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

by Mark Gatter

• ISBN13: 9780300118001
• ISBN10: 0300118007
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-28
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

"A guide to the seven leading software programs in graphic design, presenting the essential basics that students and professionals need on a day-to-day basis to use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Acrobat, including: seven chapters that focus on a separate program and familiarize the user with the screen, menus, windows, tools, navigation system, and basic procedures specific to each piece of software; overviews of all the software applications and descriptions of how they interact with one another, and features a full glossary of terms; information on such wider aspects of digital technology as color management and printing processes; and instructions in both Mac and PC formats."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Mark Gatter is the founder of Whole Page Graphics, a graphic website design company, and the author of Getting It Right in Print: A Guide for Graphic Designers, a guide to commercial printing processes.

Table of Contents

Introduction	4	(6)
Adobe Photoshop	10	(40)
The Photoshop Environment	12	(4)
The Selection Tools	16	(5)
The Painting Tools	21	(6)
Image-adjustment Tools	27	(5)
Using Layers	32	(6)
Using Masks	38	(3)
More Techniques	41	(5)
Web Tools	46	(4)
Adobe Illustrator	50	(26)
The Illustrator Environment	52	(5)
The Toolbox, Part I	57	(8)
Working with Colour	65	(3)
The Toolbox, Part II	68	(4)
Working with Images	72	(1)
More Techniques	73	(2)
Saving Illustrator Files	75	(1)
Adobe InDesign	76	(34)
The InDesign Environment	78	(7)
The InDesign Toolbox	85	(2)
Working with Colour	87	(5)
Working with Text	92	(12)
Working with Images	104	(4)
More Techniques	108	(2)
QuarkXPress	110	(32)
The Quark Environment	112	(7)
The Toolbox	119	(2)
Working with Colour	121	(2)
Working with Text	123	(12)
Working with images	135	(3)
Utilities and Pre-Press	138	(3)
More Techniques	141	(1)
Macromedia Dreamweaver	142	(42)
The Dreamweaver Environment	144	(8)
Getting Started	152	(5)
Adding Page Content	157	(4)
Adding Links	161	(7)
Frames	168	(2)
More about Tables	170	(3)
Templates	173	(2)
Server-Side Includes (SSI)	175	(2)
Adding Behaviours	177	(3)
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)	180	(3)
Going `Live'	183	(1)
Macromedia Flash	184	(36)
The Flash Environment	186	(4)
The Toolbox	190	(6)
Basic Techniques	196	(3)
Animation	199	(5)
Working with Layers	204	(7)
Animated Graphics Symbols	211	(1)
Actions and Behaviours	212	(7)
Previewing and Saving	219	(1)
Adobe Acrobat	220	(12)
The Acrobat Environment	222	(2)
Generating PDF Documents from QuarkXPress	224	(1)
Generating PDF Documents from Adobe InDesign	225	(4)
Colour Management Settings (CMS)	229	(3)
Glossary	232	(4)
Index	236