Adobe Creative Suite

Adobe software has always been highly respected for creative design and development. Adobe creates programs that allow you to produce amazing designs and creations with ease. The Adobe Creative Suite is the company#8217;...

Chapter 1: Introducing the Adobe Creative Suite The diverse software in the Adobe Creative Suite enables you to create everything from an e-commerce Web site to a printed book of many hundred pages. Each piece of softw...

Chapter 2: Using Common Menus and Commands When you work with all the different programs in the Adobe Creative Suite, you might notice that many menus, commands, and options are extremely similar between each piece of...

Chapter 3: Using Common Palettes Palettes are an integral part of working with most of the programs in the Adobe Creative Suite because they contain many of the controls and tools that you use when you#8217;re creating...

Chapter 4: Using Common Plug-Ins In This Chapter Discovering what filters and plug-ins are used for Using common plug-ins and filters in the Adobe Creative Suite Many programs in the Adobe Creative Sui...

Chapter 5: Importing and Exporting Importing and exporting content is an important process for a lot of the creative process you experience while using programs in the Adobe Creative Suite. You commonly find yourself i...

Chapter 6: Handling Graphics, Paths, Text, and Fonts Graphics, paths, text, and fonts are all integral parts of creating documents with the Adobe Creative Suite. You must know how to handle each element in your documen...

Chapter 7: Using Color Using color in your documents is probably one of the most important considerations you can make in your projects. The colors you use, the mode that you use them in, and even the way you select co...

Chapter 8: Printing Documents You can print documents in many different ways with the Adobe Creative Suite. Similarly, you can print out many different kinds of documents! You might create anything from a CD-ROM sticke...

Chapter 9: Introducing InDesign CS InDesign is one of the most sophisticated page layout programs available on the market. InDesign is used for page layout and print design: It has many features that allow you to m...

Chapter 10: Drawing in InDesign Many of the tools that you find in the InDesign toolbox are used for drawing lines and shapes on a page. This means you have several different ways of creating interesting drawings for y...

Chapter 11: Working with Text and Text Frames Most of your publications will contain text, so knowing how to use and modify text is very important in InDesign. Text is made up of characters, and the characters are styl...

Chapter 12: Understanding Page Layout In Chapters 9 through 11 of this minibook, we show you how to start a new document, create graphics using the drawing tools, and add stories and text to your publications. This cha...

Chapter 13: Clipping Paths, Transforming Objects, and Alignment In this chapter, you discover several different ways to manipulate and arrange objects on a page. You find out how to use the Transform palette and other...

Chapter 14: Understanding Color and Printing Color is an important and complicated subject, especially in page layout; however, you probably already understand many of the concepts because the media bombards you with a...

Chapter 15: Exporting Your Work You can export publications into several different kinds of file formats from InDesign, just as you can import various kinds of file formats. We touch on printing your files in Chapter 1...

Chapter 16: Integrating InDesign The Adobe Creative Suite offers you a lot of different options for integrating different parts of the suite so that you can create a single project using the tools available in the diff...

Chapter 17: Discovering the Basics of Illustrator CS Adobe Illustrator goes hand-in-hand with the other Adobe products but serves its own unique purpose. Adobe Illustrator creates single-page artwork, not lengthy docum...

Chapter 18: Using the Selection Tools You#8217;ve probably heard the old line, #8220;You have to select it to affect it.#8221; This is so true. When you#8217;re ready to apply a change to an object in Illustrator, you...

Chapter 19: Creating Basic Shapes Shapes, shapes, shapes . . . they#8217;re everywhere in Illustrator. Basic shapes such as squares, circles, polygons, and stars are used in all types of illustrations. With the right k...

Chapter 20: Creating with the Pen Tool You#8217;ve seen illustrations that you know are made from paths, but how do you make your own? In this chapter, we show you how to use the Pen tool to create paths and closed sh...

Chapter 21: Using Type in Illustrator One of Illustrator#8217;s strongest areas #8212; manipulating text #8212; just got stronger with the release of Adobe Illustrator CS, which has been vastly improved to use the same...

Chapter 22: Organizing Your Illustrations You can know all the neat special effects in Illustrator, but if you don#8217;t have a strong foundation on the organization of your artwork, you might fall flat on your face w...

Chapter 23: Using Layers This chapter shows you just how simple it is to use layers and how helpful layers can be when you#8217;re producing complex artwork. Layers are similar to clear pages stacked on top of your art...

Chapter 24: Livening Up Illustrations with Color This chapter is all about making your brilliant illustrations come alive with color. Here we show you how to create new and edit existing colors, how to save custom colo...

Chapter 25: The Transform and Distortions Tools In This Chapter Discovering transformation methods Putting the transform tools to work Becoming familiar with the liquify tools Distorting, warping,...

Chapter 26: Transparency and Special Effects Tools This chapter is full of neat things that you can do using some of the more advanced features in Adobe Illustrator. These special effects tools can help you create art...

