The InDesign Effects Book
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The InDesign Effects Book
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(3 Votes)From the Back Cover
Make Complex Effects a Snap
The strength of InDesign's layout and design capabilities already make it a top choice among professionals. But even experienced users will be amazed by the visual and text effects that are possible entirely within InDesign. Using step-by-step instructions and engaging examples, expert author Ted LoCascio shows you dozens of breathtaking effects that you can make a vital part of your everyday work, including:Making images pop out of their framesCreating 3D looks like spheres, shadows, and text wrapsDesigning cool effects with transparency and blending modesUsing Feather to add highlights and shadows to InDesign illustrationsCreating and applying custom gradients—even within text!Adding glow effects to editable textJazzing up mundane layout elements such as sidebar heads and burstsSkewing type on a pathAnd much more!
Includes Coverage of Effects Newly Possible With CS2
These stunning, easy-to-achieve effects will help users of every level tap the full creative potential of InDesign.
Visit this book's companion website (www.wiley.com/go/indesignfx) to download all the materials you'll need to complete the book's projects.
About the Author
Ted LoCascio is a professional graphic designer and an expert in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress. He served as senior designer at KW Media and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) for several years, and has created layouts and designs for many successful software training books, videos, and magazines. He is the author of InDesign CS2 at Your Fingertips, has contributed articles to Photoshop User magazine, and has taught at PhotoshopWorld.
Claudia Miranda Monroy Tatiette (Metepec Mexico) | 
28/03/2006
28/03/2006
This is my first indesign book and it is one of my favorites now, It is a visual and easy to follow book.
The author knows exactly what we are looking for to make our work better looking and to make it look very professional, you won't believe how easy is to do that, and having this book by your side is a great time saver. Ted Locascio (the author) also offers himself for you to write him for further assistance, but believe me you are not going to have a problem in my point of view it covers most of the great things you can do with indesign. Of coarse this are just ideas and your creativity has no limits.
Oh I also want to say that if you are getting started with indesign CS2 (this book works perfcetly for CS2) that if you want to practice first the author has his webpage where you can download the images.
Believe me this is worth to buy you will be surprised of how much effects with types and paragaraphs you can do.
Pamela Langan writer (Clearwater, FL) | 
23/01/2006
23/01/2006
I'd recommend this book, it reminds me of the Photoshop tips and tricks books out there. I have a few of those and thought this was an interesting take in that its Indesign. Its definitely not a layout instruction book or anything like a Bible how-to though. Its more a "fun things you can do in Indesign" thing. The coffee text effect - I forget what it's called - is really cool. I used it in a postcard I just did for a client. They loved it.
John Harpur (Trim, Meath, IRELAND) | 
19/01/2006
19/01/2006
I dislike giving any book a negative review but this book is really misleading in subject matter. It should be titled along the lines of: How to use InDesign where Photoshop will do the job as well if not better. The vast bulk of the book is taken up with producing artefacts (buttons, icons, text, etc) that are much more commonly fabricated in Photoshop. In the Introduction the author states that he has "always been a Photoshop guy". Ok I can live with that, but then he adds further down that "the book does not contain any page-size projects such as sample brochures or mock advertisements". Sorry, I can't live with this. I bought the book because I assumed that it would help me do layout with text and artwork for just these kind of jobs. If your needs are similar to mine (learning InDesign rather than QuarkXpress), this is almost certainly not the book of first choice.
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