Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies^®

by Jennifer Smith; Christopher Smith (Aston University); Fred Gerantabee

• ISBN13: 9780470448878
• ISBN10: 0470448873
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: For Dummies

Summary

Design professionals rely on Adobe's Creative Suite Design Premium to deliver innovative ideas in print, Web, and mobile design. Adobe CS4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies helps you beef up your skills with the latest version of this software. You'll learn all about the hot new versions of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks.Whether you're creating newsletters, Web sites, cool original art, or animations, this book has it covered. You'll find out how to build Web pages with text and drawings, photos, Flash animations, and rollovers; check out enhanced Photoshop 3D tools; develop interactive animations for the Web or video with Flash CS4; and use the easier rollover and action features in Dreamweaver CS4 to add interactivity without coding. You'll also discover: How to get familiar with the menus, panels, and tools that are similar throughout the suite Tips for getting creative with Illustrator's cool new vector tracing feature Ways to use the annotation capabilities in Acrobat 9.0 and the improved CSS capabilities in Dreamweaver What Fireworks CS4, the newest addition to the suite, can add to Web sites Which extensions and filters are common to all programs Hard-to-find keyboard shortcuts in Illustrator How to enhance and manipulate photos with Photoshop Secrets for smoothing out your workflow How to use the Adobe Bridge Steps for using each programTo help you quickly find what you need, Adobe CS4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies is divided into eight minibooks: Adobe Creative Suite Basics InDesign CS4 Illustrator CS4 Photoshop CS4 Acrobat CS4 Dreamweaver CS4 Flash CS4 Fireworks CS4Adobe CS4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies is your one-stop guide to all the parts of Adobe's ultimate toolkit for today's designer.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Basics

Introducing Adobe Creative Suite 4

Using Common Menus and Commands

Exploring Common Panel

Using Common Extensions

Importing and Exporting

Handling Graphics, Paths, Text, and Fonts

Using Color

Printing Documents

InDesign CS4

What's New in InDesign CS4

Introducing InDesign CS4

Drawing in InDesign

Working with Text and Text Frames

Understanding Page Layout

Clipping Paths, Transforming Objects, and Alignment

Understanding Color and Printing

Exporting Your Work

Integrating InDesign

Illustrator CS4

What's New in Illustrator CS4

Discovering Illustrator CS4

Using the Selection Tools

Creating Basic Shapes

Using the Pen Tool and Placing Images

Using Type in Illustrator

Organizing Your Illustrations

Using Layers

Livening Up Illustrations with Color

Using the Transform and Distortions Tools

Working with Transparency and Special Effects Tools

Using Filters and Effects

Using Your Illustrator Images

Photoshop CS4

Exploring New Features in Photoshop CS4

Getting Into Photoshop CS4 Basics

Messing with Mode Matters

Creating a Selection

Using the Photoshop Pen Tool

Thinking about Resolution Basics

Creating a Good Image

Working with Painting and Retouching Tools

Using Layers

Saving Photoshop Images for Print and the Web

Acrobat 9.0

Discovering Essential Acrobat Information

Creating PDF Files

Adding Interactivity to PDF Files

Editing and Extracting Text and Graphics

Using Commenting and Annotation Tools

Securing Your PDF Files

Dreamweaver CS4

Getting Familiar with New Features in Dreamweaver

Introducing Dreamweaver CS4

Creating a Web Site

Working with Images

Putting Text on the Page

Linking It Together

Creating Tables

Creating CSS Layouts

Publishing Your Web Site

Flash CS4

Getting Started in Flash CS4

Drawing in Flash CS4

Symbols and Animation

Applying More Advanced Animation

Importing Graphics and Sounds

Lights, Camera, Movie Clips!

Controlling Your Movie with ActionScript

Getting Into the (Work)flow

Publishing and Final Delivery

Fireworks CS4

Introducing Fireworks CS4

Free to Create

Livening Up Your Artwork with Color

Creating Text in Fireworks

Getting Images In and Out of Fireworks

Hotspots, Slices, and CSS Layouts

Using Buttons and Symbols

Don't Just Sit There - Animate!

Index

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