Adobe InDesign CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job [Paperback]

Cate Brosseau Indiano (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 067232802X | ISBN-13: 978-0672328022 | Publication Date: September 9, 2005 | Edition: 1

Adobe InDesign CS2 is a powerful, but complicated, page layout technology. Sure, learning how to use the various tools and techniques is important, but what you really need and want to know is how to put those tools and techniques to use to complete projects at work. That's where Adobe InDesign CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job comes into play. The InDesign tools and basics are introduced to you in the first three chapters. After that, you will accomplish a variety of real-world job tasks with detailed instructions that allow for personalization. The projects you will learn to tackle include:

• Business Collateral
• Marketing Materials
• Newspaper/Magazine Ads and Posters
• Brochures
• Interactive Reports/Presentations
• Monthly Newsletters
• Product Catalogues
• Order Forms
• Annual Reports

Tips, tricks and notes provide you with the information that you need to carry over what you learn in Adobe InDesign CS2 @ Work: Projects You Can Use on the Job to your job. Put your knowledge and talents to work!

 

 "I'm really impressed with Adobe InDesign @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job. Cate Indiano found just the right balance of easy step-by-step instructions and pertinent background information, including workflow, project management, and production issues. The example layouts and files are well-designed and provide real-world context for the entire book. You won't find any fluff here - just a combination of clear and purposeful text and screenshots."

Adam Pratt, Application Engineer, Adobe Systems, Inc.

 

"Cate Indiano has produced a thorough, well thought out book. She's an excellent instructor and her focus on making sure her readers learn what they need to know to produce work efficiently in the real world is very evident in this book."

Sterling Ledet, Sterling Ledet & Associates

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About the Author

Cate Brosseau Indiano is the principal at DeskTop Media, a well-respected training company that specializes in the Adobe product line. She specializes in InDesign and the Creative Suite. She has earned certifications as a trainer, which required her to demonstrate excellence in instructional design as she taught her classes.

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Introduction

When we first started discussing this series, I kept thinking of it as curriculum and then I adjusted my thinking to "self-taught" curriculum. Remember, I'm a trainer—hands-on, onsite, instructor-led is our mantra. Throughout the years, I can't remember finding a published work I felt contained exercises geared to our customer base. They either were too basic or taught features that would be infrequently used.

So, in developing the outline for the book, it was important that I kept in mind you, the reader. Who are you? I imagine you are in some form of marketing, communications, publishing, or graphic arts. Your educational background might be in design, but odds are it's not. You might have hired into this job or your job might have evolved into this position. You might have some minimal page layout experience; you might not.

But one thing's for sure: You need a practical guide to step you through common layouts and publications using the features of an application you barely know, if at all. In addition, you probably have little or no experience with regard to media production and distribution. So, in addition to InDesign skills, you are going to get a healthy dose of practical production advice from me.

Organization of This Book

This book is divided into two parts:

• Part I, "Getting Started," takes you on a tour of InDesign CS2, the newest version from Adobe. It was important not to make assumptions about what you do and do not know about InDesign, so we've made sure that all the tools, palettes, and basic conventions of InDesign are covered, as well as how it integrates with other Adobe products.

• Part II, "Projects," contains a variety of projects you'll likely be asked to complete on the job. The projects start from the common, but fairly simple, assignment of developing business collateral and move through progressively more complex projects like preparing advertisements, product sheets, brochures, interactive presentations, newsletters, catalogs, order forms, and even annual reports. This portion of the book will prepare you for almost any marketing requirement you may be asked to fulfill.

• If you have your own resource files, fonts, logos, and images, feel free to use them as you work through each project. But if you don't have those assets readily available, we've provided them for you on the publisher's website.

• In Part III, "Appendixes," you'll find Appendix A, "Glossary," which lists and defines the key terms used throughout the book. Appendix B, "Resources," provides additional information on popular plug-ins you might want to get, links where you can find user groups and associations, training information, and a list of web and print publications.

Downloading the Book's Project Files

The chapter-by-chapter project and media files are available at the publisher's website via Zip files.

