Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium All-in-One for Dummies®

Chapter 1. Introducing Adobe Creative Suite 4

In This Chapter

• Looking over InDesign CS4

• Drawing with Illustrator CS4

• Introducing Photoshop CS4

• Getting started with Acrobat 9.0

• Creating Dreamweaver CS4

• Getting into Flash CS4

• Getting fired up with Fireworks CS4

• Putting Adobe Bridge into your workflow

• Integrating the programs in Adobe CS4

With the Adobe Creative Suite 4 (CS4) Design Premium release, you not only get the tools you need to be creative for print and Web, but you also get Adobe Fireworks to make Web sites more attractive than ever.

The diverse software in Adobe CS4 Design Premium enables you to create everything from an interactive e-commerce Web site to a printed book. Each piece of software in the Adobe Creative Suite works on its own as a robust tool. Combine all the applications, including Adobe Bridge, and you have a dynamic workflow that just can't be matched.

In this minibook, you discover the many features that are consistent among the applications in the suite. You find consistencies in color, file formats, and text editing, as well as general preferences for rulers and guides throughout all the applications in CS4. This minibook also shows you where to find the new features and how to save time by taking advantage of them.

In this chapter, you meet each of the components in Adobe CS4 Design Premium and discover what you can create with each of these powerful tools.

Introducing InDesign CS4

InDesign is a diverse and feature-rich page layout program. With InDesign, you can create ...