Adobe software for beginners is not a complete science guide!

@ algae: Adobe software is a very high frequency of daily use of software, Adobe has some of the software, what these things are used to do? doesn't help you with your work? Today, I would like to give you a brief (LAO) explanation! Contains a variety of small skills small knowledge >>>

The article for Personal Insights (work code word QAQ), welcomed the exchange, refused "friendly surround." The article is long and often digress, the suggestion collection slowly spit trough.

First, answer two center of gravity questions before you start:

　　Q: Do I want to buy a genuine version?

A: In October 2014, Adobe's China-owned research and development team was disbanded, and research and development work in China will be handed over to Adobe India Company.

Adobe is out of China. Want to understand the Baidu can be a bit, there are a lot of analytical articles, I conclude: Adobe in China not to make money is not only because of personal use of piracy, but also include large enterprises and government agencies will use piracy (also the case of foreign countries), the focus is that Adobe's positioning of the Chinese market is too high! The price is too expensive to fly and the change is not flexible. (Well, off topic ...) So, you can log in to Adobe China website to see, now the newest version is cs6! and the price is dead! You can go to Adobe Hong Kong to see again, the software is newest, also can easily login cloud system! The software also has a variety of packages and offers. So even if you need to buy a genuine, do not buy the Chinese region. (Personal opinion, please do not feel free to refer)

　　Q: What is the difference between piracy and genuine function?

A: This question is very many people ask, the answer is: no difference! Some students found that their installed pirated some features can not be used (such as PS 3D) in fact, because of installation errors or lack of required plug-ins, recommended download master version of the installation. Adobe's products are very conscience-causing piracy to use the full functionality of the genuine, including cloud systems!!! You can totally use the pirated cloud sync (moved me close to the legs) "to introduce you to this very divine function, login Creative Cloud can upload personal presets and software settings, especially PS and AI, you can upload layers, such as you want to send a PSD element to colleagues to change, You can login to the same account, press a button, your PS layer will appear on his computer AI, there is no need for any other operation ... "It is highly recommended that Adobe establish an official Alipay account to facilitate people who are moved to donate voluntarily!" (The network varies from person to person, some versions or regions may not be able to use this function)

good, = =, finally to start the body, this article completely did not encourage everyone to use the meaning of piracy, please do not discuss piracy around. The following software rankings are scrambled:

　　Photoshop

When it comes to PS, this thing is Adobe's fortune, a long time ago, Star Wars Special effects Division John Nore and his brother in a dark room ... Stop and stop, can't pull history qaq. You are interested in your own Wikipedia to see ...

PS is a picture processing software, this should not be introduced, because PS has become the endorsement of all changes in the picture (once sister asked me: "Senior you are using what software PS?) PS is the world's leading image processing software, not one.

There are still a large number of people using CS3 or even 7.0 (that big Eye), Adobe Software is not newer and more useful, specifically told you: Yes. (At the same time the hardware requirements will also rise slightly, but the same hardware prices have been falling, so there is no big investment in the argument!) So have a free time or update it as soon as possible. The latest version should be the CC 2014 with the 3D Print feature, with help-system information to view the specific version.

If you want to ask me the new version of the most touching place, personally think that is content recognition (SHIFT+F5), the second is to cut something ...

　　Photoshop Elements

The latest version is Photoshop Elements 13, can be understood as this is a simplified version of PS, this thing can open PSD format file and edit, but the use of it will be found with PS does not seem to be so big, the function has, simple and easy to use, recommended to "feel beautiful mito not good enough , but PS do not want to learn "girls." As for the ease of use, witty I found that the British uncle with this software to do fake tickets caught tragedy. The software is updated quickly, and Adobe is planning to tackle the low-end market? Nice job!... PS: Please update the pirated users carefully. )

　　Lightroom

LR is a photo processing software, called the photographer's necessary late tools (however, many photographers still insist on using PS ...), LR has several features, it has its own storage, backup and classification, management file scheme (this point PS is not a match), and color preset is very convenient, You can preview and compare photos at any time to modify the scheme and preset, you can create presets and use other people's presets are the most popular features. Frankly, LR is color matching fast and convenient, if you want to fine repair or to use PS. Also, Camera Raw (new version PS built-in plugin) and LR function can be said to be "a mold printed out." If you do not need file management and set preset, use camera RAW basic can replace LR. (Personal opinion, please do not feel free to refer)

　　Adobe Illustrator

Wo think Ai also need not introduce eh ... Adobe Illustrator is the vector drawing software, the biggest characteristic is basically relies on the pen to operate. Output, link to a variety of formats, software is very useful, the network has tens of thousands of AI workers, especially illustrations, Ui,logo, vector patterns, backgrounds, patterns, 3D ... Well, it seems that in addition to all the pictures can be handled by AI very good, ai involves a lot of field stickers are printing, skilled people can use the AI to create anything (the great God), AI skills have a lot of fonts and the trend of flat and low style are very popular, learn AI also for graphic designers have a lot of benefits.

