Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Classroom in a Book

by Adobe Creative Team

• ISBN13: 9780321704504
• ISBN10: 0321704509
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-25
• Publisher: Adobe Press

Summary

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium bull; bull;This training guide offers coverage of the entire suite including: Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, and more. bull;Project-based lessons show readers the key techniques for working in Adobe Creative Suite. bull;This book is part of the official training series from Adobe Systems and developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Creative Suite 5 choose Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 8 project-based lessons show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working with all the applications in the Creative Suite. Readers learn what they need to know to create engaging layouts for print or web publishing. This completely revised Creative Suite 5 edition covers designing for mobile devices and creating animated Flash documents. The companion DVD includes all the lesson files readers need to work along with the book. This guide is ideal for beginning to intermediate users and provides countless tips and techniques to help them become more productive.

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Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Creative Suite software.

Table of Contents

Getting Started	p. 1
About Classroom in a Book	p. 1
Prerequisites	p. 2
Installing Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium	p. 2
Copying the Classroom in a Book files	p. 3
Additional resources	p. 3
Adobe certification	p. 5
Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium	p. 6
Explore new creative realms	p. 8
Express your ideas faster	p. 13
Extend the reach of your designs without writing code	p. 18
Maximize your design time by streamlining critical nondesign tasks	p. 23
The Adobe Creative Suite 5 Family	p. 26
Setting Up Basic Assets	p. 30
Lesson Overview	p. 30
Organizing your work with Bridge	p. 32
Creating artwork in Illustrator	p. 36
Removing a background in Photoshop	p. 50
Removing a unwanted objects in Photoshop	p. 54
Creating a 3D image in Photoshop	p. 57
Review questions and answers	p. 60
Creating a Print Layout	p. 62
Lesson Overview	p. 62
Inspecting and selecting documents with Adobe Bridge	p. 64
Modifying an InDesign document	p. 66
Preparing for printing	p. 96
Exporting to PDF	p. 101
Review questions and answers	p. 103
Creating an Online Version of a Print Document	p. 104
Lesson Overview	p. 104
About converting print documents to Flash	p. 106
Adding animation	p. 108
Adding interactive elements	p. 111
Editing video in Photoshop	p. 118
Converting to Flash video	p. 120
Adding video to an InDesign document	p. 122
Exporting in SWF (Shockwave Flash) format	p. 124
Exporting to Flash Professional	p. 125
Review questions and answers	p. 128
Creating Interactive Flash Content	p. 130
Lesson Overview	p. 130
About Adobe Flash Catalyst	p. 132
A typical workflow	p. 132
Viewing the sample document	p. 133
Creating a Flash Catalyst document	p. 135
Roundtrip editing with Adobe Illustrator	p. 149
Adding video	p. 151
Publishing to SWF for the web	p. 155
Review questions and answers	p. 156
Prototyping and Building a Website	p. 158
Lesson Overview	p. 158
Planning for a website	p. 160
A typical workflow	p. 160
Previewing the assets in Bridge	p. 161
Creating a prototype website in Fireworks	p. 162
Placing images	p. 164
Organizing objects in the Layers panel	p. 168
Collapsing and expanding folders; locking and unlocking folders and layers	p. 171
Working with layer comps and flattening images during import	p. 172
Adding a navigation bar	p. 174
Using a master page	p. 176
Defining hotspots and linking pages	p. 179
Previewing web pages in a web browser	p. 180
Sharing layers to pages	p. 181
Creating disjoint rollover behaviours	p. 184
Presenting the prototype website to the client	p. 192
Building a website in Dreamweaver	p. 197
Wrapping up	p. 206
Review questions and answers	p. 213
Creating Animated Flash Content	p. 216
Lesson Overview	p. 216
About Adobe Flash Professional CS5	p. 218
Creating a Flash document	p. 220
Publishing a Flash document	p. 242
Applying inverse kinematics animation	p. 249
Review questions and answers	p. 253
Designing for Mobile Devices	p. 254
Lesson Overview	p. 254
Planning for a mobile device workflow	p. 256
Using Device Central	p. 257
Previewing a mobile Flash Lite website	p. 276
Review questions and answers	p. 279
Submitting Work for a PDF Review	p. 280
Lesson Overview	p. 280
Introducing the different types of review	p. 282
Managing reviews	p. 294
Collaborating in online meetings	p. 297
Review questions and answers	p. 302
Index	p. 304
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