Chapter One. Getting Started

Every new version of the Adobe Creative Suite brings with it an array of powerful new features. Creative Suite 5 (CS5) is no exception—from Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill and Puppet Warp to Illustrator’s Perspective Drawing and Variable-width Strokes to InDesign’s Grid-ified tools and rich-media document capabilities to Dreamweaver’s CMS framework integration and HTML5 support to Flash Professional’s new Text Layout Framework and under-the-hood physics engine.

Along with the updates to veteran applications, newcomers like Flash Catalyst and the CS Live suite of online services make the CS5 Design Premium edition an unprecedented set of creative, productivity, and publishing tools capable of transforming your visual communication across the ever-changing media landscape, from print, to the Web, to mobile devices.