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For this segment I'm going to start out in the work files folder, open that up and you'll find a document inside there called CS2 Product Lineup. It's a simple PDF file - double click to open it up. It will open either Acrobat or the Adobe Reader. Essentially these are the programs that are included in the Creative Suite. We will be covering all of these in some degree throughout this training series. And for the most part, we'll be covering in this order as well. First of all we have my favorite application Adobe Photoshop. We primarily use Adobe Photoshop for image editing, color correction and that type of thing, but it does so much more. You can do web design, web graphics, PDF presentations, etc, etc, all from Photoshop. We use Illustrator for vector based design, good for creating logos, illustrations, that type of thing. We use InDesign as a page layout application. Basically we take our photos from Photoshop and our Illustrations from Illustrator and put them all together InDesign for a brochure, magazine, that type of thing. InDesign also features very powerful typography tools. If we choose to output our final designs on the web rather than print which is pretty much what InDesign is for, then we can take all of this stuff into GoLive and create web pages there. Adobe Acrobat is the ultimate document program. We can use Acrobat to make comments on documents. We can review them. We can sign them securely, etc, etc. Be it known that Acrobat is not a document creation program. Students all the time ask me, "well should I use Microsoft Word or should I use Acrobat to make documents," and that's kind of like saying should I eat pizza or a baseball. So they are 2 completely different things. Don't get them confused. Next on the list is Adobe ImageReady. ImageReady is like a companion program that installs with Adobe Photoshop. Again, people often ask, "what's the difference between GoLive and ImageReady?" GoLive is a full featured web design suite. In GoLive we can use JavaScript and a whole bunch of other very powerful features. ImageReady is a web graphics creation program. It can make web pages but it's not really built for that. It's mainly made for making rollovers, little animations and that sort of thing. Bridge is next on the hit list. Adobe Bridge is a file browser. We'll cover this again when we get there but it kind of grew out of this file browser that used to be inside of Photoshop. It's called Bridge because now all applications can use it. So we can use it to preview Illustrator files and also InDesign files, Photoshop files and a whole bunch of other stuff. Version Cue is a small little application used for file management. Have you ever been doing a job for somebody and you saved so many revisions of it that you can't remember where the first revisions were? Version Cue can help you get those straight. Now new in Creative Suite 2.3 in Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is just like GoLive in the sense that it's a web design application. As of a couple years ago, GoLive and Dreamweaver were actually competing products. Dreamweaver was made by 1 time Adobe competitor Macromedia. Since then Adobe has acquired Macromedia and Dreamweaver is now part of the Adobe lineup. Dreamweaver has always been a more powerful and more popular application than Adobe GoLive. And now with the Creative Suite 2.3, Dreamweaver is included for free with the Creative Suite as well. Now I'm no fortune teller and I don't have any inside information but it kind of seems that GoLive is kind of being edged out a little bit in favor of the much more powerful and popular Dreamweaver. Truth be told, Dreamweaver has always been my preference as well. Finally we have 2 other little applications; Adobe Stock Photos and Adobe Help Center. Adobe Stock Photos is a little plug in inside of Bridge where we can browse to purchase Stock photography. We'll talk about that when we get to Bridge. Finally the Adobe Help Center. Again a small little application but what Adobe has done is unified the help throughout all applications. Adobe Help Center is not just some PDF that comes in every program. It's one application. Your can run it by itself even as a standalone. I realize that it's not probably that big of a deal and not that cool of a thing to talk about but folks the help in Adobe programs is bar none. It's absolutely amazing so I want you to get in the habit now of being aware of the power of the Adobe Help Center. We'll be using it throughout the training and I'm going to talk about it specifically a little bit later on but even now I want you to be aware of that. So this is the basic lineup as you can see here there is a lot here to cover and there's some really fun stuff to get into. Now before we go ahead and tackle Photoshop there's are few universals that I want you to be aware of. A few standard things that you'll see throughout many of the applications in the Creative Suite and so rather then explaining them as we go in every single application I want to just get the out of the way right now so we can play with them in the individual applications as we go.