Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Classroom in a Book

by Adobe Creative Team

• ISBN13: 9780321573919
• ISBN10: 0321573919
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-23
• Publisher: Adobe Press

Summary

A Classroom in a Book for the entire Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium! Stock available January 2009- Aust RRP $54.95  Project-based lessons give readers a thorough introduction to Adobe's Creative Suite Design Premium.  Covers all the latest versions of Photoshop Extended, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, and Flash, and the new addition of Fireworks.  Official training series from Adobe Systems Inc., developed with the support of Adobe product experts. This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe Creative Suite 4 is ideal for users who want to learn the key features of Adobe's stellar collection of professional design tools. Readers are first given a brief program overview of the Design Suite that highlights common features and includes a section on cross-media workflows. Then readers will get up to speed with each software application using step-by-step, project-based lessons, with the lessons in each chapter building upon the reader's growing knowledge of the programs. Projects include designing a logo and creating basic assets, creating a brochure, prototyping a basic Website, creating interactive Flash and PDF documents, communicating through mobile devices, and submitting work for collaborative reviews. Review questions at the end of each chapter wrap up each lesson to help reinforce the skills learned in each chapter. Ideal for beginning to intermediate users of Adobe Creative Suite 4 - including magazine staff, book publishers, newspapers, illustrators, students, graphic designers, advertisers, ad agencies, and corporate communications offices - that is, anyone who relies on Adobe's collection of design tools to create visual content. Many users, lured by the savings of buying the entire Suite, will want a book to give them an overview of how they can use all of Adobe's design tools in tandem - and this book provides them with that broad view.

Author Biography

The Adobe Creative Team of designers, writers, and editors has extensive, real-world knowledge of and expertise in using Adobe products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and experienced users get upto speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Table of Contents

Getting Started Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Feature Tour

Setting up basic assets

Creating a brochure

Prototyping and building a website

Creating interactive Flash Documents

Communicating through mobile devices

Submitting work for review

Index

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