　　Adobe Premiere

Adobe Premiere, one of the most exhilarating video clip tools. PR clip video is very accurate, sound and picture synchronized preview and modification, easy to learn efficient, cross-industry the most extensive necessary editing tools, and in addition to clips, it can also make a lot of film and television effects! In addition to its large number of external plug-ins shared with AE, the effect is not small, color palette, transitions, masks, tuning, filters, Distortion and so on, YouTube has a lot of video using simple clip special effects to make the magic effect of the genuine, online tutorials are very many, this is my most satisfying software, in addition to subtitles (vomiting blood ...) The software is still very perfect, it and AE mutually perfect connection works, two software with the use of invincible. You can use the graphics card cuda acceleration (there will be a specific piece of hardware posture below) it is the same as the fluency of AE compared to the old hard drive compared to SSD.

　　PR Element:

Like PS element, it is also in the 13 version. I thought that the simplified version will not have too many functions, but I was wrong, it has quick and expert mode, the expert mode also provides a multiple-track editing. Filters and transitions are also very many, as well as preset images and automatic rendering, and even if so, there are still jitter stabilizer and tracking! This is still the editing software = =, let the sound will shadow love why Ah ... Very suggest "want to quickly do a simple cute video but do not want to bother to learn software" sister use PR element, the same, the software update is very fast, if the future support Plug-ins, will be the impact of the pressure will be big ... (What is a motion tracking?) have you ever seen a code action movie?:

　　Pl:

Rough shear software, the interface and PR is no different, but the corresponding time axis and more convenient video.

　　Bridge

Bridge is a graphic material management software, it can directly view the PSD file (although many third-party look at the image software can be done, but often color distortion and appear noise) can also call camera raw to edit the picture, the most important is the management, classification, scoring system is very comprehensive, Fast can find what you want, may just start to contact the plane will not feel too, but when you work six months later, you will feel a messy computer, every time to find something to someone else is absolutely fatal.

　　Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is simply a typesetting software for magazines, weeklies, newspapers, publications, posters, and so on. You can export the document directly to the Adobe PDF format, with the AI, PS perfect combination of strong, inclusive, paper on the media love it, said ID will have to Spit CDR (Coreldraw,corel company out of the comprehensive graphic software, commonly used to typesetting) I'm going to spit on the CDR all the way to the bitter face! Is CDR actually a completed WinDOS software? A variety of cotton delay, the mouse disappeared, happy when the card you two minutes, not happy to let you crash, automatic save failure, file picture loss, color of the picture, the layer is difficult to select, no matter how high you configure the x4x5x6x7 are still crashing! People who have used CDR have been abused by it! You look at someone else adobe, stable and smooth, it is Microsoft born baby ... (Re-call for Adobe to open a Alipay donation ...)

　　Incopy

Incopy, is with ID use of typesetting software, with this software is very small, the image below to see the interface, although similar to the ID, but more attention to text typesetting, for the ID support bad text options It is handy, in the official introduction (www.adobe.com), is almost an ID of the plugin ....

　　Audition

Audition is the only audio editing software in Adobe products. Major mixing, editing, recording, etc., can also be used to reduce noise, denoising, extraction of human voice, processing balance, and so on, this software I did not use how many times, not as I began to imagine as strong, can not create music, it is difficult to tune to the common voice to create music, feeling the effect is not much, the user is not very friendly to start, But the work of the great God is still very good. Contact is not much, spit can not, forgive me.

　　After Effects

Finally said after effects, this is one of the most famous non-linear editing and synthesis software, is also one of the main uses of my work, and its powerful function for a moment I can not, its own in addition to the clip to add a large number of synthetic effects, such as a container can be loaded with a variety of tools, You may not be able to use AE for a year or two without mastering its various special effects, why? One, each effect can be adjusted strong, unlike PR, drag effect into the track to adjust the key frame on the finish, AE effect of general slider long, numerical chaos, color more, and several special effects can be superimposed at the same time effect! Always want to reproduce the effect and take notes. Second, the Third-party plug-ins more and more, the volume and content is more and more, such as Sapphire plug-in with hundreds of special effects is really abusive enough for me, particle light effect and motion feeling is endless pit, AK God's e3d and light effect is to the AE 3D to a new realm, C4D plug-in direct modeling operation ...

