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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | 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. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Deke McClelland | | Paperback: | 560 pages | | Publisher: | O'Reilly Media | | Publication Date: | November 19, 2008 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 059652191X | | Product Length: | 9.68 inches | | Product Width: | 8.1 inches | | Product Height: | 1.08 inches | | Product Weight: | 2.76 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.6 inches | | Package Width: | 8.0 inches | | Package Height: | 1.1 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 17 reviews |
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38 of 38 found the following review helpful:
 Designed Well Dec 02, 2008
By Brett Merkey
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Recently my employer bought me and team members the Adobe CS4 suite. Photoshop was the key product in the suite I had to focus on -- but I also set about exploring the other products. The one that interested me most was InDesign. In my days as a technical writer, I used Framemaker and wanted to compare how the tools functioned.
I decided I needed a bit of help and I immediately thought of the O'Reilly "one-on-one" series. The Deke McClelland books (packages, really) in that series for Photoshop really impressed me [ Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One (Digital Media) ] and [ Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One ] and as it turns out, he also did one for InDesign so I did not hesitate to get it.
McClelland and co-author David Futato used InDesign to produce their book and I cannot imagine a better proof of the abilities of the tool and the mastery of that tool by the authors. There is not even one page here without richly detailed color illustrations laid out in continually interesting ways.
The other key element that makes this a winning package is the accompanying DVD with megabytes of lesson example files and several hours of video instruction that is also entertaining. These aren't those 3 in. by 2 in. movies some books or sites have. The movies play at 1280 resolution so you don't need a magnifying glass to see all the controls being demonstrated.
The book is over 500 pages long but is not overwhelming. The 12 lessons are paced really well. The independent designer or graphics person will probably appreciate the self-paced hands-on approach. People in a classroom scenario, on the other hand, will go for the structured exercises and quizzes (with answers). *Everyone* will benefit from the extra tips and the way the videos are integrated into the content of the book.
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14 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Best guide out there for novice to intermediate use. Aug 18, 2009
By Stratplayer
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.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
With over 800 color photos and screen shots Mar 14, 2009
By Midwest Book Review
A video is paired with lessons and exercises to make for an excellent classroom-in-a-book format perfect for classrooms and self-learners alike in Adobe InDesign CS4 One-On-One. Here are all the basics for using InDesign more efficiently, from self-paced tutorials paired with real-world projects and applications to over four hours of new video instruction, multiple-choice quizzes for testing, and all backed by the expertise of an author with over 20 years of professional experience. With over 800 color photos and screen shots - what more could you want?
22 of 27 found the following review helpful:
 get Realworld InDesign CS4 instead May 20, 2009
By W. A. Lohaus
i used quark as a magazine editor (at Mondo 2000), hated quark and swore to never use it again. i used Macromedia Freehand for my layout and design needs for periodicals and books after that (1997-2007) and became highly proficient with it. meanwhile, Pagemaker became InDesign, and kept getting better and better. finally in 2008, for a 3-400 page book, i became convinced of the need for InDesign, and got it.
InDesign has features 5 layers deep. i first got Deke McClelland's book, with DVD video tutorials, in order to get an overview. It was helpful in showing me, rapidly, many features i would have taken months to uncover. cool. but deke mcclelland, bless him, is like a spider monkey on crack: his voice and mannerism in the video are stressful just to listen to. the guy needs some good opiates, or at least a little loving THC. anyway, the book, InDesign CS4 One-on-One, does not balance the practical and the metaconceptual well enough for me. the exercises are directive but do not tell why we are doing what we are doing (just do this, then that, then this, and see, we have a cake!); i need more integration.
i got kvern and blatner's book, Realworld InDesign CS4, and it is the one i use easily and joyfully to plumb the depths of InDesign. it sits on my desk. and because of their knowledge (and wry humor), i enjoy it every time i open it.
mr.kvern has been writing great references for desktop publishing software for over a decade (i started with his Realworld Freehand 8 which is a better guide to the intricacies of freehand than many Freehand 9, 10 and MX books). mr.blatner is also a skilled technical writer (see his invaluable Realworld Scanning and Halftones); together they are unmatched.
get Realworld InDesign CS4, and discover this wonderful software and all it can do.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Terrific Text Jun 20, 2009
By C. Payne
"Christo"
Terrific introduction to the InDesign netherworld. I find it amazing how the author simplifies the relatively complicated applications at hand and how entertaining he makes the journey.
A simple glance through the pages of these series books shows how much more in command the authors are of layout and simple, good, logical, and entertaining aesthetics. The book is a visual treat; I find the other Adobe tutorial texts pretty tedious just to look at.
And, sorry W.A., but I enjoy the video tutorials as much as the text. No voice/manner annoyance for me.
I highly recommend the deke press series.
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