Adobe Creative Suite CS4 Classroom in a Book

A Classroom in a Book for the entire Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium! Stock available January 2009- Aust RRP $54.95 -Project-based lessons give readers a thorough introduction to Adobes Creative Suite Design Premium. -Covers all the latest versions of Photoshop Extended, InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, and Flash, and the new addition of Fireworks. -Official training series from Adobe Systems Inc., developed with the support of Adobe product experts. This thorough, self-paced guide to Adobe Creative Suite 4 is ideal for users who want to learn the key features of Adobes 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 readers 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. Ideal for beginning to intermediate users of Adobe Creative Suite 4 - including magazine staff, book publishers, newspapers, illustrators, students, graphic designers, advertisers, ad agencies, and corporate communications offices - that is, anyone who relies on Adobes collection of design tools to create visual content. Many users, lured by the savings of buying the entire Suite, will want a book to give them an overview of how they can use all of Adobes design tools in tandem - and this book provides them with that broad view. Table of Contents Getting StartedAdobe Creative Suite 4 Design PremiumFeature Tour1 Setting up basic assets2 Creating a brochure3 Prototyping and building a website4 Creating interactive Flash Documents5 Communicating through mobile devices6 Submitting work for reviewIndex