Books and Magazines
InDesign Magazine
www.indesignmag.comInDesign Magazine is the first bimonthly PDF periodical devoted entirely to Adobe InDesign and to the growing community of InDesign professionals. Each PDF issue is packed with tips, techniques, and time-savers by an all-star cast of industry experts.
Instant InDesign
By Gabriel Powell
www.peachpit.comDesigning Templates for Fast and Efficient Page Layout. 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.
A Designer's Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML
By James J. Maivald, Cathy Palmer
www.peachpit.comHarness the Power of XML to Automate your Print and Web Workflows. Written specifically for graphic designers and production artists already comfortable working with Adobe InDesign, this book teaches you how to automate publishing without learning a lot of scary code. XML simplifies the process of moving content in and out of your layouts and can speed up any print or Web assignment.
Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3
By Scott Citron
www.peachpit.comAdobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard brings together under one roof the tools that design professionals use on a daily basis. Designing in an integrated environment results in greater efficiency and streamlines the development of flexible designs. In this book, author and distinguished designer Scott Citron leads designers of all kinds through the ins and outs of working with the components in the suite. With an easy, engaging style, Scott takes a designer's approach to address the complexities of using multiple tools to perform a variety of tasks, and focuses on important principles that can be applied to working in all the programs. Part inspiration and part how-to, each chapter contains a full project to help cement these principles, complete with steps and full-color illustrations. Project files are included on the accompanying Web site so that readers can follow along and recreate each project. Whether an aspiring designer or a practicing professional, anyone who is interested in learning to use good design techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3 will come away with a solid foundation in this extraordinary suite of creativity tools.
InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2
By Nigel French
www.peachpit.comThis is a great book on learning to work with type in InDesign CS2. Author Nigel French addresses both the whys and the hows of good typography. Using practical examples, and loads of tips, Nigel provides a comprehensive overview of all of InDesign's type features, including the Paragraph Composer, optical kerning, and its support for OpenType fonts.
The Adobe InCopy CS2 Book
By Adam Pratt, Mike Richman
www.peachpit.comThis book shows editorial teams how to take control of the copy-fitting process as editors, designers, and writers work simultaneously on the same InDesign document. It begins with the basics and moves on to provide a feature-by-feature breakdown of how the program works. The remainder of the book is devoted to helping you understand real-world workflows.
Real World Adobe InDesign CS3
By Olav Martin Kvern, Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner
www.peachpit.comAdobe InDesign is no longer the industry newcomerÑit's a full-fledged, sophisticated program, tightly integrated with the other Adobe industry leading graphics and Web programs. It's the essential tool for anyone doing page layout and design. With the release of InDesign CS3Ñpart of Adobe's perfectly synchronized, tightly integrated Creative Suite 3 (which now includes Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Dreamweaver CS3, and Flash CS3 Professional in the Design Premium and Web Premium packages)Ñit takes its place in the design firmament! Real World Adobe InDesign CS3 offers industrial-strength and time-saving techniques for design professionals who need to start laying out, proofing, and printing pages with InDesign CS3, without missing a beat (or a deadline!) in their fast-paced production cycles. Design pros will find everything they need here to successfully master InDesign's advanced page layout tools, manage color, snippets, and use the program more efficiently. They'll also find complete coverage of essential features in InDesign CS3, including new gradient feather, directional feather, and bevel and emboss effects; improved transparency controls; improved long document support; expanded Find/Change; and an even more flexible and customizable user interface.
Real World Print Production
By Claudia McCue
www.peachpit.comAuthor Claudia McCue draws on more than 20 years of prepress experience to show you how to build healthy files that print exactly as expected. This book covers everything from rendering color to mechanical issues; binding and finishing; submitting jobs; working with raster images, vector art, and fonts; useful graphic and desktop publishing programs; and more.
The Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow Book!
By Sharon Steuer
www.peachpit.comDesigned to dazzle and inspire but not leave you in the dust, this beautifully designed volume lets you follow along as it dissects real-world projects from some of today’s top Illustrator artists. Its real-world projects show what’s possible and then employ simple, step-by-step instructions to explain the techniques that will produce those effects.