Good Book: Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One
Those of you who have been reading the blog for a while will know how I am moving away from Corel Ventura and moving towards Adobe InDesign for publishing my books and tutorials. When you've used a product for over twenty years, the transition to something else is really painful. I started the learning process about a month ago and so far things are progressing at a steady pace.
One of the benefits of being a CorelDRAW expert is that I've had the opportunity to meet other experts at various events. That includes Deke McClelland, author of the book I'm going to tell you about.
Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One bears some similarities to my CorelDRAW X4 Unleashed book in that it includes both written material and video tutorials. ID CS4 1on1 is a printed book and it includes a disc with four hours of video tutorials. Deke has created one video for each of the chapters in the book where I went with shorter video tutorials that each covered a specific subject. Different approaches, but each method certainly produces good results. I still have over two-thirds of Deke's book left, but I love what I've read so far. Believe me, I've read every single word and watched all videos for the sections I've completed.
The book combines good detailed information along with humorous writing and examples so it is easy to read. You won't complete it in a weekend, but I find it is better to take my time so I can fully appreciate each of the steps and what they've taught me.
If you need to improve your skills in Adobe InDesign, Adobe InDesign CS4 One-On-One is a great resource!
One of the benefits of being a CorelDRAW expert is that I've had the opportunity to meet other experts at various events. That includes Deke McClelland, author of the book I'm going to tell you about.
Adobe InDesign CS4 One-on-One bears some similarities to my CorelDRAW X4 Unleashed book in that it includes both written material and video tutorials. ID CS4 1on1 is a printed book and it includes a disc with four hours of video tutorials. Deke has created one video for each of the chapters in the book where I went with shorter video tutorials that each covered a specific subject. Different approaches, but each method certainly produces good results. I still have over two-thirds of Deke's book left, but I love what I've read so far. Believe me, I've read every single word and watched all videos for the sections I've completed.
The book combines good detailed information along with humorous writing and examples so it is easy to read. You won't complete it in a weekend, but I find it is better to take my time so I can fully appreciate each of the steps and what they've taught me.
If you need to improve your skills in Adobe InDesign, Adobe InDesign CS4 One-On-One is a great resource!
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posted by Foster D. Coburn III at
1:00 AM
4 Comments:
Is it truly time to abandon Ventura? I do have Indesign CS4 on order but have not yet used CS or CS3 which I also have. Perhaps the time has come.
What was the biggest change with which you had to deal in making the transition?
Rikk, I'll try to do a post soon that describes the reasons that convinced me to make the move now. As I'm still in transition, it is hard to describe the biggest change until I actually use InDesign to produce something. I'll see if I can answer that later as well.
I can totally empathize with your choice. I am going through that myself as we speak and I have been using the video training on Lynda for In Design.
I have been using corel draw for ages, since the earlier versions like 2 or 3 and I loved it!
I loved that I was able to use the page layout features together with the illustrating abilities.
But now that I do more intensive page layout work, I see the limitations of Corel Draw and the need for a more integrated connection with photoshop. I felt it was the time to switch to In Design.
I never used Ventura, so I don't know about that, but the idea of leaving Corel is like abandoning a child.... I hate to say it but I think once I learn Illustrator, I might stop using it altogether....
Ah, for me is the end of an era..... What will be next?? Getting a Mac maybe??
Foster, I am looking forward to your training material for InDesign and other adobe programs!
DG, CorelDRAW and Corel Ventura are two radically different programs that just happened to be developed by the same company. I do not recommend anyone to use CorelDRAW to do a document of any length beyond a few pages. It is an illustration program that has very limited page layout capabilities. If Corel had done their job marketing Ventura, users of CorelDRAW would know exactly what program was the better choice to work with CorelDRAW for laying out pages. They didn't.
I will be covering the reasons for switching to InDesign in detail on Saturday. But I will still be using CorelDRAW 99.9% of the time I need illustrations. I have no desire to switch to Adobe Illustrator or Adobe Photoshop. And while I won't say never, a book on InDesign is not something even in the long term planning stage.
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