Peter Brown’s Courses

Graphic Design with Adobe Creative Suite

Files and links for the Graphic Design with Adobe Creative Suite course at Exeter College.

Websites for Illustrator to visit

www.sketchpad.net/illustrator.htm
Good site to learn the basics about creating vector illustrations.

www.adobe.com/products/tips/illustrator.html
Takes you to a great resource from Adobe with lots of tutorials.

www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/tutorials
Lots a useful tutorials.

Podcasts for Illustrator

Podcast downloader and viewer

http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/overview
itunes is probably the main program used to download and listen to Podcasts. You can download the program for free from this page. Once downloaded and installed you can subscribe (for free) to podcast channels such as the ones below.

Books for Illustrator

Adobe Illustator CS5 Bible

Every feature of Illustrator explained – very full and comprehensive reference material.

Adobe Illustrator CS5: Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

Created by the Adobe team, this is the book they should give you when you purchase Illustrator - they make you pay for it instead. Still it's a very good introduction to illustrator.

Websites for Photoshop to visit

www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials.html
Great tutorials from NAPP.

www.planetphotoshop.com/tutorials_videos.html
Video tutorials from NAPP.

www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html
Takes you to a great resource from Adobe with lots of tutorials.

Podcasts for Photoshop

Books for Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop CS5 Bible

Every feature of Photoshop explained – very good reference material.

Adobe Photoshop CS5: Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team

Websites for InDesign and DTP to visit

www.adobe.com/products/tips/indesign.html
Takes you to a great resource from Adobe with lots of tutorials.

http://desktoppub.about.com/od/indesigntutorials
Lots of InDesign tutorials)

www.tutorialfind.com/tutorials/adobe/indesign
List of lots of useful tutorials on different sites.

http://desktoppub.about.com
Useful information about desktop publishing.

Podcasts for InDesign

Books for InDesign

Adobe InDesign CS5 Bible

Every feature of InDesign explained – very good reference material.

Adobe InDesign CS5: Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team