Welcome to Adobe's CS4
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium is a package of several applications. These include: Bridge (3.0), Illustrator (14.0), Photoshop (11.0), InDesign (6.0), Acrobat Pro (9.2), Fireworks (10.0), Dreamweaver (10.0), and Flash (10.0). Each application has a particular focus, what it does best, and all of these applications coordinate with each other to provide you with a professional workflow.
Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Design Premium is the ultimate toolkit for crafting precise page layouts, achieving typographic finesse, creating stunning digital images and vector graphics, developing eye-catching web pages and rich interactive experiences, and producing them all with utmost fidelity within a single, unified creative environment. Read about some of the top new features you'll find in each component of Design Premium. from Adobe
Read through the 10 "features" accordian panes on this page CS4 Design Premium
Get a feeling for some of the features in the various applications; Bridge, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Flash contained in CS4. During this semester we will work through a few projects and will introduce you to all of these applications.
CS4 Overview Tutorials
Review some of the following tutorials to get an idea how you might best use Bridge in your work..
Getting started with an overview of CS4
- Introducing CS4 Design Premium [9:08]
- Learn how Design Suite smart integration between applications lets you design content for a variety of media.
- Managing Design Suite Workspaces [7:44]
- Move among CS4 design applications easily with the common interface elements. Adapt each to your style with a preset or custom workspace.
- Using Kuler Color Themes [4:11]
- Browse, search, and modify Kuler color themes directly in your CS4 application. Include them in your workflow by using the Swatches panel.
- Adobe Community Help Overview [3:47]
- Learn how Adobe Community Help brings together instruction, inspiration and support from Adobe and community experts around the world.
- Caffe Fibonacci | New stuff in CS4 [27:39]
- The Suite Nouveau - Join Tim and Rufus as they toast to the CS Nouveau, and introduce some cool new features of Adobe InDesign CS4 and Adobe Illustrator CS4. The 2008 rollout new features - history.
a little more overview of CS4 ...
- Design Premium CS4 Features Tour [20:39]
- Watch how the all-new Design Premium CS4 helps you deliver innovative ideas in print, web, interactive and mobile.
- Mobile Workflows with CS4 and Adobe Device Central CS4 [46:28]
- Join James Talbot as he shows us how to use Creative Suite 4 tools such as Flash CS4 Professional and Photoshop CS4 along with Adobe Device Central CS4 to design rich experiences for mobile devices.
- Designing for Mobile with CS4 & Adobe Device Central CS4 [1:00:40]
- Join Mording Golding as he shows us how to use Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, After Effects CS4, and Adobe Device Central CS4 to create, test, and optimize content for mobile devices such as cell phones and PDAs.
- Building the Visual Web Avatars Virtual World & More [55:51]
- Join Peter Marx as he speaks about Building the Visual Web with Avatars, MMOGs, Virtual Worlds, and Social Networks.
- Send me any good "overview" tutorials for Adobe CS4 you find useful.
CS4 Help
Since CS4 is a package of several applications the online help files that you can access from within each application is the best help source. Links to application specific online help is oncluded on each application page on this site
Here is a complete listing: Bridge :: Illustrator :: Photoshop :: InDesign :: Acrobat :: Fireworks :: Dreamweaver :: Flash
Learn to use these sites.