Chapter 27: Using Filters and Effects Filters and effects give you the opportunity to do jazzy things to your Illustrator objects, such as adding drop shadows and squiggling artwork. You can even use Photoshop filters...

Chapter 28: Using Your Illustrator Image So you have beautiful artwork, but you aren#8217;t sure how to get it off your screen. You could have a party and invite all interested clients to stand around your monitor and...

Chapter 29: Photoshop CS Basics Navigating the work area in Photoshop can be slightly cumbersome at first, especially if you#8217;ve never worked in a program that relies so heavily on palettes. In this chapter, we int...

Chapter 30: Mode Matters Before diving into using Photoshop, you must know what image mode you should be working in and how important color settings are. So no matter whether you#8217;re doing a one-color newsletter, a...

Chapter 31: Creating a Selection The most common ways to use Photoshop are to create compositions that might not actually exist and to retouch images to improve them. What you don#8217;t want is obvious retouching or a...

Chapter 32: Using the Photoshop Pen Tool The Pen tool is the ultimate method to make precise selections. You can also use it to create vector shapes and clipping paths (silhouettes). In this chapter, you discover how t...

Chapter 33: Resolution Basics Something as important as getting the right resolution for your images deserves its own chapter, but it isn#8217;t all that complex. In this chapter, you discover the necessary resolution...

Chapter 34: Creating a Good Image With all the incredible things you can do in Photoshop, it#8217;s easy to forget the basics. Yes, you can create incredible compositions with special effects, but if the people look gr...

Chapter 35: Painting and Retouching Tools This chapter shows you how to use the painting and retouching tools in Photoshop. If you#8217;re unsure about how good the painting you#8217;re about to do will look, create a...

Chapter 36: Using Layers Layers are incredibly helpful in production. By using layers, you can make realistic additions to an image that can be removed, edited, and controlled with blending modes and transparency. Unfo...

Chapter 37: Saving Photoshop Images for Print and the Web A productive workflow depends on you choosing the proper format in which to save your Photoshop files. Without the correct settings, your file may not be visib...

Chapter 38: Discovering Essential Acrobat Information Adobe Acrobat 6.0 provides a wealth of tools for you to use when sharing and reviewing documents. It also enables you to create Portable Document Format (PDF) files...

Chapter 39: Creating PDF Files Adobe Acrobat enables you to create Portable Document Format (PDF) files from documents created by programs in the Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office, and other types of programs, too...

Chapter 40: Adding Interactivity to PDF Files Because many Adobe PDF documents are viewed online, it makes sense to create easy-to-use navigational methods for your readers. You can design documents that are friendlier...

Chapter 41: Editing and Extracting Text and Graphics You might assume that PDF files are mere pictures of your documents and can#8217;t be edited, but nothing is farther from the truth. Adobe Acrobat includes a variety...

Chapter 42: Using Commenting and Annotation Tools One of the fantastic features of Acrobat is the capability to mark up documents electronically. Using virtual sticky notes called comments, you can mark up text to indi...

Chapter 43: Securing Your PDF Files You might think that because you#8217;ve converted your documents to PDF that they are inherently secure. This is not quite true because Adobe Acrobat includes tools for changing t...

Chapter 44: Introducing GoLive CS Adobe GoLive is a Web page and site management application that makes creating Web sites easy and fun. Because GoLive enables you to create Web pages and organize entire sites without...

Chapter 45: Creating a Web Site In this chapter, we show you the basics of putting a Web site together, from creating that first new, blank site, to adding files to Web sites, to playing (just a little bit) with HTML....

Chapter 46: Working with Images This is sure to be a fun chapter. Adding images to a Web page makes the page more interesting. If you#8217;re creating a personal site, sharing images (say, your digital photographs or a...

Chapter 47: Text and CSS Adding text to your Web page requires more than just typing on a page. You must carefully think about and plan your Web pages because you want search engines (and therefore viewers) to easily f...

Chapter 48: Tables and Frames With no formatting structure, your text and images fall on an HTML page in one long text string. In Chapters 46 and 47 of this minibook, we show you how to align images and text (respectiv...

Chapter 49: Links Links are a major component of any Web site. Links (short for hyperlinks) are navigational aids; viewers click links to go to other Web pages, a downloadable resource file, an e-mail address, or a spe...

Chapter 50: Layers In this chapter, we show you how to use layers to format your pages. Using layers, you can precisely control the positioning and stacking order of any element on your page. Layers can contain element...

Chapter 51: Forms You use forms to provide your viewers with a way to enter information into your Web site. Forms contain such elements as buttons, boxes, and lists, and can be as complex or simple as you want. But you...

Chapter 52: Multimedia Plug-ins open up new capabilities for your Web page by utilizing other applications to do things like play a Flash or a QuickTime movie file. Plug-ins are mini applications that run within the br...

Chapter 53: Publishing Your Web Site In this chapter, you discover how to take a site and get it up and running by publishing it on a Web server (or publish server, as GoLive calls it). First we show you how to export...