Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 816 pages
- Published by: For Dummies August 6, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0470117249
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470117248
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 7.4 x 1.9 inches
- Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Product Description
Adobe’s Creative Suite is a tightly integrated, powerful, and cost-effective set of tools that gives you the power to create graphically rich content for print or the Web. Now, there’s an all-in-one resource that explains each component of the Suite in easy-to-understand language and gets you up and running in no time!
Loaded with invaluable tips from Adobe experts,
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium For Dummies shows you how to use the different
software packages included in Adobe's Creative Suite to publish your own projects, in print or electronic form. You get seven minibooks that span more than 750 pages, giving you the lowdown on today’s hottest
software tools — Acrobat, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver — and showing you how to integrate the Suite. Completely updated to cover the latest features and enhancements of all the tools, this friendly how-to guide explains in plain English how to:
- Install and set up each program
- Use common menus and commands
- Import and export files
- Work with graphics, text, and fonts
- Understand page layout
- Draw with InDesign and share your work
- Use layers, filters, and effects in Illustrator
- Save Photoshop images for print and the Web
- Create and modify PDF files in Acrobat
- Build a Web site in Dreamweaver
- Work with images and sound in Flash
- Tackle advanced concepts
- And much, much more!
Complete with a list of helpful resources,
Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium For Dummies is your powerhouse guide to getting the most out of each program!
Back Cover Copy
7 books in 1 — your key to success with Adobe Creative Suite 3! Your one-stop guide to publishing your own projects in print or on the Web Want to create dynamic content with Adobe's Creative Suite? Seven handy minibooks show you all the tricks for installing, setting up, and using the new features of the cutting-edge
software tools that are packed in the Suite. You'll format text, import images, create illustrations, retouch photos, modify PDF files, share your work, and much more!
- Use common menus and commands
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Work with graphics, text, and fonts -
Understand page layout -
Use layers, filters, and effects -
Work with images and sound -
Build Web sites
Reader ReviewsI've finally plunked down a few bills and bought the suite. The CS3 is phenomenal, by the way. My only problem is, is that with the exception of some older versions of Photoshop and a couple of projects with Illustrator, this suite is essentially a whole new program. After reading the reviews below, I decided to borrow this book from the library just to be sure it was worth the effort to buy. After a couple of weeks of going through various chapters, I bought the book from Amazon. Just to be sure, this is a book for beginners and moderate users of the CS3. There are two other books that I bought "How to Cheat in Flash CS3" and "WOW, The Adobe Illustrator CS3 book" because both offer step by step illustrated examples and on CD-rom. But neither offers an expansive explanation of the use of the tools as The Dummies version. And, we talking close to 100 pages on this subject alone. The Dummies is about 800 pages and is separated by each of the CS3 Design Suite programs. Also, authors Jennifer and Chris Smith, do a great job of interconnecting the different softwares. If theres a downside to this, it's this: the book is printed on stock paper barely heavier than newsprint. The cover creases very easily, everything within the cover pages is in b/w. This point does prove a bit disconcerting as your eyes tends to skip over the printed tables. If you had the tables in color, it would reinforce the lesson the authors were attempting to get across. And, last but not least, the Dummies collection does not come with a cd-rom. The Dummies for CS3 does what it sets out to do: provide reference material for those who have the CS3 Design suite. Period. And, it does it well. It is not flashy as the other books I just mentioned but to get started in learning about this terrific suite, this should be your first stop. And, for what it offers, it is a heck of a lot cheaper than taking a class.
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