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Title: Adobe Illustrator CS Classroom in a Book (CLASSROOM IN A BOOK) by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 0-321-19380-6 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent learning resource
Comment: I teach Illustrator and use this for my college courses. It is a fantastic book that includes lots of new material for the latest CS version. I used the previous Classroom in a Book for my classes before our school upgraded to CS. Much of the material is new or improved. There is an updated chapter on transparency and lots of new features are covered - like the 3D effects, which have a new chapter. In fact there are several new chapters covering new features - making it difficult to determine how much to include in a semester long course - but the book lets my students go through additional material on their own following the course. I find it silly that someone who has not read the book (only flipped through it at a local bookstore) has decided to provide a poor review. I'd encourage they take the time and actually read the book. I have not found any errors, and I've been using Illustrator since version 3.
Rating: 2
Summary: Errors in a book by Adobe?
Comment: Maybe mistakes are inevitable, but in a book published under Adobe's name? I was lookng through a copy at a bookstore to see if I wanted to buy it, and happened to flip to the section on Illustrator and Photoshop and found several mistakes - not spelling mistakes mind you, but technical errors. For example, it says you cannot export type on a path or area type from Ill to PS but as of CS you can.
Makes me wonder how many other things were not updated to the latest version? Also makes me hestitate to buy it.
Rating: 4
Summary: Start here if you're new to the world of Illustrator
Comment: Adobe Illustrator CS Classroom in a Book provides a solid foundation for beginners and novices of the Illustrator application. As someone who was intimidated by vector graphics, I found this book to be a great introduction to the power of Illustrator, and provided me with some good ideas for my own projects.
This book, like many other Classroom in a Book texts, provides step-by-step instructions on how to do some of Illustrator's most popular and useful commands. Users of Photoshop will notice lots of similarities in the interface and tools, yet there are differences between commands that do the same thing (such as Ctrl+D to deselect in Photoshop, and Ctrl+Shift+A to deselect in Illustrator).
The Illustrator book in particular, however, was full of typographical errors that seemed rather embarrassing for being an official Adobe training book. While I understand the importance of being on bookshelves in a timely manner, taking a few extra days to properly proof their text would be appreciated by this particular user. This is especially true when considering the book's price, and the fact that the book is black and white, except for a small color section. The paper and type, however, are excellent, and the binding is flexible, while being strong at the same time.
I found this book to be a lot more in-depth than the Photoshop CS Classroom in a Book, as this text went on to describe the steps in clearer detail. It offers clear explanations for many of the choices that the user is instructed to make, while also focusing more time on the interesting exercises, as opposed to tasks that are rather redundant between any other similar application.
It will take the user approximately forty-five minutes to an hour and a half to complete each of the 19 lessons, making the book's completion time about one week.
Some of the book's later chapters deal with Illustrator-Photoshop workflows, so having Photoshop in addition to Illustrator is recommended. The book questionably refers the user to use the outdated Photoshop version 6 later in the book, leading me to believe that the author failed to update the text to the current version. Also be aware that some naming conventions do not match up with the application 100%. They are close, but I found it odd that many of these were not cross-checked for exact matches.
All in all, after completing this book, I am ready to move on to more specialized books on Illustrator, and look forward to implementing what I've learned to create streamlined work pipelines between this, Photoshop, and other graphic/layout programs.
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Title: Adobe Photoshop CS Classroom in a Book (CLASSROOM IN A BOOK) by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 032119375X Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Adobe Indesign Cs Classroom in a Book: Classroom in a Book (CLASSROOM IN A BOOK) by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 0321193776 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Adobe GoLive CS Classroom in a Book (CLASSROOM IN A BOOK) by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 0321193768 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Adobe Photoshop CS Down & Dirty Tricks by Scott Kelby ISBN: 0735713537 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 02 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: The Adobe Photoshop CS Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) by Scott Kelby ISBN: 0735714118 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 04 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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