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Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
by John Cruise, Kelly Kordes Anton
Build your InDesign expertise,one technique at a time. In Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos, authors John Cruise and Kelly Kordes Anton bring you 100 carefully selected techniques to help you get right to work in InDesign, the world's most powerful page layout program. Their strategy is to focus on those features you're most likely to use, showcasing each in a clearly explained, well-illustrated, stand-alone technique -- complete with a relevant hint or two.
These bite-sized lessons offer a great way to learn just what you need to know when you need it, exploring the program in a way, and at a pace, that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you'll master all these tools and techniques, and more: * Customize the interface [Tip #6] * Add metadata to documents [Tip #14] * Insert variable text [Tip #29] * Add special effects to type [Tip #34] * Format tables with styles [Tip #45] * Use spot colors, process colors, and tints [Tip #74] * Paginate a book [Tip #86] * Use PDF presets for output [Tip #96].
Adobe InDesign CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
Author: John Cruise, Kelly Kordes Anton
Regular price: $24.99 - our discounted price: $10.92
Published by: Adobe Press; Paperback; 272 pages; web rating: ; us
Department: Adobe InDesign
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Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book
by Adobe Creative Team
This thorough guide to Adobe Illustrator CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of Adobe's powerful vector drawing software. Using clear, step-by-step lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the software, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce key concepts and skills. Adobe Illustrator CS3 is jam-packed with new features and enhancements, including Live Color, a new environment that enables users to explore, apply, and save custom color configurations; improved integration with Adobe Flash CS3, which ensures that your vector illustrations import effortlessly to Flash with their anchor point positions, layers, and paths intact; a new Eraser tool, which lets users quickly modify objects or create entirely new shapes; a new Crop Area tool, which lets users set up a workspace so that it's automatically primed for the type of media that will display their design, whether it's print, Web, video, or film; new document profiles, newly improved drawing tools and controls, and much more. Whether you're brand-new to Adobe Illustrator or are looking for a project-based tutorial to familiarize yourself with Illustrator CS3's new features, this book provides you with the key techniques and tips you need to get the most out of this software.
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book
Author: Adobe Creative Team
Regular price: $54.99 - our discounted price: $25.58
Published by: Adobe Press; Paperback; 488 pages; web rating: 4; us
Department: Web Graphics, Look Inside Computer Books
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Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book
by Adobe Creative Team
This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe InDesign CS3 is ideal for beginning users who want to master the key features of this program, while readers who already have some experience with InDesign can use this book to familiarize themselves with InDesign CS3's newest features. Using step-by-step, project-based lessons, each chapter contains a project that builds upon the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while review questions at the end of each chapter reinforce the most important skills learned in each lesson.
The companion CD contains all the assets readers will need to work through each project in the book. Adobe InDesign CS3, Adobe's page layout and design software, has been updated to accelerate user productivity with loads of new features: new Photoshop effects--including gradient feathering, inner shadows, and glows--that you can apply to objects on a page; finer transparency controls, which let you apply transparency settings independently to an object's fill, stroke, and content for more complex visual looks; numerous productivity enhancements; advanced find//change features; new table and cell styles; export to XHTML, and more
SPECIAL NOTE: Before starting the lessons in the book, visit www.peachpit.com//indesigncs3cib for important lesson and project file updates.
Adobe InDesign CS3 Classroom in a Book
Author: Adobe Creative Team
Regular price: $54.99 - our discounted price: $24.62
Published by: Adobe Press; Paperback; 450 pages; web rating: 1.5; us
Department: Adobe InDesign, Look Inside Computer Books
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