InDesign CS5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) [Paperback]

Christopher Smith (Author), AGI Creative Team (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 23, 2010 | ISBN-10: 0470607815 | ISBN-13: 978-0470607817 | Edition: 1

Got designs on learning InDesign? Let this book-and-video training package be your instructor!

Adobe InDesign is a leading design and page layout program that allows you to create and produce stunning publications, from brochures to full-length books. The latest version of InDesign features enhanced features for creating sophisticated page layouts and an executing an efficient workflow. This unique full-color book-and-video training combo makes learning the new features of InDesign less intimidating. Thirteen self-paced lessons explain how to design, produce, and develop a streamlined workflow for page layout. The complementary lessons featured in the downloadable videos are each approximately five minutes long and demonstrate the concepts and features covered in the lesson.

• Walks you through the basics of designing and developing sophisticated page layouts with the newest release of InDesign
• Features full-color, step-by-step tutorials in the downloadable videos that complement the topics covered in each lesson of the book
• Allows you to absorb each lesson at your own pace

Adobe InDesign CS5 Digital Classroom is just like having your own personal instructor guiding you through each unique lesson.

Note: DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. These materials are available for download upon purchase.

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From the Back Cover

You have a personal tutor in the Digital Classroom

If you want expert instruction that fits into your schedule, the Digital Classroom series delivers. Adobe Certified Experts guide you through 13 lessons, helping you learn essential InDesign CS5 skills at your own speed. Full-color, step-by-step instructions in the book are enhanced with video tutorials on the DVD. With this Digital Classroom training package, you have your own private instructor showing you the easiest way to learn InDesign CS5.

• Set up InDesign CS5, understand the workspace, and learn to use the tools

• Build documents and master pages in standard or custom sizes

• Format text, wrap it around graphics, and flow it across multiple pages

• Import graphics, layered Photoshop® orIllustrator® files, movies, and animations

• Apply color and create custom colors and gradients

• Prepare documents for printing, create PDFs, and generate XHTML and Flash files

A Complete Training Package!

• Full-color, step-by-step instructional book

• Video training from Adobe Certified Experts

Tutorials and lesson files on companion DVD

About the Author

Christopher Smith is President of American Graphics Institute (www.agitraining.com). Hired by Adobe Systems to introduce InDesign 1.0 to publishers worldwide, he has delivered InDesign training to thousands of creative professionals and helped develop the Adobe Certified Expert exams. As a member of the AGI Creative Team, he oversees training programs and the Digital Classroom book series.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (August 23, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470607815
• ISBN-13: 978-0470607817
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,696 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview, November 9, 2010

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When it was time to tweak up my skills on InDesign CS5 I found this book to be invaluable. It offers a happy combination of readability and commitment to detail and the video tutorials matched my learning pace very well. Good value.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT!!!, December 30, 2011

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Great book highly recommended. Check the website for corrections on the disk. I have experience with adobe but not with InDesign

10 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It wasn't much help..., September 18, 2010

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This review is from: InDesign CS5 Digital Classroom, (Book and Video Training) (Paperback)

If you have lots of time, like a real, real lot of time, maybe this set of disc and book would help. But if you have some product knowledge (I've run PageMaker from infancy, and this was an upgrade from InDesign 2); or if you use the manual just when you are looking for the specifics of how to do something (and not starting learning the product from scratch) you'll be as sorry as I am if you buy this.

Now, maybe it's just me - but I only read the manual when I can't find something in onscreen help, or when I have a few moments of free time and I'm trying to figure out something particular. So here's what I found out -- you just can't do that with this set. You need to play the tutorial disc starting at the beginning, and follow along in the book doing each lesson - building Adobe's imaginary projects. I spend enough time building my own projects, I really didn't want to build theirs. For me, this set was an incredible waste of time and money - I don't use it at all.

While I'm complaining: For $200 bucks, Adobe should also have included a real manual with their product. You know, something you can flip through the pages and find what you're looking for fairly fast. I was pretty unhappy when I called to ask for one because it wasn't in the box, and their rep started singing a song and dance routine about how they are "Going Green" and saving the planet by just having the help files online. I guess they haven't figured out paper is from a renewable source: trees. Save your $50 (which I also thought is a real lot for a book or a book and a disk). Bottom line: after about 2 hours with this, I haven't picked it up since.