AE's tutorial book not to mention how thick, online tutorials are very many, the material is extremely many, the template is extremely many. About the template I want to say one thing, with a set of templates can be said to be the most extensive use of AE, and even a lot of people are not familiar with AE using a set of templates mixed high-quality jobs, or reselling template profit! I do not judge this phenomenon, but it is a bit unfair, because it is not your work, not your ability to embody, You should not get this pride and harvest, but this is the reality of cruelty, a lot of just graduated from the special effects of the students will be only a set of templates to transfer the job you build it. But after all, a lot of fans come here, try to do, set a template to learn a new skill is a good goal, a lot of templates have something worth learning, now I can almost do to see the analysis of how to do, layer relationship and special effects of how to achieve the use of their own efforts to copy, This is very good (looking at the hard drive 500G templates are embarrassed to call themselves a special effects division (cover face Wigger (100,5))

　　About hardware

A lot of people often ask, I want to engage in graphic design, film post-production, three-dimensional modeling work, what hardware is required?

I've been avoiding the apple system, and the Apple system does have some advantages in some ways, but I don't recommend the Apple system if it's a personal expense, or if the students and families in the school share it. But in this line of work, the monitor needs to be slightly larger, the resolution is also as high as possible, remember to turn off the display of those messy automatic function.

　　Graphic Design

PS, AI, CDR and other software, flat software does not eat video card, so do not need to invest in the graphics card how much. (unless playing games) CPU, recommend i5-3470 or above model, Adobe software is very good to multi-core optimization, i5 enough. Memory 8G or more, memory is a significant condition, often PS memory after the start of the card, memory as much as possible input.

　　Film late

Video is the most important and most time-consuming place lies in rendering, such as AE/PR, rendering mainly rely on CPU, it is obvious that the main frequency of I7, the money on the i7-4790k, no money on the loan on the E3-V2/3, remember not to overclocking use, stability for. What about the graphics card? Because Adobe has cuda accelerated preview (especially PR) so the choice of graphics card needs to have Cuda function (now n card basic have) but the actual test has no ideal effect, video card utilization is not high, so gtx660/760 has been fully enough to use.

Memory: The bigger the better, 16G enough? I can only say that 32G feel the difficulty. Memory to do the best, after all, this thing is not expensive also value, and the rendering and preview has a great impact. Hard disk: 1T, 2T, 5T for video. No matter what, the material is also very big. Does that need to be SSD? In fact, the output is not the bottleneck of SSD, but the best time to read material or SSD inside, this is not necessary, but there is the best, with a comfortable. (in the late stage of film and television, two screens are very practical.) )

　　Three dimensional modeling

Three-dimensional is the industry's most hardware-consuming, in particular, the lighting complex, global lighting, environmental absorption, high resolution, such as the case, eat video card is very powerful, the company project to find rendering farm, rich please use professional card (Li Tai Quadro series), ordinary graphics card words, a penny a penny, I also recommend not to come, It is better to put the budget weight into the CPU more cost-effective, the same is as far as possible on the E3, efforts to I7, memory and SSD demand is small. (if only the daily rendering object static frame, in fact, the normal configuration can afford) (Note that part of the modeling software does not eat graphics cards, renderer eat graphics card)

Some students ask: I often open the software will be very card, the mouse does not listen to the chaos flashing. This is generally hard to read, especially plug-ins or fonts more students, the solution is to delete those useless things, check the hard drive has bad, bad way can only shield can't repair. It is recommended to put the software in SSD, mechanical hard disk as far as possible to choose cache and High speed (Seagate do not choose three dishes, the West do not choose the green disk) mechanical hard disk is also the computer inside the most easily bad things, remember the scheduled backup.

*CAD: It is said that the hardware requirements of CAD are more special, no research is not for reference.

　　Edge Animate

Said AE must say that An,an can be said to be H5 Web page dynamic effect artifact, mainly to make Web page animation and effect even the web game, from the timeline and stage interface, really like AE and FL fit! The graphics dynamic effect after the conversion code is obviously more fluent and easy to control than Flash, and with the ease curve , although it looks strong, but it is still just starting soon, someone will ask "This is not to replace the rhythm of flash?" Obviously this is a Web page for the mobile end (the mobile side is too bad for flash compatibility and experience), and for desktop Web Flash, And the software has a lot of flaws (below), now the official online has released a lot of templates and styles, but also more and more people step into this pit, why don't you H5 build a mobile phone personal web page to play it? This software support Plug-ins, the future will become an amplifier!

