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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
Customer Reviews:
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 Thick and thirsty
Adobe InDesign CS2 one-on-one comes with a CD-ROM tutorial. Nearly 500 pages of hands-on how-to: Very useful in learning to use the software and read the Adobe esoterica. This book is well worth the price.  Too much Talk not Enough Lesson
A disappointing book that is not specific enough and you spend too much time searching for answers.
McClelland tries to be a comedian while teaching his lesson's but it turns out to be blah blah blah. In all fairness he gives some pointers that could be helpful but too much time is spent on blather and not enough on the mechanics of the software. It's like watching a cliff hanger, he stops just short of giving you the information he promises but in this case you have to go and find the answers yourself or do his silly exercises that are time consuming to learn anything.
I am new to page layout and need specific answers to the mechanics of the program which I found this book to be frustrating to work with. I ended up getting a different book and am learning Indesign mostly without frustration.  Horrible, Horrible Book, Don't Waste your Time and/or $$$
I have been in school for a while and have used many books to teach me how to use software that I have never used before. This is by far, the most horrible book I have ever had to use. Mr. McClelland spends too much time joking in this book. Also, I hate that not all of the information is in the book since there is a CD that accompanies it. I feel that all of the information should be accessible from the book itself and the CD should just be a bonus. Also, there were many pre-made documents that they showed you how to change, but not necessarily much to show you how to go from start-to-finish. All of the MS Books were very direct and instructional. And, they almost always were able to anticipate any errors that may be made. It was easy to follow and learn from unlike this pathetic excuse for an instructional manual.  Great Mix of Lessons and Videos
This book provides the best way to learn InDesign outside of a classroom; it may even be better than that. Deke explains how his course runs, then provides helpful instructional materials and exercises that are delivered with a common-sense approach that is easy to understand.
The DVD that is included with the book was very helpful. It shows you each step of a lesson and you can replay it as many times as you wish. You won't have classroom instructors doing that. Then, after viewing the video lesson, you go to the book for a step-by-step detail on how InDesign works.
Deke's method of instruction is clear, understandable and logical. After I worked with this book I was so sold on Deke's abilities as an instructor that I bought his book on Adobe's Photoshop.
I can't give a higher recommendation; he knows how to teach and has written a tremendous book on InDesign.
This Book Is GREAT
Am a a novice to InDesign CS. I received this book on Dec 26th. By Dec 28 I had solved several problems on documents I had been working on.
I like the idea of the DVD video. I think it is great that Deke give all the short cuts. I speeds my flow and reduces my carpal tunnel pains.
The information is informative, well illustrated and on target.
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