Comments about oreilly InDesign Production Cookbook:

This book is full of full color graphics, loaded with ideas and step-by-step easy instructions. The cookbook comes loaded with 169 "recipes for graphic designers and desktop publishers" and others who are looking for new ideas or concepts.

The book is laid out beginning with text, pictures, drawings, color, and transparency. The Pages and Documents section explains the inner workings, taking you on a journey to complete a book, magazine, newsletter, or any document you need to prepare and complete. I particularly like the document setup section that guides one through the entire process.

Throughout the book are "Tips" relating to given information that enhances your learning in ways you may not find out otherwise. The graphics are easy to view and the text is just the right size for easy viewing. Each section is color coded for easy access to a topic. Once you get used to the colors you will not need the very well established TOC.

This book is what it claims: "Production Cookbook" whereby you find yourself coming back quite often for that little tip or process that gets you back on track with your project.

Not only is this book a must have as a reference and "follow-along" book, I love to refer back to it from time to time simply to get new ideas for any project I am working on.

Comments about oreilly InDesign Production Cookbook:

This book is full of full color graphics, loaded with ideas and step-by-step easy instructions. The cookbook comes loaded with 169 "recipes for graphic designers and desktop publishers" and others who are looking for new ideas or concepts.

The book is laid out beginning with text, pictures, drawings, color, and transparency. The Pages and Documents section explains the inner workings, taking you on a journey to complete a book, magazine, newsletter, or any document you need to prepare and complete. I particularly like the document setup section that guides one through the entire process.

Throughout the book are "Tips" relating to given information that enhances your learning in ways you may not find out otherwise. The graphics are easy to view and the text is just the right size for easy viewing. Each section is color coded for easy access to a topic. Once you get used to the colors you will not need the very well established TOC.

This book is what it claims: "Production Cookbook" whereby you find yourself coming back quite often for that little tip or process that gets you back on track with your project.

Not only is this book a must have as a reference and "follow-along" book, I love to refer back to it from time to time simply to get new ideas for any project I am working on.

Comments about oreilly InDesign Production Cookbook:

I really like this book because I'm a beginner at InDesign and it covers many of the technical capabilities of the Application. This book is also well organized for quick refrence. This book does have a large shortcoming though, it does not get into the creative side of page layout. In fact the examples are just that, examples. They don't provide any design inspiration. You would not see any of the examples in a magazine or other publication.

If you are solid on design and just need the technical information on how to create what you are envisioning, then this is the book for you.

Comments about oreilly InDesign Production Cookbook:

Soon after getting CS2 and working through basic lessons in the manual, I came across this book in the store. A year later, I still refer to it for aspects of this fantastic design application that I need to brush up on or haven't needed to work with before.

However, I found this book to be superlative in quickly teaching me how to use InD's wide range of tools and capabilities to achieve the kinds of graphics effects we all see in magazines. It is jam-packed with well organized, thoughtfully presented, and beautifully ilustrated information, and includes step-by-step instruction in using some of the capabilites that you won't find adequately presented in Adobe's help files.

Best of all, the files used by the authors are available for download from O'reilly, so that you can see all the specs from the examples and understand how they were made even more specifically that from the book's descriptions.

Comments about oreilly InDesign Production Cookbook:

This is a great book for visual learners. Clearly see the difference between what each option does without having to press every button. By the time you finish reading this book, you will be able to begin designing something and feel confident in what you are doing. Easy as 1-2-3.