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The InDesignSecrets Guide to Graphic Effects

by Michael Rankin

The InDesign Secrets Guide to Graphic FX eBook (PDF, 150 pp, $9.95) will thrill you with all the ways you can make InDesign do things your mama never told you about. In this 150-page PDF, InDesign guru Mike Rankin takes you through dozens of ways to spice up your type and artwork using familiar InDesign tools found in versions CS3 and later.

Chapters include drawing realistic drips, creating 3D and woodcarving effects, building repeating patterns, making shiny objects (like buttons), creating punch-throughs, stickers, and rips; making banners and ribbons, putting images on a stroke, and creating cool image frames such as Polaroid and matte frames. You’ve never seen InDesign pushed to these limits before!

Note: Step-by-steps are great, but sometimes it helps to start at the end and work backwards. If you’d like access to the actual InDesign artwork that Mike shows as the “final” effect in each chapter, check out this eBook’s companion download, “Guide to GraphicFX_Samples.zip.” It’s a collection of each effect saved as an individual IDML and INX file, suitable for opening and fiddling with in InDesign CS3, CS4, or CS5. (The book and companion sample files are also available as a bundle purchase, which costs less than buying them separately.)

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InDesignSecrets Top 40 Tips

by the InDesignSecrets.com contributors, production by James Fritz

InDesignSecrets Top 40 Tips eBook (PDF, 104 pp, $9.95) Are you new to InDesignSecrets.com, or just want to read what the editors consider the “best of the best” articles ever written on the InDesignSecrets.com blog? Then you’ll love the InDesignSecrets Top 40 Tips eBook!

Flip through the 100+ pages and you’ll find must-read after must-read post, complete with original screenshots, including “Multi-level Automatic Numbering,” “Why are there Parentheses in My Text Sizes?” “Deep Clean with INX & IDML,” “More Free and Commercial Scripts,” and other reader favorites. Links to the original posts are included with every story. Many of the articles also reprint the two or three most useful comments that readers posted to the story on the blog. Read this PDF and you’ll be completely caught up with the most important and useful InDesign information that we’ve published since 2005!

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The InDesignSecrets Guide to the InDesign CS4 ACE Exam

by Mike Rankin

The InDesign Secrets Guide to the InDesign CS4 ACE Exam eBook (PDF, 150 pp, $9.95) is the most thorough resource available for anyone interested in becoming an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in InDesign. More than a simple study guide, it offers you a comprehensive plan for preparing for and passing the exam.

The Guide breaks down every one of the 58 InDesign CS4 testing objectives (as published by Adobe) and shows exactly what you need to practice and study. Objectives are illustrated with screenshots from InDesign and are hyperlinked to the relevant information in InDesign’s online help, so you can get immediate answers to your questions. Each chapter ends with sample test questions (and their answers) to help you gauge your progress as you go.

Additional chapters detail the testing process, self-assessment, personalized study plans, study tips, and test-taking strategies, and re-certification. With The InDesign Secrets Guide to the InDesign CS4 ACE Exam you can accelerate and focus your preparation so you walk into the testing center with confidence, and walk out an ACE.

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