Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow Classroom in a Book

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow Classroom in a Book

by Bart Van de Wiele
Released November 2022
Publisher(s): Adobe Press
ISBN: 9780137908547

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Book description

Even if you're already comfortable with Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign, Adobe Creative Cloud now offers powerful opportunities for improving efficiency and collaboration that few design and marketing professionals are using. In this hands-on, full-color tutorial, Adobe Solutions Consultant Manager Bart Van de Wiele helps you master these innovations—dramatically improving both team and individual efficiency in every print, web, video, UX, or online marketing project.

Van de Wiele helps you establish powerful workflows that leverage the remarkable capabilities of Adobe's native file formats, and improve content collaboration via Adobe cloud documents and Creative Cloud Libraries. You'll find concise, focused insights for managing tradeoffs, so you can optimize workflows and collaboration strategies in your own organization. Packed with hands-on exercises built around realistic use cases, there's no better way to experience all the added value built into today's Adobe Creative Cloud—and discover all you can achieve by taking full advantage of Adobe's unparalleled integration and cloud resources.

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Where are The Lesson Files?
  5. Pearson’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
  6. Contents
  7. Getting Started
    1. About Classroom in a Book
    2. Prerequisites
    3. Online content
    4. Additional resources
    5. Adobe Authorized Training Centers
  8. 1. Workflows and File Formats
    1. Workflows
    2. Interoperability
    3. Established file formats
    4. Native file formats
    5. Review questions
    6. Review answers
  9. 2. Enriching Illustrator Artwork with Photoshop Content
    1. Placing and managing Photoshop artwork in Illustrator
    2. Linking a Photoshop document in Illustrator
    3. Embedding a Photoshop document in Illustrator
    4. Using Photoshop paths in Illustrator
    5. Photoshop cloud documents in Illustrator
    6. Packaging the project
    7. Review questions
    8. Review answers
  10. 3. Using Layered Photoshop Files in Indesign
    1. Managing Photoshop layer visibility in InDesign
    2. Creating different versions using adjustment layers
    3. Using layer transparency to your advantage
    4. Photoshop layer comps
    5. Using Photoshop layer comps in InDesign
    6. Embedding placed documents into InDesign
    7. Packaging the project
    8. Review questions
    9. Review answers
  11. 4. Using Photoshop Paths, Alpha Channels, and Grayscale Images in Indesign
    1. Photoshop paths
    2. Using clipping paths in InDesign
    3. Using a Photoshop alpha channel
    4. Using multiple Photoshop paths
    5. Recoloring Photoshop grayscale images in InDesign
    6. Review questions
    7. Review answers
  12. 5. Using Illustrator Artwork in Indesign
    1. Using Illustrator layers in InDesign
    2. Using Illustrator artboards in InDesign
    3. Should you use layer overrides or artboards?
    4. Pasting Illustrator artwork into InDesign
    5. Review questions
    6. Review answers
  13. 6. Using Illustrator Artwork in Photoshop
    1. Combining Illustrator and Photoshop
    2. Embedding Illustrator artwork in Photoshop
    3. Linking Illustrator artwork in Photoshop
    4. Pasting Illustrator artwork into Photoshop
    5. Review questions
    6. Review answers
  14. 7. Nesting Documents
    1. What is document nesting?
    2. Nesting InDesign documents
    3. Nesting Illustrator documents
    4. Nesting Photoshop documents
    5. Review questions
    6. Review answers
  15. 8. Working with Creative Cloud Libraries
    1. What are Creative Cloud Libraries?
    2. Creating your first library
    3. Creative Cloud Library workflows
    4. Backing up library items
    5. Review questions
    6. Review answers
  16. 9. Integration Through Collaboration
    1. Collaborating using Creative Cloud Libraries
    2. Sharing a library publicly
    3. Sharing a library privately
    4. Summing up
    5. Personal versus team libraries
    6. Collaborating using cloud documents
    7. Sharing cloud documents
    8. Review questions
    9. Review answers
  17. Index
  18. Contributor
  19. Production notes

Product information

  • Title: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow Classroom in a Book
  • Author(s): Bart Van de Wiele
  • Release date: November 2022
  • Publisher(s): Adobe Press
  • ISBN: 9780137908547