Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies - Softcover

Smith, Jennifer; Smith, Christopher; Gerantabee, Fred

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9780470607466: Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies

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ISBN 10: 0470607467 ISBN 13: 9780470607466

Publisher: For Dummies, 2010

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The perennial Adobe Creative Suite bestseller—fully updated for Adobe CS5

Featuring eight books in one, this All-in-One For Dummies guide covers the key features and tools that you need to know in order to understand how to use each individual program within the Adobe Creative Suite—InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, and Flash—to its fullest potential. Within the nearly 1,000 pages, you’ll find creative inspiration as well as tips and techniques to sharpen you productivity.

Dedicates a minibook to each of the programs within the latest version of Adobe Creative Suite 5—InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash—as well as a minibook devoted to Creative Suite basics
Serves as a one-stop learning opportunity for each product inside the Design Premium Suite
Walks you through creating print and web-based marketing or advertising materials or other publications

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies is a premium resource on all Adobe Creative Suite 5 can do for you.

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From the Back Cover:

8 BOOKS IN 1

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Basics
InDesign� CS5
Illustrator� CS5
Photoshop� CS5
Acrobat� 9.0
Dreamweaver� CS5
Flash� Professional CS5
Fireworks� CS5

A minibook on each program plus one on how they work together — now that's suite!

Adobe created this outstanding suite of programs to work together, and we created this book to help you make the most of them all. Whether you're using a Mac or Windows, you'll learn to design beautiful pages, create great illustrations, edit your photos, build Web sites with cool interactive animations, optimize graphics, and so much more!

The suite deal — learn the menus, panels, and tools that work the same across all the CS5 programs

Page perfection — design page layouts with text, images, and drawings using InDesign

Free your creativity — with Illustrator's Appearance panel, the Pen tool, and new features like vector tracing

Fabulous photos — improve, enhance, and organize your photos with the new features in Photoshop CS5

Amazing Acrobat — save time and expense with document sharing and collaborative editing using Acrobat 9.0

Geek-free Web sites — use the improved CSS capabilities, interactive options, and more in Dreamweaver CS5

Flashy stuff — create 3D motion graphics and interactive animations with Flash

Watch the Fireworks — optimize images and graphics, create rollover effects, and more

Open the book and find:

Commands, menus, and extensions shared by all programs
Printing dos and don'ts
How Illustrator's multiple artboards make things easier
Tips on working with type
What histograms are for
How to optimize images for the Web
Web site essentials and site construction advice
Ways to spice up your site with Flash movies and Fireworks animations

About the Author:

Jennifer Smith, Executive Vice President of the American Graphics Institute, is the author of Photoshop CS5 Digital Classroom and other books. Christopher Smith is an industry expert on electronic publishing software. Fred Gerantabee is an author and Emmy Award–winning interactive designer and Web developer.

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