Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite 3 All in One [Paperback]

Mordy Golding (Author), John Ray (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672329344 | ISBN-13: 978-0672329340 | Publication Date: October 4, 2007 | Edition: 1

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

 

Register your book at www.informit.com/title/9780672329340 for access to source images, updates, and links.

 

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

 

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From the Back Cover

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

 

Register your book at www.informit.com/title/9780672329340 for access to source images, updates, and links.

 

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

 

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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 [e-mail]. 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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Product Details

• Paperback: 744 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (October 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672329344
• ISBN-13: 978-0672329340
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #382,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Since 1990, I have been using Adobe tools to help publish print and web content, and from 2001 through 2004, I was the product manager for Adobe Illustrator (versions 10 and CS). I've been publishing instructional content on the use of Illustrator for over 15 years, and in 2003, I was named a Champion of Graphic Design by Graphics IQ magazine. I'm also the author of over 15 video training titles at Lynda.com and regularly speak at seminars and conferences around the world.

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love this book!!!, February 18, 2008

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Some people have a real gift for taking the complex and breaking it down into a simpler language for others to understand. That's exactly what Mordy Golding did with this book and I love it!! I bought this book after trying "Adobe Illustrator CS3 WOW" which seemed to assume I already knew how to use the illustrator program and thus left out many relevant details. This book doesn't assume anything and walks you through each program step by step! It has been exhilarating! I feel capable!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Impressed, August 12, 2008

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Therese Szymanski "Reese" (D.C. Area) - See all my reviews

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I bought this book because I just got CS3. Now, I bought full books for reference on the programs I'll really use a lot, but I wanted a good, decent book to give me an overview of the new features of the programs I know as well as give me a decent working knowledge of the programs I don't know at all (Flash and Dreamweaver).

What I found was that in each program's section... The best way to say it is that the authors and editors got bored. For the first three programs it starts out strong, then goes downhill. I skimmed the last few (up to 15-30) pages of the sections.

Then the real problems started. Gobbledygook sentences. Vague explanations. References to things I know nothing about.

And I really mean this. I can't believe Sam's editorial staff is so poor that they let this book go out like this. (With the gobbledygook sentences. I think someone scanned in pages, or hit keys by accident, but no matter--after more than 5 such instances, I'm getting annoyed.)

I'm in the Flash section now and some concepts are beyond me. This means the authors didn't explain them well at all. To add to the confusion they're suddenly talking about features for the first time and not telling the reader how to access them or anything logical like that. The only time this one feature is mentioned in the book is this one paragraph (I checked the index. I checked Flash's help menu. Nada.) The continuity editor should have caught this bit.

I used to like Sam's books, but unless this one does a bang-up job teaching me Dreamweaver, I won't be returning.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Introduction, July 20, 2010

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O. Yang (Florianopolis, Brazil) - See all my reviews
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Concise, clear and didactic introductory text for Adobe's Creative Suit 3. Recommended for beginners to grasp the basics.