Product Description: Adobe’s Creative Suite is a tightly integrated, powerful, and cost-effective set of tools that gives you the power to create graphically rich content for print or the Web. Now, there’s an all-in-one resource that explains each component of the Suite in easy-to-understand language and gets you up and running in no time!
Loaded with invaluable tips from Adobe experts, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design PremiumFor Dummies shows you how to use the different software packages included in Adobe's Creative Suite to publish your own projects, in print or electronic form. You get seven minibooks that span more than 750 pages, giving you the lowdown on today’s hottest software tools — Acrobat, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver — and showing you how to integrate the Suite. Completely updated to cover the latest features and enhancements of all the tools, this friendly how-to guide explains in plain English how to:
Install and set up each program
Use common menus and commands
Import and export files
Work with graphics, text, and fonts
Understand page layout
Draw with InDesign and share your work
Use layers, filters, and effects in Illustrator
Save Photoshop images for print and the Web
Create and modify PDF files in Acrobat
Build a Web site in Dreamweaver
Work with images and sound in Flash
Tackle advanced concepts
And much, much more!
Complete with a list of helpful resources, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design PremiumFor Dummies is your powerhouse guide to getting the most out of each program!
Pretty good but elementary, not intermediate Good overall but too basic even for me who has virtually no experience with the Adobe suite. There are numerous editing mistakes as well. In one chapter the entire last half was missing the supporting screenshots.
perfect for beginners This book is perfect for beginning photoshoppers etc. all the important adobe programs are included (7 programs in contrary to the 6 in 1 the that the picture claims). I had photoshop classes a few years ago so it was good to refresh my memory. I had never worked with indesign or the other adobe programs but luckely it is not hard to figure out. The book does include some good tips but sometimes help of others is needed. Thank god for google :)! I do recommend this book if you are a beginner like I am. It points you in the right direction. But if you want to create print ready documents a higher level of knowledge is required. But with a lot of patience and energy you'll get a long way with help of this book.
Over priced Are you kidding me! I spend $400 for a Kindle then get a $3 discount off the paperback version? No way!
CS3 for Dummies: A Critical Review I've finally plunked down a few bills and bought the suite. The CS3 is phenomenal, by the way. My only problem is, is that with the exception of some older versions of Photoshop and a couple of projects with Illustrator, this suite is essentially a whole new program.
After reading the reviews below, I decided to borrow this book from the library just to be sure it was worth the effort to buy. After a couple of weeks of going through various chapters, I bought the book from Amazon.
Just to be sure, this is a book for beginners and moderate users of the CS3. There are two other books that I bought "How to Cheat in Flash CS3" and "WOW, The Adobe Illustrator CS3 book" because both offer step by step illustrated examples and on CD-rom. But neither offers an expansive explanation of the use of the tools as The Dummies version. And, we talking close to 100 pages on this subject alone.
The Dummies is about 800 pages and is separated by each of the CS3 Design Suite programs. Also, authors Jennifer and Chris Smith, do a great job of interconnecting the different softwares.
If theres a downside to this, it's this: the book is printed on stock paper barely heavier than newsprint. The cover creases very easily, everything within the cover pages is in b/w. This point does prove a bit disconcerting as your eyes tends to skip over the printed tables. If you had the tables in color, it would reinforce the lesson the authors were attempting to get across. And, last but not least, the Dummies collection does not come with a cd-rom.
The Dummies for CS3 does what it sets out to do: provide reference material for those who have the CS3 Design suite. Period. And, it does it well. It is not flashy as the other books I just mentioned but to get started in learning about this terrific suite, this should be your first stop.
And, for what it offers, it is a heck of a lot cheaper than taking a class.
All in One with LIMITED information We agree with the previous reviewer that mentioned the "lack of detail" in this text. This book may be useful for absolute beginners; however, we would NOT recommend it to those of us whom want a good reference text on Adobe's most powerful programs.
The Creative Suite 3 MAMMOTH is virtually impossible to discuss within a limited number of pages; not to mention that this book attempts to reference SEVEN giant programs in one book. If studying for an exam, we would recommend Cliffnotes; however, this book affords great limits to the rest of us! Better texts or alternative resources and tutorials should be considered.
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