Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21676 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From the Back Cover
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.

About the Author
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.

Customer Reviews

Introduction to Adobe CS4 suite
An easy to follow well constructed general introduction to all of the products in the suite using step by step lessons with all of the necesary files on CD. As a newcomer to a lot of the programmes, having only used Photoshop and Acrobat in the past, it gave me a starting point and ideas for my own work with the others. I have since brought Classroom books for individual programmes which go into greater depth with the same clear lessons.

I would recommend this for a sound introduction to the programmes but do not expect a lot of detail on individual programmes as it is covering a whole suite.