The Graphic Designer's Digital Toolkit

Wood (digital media, photography, and graphic design, Great Bay Community College, Manchester Community College, U. of New Hampshire, and DeVry U.) teaches high school and undergraduate students taking computer graphics applications, digital media, graphic design, and other courses, as well as professionals and business owners, the skills and techniques for using Adobe Photoshop for digital image editing, Adobe Illustrator for digital illustration, and Adobe InDesign for digital desktop publishing. He uses projects to illustrate what a designer might be asked to produce and also introduces Macintosh OS X Lion and Windows 7 computer operations, terminology, and design elements, principles, typography, imagery, and color concepts. This edition incorporates new functions, tools, techniques, and panels used in illustrator CS6, InDesign CS6, and Photoshop CS6; Adobe CS6 Suite functions like the Application bar for tabbed documents, new darker interface in Photoshop and Illustrator, community online help and support center, and using smart guides for increasing productivity; and improvements in Adobe Bridge and Camera RAW. It has updated artwork and projects; updated navigation through the Windows 7 desktop; new images, tutorials, and projects; and additional projects, tutorials, handouts, and other learning tools online. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)