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 Premium For 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 Premium For Dummies is your powerhouse guide to getting the most out of each program!

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 11 Ratings

Pretty good but elementary, not intermediate - 2008-08-12
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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 - 2008-08-01
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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.

creative suite 3 for dummies - 2009-06-20
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easy to read very imformative and quick to apply,very satisfied with this book. you can follow every example and understand what your doing. thank you

Great seller! - 2009-02-12
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I contacted the seller, because I needed the book right away. I got a response letting me know she'd sent it out that day and I got the book in great condition in a few days.

Easy to read this book has a lot going for it - 2009-01-13
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Strengths: All in one guide for those seeking further formation more information about all types of web related knowledge. Good tutorials for seven web applications with tutorials in one book. The tutorials are a good overview.
Weaknesses: Black and white instead of color makes the book a little drab. Those seeking a comprehensive guide for one or more of these applications might want to use another book as a supplement. No cd for files to try out or trial applications to try and use.

Novice/Intermediate/Advanced

Web building and publishing has evolved in many ways over the years. The web building language HTML was once the only way to publish on the internet. Now there are new applications, different software, and other tools that help web publishers, novice to advanced, publish their websites and works on the World Wide. Sometimes a little guidance is helpful to start, develop or advance web building skills. If so, Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies, may be a book to answer much that you need to learn.
The four authors, all who have background in web design and development graphics and and/or adobe application development, have crafted an easy to understand and comprehensive guidebook for helping create dynamic websites. Utilizing the latest web design tools, these author outline a series of tutorials that take a web user through the necessary steps to start, develop and finish websites. Along the way, this guide utilizes seven applications to " walk " the web user through seven different applications which most web professionals use on a daily basis. This massive 882 page book includes an introduction, a series of tutorials that span seven sections and a nice index. The book's sections (called Books), cover the following applications: Dreamweaver CS3, Photoshop CS3, Illustrator CS3, Flash CS3, (new) Contribute CS3, Acrobat 8. The tutorials are well written and the tutorials are easy to understand.
Each section of the book is a book in itself. But as the authors indicate, each book is an introduction and perhaps more but they are not a comprehensive in-depth guide. While this book is written with a PC computer in mind by using screenshots and keyboard commands, the authors also include information (in introduction) for the Macintosh user or the PC user who has switched to a Macintosh. A "tear out sheet " also includes a synopsis of these keyboard commands and more Helpful informative visual icons are "sprinkled" throughout the book.
These are part of many of the Dummies books that target specific and insightful information to know and learn about. Five icons, strategically placed throughout the pages, help the reader understand important ideas that are necessary for increased understanding. The icons for this book, (entitled: Tip; Technical stuff; Warning!; Remember; New to; Integration), serve to include precise additional information to assists the readers during the reading. These targeted instructions, ideas and explicit helpful information, otherwise might be lost, unnoticed in a "sea of text" or would obscure the needed integration of all the information.
There are additional helpful visuals that make the reading of the Dummies books, and this book in particular, enjoyable and enlightening. Screenshots are smaller then usual but readable. " Line pointers" within the screenshots, help the reader "see" more precisely what the tutorials are targeting during the instruction. This makes the tutorials easy to understand, as the reader does not have to "fish around", to find and try to connect between, what the authors are saying and the reader is perceiving. Technology related humorous cartoons are inserted into the front of each of the parts. Tables and illustrations numbered Part of the book and the title of that sections on the top left page on the outside corner; chapter numbers and titles on the outside right page. The pages on the right side have tabs which indicate the subject / title of each page. While meaning to be a helpful guide, these are vertically staged, so you have to turn you head or the page to actually read the titling. But the tutorials are numbered and each has bold faced text at the top of paragraphs below. To the authors credit, the topics of each book (part) are comprehensively displayed and the tutorials relate to many need to understand topics.


Conclusions:
I have designed and created websites for several years. Like many web creators, it is always a "work in progress" , to improve and update blogs and websites. This book would help those who want to start and design web pages a good way to start and like myself, help upgrade skills and information about website building.
Novice users could understand how to lay out pages, creating text, inserting graphics, working with basic animation, images, sound, video in Flash as well as using PDF files in Acrobat and integrating Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, and Contribute with other Adobe products. The book is a great way to get started or upgrade your skills with one or more of the seven applications. Even though I don't have the latest versions of photoshop or some of the other applications, it is nice to know what applications are being upgraded. Also while I am not a fan of Dreamweaver (I know it is the standard), it seems to have improved in becoming a bit more user friendly. What is possibly the best idea for Dreamweaver, is that there is now an extensive Help menu in the main menu. This is very welcome because it is needed, mainly because as I found before, it is far from being user friendly. When I first started with it was so unmanageable and frustrating, I quit Dreamweaver. Within two weeks, using a similar website builder, I had a nice website started) despite this difficult to use piece of software). Even this book's Dreamweaver section might persaude me to give a try. There is a wealth of knowledge to know and understand in this book and it might also help persaude you to "take the jump " to trying website building or using one or more of these applications or upgrading. I just wish ithe book had color but the rest of the visuals make for a good instructional guidebook. I think most users would be pleased with at least giving it a chance to help upgrade your skills.

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