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Adobe Photoshop 6 and Illustrator 9.0: Advanced Classroom in a Book is part of Adobe's official Training and Certification Program and assumes readers have completed Adobe Photoshop 6 CIB and Adobe Illustrator 9 CIB or have an equivalent skill level. Like the other books in the series it comprises a set of step-by-step intensive and detailed tutorials that are intended to be carried out on the computer as the reader follows the text (lesson files are on the CD-ROM). The more advanced skills covered include compositing and masking, mastering pen tools, typography and layout and preparing art for print or the Web. By including both Photoshop and Illustrator projects in one book, readers can learn the pros and cons of using either one for different tasks.
Each project begins with a list of goals, what skill level is preferred and roughly how long the tutorial should take to complete. Despite the preferred skill prerequisites, one of the advantages of this carefully written Classroom in a Book is that less advanced readers will still be able to follow along with the deliberately paced projects. The rationale behind each step is clearly explained and sidebars go into even greater detail on related issues (for example, "Specifying knockout options" appears alongside the lesson on working with masks).
For readers who prepare art for offset printing, this book explains how the new colour management in Photoshop 6 works by going over the production workflow for a hypothetical printed postcard. Choosing a colour profile, soft-proofing and colour separating an image and working with an embedded profile, not to mention preparing Illustrator artwork for print, can all be daunting topics to those who just want to create the visuals. But by learning it all correctly, straight from the team at Adobe, readers will acquire the necessary skillsets to prevent those embarrassing errors that sometimes are discovered only after the job has already been printed. --Angelynn Grant
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For any beginning to intermediate level course in Computer Graphics, Web Graphics, Graphic Design, Digital Imaging, or Visual Communications that uses Adobe software applications such as Acrobat, After Effects, FrameMaker, GoLive, Illustrator, InDesign, LiveMotion, PageMaker, Photoshop, or Premiere.
Developed by the software-training experts at Adobe Systems, the Classroom in a Book Series offers complete, self-paced lessons for learning the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Each book includes a CD-ROM with customized files to guide students through the lessons and special projects.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I was expecting alot more from the "classroom" series but that is not to dismiss this book; it's very good. My only critiscism is that there were only a few lessons for each application which made me a bit mad for not shelling out for books on each app respectively. I teach college, so I was expecting alot more from the sessions. The classroom disc is very good though and the tutorials really hold your hand as you walk through the exercises. Dont skimp on tutorial books viewers! It reminds me of that song by Kenny Rogers "Coward of the County"- "Promise ma son not to do the things I done..."
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
It was a really good book, sometimes the heavy text can flag you down, but all in all it was well worth it. The book gave really good lessons and made the ability to progress into the world of the secret printing guild as we know it. It showed how to combine photoshop and illustrator really well. The biggest asset was that it showed you what to do to print off your artwork, invaluable for those small design agencies that wan to get the know how.
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
An excellent resource
13 July 2001
This is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn how to use Illustrator and Photoshop together to produce complex graphics. The is an "advanced" Classroom In A Book, so you better know your tools and terminology before starting in on these exercises. But that just leaves more space for the multiple authors to demonstrate advanced techniques and ways to use and combine tools that may not seem obvious. The "sidebar" features provide great explanations of some of the more complicated features, such as Photoshop's knockout options for layer blending. As with all the Classroom In A Book titles, you are taken through the exercises step by step, in great detail. All the supporting image files are provided on the CD that comes with the book, in "before" and "after" formats, so you can go through the exercises over and over, and see the effects of each step as you work through the exercise. I noticed a couple of minor editing errors, probably made in the transition from the Photoshop 5/Illustrator 8 version of this book to the current version. (On p. 41 you are referred to a discussion on memory requirement on p. 2 - but there's no mention of memory on page 2). All in all, a very worthwhile investment for anyone wanting to get the most out of these two great software packages.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Save your money
26 Oct 2001
It's an okay book, but I think this is more of an intermediate book instead of advanced and was somewhat disappointing, although not entirely, it does have quite a few useful exercises, if anything I'm mostly disappointed because this book does'nt have enough lessons nor cover ALL the advanced features that they left out in the other Photoshop / Illustrator CIAB series. I would say buy this book if you have 30 bucks to spare for a little extra knowledge of PS/IL, but if you just want that PERFECT advanced photoshop book, you MUST buy Adobe Photoshop 6 Studio Techniques, which is also by the fine fellows at Adobe Press, otherwise it is pretty weak at covering advanced Adobe Illustrator.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Adobe Should Pull This Book or Give it Away for Free!
27 Mar 2002
This book seems to be missing about half of the functionality of these two applications. It does not flow well, and does not cover information for web developers. This is NOT one of the better reference materials produced by Adobe. You would do well not to waste your hard-earned money on this one.
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