　　MU:

When the first contact with MU, the Internet to find data search out are all "miracle mu" "best equipment, a second brush explosion" ... MU is a station tool, is dedicated to the designers to build stations, but has not been any improvement, because there are not a few designers will build their own station, this tool is still very useful, compatible PS, AI, ID, also with a little interaction effects. But let me feel strange is incredibly can not open HTML, it supports an OAM format, but I found in an inside do not know how to output OAM ... Who knows the two software how to cooperate with Tell me ...

　　Flash

Flash is flash ah, do not want to introduce. From the beginning of CS6 Flash to support the HTML5,CC version has done a more comprehensive optimization, support for the network that is excellent, you now point to open a download station, you will be flooded with countless flash windows, flash simple and easy to use (..) Traditionally, there are a lot of people who master Flash, but after all, they wait for the elimination because of the large volume loading and the slow instability.

By the way, one thing to emphasize is that the once hot global FLV Network Video format has been completely eliminated in the CC2014 version, yes, all Adobe software can not export the flv file, I installed close to 10 decoder after the abandoned ...

　　Speedgrade

Speedgrade is a palette software that seems to be Adobe's youngest software. But I have to spit, it has no Chinese ah!! (others are from Chinese) without Chinese, even the Chinese path is not supported! You open the folder will only see a bunch of iiiiiii, which I have endured, but its interface is fixed AH! Low resolution (notebook) is simply uncomfortable, but just as a palette of software is good, the palette options are many, With a lot of preset, the perfect link PR, and completely do not card, there are many I do not understand the chroma table, another day to see a tutorial to learn about (mainly do not read English ...) )

　　Dreamweaver

Dreamweaver is the WYSIWYG web editor, web Designer One of the necessary tools, Adobe for the Web page is really broken heart, powerful, getting started is not simple, once went to a section of DW's class, out of the dizzy I have decided to give up when the Web designer, to use DW students to point a praise, You can spit it out.

　　Edge reflow

Edge reflow is a visual response design tool, Simple is responsive web page typesetting tool, what is a responsive Web page? Open the petals, hold down CTRL to build the scroll in the middle of the mouse button, see no, my petals inside the beautiful figure to enlarge the sort, this is the response. This software interface is really tall ah, open think oneself use the apple system ...

　　Media Encoder

Media encoder is video rendering software, seamless connection to all Adobe video production software, very recommended to use this guy to render: case one: When you AE finished a video, press the render, render to half, and then card dead, ah tragedy (This is a true story) If you put it directly into the me to render, AE here not only will not die, but also continue to operate. Case two: Do a video rendering once, rendering to wait 20 minutes to do, and then do the second video, a lot of time ah. Using me to guide the AE queue, do a guide, sleep at night unified hanging machine rendering ~ Cool

* About Adobe can output video software, please be sure to install QuickTime, and then install a perfect decoder and format factory, otherwise format does not support, how to cry is useless.

　　Sc, Fb

These two seem to be around the software development based on flash management and analysis tools, tracking and investigation of the operation, seems to have nothing to do with the designer, do not have in-depth understanding, this is the official introduction: www.adobe.com

　　Fw

As if it has not been updated, is a Web page mapping, editing, motion diagram editing software.

Do not know why the FW came in the back, about FW have to say a little sad. Still remember that year's booming "Web Page Three Musketeers", FL, DW, FW Three would like to shine stars like shining, I am still reading Junior high school, want to change a picture, according to Jackie Chan said, is to add special effects. Then let its natural use of the famous FW, easy to operate, easy to control the effect, layer relationship is clear, and the GIF output control is very convenient! I unloaded the beautiful mito that day. Do you know that in the signature file there used to be those words in the flashing GIF basically from the hand of the FW? After that years the status is basically replaced by PS, the decline of the glorious years ... I used the junior high school for two years, and then the university was forced to go to PS (PS Really useful ah Qaq) now to others that I am proficient in FW, others will ask me: FW what?

　　Adobe Captivate

Well, Adobe captivate may be a more marginal software that is used to screen and demo software. I used it once a year ago and I fell in love with him!! It's a video-screen artifact! After recording will automatically add the mouse trajectory, key prompts, etc., and is a similar PPT can be modified format, but also can import ppt! also output video, want to show customers your program, software, UI use effect? operation is also a fool, fast download CP Ah, than those broken record screen software 100 times times better.

　　En

En is a video production software, the interface is very similar to the PR, the newer version of the more useless, but also a face of the elimination of software, the basic can be replaced by PR, now seems to be taken as a video release and packaging software.