Nothing speeds up learning like personal training from a skilled tutor. "Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One" delivers that invaluable learning experience by giving you the closest thing possible to private lessons with author Deke McClelland, a world-renowned expert on digital graphics and design. You can proceed at your own pace, working on relevant, real-world projects, while mastering fundamental and advanced concepts, theories, techniques, and best practices for making the most of InDesign. With over two hours of Deke's professional instruction and advice, and 600 full-color images, diagrams, and screenshots to illustrate every key step, you'll soon be on the fast track to becoming a real InDesign expert.

This comprehensive multimedia training solution shows you how to:

Create professional-looking documents with InDesign's powerful text and graphic tools

Import text from a word processor, move and scale existing text frames, and check spelling

Use the line, pen, and geometric shape tools to draw complex graphic objects

Apply fill and stroke, specify process and spot colors, and design custom rules

Use the new Adobe Bridge to organize and manage your digital assets

Import and modify layered artwork from Photoshop and Illustrator

Create inline graphics and anchored objects that move automatically with your text from one page to the next

Create, edit, and link paragraph styles, complete with nested character styles

Apply a sequence of style sheets to format an entire document in one operation

Build object styles with embedded paragraph styles in order to format entire frames at a time

Use master pages to automate repeating page features

Automatically generate a table of contents

Compose a fully interactive document-with bookmarks, hyperlinks, buttons, sounds, and movies-and export your creation to a PDF file that can be played on most computers

When you're finished with "Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One," you'll use InDesign smarter, faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you ever thought possible.

"The combination of hands-on lessons and video demonstrations is invaluable. Deke really brings InDesign to life." -David Blatner, coauthor of "Real World Adobe InDesign CS2"