Today’s graphic software options have grown in size and complexity to become substantial packages crowded with minute details and innumerable options. These programs―and the immense instructional volumes that accompany them―can be extremely daunting to both newcomers and experienced designers, as it is often difficult to identify those tools and methods that are specifically relevant to graphic design. Software Essentials for Graphic Designers provides the fundamental aspects of the six premier programs in a beautifully packaged, easy-to-use format. Written by Mark Gatter for a graphic design audience, this book presents the significant features from Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, Dreamweaver, and Flash. Gatter demonstrates the specific purposes of the individual programs; the essential tools and methods of each; how to use their technologies and integrate them into the design process; why to use one program over another in different circumstances; how to import and export files in a variety of formats; and the ways the programs interact with one another and to what effect. Accompanied by illustrations showing on-screen menus, tools, and palettes, along with a CD-ROM (formatted for both Mac and PC) that features exercises and demonstrations in all six applications, this book will serve as a superb reference for both students and professional graphic designers.

Software Essentials for Graphic Designers: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Acrobat

Arts & Photography

Gatter, Mark

Graphic Design

Yale University Press

A guide for designers on how to prepare brochures, posters, magazines, and other graphical works for high-quality printing discusses how to calibrate images and layouts to match press specifications, in a resource that covers such topics as digital layout, image-management software, and money-saving proof fixes. Original. 10,000 first printing.

Getting it Right in Print: Digital Prepress for Graphic Designers

Harry N. Abrams

This book gives graphic designers the confidence to do everything necessary to ensure trouble-free, high-qualityprintingto calibrate images; adjust trapping levels; and mix colors that wont print as something that is a complete surprise. It explains scanning and resolution, and discusses good and bad image formats, describing techniques to make images look good in print. There is advice on how to get accurate quotes from a printer, a checklist to use when sending a job to print, and a glossary of print production terms.

Production for Print (Portfolio Skills)

Laurence King Publishing

A polytunnel can be used as an affordable, low-carbon aid to growing your own food all year round, and this manual looks at all aspects of using a polytunnel, from planning your purchase to harvesting the rewards. It includes a step-by-step guide detailing how polytunnels are constructed and maintained. There are chapters on developing healthy soil and preventing pests, and a jargon-free guide to the range of often mystifying accessories that many tunnel retailers offer. For the DIY enthusiast, there is a full set of instructions for building a polytunnel from scratch, and the authors explain how to keep your polytunnel productive in every season.

The Polytunnel Handbook

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

McKee, Andy

Gardening & Landscape Design

Green Books

With all the information you need to use your polytunnel to its full potential, this book shows make the most of this precious covered space. It includes a detailed crop-by-crop guide to the growing year, dedicated chapters on growing for each season, and a sowing and harvesting calendar to help with planning. You'll be harvesting fresh crops all year round—sweet potatoes and late celery in November; winter radish, baby carrots, and celeriac in early February; and salad leaves right through the winter. Even during the “hungry gap” you'll have a choice of new potatoes, pak choi, peas, tender cabbages, beetroot, and more with the help of this essential guide.

How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel: All year round