Adobe Creative Cloud TV

Adobe Illustrator is one of the best drawing tools on the planet. So naturally you're going to need to align objects from time to time. One of the ways that we use to keep objects lined up is to use a visual guide so that we can see at a glance if something is lined up or not. In this episode we'll also see how to turn any path into a guide as well as putting guides on layers. Then we'll kick it up a notch and learn how to use Smart Guides.

Now that you know how easy it is to make PDFs from your Creative Suite products, we'll learn how to set them up so that they can be digitally signed. In this episode you'll see how to set up a PDF to accept a digital signature. You all also see how to create your own digital signature for signing and a strategy to work with your clients so that you know who is signing those documents?

Now with the Bridge you can preview and select images that you want to publish to the web. In this episode I'll show you how to take advantage of Photoshop's latest web galleries and to get the exact look and feel that you want. I'll also show you how to protect your images on the web so that are not easily copied.

We often here about how well InDesign works with Photoshop. In this episode I'll show you how to work with Illustrator files in InDesign. Take advantage of the vector similarities by not only being able to place native Illustrator files, but also copy and paste Illustrator vectors so that you can use them as frames in InDesign.

The Clone Stamp Tool has been a long time favorite for most Photoshop users. However, trying to remove something that is on an angle or a different perspective is often challenging. Using the Vanishing Point feature you can remove images and add images with ease. In this episode I'll show you how.

For years users have relied on tables to lay out there pages. In the modern world of web layout it's all about CSS. In this episode you'll see how to take advantage of GoLive's CSS Objects. You can make liquid pages that allow the site visitors with wider displays to control their viewing and reading experience.

Illustrator CS2 has a great tracing feature called Live Trace. However, sometimes you may want to trace something have a more artistic effect. Will Illustrator's Pen Tool and the Gradient Mesh feature you'll be able to create the exact look and feel that you want.

We've taken a look at creating PDFs in several of these episodes. Now we'll learn how to secure them so that we can safely send out PDFs to clients for review and be assured that they can only access the content the way we want them to. Turn off things like printing and content extraction. Password protect your PDFs so that they can't even be opened without a password.

If you have the Adobe Creative Suite, you not only have the Bridge, you have a component of the Bridge called the Bridge Center. The Bridge Center is the hub of the Creative Suite and allows you to quickly access recently used files and folders. It also allows you to read your RSS feeds, sync your color management settings and create Version Cue projects.

Adobe InDesign can create PDFs natively. In this episode we'll see a rarely used feature that allows us to create rollover effects that work beautifully in PDF files. Your PDF files will be interactive. InDesign allows us to create buttons and using the States palette we can create rollover effects.