To download the book's project files, go to http://www.samspublishing.com. Enter this book's ISBN (without the hyphens) in the Search box and click Search. When the book's title is displayed, click the title to go to a page where you can download the project Zip files.

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Caution - Be sure you extract all the files from each Zip file with the option (for PC users) Use Folder Names selected so you can get the same folders on your computer as included in each Zip file. Mac users can simply double-click the downloaded Zip file and the folder structure should appear intact, as named.

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Conventions Used in This Book

This book uses the following conventions:

• Italic is used to denote key terms when they first appear in the book.

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Tip - Tips provide shortcuts to make your job easier or better ways to accomplish certain tasks.

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Note - Notes provide additional information related to the surrounding topics.

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Caution - Cautions alert you to potential problems and help you steer clear of disaster.

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The end result is a book that should sit on your desk as a reference for you to use. It should contain the majority of projects you will ever execute. I hope it's useful to you—I wrote it as if you were my student.

© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (September 9, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067232802X
• ISBN-13: 978-0672328022
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,344,174 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Practical Book, November 13, 2005

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Michele "Michele" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe InDesign CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job (Paperback)

Adobe InDesign CS@ Work by Cate Brosseau Indiano (ISBN 0-672-32802-X) is a great resource for someone like myself. InDesign is the one application in the Creative Suite that I have the least experience. That said, the first and third chapters of the book seems unnecessary. It first tries to convince you of the advantages of InDesign and chances are if you are reading the book, you have already purchased the application. The third chapter deals with converting from PageMaker or Quark - again a decision that has already been made.

The heart of the book is really the project section. It takes real world projects and takes you step by step how to create them. The projects include developing print collateral, creating an advertisement, designing a production sheet and a business brochure. This section is enhanced by an online resource, where assets used in the projects can be downloaded - so you don't have to worry about stopping and creating content while trying to learn the program. Of course, if you want to substitute own your content, no problem.

Ms. Indiano uses clear and concise language, easy to understand and follow. There are sufficient pictures included, so that you can follow the visual cues, as well as the written word. After a few sessions with this book and InDesign, you'll be up an running too!

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource ..., October 20, 2005

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Kevin Ruse - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe InDesign CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job (Paperback)

Adobe InDesign CS2 @ work is an excellent resource for those employees responsible for creating the company collateral. The author has chosen projects that are commonly required from fairly simple business cards and letterheads to sophisticated newsletters and annual reports. As a technical trainer, I am often teaching marketing professionals, administrators and their assistants how to use InDesign. This book is perfect for this market. Many people who are not professional designers, including small business owners, are tasked with creating catalogues, order forms and more and simply do not know where to begin. Or perhaps they have tried on their own, only to find their local printer telling them that they did it all wrong. This book will guide you with simple step by step instructions for using a powerful software application. Your projects will look professional and perhaps more importantly, you will understand the printing process and how it affects your design projects. I highly recommend this book for people who need to produce business reports and company collateral, but may not use InDesign every day as a working professional. By the time you are finished you will be using the software like a professional graphic artist.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource for InDesign training and more, September 22, 2005

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S. M. Smith (Kansas City, MO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Adobe InDesign CS2 @work: Projects You Can Use on the Job (Paperback)

Cate Indiano's "InDesign CS2@Work" is a good resource not only for those wanting to learn more about this versatile desktop publishing program, but also anyone looking for tips or information on getting started with your own design projects.

Each chapter contains step-by-step instructions for creating different items like letterhead, product sheets and catalogs, while teaching various tools and functions of the program along the way. A well developed table of contents and index also make the book one you'll go back to when you need more information on these functions in the future.

In addition, Indiano's years of experience in graphic design enable her to go beyond the application itself and offer important tips for creating successful projects and working with printers and output agencies. Files are available on the publisher's website to give you the opportunity to practice what you're learning if you don't yet have files of your own. As an experienced InDesign user, I highly recommend this book for anyone getting started with InDesign CS2.