Overview
Adobe(r) Bridge, Photoshop(r) CS2, Illustrator(r) CS2, InDesign(r) CS2, GoLive(r) CS2, Acrobat(r) Professional 7, and Version Cue(r) CS2 are developed and revised to provide more consistent integration between Adobe's flagship creative design tools. This is the "big picture" book that teaches you how to use new features in the Creative Suite 2 programs as intended. You'll learn to integrate and manage workflows that will make you not only a better designer, but a more productive one.
Inside, you'll find complete coverage of Adobe Creative Suite 2
* Use Adobe Bridge as a central navigation tool for file management, organization, and editing
* Synchronize color settings in Adobe Bridge or other CS2 programs for consistent color management
* Import native file formats in InDesign layouts and dynamically edit changes
* Export Illustrator files as multi-page documents
* Use new features in Version Cue for creating document versions and alternates
* Use new features in Illustrator for auto tracing photos and painting vector graphics
* Use new features in Photoshop for merging several photos shot with different exposures to increase dynamic range
* Prepare files and flight check results for commercial prepress and printing
* Enable PDF documents for commenting so clients can markup design proposals using the free Adobe Reader
Synopsis
Adobe® Bridge, Photoshop® CS2, Illustrator® CS2, InDesign® CS2, GoLive® CS2, Acrobat® Professional 7, and Version Cue® CS2 are developed and revised to provide more consistent integration between Adobe's flagship creative design tools. This is the "big picture" book that teaches you how to use new features in the Creative Suite 2 programs as intended. You'll learn to integrate and manage workflows that will make you not only a better designer, but a more productive one.
Inside, you'll find complete coverage of Adobe Creative Suite 2
- Use Adobe Bridge as a central navigation tool for file management, organization, and editing
- Synchronize color settings in Adobe Bridge or other CS2 programs for consistent color management
- Import native file formats in InDesign layouts and dynamically edit changes
- Export Illustrator files as multi-page documents
- Use new features in Version Cue for creating document versions and alternates
- Use new features in Illustrator for auto tracing photos and painting vector graphics
- Use new features in Photoshop for merging several photos shot with different exposures to increase dynamic range
- Prepare files and flight check results for commercial prepress and printing
- Enable PDF documents for commenting so clients can markup design proposals using the free Adobe Reader
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewMost professional designers and design shops use several Adobe programs, not just one. It’s not enough for them to master individual program features: Increasingly, they need to know how the components of Adobe’s suite work together in production environments. Using that knowledge, they can work faster, become more competitive, and deliver more creative work. Building on that insight, Ted Padova and Kelly L. Murdock have completely reimagined the way “graphics design suite” books work.
Their Adobe Creative Suite 2 Bible focuses almost entirely on workflow and process. It’s organized not around individual programs, but around the tasks designers need to perform on a day-to-day basis.
If you’re new to thinking in these terms, worry not: Padova and Murdock carefully introduce the ideas behind design workflows. And, early on, they offer a thorough, step-by-step introduction to production and color-managed workflows.
Next, they carefully introduce Adobe’s “glue” programs, Version Cue and Adobe Bridge; present best practices for managing PDF files; and offer insights into features shared across the entire suite (for instance, core techniques for working with objects, images, and text).
Padova and Murdock spend an entire section on a topic that has bedeviled designers for years: integrating Microsoft Office content into design workflows. If you’ve ever dealt with this, you’re thinking: Thank goodness, finally someone’s taken this on!
You’ll find chapters on creating review sessions, designing and modifying layouts, exporting print designs to web and electronic environments, working with XML, protecting work with Digital Rights Management, creating interactive documents, replicating CD-ROMs, handling digital prepress, and more. We told you this one was different. It’s also indispensable. Bill Camarda, from the February 2006 Read Only