The Non-Designer's InDesign Book (Paperback)

Many designers and photographers own the entire suite of Adobe’s creative products, but they manage to learn only one or two of the applications really well. If Adobe InDesign is the one app in the suite that makes you feel like you’re entering a foreign country where you don’t speak the language, Robin Williams provides the perfect travel guide and translator in this new edition to the best-selling Non-Designer’s series. 

This fun, straight-forward, four-color book includes many individual exercises designed specifically to teach InDesign to beginners in such a way that you can jump in at any point to learn a specific tool or technique. Along the way, Robin offers design tips for making your work communicate appropriately and beautifully. 

Whether you need to create your own marketing materials for a small business or organization, or you want your student or business papers to be perceived as more professional, or you want to become more proficient with the design tools you already use, this book is the fastest and most efficient path to mastering basic tasks InDesign.

In this non-designer’s guide to InDesign, you’ll learn:

• How to create basic design projects, such as flyers, business cards, letterhead, ads, brochures, CD covers, and much more

• How to add images to your pages and crop, rotate, resize, and add effects to those images

• How to use InDesign’s typographic tools to make your work look professional

• How to use style sheets so every job is easier to create and work with

• How to use tabs and indents with confidence and predictability

• How to create nice-looking tables to effectively organize data

• And, of course, the basics of working in InDesign with layers, panels, tools, etc.  

許多設計師和攝影師擁有Adobe的整套創意產品，但他們只學習其中一兩個應用程式。如果Adobe InDesign是套件中讓你感覺像是進入一個你不懂語言的外國國家，羅賓·威廉斯在這本暢銷的《非設計師系列》新版中提供了完美的旅遊指南和翻譯。

這本有趣、直接、四色的書包含許多針對初學者設計的個別練習，以便您可以隨時加入並學習特定的工具或技巧。在此過程中，羅賓還提供了設計提示，以使您的作品能夠適當而美觀地傳達信息。

無論您是需要為小型企業或組織創建自己的市場材料，還是希望您的學生或商業文件被認為更專業，或者您想更熟練地使用已經使用的設計工具，這本書都是掌握InDesign基本任務的最快最有效的途徑。

在這本非設計師的InDesign指南中，您將學到:

- 如何創建基本設計項目，例如傳單、名片、信頭、廣告、手冊、CD封面等等
- 如何將圖像添加到您的頁面並對這些圖像進行裁剪、旋轉、調整大小和添加效果
- 如何使用InDesign的排版工具使您的作品看起來專業
- 如何使用樣式表使每個工作更容易創建和處理
- 如何自信且可預測地使用制表符和縮進
- 如何創建漂亮的表格以有效組織數據
- 當然，還有在InDesign中使用圖層、面板、工具等的基礎知識。