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Author: Jennifer Smith Jeremy Osborn AGI Creative Team
ISBN : 1118639995
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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
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- 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 1.6 inches
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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.
I've been using Adobe Create Suite 5.5—mainly Illustrator, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver—for about three years now to design book covers and program Kindle editions as a small independent editor/publisher. I am almost entirely self-taught, which means that there is a lot I don't know and even more that I don't know that I don't know. When CS6 came out, I started thinking that maybe I should consider going to Cloud and make a serious effort to expand my skills. I thought this book might help me decide if that's something that would make sense for me to do.
The first thing out of the box I discovered is that the authors expect you to already be signed up for Creative Cloud. I know a lot of people aren't going to do that—I'm certainly not—so this review is aimed at those who have not made the leap to Creative Cloud. (To be honest with you, I can't imagine there will be a lot of difference in the Cloud and the desktop products except in delivery, management of resources [bandwith vs. RAM], and method of payment. "Everything's moving to the Cloud." YMMV.)
Does this book earn its keep if you decide you aren't going to go with Adobe's monthly subscription service? I'd say yes. At least for me it has. The training tutorials have taught me tricks and techniques that I can use just fine with CS5.5. The training videos move along at a rather fast clip, so it's good to watch them more than once. The practice lessons (book-based but also ready-to-roll file-based) afford you plenty of time to do just that, and I found them helpful. The training doesn't cover everything; I'm sure the authors are hoping you will purchase more training online at their website.