Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium

Getting Started (Adobe Creative Suite 5)

Adobe Creative Suite 5 is a unified design environment that delivers the next level of integration in creative software. Discover powerful new creative tools for expressing your ideas and crafting artwork that stands out. Finish your work faster with numerous enhancements to the tools you use every day. Extend the reach of your designs to […]

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Part 1

Deliver innovative ideas in print, web, and mobile design Discover powerful new creative tools for expressing your ideas and crafting artwork that stands out. Finish your work faster with numerous enhancements to the tools you use every day. Extend the reach of your designs to new media without writing code. Streamline creative reviews and other […]

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Part 2

Express your ideas faster CS5 Design Premium includes dozens of features designed to reduce the number of steps required to complete common tasks. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Dreamweaver—the tools you use every day—all offer numerous enhancements to help you make fast work of your next project. Truer Edge selection technology in Photoshop CS5 Extended Photoshop […]

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Part 3

Extend the reach of your designs without writing code When designers collaborate with developers to produce interactive content, they sometimes have to compromise their creative vision. With CS5 Design Premium, designers can work on interactive content and media-rich projects themselves using familiar tools, skills, and design processes—and without touching a line of code. Here are […]

Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium Part 4

Simplified mobile content design in Fireworks CS5 and Device Central CS5 Easily experiment with designing for mobile devices. Integration between Fireworks and Device Central makes it easy to set up a Fireworks project and preview it in Device Central. In Device Central, choose File > New Document In Fireworks, select a target device, and then […]

Setting up Basic Assets (Adobe Creative Suite 5) Part 1

Lesson Overview The way you set up your documents and create your assets will affect how easily and efficiently you can design your work. This lesson will introduce you to some important skills and concepts: •    Organizing your work in Adobe Bridge •    Drawing expressively with the Bristle Brush in Illustrator • Refining a vector […]

Setting up Basic Assets (Adobe Creative Suite 5) Part 2

Creating artwork in Illustrator When you’re designing graphics such as logos and corporate identities, it’s an absolute must that your design be scalable, because the graphic will be used in a wide range of applications, from web pages at screen resolution to high-resolution printed matter or even monumental signage. For designing graphics that need to […]

Setting up Basic Assets (Adobe Creative Suite 5) Part 3

Refining a vector graphic with the Blob Brush tool If you have been working with the brushes in Flash and Photoshop, you’ll find similarities in the Blob Brush in Illustrator, which enables you to generate a clean vector shape as you paint. Used in combination with the Eraser tool, the Blob Brush provides a truly […]

Setting up Basic Assets (Adobe Creative Suite 5) Part 4

Drawing in perspective in Illustrator When you want to use linear perspective to create depth in Illustrator CS5, it takes no time at all to set up a perspective grid. You can then forget about the technical points of perspective drawing and simply concentrate on your artwork. 1 In Illustrator, choose File > New, or […]

Setting up Basic Assets (Adobe Creative Suite 5) Part 5

Removing a background in Photoshop Extracting a subject from a background is one of the most time-consuming tasks a designer faces. The most difficult part of this task is precisely masking out the edge, especially where hair or fur is involved. The new Truer Edge selection technology in Photoshop CS5 offers better edge detection and […]

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