Design with Adobe Creative Cloud Classroom in a Book: Basic Projects using Photoshop, InDesign, Muse, and More / Edition 1

by Adobe Creative Team

Overview

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest way to learn design with Adobe Creative Cloud choose Design with Adobe Creative Cloud: Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team. Project-based lessons show readers, step-by-step, the key techniques for working with multiple Adobe applications. Readers learn what they need to know to create engaging layouts for print and web publishing. This completely revised edition covers new tools and essential performance and workflow enhancements, including how to set up assets in Bridge CC, use Content-Aware tools on images and edit video in Photoshop CC, create accurate image tracings in Illustrator CC, design print layouts and documents for mobile devices in InDesign CC, and build a website that works across desktop and mobile devices in Muse CC without writing code.

Lesson files and assets are included as a download so readers can work step-by-step along with the book.

“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” –Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780321940513
Publisher:	Adobe Press
Publication date:	09/16/2013
Series:	Classroom in a Book Series
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

The Adobe Creative Team of designers, writers, and editors has extensive, real world knowledge of Adobe web design products. They work closely with the Adobe product development teams and Adobe's Instructional Communications team to come up with creative, challenging, and visually appealing projects to help both new and experienced users get up to speed quickly on Adobe software products.

Table of Contents

1 Creating Visual Identity Materials

Print materials

Online materials

2 Creating a Print Magazine

Inspecting and selecting documents with Adobe Bridge

Modifying an InDesign document

Preparing for printing

Exporting to PDF

3 Creating a Mobile-Friendly Website

Gathering assets from Photoshop and Illustrator files

Storing and sharing files with Creative Cloud

Designing a website with Adobe Muse

Publishing to Business Catalyst

4 Creating a Video with Photoshop

Organizing and preparing video clips

Editing video in Photoshop

Exporting finished video

5 Creating an Interactive App for iPad

Setting up a document

Adding interactive elements

Adding a video to InDesign

Setting up layout rules

Creating a horizontal layout

Previewing the updated document

Submitting to the App Store

6 Creating an eBook

Mobile publishing with Adobe InDesign

Converting a print publishing to ePub format

Understanding more details about exporting to ePub

7 Creating Interactive PDF Forms

Creating PDF forms in Adobe InDesign

Getting Started

Using the sample buttons and forms panel

Checking your work so far

Adding text fields

Creating combo boxes

Finishing the form objects

Cleaning up the table containing the form

8 Using High-Quality Type for the Web

Finding commercial fonts for the web

Adding web fonts to a site

9 Creating Images for Different Media

One image, multiple paths

Image resolution and media

Image color and media

Preparing graphics for the web and mobile devices

Preparing graphics for print

Wrapping up

10 Managing Color Across Adobe Applications

Understanding color management

Choosing a color settings preset

Converting to, assigning, and embedding profiles

Setting up a color-managed print workflow

Setting up a web color workflow

Resolving color space mismatches

Wrapping up