For any beginning to intermediate level course in Computer Graphics, Web Graphics, Graphic Design, Digital Imaging, or Visual Communications that uses Adobe software applications such as Acrobat, After Effects, FrameMaker, GoLive, Illustrator, InDesign, LiveMotion, PageMaker, Photoshop, or Premiere. Developed by the software-training experts at Adobe Systems, the Classroom in a Book Series offers complete, self-paced lessons for learning the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Each book includes a CD-ROM with customized files to guide students through the lessons and special projects.
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com Review
If you've read the manual already and want more training in Adobe InDesign, the tutorials in Adobe InDesign 1.5: Classroom in a Book can help you get up and running in a few hours. You'll be walked through exercises, step by step, using project files and graphics provided on the companion CD-ROM. You'll learn also how to set up new documents, manipulate text, add or create graphics by using the drawing tools, set your monitor for better color management, and prepare your files for output.
Version 1.5 of InDesign has several new features, including the ability to place text along a path and justify lines of type vertically (that is, adjust the leading to fill out a text frame). This edition of the book refers to these new features, although some get only a cursory mention. For example, one of the coolest new tools is the eyedropper, which can copy and apply text or graphic-formatting attributes quickly. But the usefulness of this tool, particularly with respect to text attributes, never is fully explored in a tutorial. On the other hand, the book does have extensive information on the new ability to create clipping paths from Photoshop alpha channels, which even allows choosing from multiple saved clipping paths.
The original edition of this book had an index that was less than thorough; this seems to have been corrected here. Keep in mind, however, that the Classroom in a Book series is best when you read the book from front to back, following along at your computer. The books in the series generally are less effective for jumping around and troubleshooting. Although Adobe InDesign 1.5: Classroom in a Book doesn't make the best desk reference, you can refer back and apply the lessons to your own projects once you've finished. New users especially will appreciate the well-constructed exercises, which incorporate many features, tools, and issues in each lesson. --Angelynn Grant
From the Back Cover
What better way to learn this new page-layout program than from the people who developed the software? Adobe InDesign 1.5 Classroom in a Book gives you what no other book on InDesign can: comprehensive lessons on using the features and tools you'll find in the latest release, developed by the experts at Adobe and tested in its classrooms and labs.
The self-paced lessons cover the gamut of desktop publishing tasks, leading you step-by-step through key areas of the program, including layout, typography, and color. You can follow the book from start to finish, increasing your skill level with each lesson, or skip directly to the lessons that interest you. This building-block approach has made Classroom in a Book the bestselling series of hands-on training workbooks. An accompanying cross-platform CD-ROM contains all the files you need to complete the lessons. Platform: MAC WIN