# Recommend an advanced Adobe CS5 book? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 5, 2012, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-advanced-adobe-cs5-book/614785 "2012-03-05T04:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
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(Mods, please feel free to move this to Cafe Society if it’s more appropriate there) Can you recommend a good advanced book (or series of books) on Adobe’s CS5 suite, especially Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign? I last looked a couple of years or so ago when CS5 first came out, but the books then were all tailored towards beginners. I think a number of advanced titles have come out since then and I wanted to see if anyone has experience with them. ---
**Author:** ![tavalla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tavalla/32/89_2.png) [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2012, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-an-advanced-adobe-cs5-book/614785/2 "2012-03-05T07:37:02Z")
There’s a ‘Classroom in a Book’ series that Adobe produce about their own products. I picked up the CS4 version for Premiere a while back and found it pretty useable. ---
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Those were the first books I tried and I found them quite lacking. Covered the basics but not much else.