As a prerequisite for my “History of Illustrated Texts” course here at FSU , I am asked to display proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud. Seeing as I’m new to the application, I thought it would be a great idea to catalogue my time with the Lynda.com introductory course. For the uninitiated, Adobe creative is a collection of software offered by Adobe, spanning from the creative suite to the base word processor. Right off the bat, the features that solidify Lynda for me are the offline and transcript functionalities that all but ensure my experience remains seamless. It’s nitpicky, sure, but a great quality of life feature that many of these “how-to” video series sorely lack; seeing as they don’t cater to different learning speeds. The course is divided into 6 chapters with a supplementary 7 th detailing the functions of a mobile app. Chapters 1-3 delve into the UI interface—save types, user permits, creative web files, and so forth--and social functi...
