Taking a First Glance at the Applications

Before you can start making decisions about which application to use for each kind of job, you have to know how each application works, what tools it has, and what its strengths are. The more you know about the tools you use, the easier it will be for you to decide how best to use them to your advantage.

In this section, we focus on each application by itself and the tasks that each can (and can't) do. In Chapter 3, "The Game Plan: Developing a Workflow," we discuss how to use all the Adobe Creative Suite applications together to complete full projects.