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Adobe - a world of creative software

Adobe is a software company that specializes in programs for creative users. The best known product is probably Photoshop, but there is more great stuff coming from that company.

Some of the main products from Adobe is:

* Photoshop - photo and image editing
* Illustrator - drawing
* Indesign - layout
* Lightroom - Photo album and developing, great for RAW files
* Acrobat - documentformat for independent sharing of documents

Apart from the professional applications mentioned here, Adobe also releases a series of low prized programs for the home user. This series is known as "Elements", like Photoshop Elements, for instance.

Adobe releases new versions almost every 18 months (give and take a few). The current version is called CS4. CS is short for Creative Suite. Although you can buy the applications independantly, buying a suite is often recommended. A suite of more than 5 programs cost no more than 2 of the programs individually.

If you are not familiar with Adobe's suite of applications, you can often find trial versions on Adobes website

What is Photoshop 

the master in manipulating and editing photographs

Photoshop has a large palette of great tools to manipulate, and edit photographs.

In photoshop you can crop, rotate, change colors, contrast lightning, add effects and convert between numerous formats from high resolution TIFF to optimized JPEGs for your web site (Squidoo included).

The apple flower shown here on the right is manipulated in Photoshop, the background has been removed, and a single flower was isolated.

Most important is the way you work with pictures in Photoshop. You have the opportunity to work with effect and editing layers. By using the layers you can change the order effects are applied, and you can easily change the amount of effects and remove a change to a photograph, without destroying the original. That is a big time saver!

Get tons of free tricks and tutorials here: Photoshop LAB. Enjoy!

Books on Photoshop 

Photoshop gurus teach you the tricks.

Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider King

Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual by Lesa Snider King

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

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The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) by Scott Kelby

The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) by Scott Kelby

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Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC by Martin Evening

Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: A Professional Image Editor's Guide to the Creative use of Photoshop for the Macintosh and PC by Martin Evening

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Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks by Scott Kelby

Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks by Scott Kelby

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What is Indesign 

now you're layouting with power

Large or small, books, poster, ads, ebooks or brocures. Full color or black/white. Anything can be layouted with Indesign. Even webpages can be generated from Indesign documents.

Until recently Quark Express (the competitor) was considered the only option for professional layout. With the introduction of Indesign that changed radically. An earlier version of Indesign (called CS2) was known as the "Best Quark Ever", because they borrowed a lot of cool features from Quark, and made them work. Quark is impressive, but poorly programmed and cumbersome to work with. Indesign has it quirks, too, but is much more efficient on a daily basis.

Do not miss this website! Lots of tips and help for new and skilled users. Check out: Indesign SECRETS.

Books on Indesign 

Indesign is quite easy to use, but may be difficult to master.

Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

Adobe InDesign CS4 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to le more...0 points

InDesign CS4 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Galen Gruman

InDesign CS4 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Galen Gruman

InDesign is the preferred graphic design software, more...0 points

Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 by Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner

Real World Adobe InDesign CS4 by Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner

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Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts by Michael Murphy

Adobe InDesign CS4 Styles: How to Create Better, Faster Text and Layouts by Michael Murphy

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What is Illustrator 

3, 2, 1, DRAW!

Illustrator is the mother of all drawing applications.

With Illustrator you are in control of every single line in your drawing. But, there is a price. Illustrator is a bit difficult to use. Once you get the hang of it, you'll grow with it, and eventually never want to do without.

Text effects, logo design, covers for books, cd's and other things are often done with Illustrator.

Illustrator is a so-called vector drawing program. That means you are drawing individual object, much like drawing with a pencil. Vector drawing is a quite different from bitmap drawing, like you can do in Photoshop.

One of the greatest possibilities in Illustrator is manipulation text. Characters can be changed to outlines, and then manipulated just like any other drawing.

