Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies

by Jennifer Smith, Christopher Smith

Get ready to jump into the Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud is the most popular suite of tools among creative professionals, and a valuable resource you can use to fulfill all of your design goals. Ready to get started? The only book on the market of its kind, Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies is written by designers for designers. It will provide you with expert instruction that spans seven mini-books, with helpful information that can grant insight regardless of your current level of knowledge. Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud is a marketable skill, and this all-in-one reference guide will help you add InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC, Acrobat Pro, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Experience Design to your resume. With more than 800 pages of content, this detailed guide will give you confidence you need to use Adobe photography and graphic design tools to edit photos, make original designs and layouts, and let your creativity shine with Adobe Creative Cloud. From 3D images and vivid illustrations to dynamic web pages and interactive effects, Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies shows you how to do it all!

Genres: Business

768 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 16, 2017

About the author

I’m Jennifer Smith – a designer, educator, and author. I’ve written more than one dozen books on digital imaging and Web publishing, including the recently published Photoshop CS5 Digital Classroom, Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom and the Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium for Dummies and Wireframing and Prototyping with Expression Blend Sketchflow. I’ve done extensive work for corporations such as Adobe Systems and Microsoft, and last year traveled more than 100,000 miles visiting clients in Europe, Asia, Africa, and all around the United States. I deliver training and consulting for Fortune 100 companies, universities, and many independent software vendors.

I work extensively on designing and creating interactive applications and sites using Expression Blend and other Expression Studio applications. You can find many of my training guides and videos on Microsoft.com. I’m also the co-founder of the American Graphics Institute.

Reviews

[Kasia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Adobe Acrobat minibook only.

[Raymond Strodl · Rating 4 out of 5]

A greqt introduction to this monster of a group of software for the creative individual. I will be revisiting this again and again and I learn to operate in this creative cloud.

[Michelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading this in 2023, it was not too bad on relevance/changes. This is a good starting point to understand the capabilities of the major 4 programs with exercises getting familiar with the tools.

I would recommend flipping through this and following along to what’s relevant to you, video tutorials would be much better on some of the more complicated ones. but after reading through this hefty boy in a week I can say I know which programs do what, and probably the best one to use to get my projects done. This book help me learn just enough to know when the time comes, exactly what to Google to watch a video tutorial to get a specific task done better and faster.

Overall a great introduction if you can stick with it and follow along. The last book adobe XD was not relevant to me so I can’t speak for that one but Photoshop illustrator and InDesign, I feel like I have a decent base knowledge now.