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With over 22 million paid members for Creative Cloud and growing, we often get this question from readers: "What's a good book to get started with the most popular Adobe tools?" While there are a lot of great CC books for sale on Amazon, why not begin with an excellent title that's available to everyone for free, and that you can download instantly?

Over the years, we've compiled a collection of over 30 free books that you can download and use for learning all of Adobe's different creative tools… But there's one volume that always stands out as a favorite – and even better, it has just been republished in a brand new expanded edition for the CC 2021 tools.

So if you're just getting going with (or would like a solid primer covering) the core Creative Cloud design tools, then what better than a step-by-step guide that will teach you the essentials of Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Adobe XD from the ground up?

So here it is: the very helpful "Adobe Design Basics" that will give you all of this for free, courtesy of author Professor Thomas Payne… The book works by intro­ducing and explain­ing the tools in a logical way that builds upon what is previ­ously learned. These apps present a vast array of options that can be over­whelming to the new user. This book makes sense of it all, not showing how every­thing works, but instead giving a found­ation and a path to learn about all those controls and what they can do for you.

The 13 chapters in this book (detailed below) look a bit like tutorials. As with tutorials, you work in the programs as you follow along with the reading content. But unlike tutorials, the steps here present the informa­tion in a way that is geared to having you actually learn the material (called "working lessons"), not just a list of steps to get something that looks decent.

You can download the e-book in PDF format after signing in with your Adobe ID (which is easy to create if you don't already have one). The full book file is about 5 MB in size and fast to grab:

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If you don't have the software yet, you can download a free working trial of any 2021 product for either Windows or macOS (or try the whole Creative Cloud) – then install, run, and start your training…

If you're interested in Lightroom or Dreamweaver too, then you should know that Professor Payne also has great free books on Lightroom, Photoshop & Photography and on Dreamweaver as well.

These books are written with a Macintosh in mind, but with the change of a few keys they can easily be used with the Windows versions of these apps. Knowing that the Mac Command key is the same as the Windows Control key, and the Mac Option key is the same as Windows Alt key is just about all you need to know.

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Since it is essential to work while reading, the book's pages have been optimized to read on a portable device. If you are using an iPad or tablet, you can view it with two pages side by side or vertically page by page. With a smart­phone, this book can be read with the phone in the hori­zontal orientation. If you need to read these pages on a computer, use a different system or monitor than the one you are working on to avoid having to switch back and forth on the same screen.

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                      Table of Contents            Preface . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii            1  The Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1            2  Illustrator Basics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9            3  Illustrator Paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33            4  Illustrator Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53            5  Photoshop Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73            6  Photoshop Layers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101            7  Images to Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115            8  InDesign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133            9  XD . . . . . . . . . .  . . . . . . . . . . . . 161            10  The Right Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169            11  More Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179            12  More Photoshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189            13  More InDesign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197                                          

And to continue learning, don't miss dozens more free books for many Adobe products, covering recent versions of all major applications… This large collec­tion includes the official Adobe user manuals, which are comprehensive in size and scope!

If you prefer video training instead (or in addition), then check out all the free courses and sessions from the recent MAX conference on many different tools and topics here: 120 Hours of Training and Tutorials from MAX.

See Also

• What are the differences between Adobe CC vs. CS6?
• Download free Adobe books (choose over 30 titles)
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• How to join Adobe's Creative Cloud for free

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