Books on Illustrator 

Drawings made perfect.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to le more...0 points

Adobe Illustrator CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques by David Karlins

Adobe Illustrator CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques by David Karlins

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Illustrator CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas

Illustrator CS4 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas

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Adobe Illustrator CS4 on Demand by Steve Johnson, Perspection Inc.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 on Demand by Steve Johnson, Perspection Inc.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 on Demand   What you need, more...0 points

Illustrator CS4 Bible by Ted Alspach

Illustrator CS4 Bible by Ted Alspach

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Adobe inspired Flickr pictures 

Take a look at Flickr, and what people tag with Photoshop or Illustrator. Great art and fun pictures mix up here.

Thawed by allspice1

Thawed

Vespa alley by Frank Trana

Vespa alley

The Storm by Frank Trana

The Storm

Factory by Frank Trana

Factory

42 by Frank Trana

42

Asian Fans by shaire productions

Asian Fans

Temple of Venus by h.koppdelaney

Temple of Venus

Green Leaves by shaire productions

Green Leaves

Confetti by shaire productions

Confetti

Green Marble by shaire productions

Green Marble

What is Lightroom 

Much more than a darkroom

In ancient times theres was film. Cameras put light on to a light sensitive film, which was in turn developed to reveal the image. Yeah, it sounds crazy, but thats how it worked back then :-)

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is not at all Photoshop (the name is just for marketing purposes). Lightroom gives the digital photographer all the advantages that analog photograhers had, and then some!

In Lightroom you can load, tag and rate your own photographs. A lot of fixes and improvements to photos, for instance saturation, contrast or specks of lens dirt, is easily done in Lightroom.

You can export your images with whatever specs you need, and in any desired resolution. For a quick view of a photo session, you can make a slideshow or contact print.

The real power is in handling RAW files, the "negative" of your digital camera. You can change a lot of settings before you "develop" your image and saves it as an JPEG file. Hence, you can do changes without destroying the original file.

You can get lots of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom power tips and tricks from this blog.

Books on Photoshop Lightroom 

Lightroom is the answer to all photographers prayers.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers,The (Voices That Matter) by Scott Kelby

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers,The (Voices That Matter) by Scott Kelby

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The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers by Martin Evening

The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book: The Complete Guide for Photographers by Martin Evening

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Workflow: The Digital Photographer's Guide (Tim Grey Guides) by Tim Grey

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Workflow: The Digital Photographer's Guide (Tim Grey Guides) by Tim Grey

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Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training by Chris Orwig

Photoshop Lightroom Essential Training by Chris Orwig

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Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Digital Photographers Only (For Only) by Rob Sheppard

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Digital Photographers Only (For Only) by Rob Sheppard

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Videos showing the power of Adobe programs 

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What is Acrobat 

more than a reader

The Acrobat format (PDF = Portable Document Format) is probably known to anybody surfing the Internet. PDF is great because it handles complex layout and represents it almost identical on all media, screen, paper, video etc.

Almost everybody has the free Acrobat Reader. This is great for viewing PDF documents. However, the Pro version does a lot more. For instance you can protect your documents, and directly edit, crop or extract pages.

If you work with prepress, you will never want to live without Acrobat Pro.

Acrobat files are often used as a basis for electronic books (like you download on Lulu.com for instance). We can have links to webpages, internal hyperlinks, forms to fill out, and even integrated video in PDF documents.

Books on Acrobat 

Acrobat is the finishing touch.

Adobe Acrobat 9 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

Adobe Acrobat 9 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

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How to Do Everything: Adobe Acrobat 9 by Doug Sahlin

How to Do Everything: Adobe Acrobat 9 by Doug Sahlin

Your one-stop guide to Adobe Acrobat 9Create and p more...0 points

Adobe Acrobat 9 PDF Bible by Ted Padova

Adobe Acrobat 9 PDF Bible by Ted Padova

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Acrobat 9 Pro: Creating Forms by Brian Wood

Acrobat 9 Pro: Creating Forms by Brian Wood

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