Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow

Learn effective ways to collaborate across Adobe's design apps

Even if you're already comfortable with Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign, Adobe Creative Cloud now offers powerful opportunities for improving efficiency and collaboration that few design and marketing professionals are using. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign Collaboration and Workflow Classroom in a Book uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:

• Improve both team and individual efficiency in a range of projects spanning print, web, video, UX, and online marketing
• Establish powerful workflows that leverage the remarkable capabilities of Adobe's native file formats
• Improve content collaboration via Adobe cloud documents and Creative Cloud Libraries
• Draw on concise, focused insights for managing tradeoffs
• Optimize workflows and collaboration strategies in your own organization
• Experience all the added value built into today's Adobe Creative Cloud
• Take full advantage of Adobe's unparalleled integration and cloud resources
• Leverage tips and tricks from Adobe Solutions Consultant Manager Bart Van de Wiele

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book's "Getting Started" section to unlock access to:

• Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
• Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step

What you need to use this book: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign (2023 release) software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

Note: Classroom in a Book does not replace the documentation, support, updates, or any other benefits of being a registered owner of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign software.

Bart Van de Wiele started his career in 2002 as a graphic designer with a strong focus on print production and image retouching. His career quickly evolved into a life as an Adobe trainer, a consultant, and an author for InDesign Secrets and CreativePro Magazine. As a worldwide public speaker, he can often be found as a presenter at conferences like CreativePro Week and Adobe MAX covering a variety of design subjects and Adobe technologies. He is also a LinkedIn Learning instructor with a growing library of creative courses. In 2015, Bart joined Adobe as a Principal Solutions Consultant, specializing in Adobe design workflows and solutions. In 2022 he moved into a manager role at Adobe, currently supporting his own team of Solutions Consultants.

1 WORKFLOWS AND FILE FORMATS

Workflows

Interoperability

Established file formats

Native file formats

2 ENRICHING ILLUSTRATOR ARTWORK WITH PHOTOSHOP CONTENT

Placing and managing Photoshop artwork in Illustrator

Linking a Photoshop document in Illustrator

Embedding a Photoshop document in Illustrator

Using Photoshop paths in Illustrator

Photoshop cloud documents in Illustrator

Packaging the project 

3 USING LAYERED PHOTOSHOP FILES IN INDESIGN

Managing Photoshop layer visibility in InDesign

Creating diff erent versions using adjustment layers

Using layer transparency to your advantage

Photoshop layer comps

Using Photoshop layer comps in InDesign

Embedding placed documents into InDesign

Packaging the project

4 USING PHOTOSHOP PATHS, ALPHA CHANNELS,AND GRAYSCALE IMAGES IN INDESIGN

Photoshop paths

Using clipping paths in InDesign

Using a Photoshop alpha channel

Using multiple Photoshop paths

Recoloring Photoshop grayscale images in InDesign

 5 USING ILLUSTRATOR ARTWORK IN INDESIGN

Using Illustrator layers in InDesign

Using Illustrator artboards in InDesign

Should you use layer overrides or artboards?

Pasting Illustrator artwork into InDesign

 6 USING ILLUSTRATOR ARTWORK IN PHOTOSHOP

Combining Illustrator and Photoshop

Embedding Illustrator artwork in Photoshop

Linking Illustrator artwork in Photoshop

Pasting Illustrator artwork into Photoshop

 7 NESTING DOCUMENTS

What is document nesting?

Nesting InDesign documents

Nesting Illustrator documents

Nesting Photoshop documents

 8 WORKING WITH CREATIVE CLOUD LIBRARIES

What are Creative Cloud Libraries?

Creating your first library

Creative Cloud Library workflows

Backing up library items

 9 INTEGRATION THROUGH COLLABORATION

Collaborating using Creative Cloud Libraries

Sharing a library publicly

Sharing a library privately

Summing up

Personal versus team libraries

Collaborating using cloud documents

Sharing cloud documents

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