Adobe CS4 Web Workflows: Building Websites with Adobe Creative Suite 4

Bestselling author Josephy Lowery shows you how to develop effective workflows with Adobe CS products

As the industry standard for everyone from Web developers to creative professionals, Adobe‘s CS4 offers a collection of the most popular Web and design tools: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, Fireworks, Acrobat, and more. While it is incredibly convenient to have all these tools readily available in one suite, it also contributes to confusion with managing media from one product to the next.

That‘s where this book comes in! Popular author Joseph Lowery walks you through best practices for refining, streamlining, and improving your workflow from one product to the next.

• Offers a clear overview of exactly what methods work best when transitioning from one Adobe CS4 product to another
• Demonstrates how to smoothly transition from one CS4 product to another
• Includes step–by–step examples of an exemplary workflow used throughout the chapters so you can watch its progression

With a more streamlined workflow and a better understanding of how the Adobe CS4 products work in cohesion, you‘re well on your way to making the Adobe suite work for you.

From the back cover:

Master the CS4 workflow—master the magic of multimedia

Today‘s Web is an amalgam of images, illustrations, animations, and video—all gathered neatly and delivered to the site visitor in a coherent package. The magician who weaves it all together is you, the Web designer. This book shows you how to get the job done with Adobe CS4, moving seamlessly from one product to another and mastering the key techniques of each program to create the final masterpiece.

• Part I covers the Photoshop to Dreamweaver workflow, focusing on building comps and designing

• Part II addresses the Fireworks to Dreamweaver workflow, exploring the unique graphic abilities of Fireworks and building Web standards–compliant navigation in Dreamweaver

• Part III examines using Flash with Dreamweaver, including the Flash timeline and integrating Flash movies into Dreamweaver

• Part IV covers Photoshop to Bridge to Fireworks to Dreamweaver, featuring how to correct photos, tag images, and implement forms with AJAX–driven validation

• Part V takes you through the Illustrator® to Photoshop to Flash to Dreamweaver workflow, including animating graphics

Companion Web site
Visit www.wiley.com/go/adobecs4webworkflows to download exercise files for each chapter as well as a sample AVI file.

About the Author:

Joseph W. Lowery has been writing about computers and new technology since 1981. He is the author of Adobe CS3 Web Workflows, the Dreamweaver Bible, and the initial Fireworks Bibleseries as well as CSS Hacks and Filters (all published by Wiley). Joe is also a consultant and trainer and has presented at Adobe conferences in the United States and Europe.