Learn to refine, optimize, and prepare Web graphics with Adobe's new graphicsproduction tool.

Image Ready for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Computers & Technology

Alspach, Ted

Programming

Peachpit Pr

Demonstrates the desktop publishing program's basic features while explaining how to integrate other Adobe applications, manipulate text and images, layout pages, and create books, Web pages, and PDF files

PageMaker 6.5 Plus for Windows, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Software

A guide covering both Windows and Macintosh explains how to create PDF's, customize navigation and formatting, and design interactive forms

PDF with Acrobat 4 (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Alspach, Jennifer

Acrobat 3 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide is a friendly, jargon-free guide for anyone who wants to learn to take full advantage of this flexible file format. The logical, step-by-step instructions and extensive illustrations provide new users with the skills they need to get the most out of Acrobat. Experienced Acrobat users will use the book as a handy reference to this version's new features, including support for forms and buttons, and enhanced performance for use on the Web.

Acrobat 3 for Macintosh and Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Operating Systems

Don't have the time or artistic skills to design business documents from scratch? The latest update of PageMaker, PageMaker 6.5 Plus, adds hundreds of professionally designed templates to its impressive list of tools. To help you get the most out of this upgrade, PageMaker 6.5 Plus for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide shows you how to use and customize these templates to create your own professional-looking pieces. 
Even if you've never "designed" anything more complicated than a business letter, you'll soon be creating newsletters, brochures, print ads, and more, thanks to the book's clear, step-by-step explanations and hundreds of illustrations. Design tips sprinkled throughout the pages will help you turn out polished work, whether you need to pull together a flyer for the company picnic or produce a complete corporate identity system for your small business.

PageMaker 6.5 for Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Graphics & Design

PageMaker 6.5 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide is the easiest way for newcomers to learn the basics of PageMaker and the fastest way for experienced users to get up to speed with all the new features of Version 6.5. For beginners, the book covers PageMaker basics, such as creating a document, setting preferences, working with type and graphics, defining and using styles, placing images, working with Photoshop and Illustrator, and more. Experienced PageMaker users will use the Visual QuickStart Guide to learn all the new keyboard shortcuts, as well as the new features, such as using document-wide layers, automatic layout adjustment, the enhanced polygon tool, and new color publishing options. All users will be excited by the online publishing features including a hyperlinks palette, support for electronic delivery in HTML format and in Adobe PDF format, and automatic reformatting of documents for online viewing.

PageMaker 6.5 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Explains how photo and image editing is made easy for the non-professional graphics user through the use of PhotoDeluxe, a dual platform for Windows and Mac operating systems, in a guidebook that also features project design ideas for creating professional looking personalized projects. Original. (Beginner).

Photodeluxe 2 for Windows & Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guide)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Adobe PageMaker 7.0 delivers the features you've asked for: seamless integration with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, the ability to merge text and images from database and spreadsheet applications, and ways to view and create PDFs--and even open and edit QuarkXPress documents--directly in PageMaker, to name just a few. PageMaker 7.0 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide takes you step-by-step through these and all the other key features of this award-winnning page-layout stalwart. 
Novices and pros alike will find this an indispensable guide to the latest version of PageMaker. If you're new to the program--or to page layout entirely--you can start with PageMaker basics: its desktop environment, creating a new document, and working with layouts, margins, and palettes. You'll never get lost in dense text or jargon. The book's clear, concise directions and plentiful screenshots ensure that you stay on track. Those who've worked with previous versions of PageMaker can use the page tabs to delve into more advanced topics, like the intricacies of type management, working with graphics, and putting the finishing touches on files for output in print or on the Web.

PageMaker 7 for Windows & Macintosh

Peachpit Press

Adobe insider Ted Alspach helps you unlock the power of CS3 The new CS3 version of Illustrator is light years beyond previous versions, and whether you're a novice or veteran designer, you'll want to get quickly up to speed on this powerful new tool. With clear explanations and plenty of examples, Adobe insider Ted Alspach reveals the secrets on how to best use Illustrator CS3 for Web graphics, integrate it with the rest of the Creative Suite, work in 3D—and above all, why it's such a radical step up from CS2. Tap the power of Illustrator CS3 for your projects with this in-depth guide from an industry expert. <ul>
<li>Use Live Color to get color options you never had before</li> <li> Integrate Illustrator CS3 seamlessly with Photoshop and Flash </li> <li> Quickly start new documents with preset profiles </li> <li> Work easily with transparency, fonts, styles, and effects </li> <li> Get more out of Illustrator with hundreds of tips and tricks </li> <li> Learn about scripting and Web graphics generation for online design </li> </ul>
Customize the Illustrator workspace Generate color sets with Live Color Create graphics for the Web

Illustrator CS3 Bible

Graphic Design

wiley

The ultimate comprehensive guide to everything from drawing basics to advanced techniques 
<ul>
<li>Adobe expert Ted Alspach reveals the latest on Illustrator CS4’s new features and thoroughly explains how to integrate Illustrator with the rest of Creative Suite 4</li> <li>Teaches you step-by-step how to create designs that work beautifully, whether in print or online</li> <li>Covers the basics of drawing, painting, coloring, and uncoloring</li> <li>Offers essential tips for mastering paths, masks, blends, patterns, transparency, and type</li> <li>Introduces you to enhanced Smart Guides and a new Crop Area tool</li> <li>Demonstrates how to work in multiple pages with CS4’s new Artboard tool</li> <li>Packed with practical tips and tricks to improve designs and conquer the Web with scripts and online design techniques</li> </ul>

Illustrator CS4 Bible

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