Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 3 All in One - Softcover

Golding, Mordy; Ray, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672329344 ISBN 13: 9780672329340

Publisher: Sams, 2007

Synopsis

In just a short time you can learn how to use all the components of Adobe Creative Suite 3 (Design Premium Edition) to design, create, and edit graphics, publications, and web pages of all kinds–everything from simple brochures to entire integrated ad campaigns.

 

Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson in this book builds on the previous ones, enabling you to learn the essentials of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, and Bridge from the ground up.

 

“This book should be required reading for every introductory digital graphics course. Mordy has packed this book with great information for folks at all levels of expertise!”

 – Sharon Steuer, author of The Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book

 

Mordy Golding has played an active role in the design and publishing environment since 1990. He worked at Adobe as the product manager for Adobe Illustrator and is currently a consultant and trainer specializing in Adobe Creative Suite. A production artist for both print and the Web for many years, he is an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Print Specialist.

 

John Ray is a senior business analyst and developer for The Ohio State University Research Foundation. He provides custom network, security, and programming solutions for clients across the country, including the National Regulatory Research Institute and the Brevard Metropolitan Planning Organization in Florida.

 

Learn how to...

• Choose the ideal Creative Suite 3 application for the job
• Make accurate selections
• Manage complex compositions with layers
• Apply filters, effects, and transformations
• Control color and type precisely
• Manipulate vector objects
• Paint, draw, and animate objects
• Prepare images for use on the Web
• Create websites
• Display and print your work anywhere–exactly as designed
• Design brochures
• Develop an entire integrated ad campaign

 

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Category:  Graphics/Web Design

Covers:  Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Edition–Adobe Bridge CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, InDesign CS3, Flash CS3 Professional, Dreamweaver CS3, Acrobat 8 Professional

User Level:  Beginning—Intermediate

 

About this title

About the Author:

Mordy Golding has played an active role in the design and publishing environment since 1990. A production artist for both print and the Web for many years, Mordy, an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Print Specialist, has served as a hands-on trainer and has spoken at worldwide events and seminars including The Creative Suite Conference, Macworld, Seybold, NAB, and PhotoshopWorld.

 

Mordy worked at Adobe as the product manager for Adobe Illustrator 10 and Adobe Illustrator CS, and is currently a consultant specializing in the Adobe Creative Suite through his company, Design Responsibly (www.designresponsibly.com).

 

You can often find Mordy at his blog (http://rwillustrator.blogspot.com), hanging around the Adobe User to User forums (www.adobeforums.com), or at the Print Planet forums (www.printplanet.com), and you can reach him at mordy@mordy.com. Other books published by Mordy Golding include Real World Adobe Illustrator CS3 (Peachpit Press, 978-0321496218, 2007), Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator in 24 Hours (Sams Publishing, 0-672-32313-3, 2003), and The Web Designer’s Guide to Color (Hayden Books, 1-5683-0354-8, 1997). Mordy is also the author of several video training titles, which you can find at www.lynda.com.

 

 

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Introduction

Introduction

Welcome to Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 3 All in One. This book is designed to give you a fast and easy start with the Design Premium edition of Adobe's powerhouse of creativity, design, and production tools. Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium brings together Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, and Acrobat software; an innovative file-management tool called Version Cue; and an image browser called Bridge. Together, these tools can create a smooth workflow for professional print or web design, taking into account all aspects of the design and production processes.

A recent search at Amazon.com came back with several pages of books on Photoshop alone. Considering that Adobe Creative Suite contains the fully functional versions of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Acrobat, it's a wonder this book is anything smaller than War and Peace. The goal of this book isn't to overwhelm you with needless information about every single feature in every application, but rather to help you learn how to use Adobe Creative Suite as a whole to get your work done.

Organization of This Book

I've broken the book down into three parts, each taking a different approach to Adobe Creative Suite 3:

Part I: The Suite—An overall introduction to the different applications in the Creative Suite, as well as an overview of each application's strengths and weaknesses. You'll learn when to use which application, as well as get an understanding of how each application works with the others to produce a complete product. You'll also see how each application in the suite integrates with the others and how certain features are similar across the entire suite.

Part II: The Applications—An in-depth look at each individual application in Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. Part I of the book gave you an understanding of when to use a particular application, and now Part II goes into detail about the features, functionality, and uses for Bridge, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, and Acrobat.

Part III: The Projects—A collection of projects you can re-create using all the tools in Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium. After becoming familiar with the workflow process and the applications themselves in Part I and Part II, you will now create a series of projects that will not only give you real-world working experience with the Creative Suite, but also offer tips and tricks you can apply as you are working on the projects themselves. All art and files necessary to complete the projects are readily available (see below), so you can follow along to create a corporate identity, a brochure, an ad campaign, a web ad banner, and a website.

If you have some familiarity with the applications in the suite, you can read Part I and then jump to Part III to work on the projects, using Part II as a reference when you need more information about a particular feature in an application. In either case, the three sections will present the Creative Suite in a way that is not overwhelming, and before you know it you'll be creating professional-quality art and having fun at the same time!

Where to Download the Project Images

The projects in Part III of this book are all step-by-step in nature, written with the intention that you follow along on your own. You'll be creating files from scratch, getting the true feel of what it is like to work "in the real world" and all of the fonts that you'll be using already come installed with Adobe Creative Suite 3.

The fine folks at iStockPhoto.com have been kind enough to set up a specific page where you can download all of the images that you'll need to complete the projects in this book. To access and download these images, point your favorite web browser to http://www.istockphoto.com/teachyourselfcs3.php.

Conventions Used in This Book

This book uses the following conventions:

• Keyboard shortcuts are listed as Macintosh key combination (Windows key combination). Simply press the key combinations to access the menu item.

• New terms are in italic text when they are defined.

• CSS and HTML elements and snippets of code are set in monospace text.

• Text that you are to type is in bold monospace text.

This book also presents information in the following sidebars:

By the Way - By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

Did You Know? - Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to do something.

Watch Out! - Watch Out! cautions alert you to a possible problem, and give you advice on how to avoid it.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Sams
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0672329344
• ISBN 13: 9780672329340
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 697