - THAT'S why it's worth learning." Next is to work, step by step, through the provided sample exercises. This was much easier for me than books where the techniques are listed, and then there's an instruction like, "now, try this on the supplied examples." If you do something wrong, your document doesn't look like the full-color illustration in the book, and you know exactly where you went wrong. Last is a little vocab quiz to ensure you got the key concepts and terms. I find the approach to be ideal; the work is going quickly and I'm retaining a lot.
2. Detail level. I'm going to need to use InDesign in my work extensively. Which is not to say that I'm going to be expected to lead seminars on it; I need to know how to command it in day-to-day operations, and know enough about the program to consult other sources for the really fine details that I might not know offhand. This book nails that usage range. I don't expect to know every keyboard shortcut and every way to manipulate every character (and am appreciative that the author's scope takes that into account). But upon its completion, I'll know how to do virtually everything I'll need to do - and will know enough about the various menus and functions that I'll be able to get real results when I look up a more detailed operation online or in a bible-type guide.
3. Tone. Others have complained that Deke needs an opiate:) While I'm amused at the comment, I respectfully disagree. Sure, he's a tad sales-y, but he's interesting. No approach could appeal to the entire audience to whom this book is marketed - but I find that I'm not bored, it's easy to pay attention to the text in the book as well as the accompanying videos, and I get the vibe that Deke actually, PERSONALLY knows what he's talking about and wants you to see what he does and WHY he does it the way he does. It's easy to see that he has real world expertise; he's not just reading the same book you are and "presenting" the highlights. Brief, occasional notes about how the CS4 compares and relates to previous versions, other Adobe products, and competing products like Quark and PageMaker underscore this as well. The included sample documents run the gamut from cheese and humor to modern and professional. Bottom line - yeah, Deke is selling his product - but he's also trying to maintain the attention of students he's never met, and impart serious knowledge about a complex program. I'd take him over 80% of my college professors any day of the week, and am learning a ton with his approach.
One other ancillary benefit is that Deke imbues other non-Adobe lessons too. I've written copy for years on a freelance basis, but have always handed off my stuff in Word format. As a guy who's going to be writing proposals 9 to 5 every day, and who is going to be responsible for getting them into InDesign and printed respectably, I appreciated the little bits of editing know-how as well. I haven't incorporated all of them yet (as evidenced by my double spaces between sentences here...that's going to take some time), but there's some very practical advice here also to be gleaned from a guy who makes his living publishing books with this particular program.
I love this product, and I'd give it six stars if I could. Buy it and you won't be disappointed.
Summary of Adobe InDesign CS4 One-On-One
Master the fundamentals of Adobe InDesign with One-on-One, Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system. Adobe 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.
With Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One, you'll quickly learn how to design professional layouts for print and digital publishing with this program. You get complete step-by-step instructions and hours of DVD-video demonstrations with Deke McClelland's unique and effective system. Learn techniques in the book, see how they're done in the video, and apply the knowledge to hands-on projects offered in every chapter.
Coauthor David Futato's Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One Top Ten New Features Roundup
David Futato is a full-time freelance designer and the design mastermind behind the One-on-One book series. Having worked in design and production in both publishing and advertising for the last fifteen years, he brings real-world experience to his projects?he's wrestled with nearly every kind of layout, file format, schedule, press issue, and client one can imagine. In addition to the One-on-One books, his credits include the interior book designs for the Animal and Digital Media series from O'Reilly Media. David holds a Bachelor of Science in writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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10) Spread-view rotation. If you have landscape pages in your document, this feature will save you a trip to the chiropractor. Just rotate the spread view from the Pages palette, and like magic, InDesign suddenly rights itself.
9) New Style option in dialogs. This may seem like something trivial, but the amount of time saved adds up quickly. In CS4, whenever you are asked to specify a style (say, for a nested style or an automatic number), you now have the option of creating a new style from within the dialog. No more backing out, creating the new style separately, then heading back to the original dialog box.
8) The Preflight palette. Quite possibly the biggest new feature in the bunch. The plethora of options tucked away inside the Preflight palette may well have designers pulling at their hair (or ignoring the palette entirely), but prepress folks and standards-sticklers will fall in love. Real-time preflighting as you work? Awesome. No more surprises when your files go to the vendor? Even better.
7) GREP nested styles. This is InDesign's most obtuse new feature, hands down. GREP? Regular expressions? Still, if your eyes haven't glazed over yet, they're probably popping. Users with an understanding of regular expressions will love the power and flexibility of this feature?automatically styling any URL, or phone number, or anything else that can be found with a regex search, regardless of where it appears in the paragraph.
6) Contact-sheet cascade placement. Sure to be the new best friend of catalog-makers, asset managers, heck, just about anyone with more than a handful of images to keep track of. Take a stack of images loaded on the Place cursor, and drag a box on the page. InDesign automatically sizes and distributes the images in contact sheet form in the box you just drew.
5) The tabbed-window interface. This is a controversial feature for sure, and a couple of OS X users are crying foul. Early on, I was one of them?I'm a Mac guy through and through, using Boot Camp to run Windows when necessary?but I became a tabbed-window convert. You now have the option of docking every document in a tabbed window. Click a tab to switch documents. Drag a tab to reassign priority. Just like I could never give up my tabbed web browsing, I'm hooked on the tabbed-window interface in CS4.
4) Place-gun constrained frames. Even though it may sound dangerous, in actuality it's the best new image placement feature. With an image loaded onto the place cursor, click and drag?InDesign automatically constrains the frame to the proportions of the image. What's more, it displays the scale percentage of the image on the fly while you drag.
3) The Links palette. Rebuilt, retooled, and revamped in CS4, the Links palette is no longer just a place to check for red question marks or yellow triangles. Split into two panes, the first is the traditional list you know and love (though now it's customizable), and the second gives you more information than you can imagine about the selected image. Best feature? You can see the effective PPI directly from within InDesign?something I'm thrilled to finally see.
2) Smart Guides. The Smart Guides are an amazing collection of... well, it's hard to say exactly what they are. How they work, on the other hand, is straightforward and yet magical?InDesign compares the object you're working on to those around it on the page, and snaps into place. The Smart Guides work for aligning, scaling, cropping, distributing?you name it, they've got it covered. And the Smart Measure cursor puts the most relevant dimensions right at the same point as your mouse, so no more looking back and forth between what you're doing and what the control palette dimensions say.
1) Cross-references. Sure, it's not flashy (or visually stunning) like Photoshop CS4's OpenGL navigation, or even InDesign's Smart Guides. And some people may never use the feature?rarely do you need cross-references in print ads or other single page documents. But as an author, a book designer, a layout artist?whatever hat I'm wearing at the moment?my bread and butter are books, and a book without cross-references is little more than a doorstop. I've been waiting, no clamoring, for this feature for years. No more entering five-hundred-plus figure references by hand! The cross-reference formats are fully customizable and work beautifully across book documents. Best of all, they automatically translate to links when exported to PDF.
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