Ideal for introductory and advanced level courses in computer graphics, desktop publishing and/or web design software applications.
THE FIRST TRUE ACADEMIC SERIES FOR GRAPHICS!
The Essentials for Design series offers a learning-by-doing approach that encourages students to grasp application related concepts as they expand their skills through hands-on tutorials. The titles offer a clean, easy-to-follow, full color layout with two different levels available. Instructor Resource CD-ROMs include assessments, PowerPoint presentation materials, and additional projects.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1 Taking a Tour of Adobe InDesign CS2
Lesson 1 Working Through the Design-to-Production Process
Lesson 2 Navigating an InDesign Document
Lesson 3 Managing Your Working Area
Lesson 4 Creating Simple Documents
Lesson 5 Importing Graphics and Text
Lesson 6 Printing a File
Lesson 7 Getting Help
Careers in Design
Checking Concepts and Terms
Skill Drill
Challenge
Portfolio Builder
Chapter 2 Building and Controlling Documents
Lesson 1 Working with Preferences and Defaults
Lesson 2 Opening, Closing, and Saving Documents and Templates
Lesson 3 Exploring Page Anatomy
Lesson 4 Creating New Documents
Lesson 5 Building Masters
Lesson 6 Adding Document Pages
Checking Concepts and Terms
Skill Drill
Challenge
Portfolio Builder
Chapter 3 Working with Text
Lesson 1 Setting Text Frame Properties
Lesson 2 Editing Text
Lesson 3 Entering and Formatting Text
Lesson 4 Using Special Characters and OpenType
Lesson 5 Formatting Paragraphs
Lesson 6 Setting Tabs
Lesson 7 Importing, Exporting, and Threading Text
Careers in Design
Checking Concepts and Terms
Skill Drill
Challenge
Portfolio Builder
Chapter 4 Working with Graphic Tools
Lesson 1 Using Basic Shapes
Lesson 2 Adding Color
Lesson 3 Creating and Applying Gradients
Lesson 4 Importing Color
Lesson 5 Drawing with the Pen Tools
Lesson 6 Using the Pencil Tool
Lesson 7 Manipulating and Arranging Objects
Lesson 8 Grouping and Duplicating Objects
Checking Concepts and Terms
Skill Drill
Challenge
Portfolio Builder
Chapter 5 Working with Images
Lesson 1 Working with Frames
Lesson 2 Placing and Positioning Images
Lesson 3 Linking vs. Embedding Images
Lesson 4 Scaling and Cropping Images
Lesson 5 Framing Images with Borders
Lesson 6 Wrapping Text Around Simple Objects
Careers in Design
Checking Concepts and Terms
Skill Drill
Challenge
Portfolio Builder
Chapter 6 Working with Character and Paragraph Styles 235
Lesson 1 Assigning Character Styles
Lesson 2 Creating Paragraph Styles
Lesson 3 Creating Styles Based on One Another
Lesson 4 Editing Existing Styles
Lesson 5 Applying Styles
Checking Concepts and Terms
Skill Drill
Challenge
Portfolio Builder
Chapter 7 Using Text Utilities
Lesson 1 Using Find/Change for Text
Lesson 2 Searching on Formatting
Lesson 3 Using Formats to Find and Change
Lesson 4 Using the Spell-Checker
Lesson 5 Setting Story Editor Preferences
Lesson 6 Using Story Editor
Checking Concepts and Terms
Skill Drill
Challenge
Portfolio Builder
Chapter 8 Printing and Packaging
Lesson 1 Setting Up to Print
Lesson 2 Printing Oversized Documents
Lesson 3 Proofing with PDFs
Lesson 4 Preparing PDF for a Print Workflow
Lesson 5 Preflighting a Document
Lesson 6 Packaging a Document
Careers in Design
Checking Concepts and Terms
Skill Drill
Challenge
Portfolio Builder
Integrating Project
Task Guide
Glossary
Index
About the Author :
About the Author
Robin McAllister has been speaking and writing about creating effective pages since before desktop publishing was invented, and has been involved in the printing and
publishing industry since the late 1960s. For more than a decade, he has acted as a consultant and trainer to a wide variety of clients. In the process of teaching others, he has written various “how to” guides and training manuals, both for general distribution and to solve company-specific issues.
When training or when writing, he takes the long view of projects, giving attention first to what is going to get the job done – including an interaction of all the disciplines involved in the publishing process. He focuses on productivity and the value of following effective publishing protocols rather than simply which buttons to push.
Rob is the author of a series of eight books for Delmar Publishers on a variety of desktop-publishing topics. He is also the author of Pearson Education’s The Type Companion for the Digital Artist. He has written or co-authored twelve titles in Pearson’s Against-the-Clock series. He has been a senior editor for Print on Demand Business and Print on Demand Solutions magazines and a contributor to Electronic Publishing magazine, among others.
