Adobe Creative Suite 2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies 1st Edition by Jennifer Smith (PDF)

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Adobe software has always been highly respected for creative design and development. Its programs allow you to produce amazing designs and creations with ease, and with the release of the Adobe Creative Suite 2, you can design a wide range of productions ranging from illustrations and Web sites to professional documents and photographic manipulations. Adobe Creative Suite 2 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies is your one-stop guide to creating great graphics with all the cool CS2 tools. Written in a thorough, fun way to show you the basics on how to use each of the programs, you’ll find out just how easy it is to start designing brilliant images and graphics. This guide gives you the tools you need to:Draw with InDesignUnderstand page layout and colorCreate colorful images with Illustrator C2Use the pen tool, type, and image placingChoose the correct Photoshop mode for your creationCreate images on PhotoShop CS2 for printPaint and retouch imagesCreate and secure PDF files with Acrobat 7.0Edit and extract text and graphicsBuild and publish a Web site with GoLive CS2Work with multimediaPacked with easy-to-follow steps and guidance, you’ll be up to speed with all the features in no time. With these six great reference guides rolled into one, this is the ultimate book for becoming a CS2 pro!

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover 6 books in 1—your key to success with CS2! Your one-stop guide to creating great graphics with all the cool CS2 toolsThey all work together, and now you have one guide to help you work with each of them! First, you’ll get the “big picture” tour of the suite. Then you’ll be ready to create perfect pages with InDesign, illustrate them with Illustrator, add images you’ve edited with Photoshop, make PDFs with Acrobat, and design dynamite Web sites with GoLive.Discover how toUse common menus, palettes, and plug-insDesign Web pages and print publicationsCreate illustrations and add typeRetouch, enhance, and reshape photosSave Photoshop images for print or the Web About the Author Jennifer Smith is the founder and Vice President of American Graphics Institute (AGITraining.com). She has authored multiple books on Adobe products and is a technical writer for the Adobe Classroom in a Book series. Jennifer has worked in all aspects of graphic design and production including as an art director of an advertising agency. More than ten years ago, Jennifer took her experience and applied it to teaching. Under her leadership, AGI has grown into the largest training organization focused on print, Internet, video, and PDF publishing. Her teaching and writing style shows a clear direction that can only be achieved by someone who knows the industry and has experienced the Adobe applications in a professional workflow. She lives in the Boston area with her husband (who co-authored this book) and children. Christopher Smith is President of American Graphics Institute and oversees curriculum content and delivery for Adobe’s largest and oldest Certified Training Provider. An Adobe Certified Expert, he works as part of the Adobe Creative Team as the lead technical writer for the Adobe Classroom in a Book series for both Adobe Acrobat and Adobe InDesign. His more than ten other books include Moving to InDesign, Teach Yourself Adobe Acrobat in 24 Hours, and Real World Adobe Acrobat. Smith has served as an elected member of the School Board in his hometown in suburban Boston, Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and children.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I like having “Dummie” books to refer to – they bridge the gap between my knowledge level and the knowledge level expected of users by technical manuals and high tech “How To” books. I usually follow a task in the high tech books until I flounder; then I go to the Dummie reference and sure enough, I soon enough “get it.”

⭐I’ve used a large assortment of tip holders, mostly with poor results. This one seems to hold the tip well, is lightweight and small and doesn’t seem to wear out very fast.

⭐Great, I recommend it.

⭐This book is billed by the publisher as being ‘6 Books In 1.’ At 768 pages, it’s a big book. As you might expect, inside it is broken down into six books, one each on:Adobe Creative Suite 2 BasicsInDesign CS2Illustrator CS2Photoshop CS2Acrobat 7.0 (What happened to the CS2), andGoLive CS2As is common with the ‘For Dummies’ books, each of these independent books are in tutorial format. That is, they start with the installation and then do a series of ‘do this’, now ‘do that,’ commands. This is combined with a pretty good indexing system so that if you want to go back and look something up, you can. This makes the book useful as a reference later on.Five of these books I’d say are entirely adequate. Book IV, on Photoshop, I’d say is a bit weak. That ‘book’ is about the same length as the other books in this volume. But the Photoshop software is so much bigger, so much more complex that I think you only get your toes wet in this volume.My suggestion is that if you are going to use the whole Creative Suite 2 package that you get this book and then another one on Photoshop alone. And since I like the ‘For Dummies’ books, I’d probably get ‘Photoshop CS2 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies’ to go along with this book.

⭐I bought this book to supplement the textbook I am using for a class in Adobe Illustrator. Personally I think this book should replace that confusing manual. Like mathematics textbooks, most software instructional materials make the same errors. They assume that the reader already has a foundational knowledge of the subject, they fail to describe techniques in a true step by step fashion, and they subtitute jargon for plain English.This volume, like so many in the Dummies series, does a good job of assuming that the reader is a raw beginner and meeting him/her at that level, leading them through the basic knowledge of the skill or topic in a laid-back, understandable way.This is especially helpful to those of us too old to have grown up with computers (I graduated high school in ’84, just as the Apple 2E was coming out – what a machine! Dot Matrix term papers and endless games of “Pong”)! Bravo to the authors and to the entire Dummies team. Highly recommended!

⭐I was a bit disappointed with this book. I followed many of the instructions to the tee as best as I could understand the “language” and it was difficult to follow. Not to mention, you had best know where all the tools are before embarking on the lessons. I can see this becoming a great reference book as I become more developed with CS2, but for a beginner I would not recommend it.

⭐Exactly as expected. Using and happy. Dummy but well explain

⭐I needed this. Before spending hundreds of dollars on software and classes to learn the software. Get this book! It really helps you learn what each Adobe product can do.

⭐Great reference book

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