Chapter Two. Working Within the Creative Suite

The Creative Suite’s value should really be considered the sum of its parts. Sure, there are the cornerstone applications—Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, and Acrobat—but look beyond these applications and you’ll find the elements that really make CS2 a truly integrated suite: its supporting applications, services, and common user experience.

With the introduction of Bridge, Adobe offers a supporting application designed for browsing and working with visually oriented files. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Bridge can be your translator. Learning how to work with this new application and discovering what it’s capable of is key to working within the suite. Bridge is also the access ...

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