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Total Training for Adobe® InDesign CS2 helps you advance your skills of the latest page design and publishing application. With more than 16 hours of instruction, Adobe Certified Expert, Steve Holmes helps you develop and advance your design, typography, and layout skills needed to become an InDesign expert. Watch videos and practice tutorials based on real-world scenarios to effectively sharpen your publishing skills and give documents a professional polish
What is covered:
Learn to design and output your pages quickly and efficiently, from basic page setup and type formatting to advanced graphic and type effects
* Discover the innovative cross-media support and control with the visibility of layers
* Automatically map the styles from Microsoft® Word files and import them in InDesign for efficient, streamlined documents
* Featuring the new lightweight snippet format, recycle and share portions of a layout with “drag-n-drop" ease.
NOTE: Customers who run Apple OS X Leopard may have problems with running "Total Training" instructional videos like this one. Many of these problems can be resolved with a patch supplied by Total Training at http://www.totaltraining.com/supt/updates.asp#leopard.
(about 120 minutes)
Total Training for Adobe® InDesign CS2 helps you advance your skills of the latest page design and publishing application. With more than 16 hours of instruction, Adobe Certified Expert, Steve Holmes helps you develop and advance your design, typography, and layout skills needed to become an InDesign expert. Watch videos and practice tutorials based on real-world scenarios to effectively sharpen your publishing skills and give documents a professional polish What is covered: Learn to design and output your pages quickly and efficiently, from basic page setup and type formatting to advanced graphic and type effects * Discover the innovative cross-media support and control with the visibility of layers * Automatically map the styles from Microsoft® Word files and import them in InDesign for efficient, streamlined documents * Featuring the new lightweight snippet format, recycle and share portions of a layout with “drag-n-drop� ease. NOTE: Customers who run Apple OS X Leopard may have problems with running "Total Training" instructional videos like this one. Many of these problems can be resolved with a patch supplied by Total Training at http://www.totaltraining.com/supt/updates.asp#leopard.
(about 120 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on April 10, 2006 in Digital Art - 2D::Adobe - InDesign.
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I thought this product was excellent. Very good instruction by a person who is obviously an expert. The lessons were very well executed and worked in an order that made a lot of sense, as each one built on the previous one. However, with 21 detailed lessons on one DVD, it was a lot to get through. I would recommend at least 2 weeks of study time if you have anything else going on in your life. I had to go through all the lessons twice to really get the information down - once taking notes, and once doing all the exercises. Well worth the time though, if you are serious about learning this program and working with it professionally. I don't think an actual classroom experience would be a better teacher, and this way, you can go at your own pace. The lessons were so clear that I didn't have any questions for the "teacher" that hadn't already been answered in the material. It really is Total Training.
An excellent course. I have not yet covered all of the lessons, but I immediately began learning things I did not pick up from the 4 InDesign CS2 books I have in my library (including "The InDesign CS2 Bible" and "InDesign CS2 Classroom in a Book"). It's not that this information isn't in the books, of course, and I have no regrets about the books I've purchased, which have gotten me through several large book-layout projects. However, since InDesign is made to show visuals, it's helpful to learn the program through video lessons, to see the process in motion rather than through static screenshots -- it's a complement to the books (which I will say again are invaluable).
The lessons are logical and well-sized and the instructor organized and clear. This is not simply a "recorded lecture" -- it really is a focused presentation.
Each lesson DVD, however, does hold 7-9 hours' worth of lessons, which is quite a bit if you have other obligations on your plate. Even though you will save a bit by ordering both DVDs at once from SmartFlix, the one-week rental period may make renting one at a time a more economical option. [ NOTE: you can set your shipment rate to 1 dvd per week, and still get the discount, and get SmartFlix to space out the DVDs slowly, so you only get them as fast as you can watch them. ]
The lessons are QuickTime videos. They work well; however, the "Fullscreen" option is still listed as "in development" on the Total Training website.
Great! Actually, it's so good I plan on renting it again, because I think I missed some stuff.
Total Training has the BEST computer based coarses. Please allow for the 9 hours of playing time, as well as, practicing what you learned.
