Adobe Creative Cloud Design Tools Digital Classroom Author: Jennifer Smith AGI Creative Team | Language: English | ISBN:
1118639995 | Format: PDF
Adobe Creative Cloud Design Tools Digital Classroom Description
Full-color guide and video tutorials make a powerful combo for learning design applications in the Adobe Creative Cloud
If you like the idea of tackling the design and web applications in Adobe’s Creative Cloud in smaller bites, then this is the book-and-video training learning combo for you. More than 25 lessons, each including step-by-step instructions and lesson files backed by video tutorials, help you get comfortable with all features and functions. Work at your own pace, while you steadily build skills in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks. With this Digital Classroom training package, you have your own private instructor showing you the easiest way to learn the latest Adobe design apps.
- Combines a full-color, step-by-step instructional book along with lesson files and video training on DVD, to teach users how to use the latest versions of InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC, Dreamweaver CC, Flash CC, Fireworks CC, and Adobe Bridge
- Provides thorough training from a team of expert instructors from American Graphics Institute (AGI)
Start confidently creating the rich and interactive content viewers demand with this practical learning product, Adobe Creative Cloud Digital Classroom
Note: DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of the e-book file, but are available for download after purchase.
- Series: Digital Classroom
- Paperback: 864 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (September 30, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118639995
- ISBN-13: 978-1118639993
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Back in 2004 or so, I started using the (then) Macromedia suite of web software, which included Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and so on. I got very helpful manuals to introduce me, some were better than others, but they all were essential in getting me started, teaching me enough to create websites and more, and teaching me enough to start playing around on my own (which is where the learning really takes off). A couple years later, or so, I got the Adobe Suite, CS2. Time was not as free, and I got some books but never quite got as proficient. Partly it was the books. With the Macromedia, I chose well. With the Adobe CS2, I didn't choose as well. I got what basically served as manuals rather than tutors.
Enter 2014. Adobe now owns those Macromedia programs (they have for a while), and the suite has gone from CS6 to CS... cloud. No more CS, it's all cloud from now on. Which ends up costing a lot more in the long run if you used a product as long as I did, but in the short term it's more accessible to a wider audience.
But where to begin when suddenly you have access to some world class, industry defining, software? It can be intimidating.
That's where this book really fills a role. It's a one stop shop introduction to the most important web and print design programs. Most of the programs were at least someone familiar, but I was very interested in learning what they offered new or different and after not using this software regularly for a while, and then jumping into the updated cloud, I definitely needed a refresher.
Simply put, for what it is, I love this book.
I tend to avoid all-in-one manuals that attempt to cover several sometimes unrelated subject areas. My experience with nearly all has been that thy don’t provide much more than superficial coverage of any of the subjects they tackle.
Only seven of the Adobe Creative Cloud apps are covered and each of them gets varying levels of attention, a wise move. Adobe Bridge, essentially a graphic asset cataloging program, gets about 25 pages. Photoshop, however, gets nearly 200 pages on very well chosen capabilities. The editorial selection is actually quite impressive. The authors not only know the programs, but understand which features are the most useful to the beginners who are the primary audience for this book.
Dreamweaver, a website authoring program, gets about 150 pages. The beginner will learn how to create a very basic website, but that’s about it. For many people, it may be enough, but it is still kust a basic treatment of Dreamweaver’s massive power.
The barely more than 100 pages given to Flash will give the beginner a very rudimentary understanding of the program and probably reduce their fear of it. But anyone who wants to accomplish something with any sophistication will need a more focused and thorough instructional.
Fireworks is covered in 35 pages, a reflection of its declining importance. Illustrator gets about 100 ages, enough to provide a pretty good introduction. InDesign, Adobe’s page layout program, gets almost 200 pages, reflecting the program’s complexity and importance to the contemporary creative graphic workflow.
There are a couple of dozen r so video tutorials which are pretty good as this stuff goes.
I reviewed a number of the titles published by this particular group and they are uniformly excellent.
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