#Adobe indesign classroom in a book update#

I WOULD NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE I LIKE. To deal with my anger and frustration, I repeatedly slammed the spine of the open book against my desk so hard that the pages began to fall out. In a moment of extreme frustration, I went into meltdown. I actually wrecked my CIB InDesign book after 5 weeks of attempting to complete assignments where I was spending hours trying to figure out what the heck I was supposed to be doing. The exercises do not give you the necessary conceptual framework to make the most of Adobe programs. I'm a native English speaker and I'm not stupid. I've NEVER completed an assignment within the predicted time frame. In my experience, a 1 hour exercise will typically run 3-7 hours.

I learn way more from the videos than I ever learn from the Adobe books.Įach chapter begins with a summary telling you how long the exercises in it will supposedly take. I find myself watching YouTube tutorials so I can complete my CIB homework assignments. I do much better when I can watch a demo. I spend HOURS AND HOURS trying to complete my Adobe Id, Ai and Ps homework because of the unnecessarily confusing CIB books. As someone new to Adobe software, I don't have a clue about the 'logic' of the way things work or the way the tools are organized, so it's extremely difficult for me to figure out how something might work.

#Adobe indesign classroom in a book update#

Adding to the confusion, some of the pictures in the book do not correspond to the screen results when you actually do follow the instructions precisely, so you don't know if you didn't get the expected results because you missed a step or if it's because Adobe didn't update their documentation. The pictures in the book often don't give a clue where the tool or function is located on your screen. The instructions are vague, so if you happen to miss a step (something that happens frequently), you can spend hours trying to figure out what you did wrong. I find this book (along with ALL the other Adobe Classroom in a Book books) to be EXTREMELY frustrating to use. I have the 2021 versions of the Adobe programs and the 2021 versions of CIB. I'm using this for book a college level InDesign class.