Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies [Paperback]

Jennifer Smith (Author), Christopher Smith (Author), Fred Gerantabee (Author)

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Paperback: 936 pages
Publisher: For Dummies (Nov 14 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470331860
ISBN-13: 978-0470331866
Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 18.8 x 5.1 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #207,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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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 program

To 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 CS4

Adobe 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.

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Here's your one-stop guide to all the parts of Adobe CS4 Design Premium

Design professionals (like you!) rely on Adobe's Creative Suite Design Premium and this all-in-one guide. Here's everything you need on 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!

Get it together — see how the programs dovetail to create pages with text and drawings, or Web sites with photos, Flash animations, and rollovers
Know your toolbox — get familiar with the menus, panels, and tools that are similar throughout the suite
Find your vector — get creative with Illustrator's cool new vector tracing feature
See what's new — check out enhanced Photoshop 3D tools, annotation capabilities in Acrobat 9.0, improved CSS capabilities in Dreamweaver, and more
Animate in a Flash — create interactive animations for the Web or video with Flash CS4
Interact — use the easier rollover and action features in Dreamweaver CS4 to add interactivity without coding
Fire up your site — explore what Fireworks CS4, the newest addition to the suite, can add to Web sites

Open the book and find:

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
The difference between RGB and CMYK
How to secure PDF files
Steps for using each program

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3.0 out of 5 stars (3.5) Another Dummy looking for answers, Dec 6 2009

By Luan Gaines "luansos" - Published on Amazon.com

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I have no trouble buying a book for Dummies when it come to my lack of skills with the Adobe design programs and am happy to take any help I can get. And while this all-in-one book covers all of the programs from InDesign CS4 to Photoshop CS4 to Dreamweaver CS4 to Flash CS4, it is at least somewhat helpful in navigating the programs. Unfortunately, I run into the same problem in this text as I have with others available online- a lack of adequate information to tell me if this is an appropriate guide to one who is new to the Adobe programs. They all tout themselves as the perfect tool for beginners, but the reverse is usually true. Either that or I am an unredeemable dummy.

I find that if I read carefully through the chapters of each program I am interested in, I can understand the basic nature of that program. But when I want to do specific tasks, I can not get that information. For example, when I wanted to draw a line across the top of a page, I had to use the right terminology- a "line" is a "stroke". But I had no way to know that until informed by a friend who uses an earlier version of InDesign. Now I want to isolate various objects in a picture to add to a new document and hope I have found the proper page and program to do that with my Dummy book.

Chapter headings and index appear to address most issues, but the finer points of design are unavailable to me without the appropriate terminology and how various applications are applied. I have an extensive design background with a twenty-year old vocabulary and these programs are written in a new language. I have the most trouble navigating from one task to another, applying tools in the proper manner, going from Index to chapter in hopes of solutions. Sometimes I find them, sometimes I don't. At least this book helps me navigate the logic behind the programs if not the nuances. I welcome any information about helpful texts for beginners from those conversant with these programs, especially InDesign CS4. Luan Gaines/2009.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Creative Suite 4, April 7 2009

By Susan Pelczar "Susan Pelczar" - Published on Amazon.com

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This book has done wonders for me so far...I had to purchase the Creative Suite Software for a college course I am taking, and this book has turned out to be a better learning companion than my classroom materials!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Pros & Cons, May 21 2009

By Thomas O. Martin - Published on Amazon.com

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Pros: Good reference book. Has a lot of information in it that helped me learn a few things about the program.

Cons: Needs a disk shipped with it that provides the same info as they use in they're lessons. With out any information given from them its a little hard to fallow along and figure out how to do it the way they do it.

Over all: Good for people who know a bit about how to use the programs all ready or how to wright/type code for web designing or know a bit about how to draw for illustrator. In my honest opinion, I think it would be a lot better if it was like the Head First Labs books where they provide practice material, instead of just presuming u have all the materials needed to do their exercises. Again this is just my honest opinion on it.

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