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Jennifer Smith (Author), Jen deHaan (Author)
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0764556010 978-0764556012 March 12, 2004 1
If you’re responsible for producing quality printed materials or creating great-looking Web pages for your business or organization, Adobe’s new Creative Suite has just what you need. This complete set of integrated graphics, design, and Web page creation tools will help you produce professional quality brochures, flyers, and newsletters as well as dynamic Web pages—as soon as you get familiar with all the parts!

Well, relax. Adobe Creative Suite All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies® has you—and all those programs—covered. Five minibooks walk you through setting up and using the tools, while the sixth shows you how they all work together. And this single volume will remain a handy reference long after you gain proficiency with the entire suite:

  • InDesign for page layout
  • Illustrator for creating art and graphics
  • Photoshop, the world’s favorite image editing program
  • Acrobat, to share files across different operating systems and develop interactive forms
  • GoLive for building innovative Web pages

Even if you plan to use only one or two of these elements now, Adobe Creative Suite All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies® is an outstanding resource. Find out what you need to know today, and when you’re ready to tackle the next tool, just turn to that minibook and away you go. These are only a few of the skills you’ll discover:

  • Create a professional-looking page with InDesign, import Photoshop and Illustrator graphics to enliven it, and preserve it in a PDF file
  • Design a logo for your business with Illustrator and give it 3D effects
  • Save Illustrator files in a variety of Web-compatible formats, including GIF, HTML, and even Macromedia® Flash SWF
  • Correct photo color and edit your images in Photoshop
  • Plan an entire Web site for maximum impact, then save hours of work by using GoLive’s templates, components, and libraries
  • Use Acrobat to create PDFs that include MP3 audio, video or SWF files

Whether your goal is to design newsletters, a full-size book, an e-commerce Web site, or just about anything else, Adobe’s Creative Suite plus Adobe Creative Suite All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies® will help you get the job done.


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“…countless nuggets of wisdom that are designed to get you up to speed…” (Mac Format, October 2004)

From the Back Cover

6 books in 1–your key to Adobe publishing success!

Your one-stop way to make friends with Adobe’s entire Creative Suite

The Adobe Creative Suite is a high-tech team with all the tools you need to publish professional-looking print materials and Web sites. Team up with this friendly guide, and you’ll have the scoop on all five programs and how they work together. Fix up photos, design great pages, pack ’em up in PDFs, and more!

The Dummies Way

  • Coverage of the essentials and beyond
  • Explanations in plain English
  • "Get in, get out" information
  • Thumbtabs and other navigation aids
  • Tear-out cheat sheet
  • A dash of humor and fun

Discover how to:

  • Use palettes and filters common to all programs
  • Manipulate fonts and text
  • Create your own illustrations
  • Retouch photos
  • Discover interactive Acrobat forms
  • Work with media in GoLive

Product Details

  • Paperback: 744 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (March 12, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0764556010
  • ISBN-13: 978-0764556012
  • Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #759,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jennifer Smith's expertise bridges the gap between design and development of web, interactive, and print. She has managed and developed training and communications projects for companies such as Adobe, Microsoft, Hershey Foods, Hasbro, and Liz Claiborne. Jennifer's takes technical information and presents it in a clear and easy-to-understand manner which has made her such a popular author, speaker, and instructor helping tens of thousands of creative and design professionals to better understand how to build effective user experiences, Web sites, illustrations, and designs. Her mastery of Photoshop and Illustrator is unparalleled, and she has been hired by Adobe many times to deliver training to their own employees on the best ways to explain and use Photoshop and their other tools.
Jennifer has written more than one dozen books on technology and design, and delivered training and presentations for clients on four continents. Her books include the best-sellingAdobe Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom as well as four versions of Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium for Dummies, two versions of Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium for Dummies, three version of Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book. She is working on her latest book, the Web Design Digital Classroom. Jennifer is the co-founder of American Graphics Institute: www.agitraining.com.

 

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty darn good for a "Dummies" publication!, June 3, 2004
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I haven't always found the "For Dummies" books to be extremely helpful in the realm of software guides. This book, however, proved to surpass my expectations.

The language style was very beginner-friendly. The order of presentation of the programs and features in the CS suite made sense. The index was highly inclusive and helpful.

This book is geared toward someone totally new to the Adobe programs. It's a step-by-step approach to familiarizing the reader to the basics of the Suite's features and helping the reader recognize when the different programs can be used in conjunction with one-another for effective results. I would not recommend it for people who already have experience with Adobe Programs and wish to brush up on the new features in CS, but for beginners to Adobe it's a comfortable place to get your feet wet.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars TOILET PAPER, March 11, 2005
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This book was awful!!! I bought this for the Golive section, being new to GoLive I thought that a book like this could get me up and running in no time flat. BUUZZZZZZ! I couldn't have been more wrong. The subject matter is presented in an illogical format and runs in circles without really doing anything. For a dummies book I needed a brain brace just to find the ready made templates. I ended up getting a tutorial from the web to supplemment this book. Finally, I gave up! I returned this book and bought Adobe GoLive CS Classroom in a book. I accomplished more in half of the first chapter with the AGLCIB than I did with the whole section of the dummies book. I was so fustrated that if I didn't pay so much for this book I would have just thrown it in the garbage and have one less copy out there for someone else to suffer through.

Do yourself a favor and leave this one on the shelf. Seriously!
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Dummy No More, July 16, 2004
This review is from: Adobe Creative Suite All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies (Paperback)
I got this book originally for the Acrobat chapters, but also knowing that I was ready to dive into Photoshop and Illustrator. This book has been a godsend! It has a permanent place on my desk for quick reference. Thanks Double Jens for taking the time to share your expertise with us "dummies"! Your book has made learning these tools very easy. I love your writing style and your ability to explain the differences of all the various settings and how to use the tools. Now I'm on my way to being a designer to compliment my developer side! Selecting Five Stars was an easy choice! Thanks!
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