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December 2, 2005

Tutorials for Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and After Effects

Here are excellent training tutorials for the Adobe software products: Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and After Effects - all hosted by Peachpit.com. These should help you to create better and more attractive multimedia images, graphics, published documents, web sites, animations, and digital motion graphics for your personal use and your business.

Adobe Illustrator, a Vector graphics editor, is currently at version 12 (called CS2 to reflect its integration with Adobe’s Creative Suite) and is available for both the Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

11 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials

Is Microsoft Expression Graphic Designer Good Enough to Take On Adobe Illustrator?: By Matthew David; Oct 14, 2005

Integrating Photoshop and Illustrator to Create Professional Imagery: By Bryan Hoff; Nov 18, 2004

Creating Basic Lines and Shapes in Illustrator CS: By Luanne Cohen; Aug 27, 2004

Creating 3D Images in Illustrator CS: By Jeff VanWest; Aug 6, 2004

The Illustrator Interface: By Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas; Jul 30, 2004

Cartoon Illustration in Adobe Illustrator: By Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova; Mar 28, 2003

What’s New in Illustrator 9: By Sandee Cohen, Steven Gordon, Sharon Steuer; Jun 1, 2001

Brush Basics in Illustrator 8: Mar 1, 1999

Brush Strokes: Making Natural Pen and Ink Drawings: Mar 1, 1999

Quiz Time: Test Your Illustrator 8 Savvy: Mar 1, 1999

The Illustrator 7 Wow! Book Excerpt: By Sharon Steuer; Dec 1, 1997

Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing (DTP) application. InDesign can export documents in Adobe’s Portable Document Format and supports Unicode for text processing and the advanced typography of OpenType fonts. Its advanced transparency features and cross-platform scriptability using Javascript also set it apart.

7 Adobe InDesign Tutorials

New Tools in Adobe InDesign 1.5: By Sandee Cohen; Jul 1, 2001

Creating Text on a Path in InDesign 1.5: Jun 1, 2001

Long Documents in Adobe InDesign: By Sandee Cohen; Jun 1, 2001

Working with Styles in InDesign 1.5: Jun 1, 2001

Advanced Text Techniques in InDesign: By Sandee Cohen; Apr 6, 2001

Trapping: By Olav Martin Kvern; Apr 6, 2001

Working with Long Documents in InDesign 1.5: By Sandee Cohen

GoLive is a HTML editor. After Adobe Systems announced it would be merging with Macromedia in April 2005, Go Live is expected to be phased out, and Dreamweaver is expected to replace it.

4 Adobe GoLive Tutorials

Designing Adobe GoLive Web Pages: By Adobe Creative Team; Feb 14, 2003

Using and Creating GoLive Text Macros: By Paul Vachier; Oct 4, 2002

Add Dynamic Time and Date Stamps in GoLive 6: By Jay Bain, Caleb Clark, Rob Keniger, Gregory Knab, Paul Vachier; Apr 19, 2002

Real World Adobe GoLive Tips: By Jeff Carlson, Glenn Fleishman; Mar 30, 2001

Adobe After Effects is a digital motion graphics and compositing software. It is commonly used in movie post production, and in the creation of commercials, as well as other pieces which require digital effects to be integrated with live video or film.

4 Adobe After Effects Tutorials