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Shows students how to take advantage of the latest creative and productivity features built into the newest versions of Photoshop and Illustrator.
Relies on pedagogical techniques proven to help students learn more quickly and effectively.
Reflects the way graphics design students and professionals really work: switching between Photoshop and Illustrator to take advantage of each program's strengths.
Covers virtually every area where students will benefit from using Photoshop and Illustrator together.
Promotes student practice, experimentation, and deeper mastery.
Reflects the best and most productive techniques Adobe has either created or encountered as the hub of the worldwide Adobe community.
Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are two of the most widely-used and powerful image-editing and illustration programs available. Graphic designers, illustrators, artists, and Web gurus often turn to both products in tandem to create professional-quality graphics for print and the Web.
Design Essentials, which has been called "the Joy of Cooking for designers," is part tutorial, part inspirational resource for graphic designers and illustrators who are familiar with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and want to produce superb graphics. Perhaps you need to create text effects, patterns, textures, or transparent shadows? Look up the technique you want to learn, and this book leads you through the paces. Concise two-page spreads let readers digest the information quickly and easily--just follow the step-by-step text and four-color graphics. Readers will discover operations and techniques that open up new avenues of creativity.
Simulating Film Grain in Photoshop 7
(NOTE: Table of Contents not finalized at time of printing.)
1. Painting.
Painted paper illustrations. Tissue-paper mosaics. Painterly images. Digital paintings. Painting foliage. Color-tinted photographs. Outlined images. Neon graphics. Cast shadows. Gradients on a path. Stippling.
Custom borders. Drawing foliage. Quick 3-D boxes. 3-D packages. 3-D bar charts. Shaded spheres. Perspective grids in Photoshop. Perspective grids in Illustrator. Seals, stars, spheres, and links. Map symbols.
Simple patterns. Texture patterns. Illustrator pattern tiles in Photoshop. Marbled paper. Textured 3-D graphics.
Photos masked by type. Embossed type. Corroded type. Type with multiple outlines. Rainbow scratchboard type. Type on a circular path. Recessed type. 1960s poster type. Wet paint type. Chrome type.
Simulated film grain. Posterized photographs. Blended image layers. Scanned objects as masks. Reverse shapes. Filter combinations. Digital woodcuts. Warhol-style images. Flat graphics on curved images.