Adobe Indesign Cs2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (Tips & Tricks)

Adobe Indesign Cs2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (Tips & Tricks)

by JohnCruise (Author), KellyKordesAnton (Author)

Synopsis

InDesign CS2 is more than just a powerful page layout tool: As part of Adobe's new Creative Suite 2 (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, and Acrobat), it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts. This info-packed guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on just the InDesign CS2 features you're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, you learn as you go, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you'll be using the Bridge to manage your files, object styles to format your images, and snippets to save layout parts for reuse and much, much more!

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
Edition: 1
Publisher: Adobe
Published: 24 Apr 2006

ISBN 10: 0321321901
ISBN 13: 9780321321909
Book Overview: InDesign CS2 is more than just a simple page layout tool: As part of Adobe's new Creative Suite 2 (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive and Acrobat), it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts. Work faster, create more is what Adobe wants users to do with InDesign, and this info packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the InDesign CS2 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn as they go, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the Bridge to manage their files, object styles to format their images, and snippets to save layout parts for reuse. InDesign CS2 is more than just a simple page layout tool: As part of Adobe's new Creative Suite 2 (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive and Acrobat), it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts. Work faster, create more is what Adobe wants users to do with InDesign, and this info packed guide lets users get right down to doing just that by focusing on the InDesign CS2 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn as they go, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the Bridge to manage their files, object styles to format their images, and snippets to save layout parts for reuse.

Author Bio
John Cruise is an Adobe-certified InDesign expert, writer, and design instructor. He spent five years at Quark as a technical writer and has coauthored several books about page layout software, including the InDesign Bible, the QuarkXPress 4 Bible, and QuarkXPress 4 for Dummies. He has contributed articles about publishing and page layout software to several national publications, including MacAddict Magazine, Layers Magazine, and InDesign Magazine.

Kelly Kordes Anton is a freelance writer and editor based in Littleton, Colorado. She writes regularly for Quark, Extensis, Element K's Inside QuarkXPress and Inside InDesign newsletters, and X-Ray Magazine. As the editor of Colorado Expression magazine and a copy editor for many local publishers, Kelly is able to put her publishing software knowledge to work in real-world environments.