Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Creative Suite 5 choose Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 8 project-based lessons show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working with all the applications in the Creative Suite. Readers learn what they need to know to create engaging layouts for print or web publishing.This completely revised Creative Suite 5 edition covers designing for mobile devices and creating animated Flash documents. The companion DVD includes all the lesson files readers need to work along with the book. This guide is ideal for beginning to intermediate users and provides countless tips and techniques to help them become more productive. “The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” –Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain TrainingClassroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.Note from the publisher:FREE Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 updates are available for this title. Simply register your product at www.peachpit.com/register and you will receive the updates when they become available.
Author(s): Adobe Creative Team
Edition: 1
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 336
CONTENTS......Page 5
About Classroom in a Book......Page 10
Installing Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium......Page 11
Additional resources......Page 12
Adobe certification......Page 14
ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE 5 DESIGN PREMIUM......Page 15
Explore new creative realms......Page 17
Express your ideas faster......Page 22
Extend the reach of your designs without writing code......Page 27
Maximize your design time by streamlining critical nondesign tasks......Page 32
The Adobe Creative Suite 5 Family......Page 35
Lesson Overview......Page 39
Organizing your work with Bridge......Page 41
Creating artwork in Illustrator......Page 45
Removing a background in Photoshop......Page 59
Removing unwanted objects in Photoshop......Page 63
Creating a 3D image in Photoshop......Page 66
Review questions and answers......Page 69
Lesson Overview......Page 71
Inspecting and selecting documents with Adobe Bridge......Page 73
Modifying an InDesign document......Page 75
Preparing for printing......Page 105
Exporting to PDF......Page 110
Review questions and answers......Page 112
Lesson Overview......Page 113
About converting print documents to Flash......Page 115
Adding animation......Page 117
Adding interactive elements......Page 120
Editing video in Photoshop......Page 127
Converting to Flash video......Page 129
Adding video to an InDesign document......Page 131
Exporting in SWF (Shockwave Flash) format......Page 133
Exporting to Flash Professional......Page 134
Review questions and answers......Page 137
Lesson Overview......Page 139
A typical workflow......Page 141
Viewing the sample document......Page 142
Creating a Flash Catalyst document......Page 144
Roundtrip editing with Adobe Illustrator......Page 158
Adding video......Page 160
Publishing to SWF for the web......Page 164
Review questions and answers......Page 165
Lesson Overview......Page 167
A typical workflow......Page 169
Previewing the assets in Bridge......Page 170
Creating a prototype website in Fireworks......Page 171
Placing images......Page 173
Organizing objects in the Layers panel......Page 177
Collapsing and expanding folders; locking and unlocking folders and layers......Page 180
Working with layer comps and flattening images during import......Page 181
Adding a navigation bar......Page 183
Using a master page......Page 185
Defining hotspots and linking pages......Page 188
Previewing web pages in a web browser......Page 189
Sharing layers to pages......Page 190
Creating disjoint rollover behaviors......Page 193
Presenting the prototype website to the client......Page 201
Building a website in Dreamweaver......Page 206
Wrapping up......Page 215
Review questions and answers......Page 222
Lesson Overview......Page 225
About Adobe Flash Professional CS5......Page 227
Creating a Flash document......Page 229
Publishing a Flash document......Page 251
Applying inverse kinematics animation......Page 258
Review questions and answers......Page 262
Lesson Overview......Page 263
Planning for a mobile device workflow......Page 265
Using Device Central......Page 266
Previewing a mobile Flash Lite website......Page 285
Review questions and answers......Page 288
Lesson Overview......Page 289
Introducing the different types of review......Page 291
Managing reviews......Page 303
Collaborating in online meetings......Page 306
Review questions and answers......Page 311
A......Page 313
C......Page 314
E......Page 316
F......Page 317
H......Page 318
I......Page 319
M......Page 320
O......Page 321
P......Page 322
S......Page 323
T......Page 324
V......Page 325
Z......Page 326
