Geared towards beginner-to-intermediate level InDesign users, "Adobe InDesign CS2 Revealed" offers a complete look at Adobe’s latest release of its popular layout software, InDesign. Following a unique style that caters towards beginners, "Adobe InDesign CS2 Revealed" provides step-by-step tutorials to teach the skills needed to master the InDesign software. Featuring a user-friendly design and easy-to-follow instructions, the book provides detailed coverage of the software through design projects such as creating advertisements, brochures, and flyers, putting concepts and skills into a real-world context.

With its ever-tightening integration with Adobe's full suite of creative products and its own increasingly sophisticated feature set, InDesign is winning legions of Quark and FrameMaker converts. If you’re among them–or if you've decided to sidestep those programs altogether–you need this book. In these pages, the Adobe Creative Team uses a series of project-based lessons to provide a thorough grounding in the InDesign school of page design. You'll find step-by-step lessons in InDesign CS2 fundamentals plus plenty of the advanced tips and techniques you need to take your page designs to the next level.

InDesign CS2 is more than just a powerful page layout tool: As part of Adobe’s new Creative Suite 2 (which includes Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, and Acrobat), it’s a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create spectacular layouts. This info-packed guide lets you get right down to work by focusing on just the InDesign CS2 features you’re most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, you learn as you go, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to you. Before you know it, you’ll be using the Bridge to manage your files, object styles to format your images, and snippets to save layout parts for reuse and much, much more!