Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies
On March - 31 - 20105 COMMENTS
- ISBN13: 9780470331866
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
- Notes:
Product Description
Design professionals rely on Adobe’s Creative Suite Design Premium to deliver innovative ideas in print, Web, and mobile design. Adobe CS4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies helps you beef up your skills with the latest version of this software. You’ll learn all about the hot new versions of InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks. Whether you’re creating newsletters, Web sites, cool original art, or animations, t… More >>
Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium All-in-One For Dummies
I love these books. They cover all you need to get started with just about anything. This one is thick and covers a lot of material.
Rating: 4 / 5
Well prior to buying this book and the Digital Classroom equivalent I had spent a month following online user tutorials on youtube for free. I picked up the respective books hoping they would reveal many of the more comprehensive features and stronger integration between the CS4 programs. This assumption was wrong, perhaps because I’m already familiar with many of the programs or because the user videos where so good but I soon realized that these books felt more like a concentration for information I’d already found at some point. I use both books more as references than as reads for tutorials and what not. They both lack the comprehensive tricks you need to make a truelly great website and other content so That also saddened me. For example this book doesn’t show you how to build a custom gallery from scratch for a website so that you display images in a truely classy fashion, nor does it mention iframe and how to use it. The integration of fireworks and dreamweaver also felt over looked and under explained. If you are a novice and I mean a novice with no love for sifting through youtube tutorials and what not then I do recommend this book to you. But with my experience and a little know how I had surpassed the content of these books before they were ever delivered to me. I will echo other peoples thoughts in saying there is more information in this book that the digital classroom, but it isn’t structured for a fluid tutorial or anything.
Rating: 4 / 5
I wanted more information on IN-design and was disapointed in the content. It has a lot of information on CS4 but does assume that you already know alot. It is not a book for beginners.
Rating: 2 / 5
CS4 Design Premium for Dummies is VERY helpful in guiding you along in learning each of the programs in the suite. I totally recommend this book!
Rating: 4 / 5
Pros: Good reference book. Has a lot of information in it that helped me learn a few things about the program.
Cons: Needs a disk shipped with it that provides the same info as they use in they’re lessons. With out any information given from them its a little hard to fallow along and figure out how to do it the way they do it.
Over all: Good for people who know a bit about how to use the programs all ready or how to wright/type code for web designing or know a bit about how to draw for illustrator. In my honest opinion, I think it would be a lot better if it was like the Head First Labs books where they provide practice material, instead of just presuming u have all the materials needed to do their exercises. Again this is just my honest opinion on it.
Rating: 4 / 5