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Money = Productivity + Less Book Shelf Room

Posted by crushy - February 3rd, 2008

Okay, so I've been buying stuff recently, here's a catch up...

Adobe CS3 Design Premium

Yep, I earned some cash from games I've made and managed to get the programs cheap due to the fact I'm at school, I got the Student version, not Educational, I believe there's a difference so... yeah.

Within the package, you get:

- Flash CS3
- Illustrator CS3
- Photoshop CS3
- Dreamweaver CS3
- InDesign CS3
- Bridge CS3 (Never used it...)
- Some Mobile program + acrobat and some other little things

Very happy with it, and it works surprisingly well on Vista.

Essential Actionscript 3.0 - Chris Moock

I need to learn actionscript, so I might aswell go with 3.0. From what I've heard, the book is good, but both this book, and the other I bought are arriving next week so I'll give my opinions then. All I know is it is 900+ pages and its going to take a while to read...

How to cheat in Flash - Chris Georgenes

I've looked into it and this book has some really great reviews, and despite the name it has a detailed insight on many features and techniques for Flash and Illustrator. I'll give my views on the book when it arrives anyway.

As you may have noticed, I have one book on the graphics side of things and one on coding, if I manage both books I should get quite a lot out of them.

If anyone has these books, please let me know what you think.

PS. What the hell is Adobe Bridge for?

Cool Beans...

Money = Productivity + Less Book Shelf Room

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Wurmy

If your looking into AS3 I personally recommend "ActionScript 3.0 Animation" by Keith Peters. It's a great book me thinks.. even if you know allot :p

Also gratz on the design premium.. I already have mine :D

crushy

Design premium ftw! Thanks for the comment ;)

tomylee

I spend all the money from games on eBay's random stuff :(
Im now saving for a car :D

crushy

Good luck!

knugen

Naughty little crushy, you know that you can't make money of a student version of any of Adobe's programs, don't you (legally, that is)? ;D

Adobe Bridge is a program meant to make it easier when you need to use several Adobe programs for working on the same project.. I think so at least :P I haven't had much use of it, since I do work with a few different Adobe programs but usually not for the same project.

crushy

Ha, you can talk! ^^

I'll see if I can find some kind of obscure use for Bridge lol...

Walks-on-water

sweet. design premium and vista... i dream to have them together. yep student version u can use for commercial purposes but theres no adobe police... also u could probably argue that your making money off the sponcers not the product :) good luck reading that 900 pg book. i can email u a copy of a fairly good as3 book if you want. instructional reading sure is dull but we all gotta learn as3 soemtime. as for you bridge question... macromedia says:

Adobe® Bridge CS3 is a powerful, easy-to-use media manager for visual people, letting you easily organize, browse, locate, and view creative assets. Available in all six editions of Adobe Creative Suite® 3 software and all professional Adobe creative applications, Bridge provides centralized access to project files, applications, and settings, as well as XMP metadata tagging and searching capabilities.

Bridge also serves as a hub for these timesaving Adobe features and services:

* Bridge Home for developing expertise with Adobe tools
* Adobe Version Cue® CS3 for workgroup file management
* Adobe Device Central CS3 for previewing and testing mobile content
* Adobe Acrobat® Connect%u2122 for web conferencing

crushy

Yeah, it's a pretty great mixture of programs I have now :P I'm on page 80 or something of the AS3 book and its pretty good so far, slightly complicated but I'm still alive ^^

Cool, I find bridge just helps me navigate through my files quickly, I'm not organised enough to use it for anything else.

Thanks for the reply! I better get back to my homework now :[

Rudy

where's the games you got the money fromm...

crushy

On Newgrounds? :S

andy70707

Im not sure, but I think bridge is just something for organizing and combining stuff. I did the same as you and got the student version but of studio 8. I got flash, fireworks, and dreamweaver (the 3 I use most often) and a load of other stuff I never realy use like flashPaper, extension manager, video encoder, and contribute. I would like to swap any of them (exept flash, fireworks, and dreamweaver) for photoshop but you can't so Im just stuck with some programs I never use. I havent completely worked out what extension manager and contribute are, I never use video encoder as I have a better one, and flashPaper is for converting microsoft office stuff into flash, but I never use it as I have the real flash.

crushy

Yeah, there's a whole range of stuff I barely use too, I guess some people are using it though. If you had bought it now, you would have gotten Illustrator/Photoshop instead of Fireworks, not too sure if its a vector or bitmap program though.

Senti

Nice man. Enjoy CS3! I know I do...

How much did you make in total for how many games?

...just curious.

crushy

$2700 for two games.

Yeah, CS3 certainly beats any of the older packages, I especially like the highly dynamic windows and layout which you can change easily.

Thanks for the comment :)

voidshatter

adobe bridge is for searching for professional photographers photos to be used "at a price"

crushy

Meh... google images ftw!

FlukeDude

How much was it in total?

crushy

About £500 if I remember correctly, not too sure exactly though :S

voidshatter

wait, i just opened up bridge and its more of a huge storage for HELP on all the other programs

crushy

Hmmm, it appears your right :D

ThePigeonMaster

I only have Flash CS3 and my computer science teachertold me if I wanted photoshop too! But I said no because I thought I wouldn't need it in my flashes!
...But I was wrong...
=(

crushy

Shucks... Well, at least you can still do things like bitmap fills.etc in flash. The filters are a lot better too! Anywho, good luck, you don't need too many programs yet, it's more of a luxury than a necessity.

ThePigeonMaster

For what is the dreamweaver and the InDesign?
Haven't heard of them.
=s

crushy

Dreamweaver is a pretty popular program used for making websites, I've certainly used it in the past and present for my site .etc.

InDesign is kind of like Microsofts Publisher, you can make leaflets, posters and even book designs with it.

Zergzealot

sdtseteasmfnsiohyjetui

crushy

Couldn't agree more.

mayoarm11

niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

crushy

Thanksssssssssss

Achilles2

Get that paper BOOOOOOOIIIIII

That American slang for:

"GET THOSE STERLINGS OL' CHAP!"

But seriously, that premium package sounds like a good deal. That "How to cheat in Flash" book sounds like it'll be pretty helpful. I personally wouldn't buy the Actionscript book, but then again I don't want to learn Actionscript and you do.

crushy

It was a cool deal :P

The as3 is bloody complicated for a noobfest like me, I'm slowly learning more and more though ^^

snuffyindustries

Essential AS3 is a good book, long but good, i suggest readin it twice or more.
Oh yeah it's Colin Moock =P

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