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InDesign Essentials: The Fast Track to Mastering Adobe's Revolutionary Page Layout Application

By: Alistair Dabbs Ken McMahon Anne-Marie Concepcion
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ilex
ISBN: 1904705707
ISBN-13: 9781904705703
Released: 25 Nov 2005
RRP: £19.99
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Great value AND doesn't talk down to you! - By: Manuel Reed, 10 Jan 2006
At first glance I wasn't sure about this book. Since it's only 190 pages - short compared to some - & has a bright, colourful design, I expected one of those style-over-very-little-content numbers. Wrong on both counts. It's packed with useful info & tips - I've been using ID for some time, but found better & faster ways to do a couple of things the first day I had it on the desk. And after a month I have yet to catch it out on missing content - everything I've wanted info on has been there, & well-indexed too. The examples & illustrations are very clear & always pertinent, again, something I wouldn't say about the majority of manuals. By far the best I've seen of its type since Rick Altman's Corel books over ten years ago!
Perfect desktop companion - By: Neil Phillips, 01 Dec 2005
Having been using Quarkxpress since 1989 I decided (okay - more like forced) to switch to InDesign & although it doesn't take long to get up & running in a basic sort of way, there were certainly some unfamiliar things about InDesign that I needed to grapple with fast (like style sheets). InDesign's online help is okay but doesn't show examples. So I just bought this book & wow! - it does exactly what I need like explain alll the features a "switching" designer needs to get a grasp of quickly, & it does so very concisely with loads of real world examples & some reallly useful tips such as why making drop shadows in InDesign is sometimes better than doing them in Photoshop. If I have one quibble it's that some of the screen shots are a bit on the smalll side, but given that this book is packed to bursting with info & examples I can forgive it that. InDesign Essentials sits right next to my keyboard - if you've just made or are thinking of switching you reallly won't regret forking out for this book. Great stuff.