Design Essentials: Professional Studio Techniques - Softcover

Cohen, Luanne Seymour

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568304722 ISBN 13: 9781568304724

Publisher: Adobe Pr, 1999

Synopsis

Furnishes new and exciting techniques for creating graphics with Photoshop and Illustrator; explains essential procedures such as painterly images, dashed lines, 3-dimensional charts, and seamless patterns; and helps users to unleash their maximum creativity. Original. (Intermediate).

About this title

Review:

Written for business professionals and graphic-design beginners, Design Essentials focuses on developing intermediate skills using Photoshop and Illustrator to achieve more-than-basic results in various image-editing and image-creation tasks. The third edition of this book, while updated for Photoshop 5 and Illustrator 8, retains the handsome four-color layout with screen shots placed alongside clear, simple step-by-step instructions for each task in the book.

Design Essentials will show you how to set up your system's memory specs, manage fonts, optimize your software, and avoid unnecessary memory constraints. Divided into six sections, the book concentrates on related areas of software use and visual design to help you make the most of your time spent using these Adobe products.

A typical section breakdown can be understood by looking at Section I, which shows you how to draw lines and work with perspective; you create line effects, shapes with outlines, shaded spheres, and perspective grids. Other sections in the book focus on painting style techniques, patterning and texturing, text manipulation, filters, and Web-related tasks. --Kathleen Caster

From the Back Cover:

Design Essentials provides exciting and innovative techniques for creating graphics with Photoshop and Illustrator. In the groundbreaking Essentials format, it presents professional-quality results in step-by-step format and helps the you develop the skills to achieve these results. Design Essentials explains vital procedures such as painterly images, dashed lines, 3-dimensional charts, and seamless patterns. Design Essentials opens up a world of design options for you to draw from. By combining the productivity of Adobe's most exciting design programs, you'll learn to use your tools together for maximum creativity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Adobe Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1568304722
• ISBN 13: 9781568304724
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 122