As with all the One-on-One series, Adobe InDesign CS2 One-On-One is based on the Read-Watch-Do approach of learning. In each of the 12 lessons contained in this book the method is to read the chapter, watch the video and do the exercises. Add to that, your personal trainer is Deke McClelland, an established expert with over 20 years of professional training experience.

Adobe InDesign CS2 One-On-One is very systematic in its approach, clear in its communication and very user-friendly. There are over two hours of DVD video and over 850 full color images, diagrams and screenshots that will illustrate your every step.

Lesson one shows you how to start a document, set up margins, create custom workspaces and work with Adobe Bridge. Lesson two focuses on text flow by introducing the mechanics of frames and text blocks. You are shown how to edit and spell check as well as joining text to a curve.

Lesson three delves into typeface and style. In this lesson you will learn about the different varieties of type and how they influence whether the page gets read or not. You will learn about paragraph spacing, alignment kerning as well as accessing special characters. Lesson four continues the formatting of text, but this time is has to do with using lists and tables. You will learn how to set tabs, work with lists and, use hanging indents to format text.

Lesson five, shows you how to draw inside InDesign using lines, shapes as well as using gradients. Within InDesign are included tools devoted to the creation of vector-based graphics. Depending on your talent, the author will have you creating images without the need of Adobe Illustrator.

While you can create graphics natively in the product, it is not Illustrator or Photoshop. Lesson six will fill you in on importing and modifying art work. You can rotate the image, flip, crop and scale. In lesson seven, you will work with transparency and blend modes as well as with clipping paths, alpha channels. Because most documents are made up of a handful of styles that are used over and over, lesson eight introduces style sheets and explains the use of paragraph, character and object styles.