Instant InDesign is the first comprehensive guide to Adobe InDesign that focuses exclusively on the art of template design and production. You’ll learn everything you need to know—from key design principles and basic template architecture to advanced automation techniques. With practical tips and real-world examples, you’ll discover how to translate your great ideas into industrial-strength templates. Magazine, newspaper, book, and catalog publishers, as well as ad agencies, graphic design firms, and independent designers can all use this guide to boost productivity and enhance their creative process. Instant InDesign is the best single resource for fast and efficient page layout and production. This comprehensive guide shows you step by step how to: 
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<li> Use the powerful new features in InDesign CS3—text variables, frame fitting options, and table styles—to create templates for ads, brochures, books, magazines,catalogs, and more.</li> </ul>
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<li> Make the most of master pages, paragraph and character styles, nested styles, object styles, and table styles to automate formatting.</li> </ul>
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<li> Optimize the use of typography, graphics and images, color, object libraries, and layers in your templates.</li> </ul>
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<li> Work with the new transparency options and nondestructive effects in InDesign CS3.</li> </ul>
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<li> Set up Data Merge and XML-based templates to automate page production.</li> </ul>
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<li> Utilize and modify the templates that ship with InDesign CS3.</li> </ul>
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<li> Use Adobe Bridge to manage your text, image assets, and templates. </li> </ul>

Instant Indesign: Designing Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout

Computers & Technology

Powell, Gabriel

Programming

Adobe Pr

Learn by Video offers you a refreshingly new and fun way to learn Adobe Photoshop CS4 and will help you get certified along the way! This innovative new product from Adobe Press combines hours of interactive video and a printed reference to teach you the basics of Photoshop CS4. As the official training for the Adobe Certified Associate exam, Learn by Video teaches you not only the fundamentals of Photoshop, but also how to use the program to create effective forms of digital communication. You’ll get an incredible 19 hours of video, presented by experienced instructors Gabriel Powell and Mikkel Aaland, as well as lesson files, assessment quizzes and review materials. The DVD is bundled with a printed booklet that provides a topic-by-topic guide to the video. The video is wrapped in a unique interface that allows the viewer to jump to any topic, and to bookmark individual topics for later review. Project files used in the lessons are included on the disk so the students can practice what they’ve learned, and review questions help to reinforce freshly gained knowledge. Other key features of Learn by Video include: 
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<li> Watch-and-Work mode: shrinks the video tutorials into a small window so you can work in Photoshop and watch the videos at the same time.</li> <li> Tutorials to Go!: Transfer selected videos to your iPhone, iPod or compatible cell phone 
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 Learn Adobe Photoshop CS4 by Video presents basic principles of graphic design, including copyright, file formats, project planning, and file importing and exporting. Most of the video is devoted to fundamentals of Photoshop, introducing the user to the program’s interface, how to use essential tools and commands, and how to use the Layers feature. Image manipulation is covered, including color and tone adjustment, as well as retouching and combining images. More advanced topics include creative work such as the use of filters to achieve special effects, applying styles to layers, and combining type with imagery. Students also learn how to prepare images for a variety of uses, whether on screen or in print.

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Learn by Video: Core Training in Visual Communication

Aaland, Mikkel

Software

Peachpit Pr

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