The Adobe Creative Suite is the bundle of tools used by millions of graphic designers in print and web production. It includes Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge, Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Knowing exactly where to find things saves any designer precious hours, too often spent scrolling through menu bars and palettes. Great Graphic Design in Half the Time is a very practical, quick reference handbook packed with hundreds of handy pointers on how best to save time on graphic design without cutting corners. This is the definitive one-stop technical answer shop for graphic designers at all levels, whether just starting out or with years of experience. It combines best-practice methods with common and lesser-known shortcuts all designed to help find those precious extra minutes when working to a deadline. The contents of this book are organized according to the amount of time likely to be saved by each tip. Screengrabs, diagrams, icons, and color coding all enable quick and easy navigation through the book, so that these crucial time saving tips are always at your fingertips..* Full color screenshots, diagrams, icons, sync with the UI * Includes tabs, icons and cross-referencing tools to speed navigation * Covers the entire Adobe CS including Acrobat, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Bridge, Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks

Graphic Design to Beat the Clock: Time-saving software secrets, online resources, and desktop tips

Arts & Photography

Beale, Stephen

Graphic Design

Focal Press

Guide to Desktop Publishing

Cavuoto, James

Cavuto

Graphic Arts Technical Fndtn

The scanner book: A complete guide to the use and applications of desktop scanners

Micro Pub. Co

Here is the first users' guide to the most popular device for quality production of desktop-created publications. This book offers invaluable advice for those who want to achieve optimal quality with their text and images. It contains the latest intelligence on electronic imaging and a comprehensive discussion of working with PostScript files and how to get quality font reproduction.

Linotronic Imaging Handbook: The Desktop Publisher's Guide to High-Quality Text and Images

Micro Pub Pr

A comprehensive guide to the use and modification of color images using PhotoFinish. This guide tells readers everything they need to get the most from PhotoFinish. It takes them step by step through typical image-editing operations, from scanning to retouching to final output. It provides extensive information on the use of PhotoFinish with illustrations and desktop publishing.

Color Image Editing With Photofinish

Computers & Technology

In 1989, The Scanner Book helped countless computer users learn about the use and applications of desktop scanners. Now the authors are back with The Color Scanner Book, which brings you up-to-date on the latest technology for capturing high-quality images on the desktop. In informative, yet easy-to-read prose, the authors tell you how to get the most from your scanner and the many software packages that work with scanned images. Beginning with a description of the different kinds of scanners available and how they work, the authors go on to describe how images can be captured, modified, and used in many ways you may not have even thought of. The book includes dozens of practical scanning tips and informative graphics. It covers both Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows applications. Whether you're an experienced user or just starting out, this book is for you.

The Color Scanner Book

Describing plug-ins that extend the capabilities of Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, and other popular graphics programs, this guide covers both well-known and little-known plug-ins. Readers will quickly learn how to use plug-ins to become more productive and create their own plug-ins to maximize their favorite applications.

Plug-In Power: Energize Your Graphics Software With Add-In Utilities

Crisis Intervention and Crisis Management: Strategies That Work in Schools and Communities

This is the definitive one-stop technical answer shop for graphic designers at all levels, whether just starting out or with years of experience. It combines best-practice methods with common and lesser-known shortcuts all designed to help find those precious extra minutes when working to a deadline. Screengrabs, diagrams, icons, and color coding all enable quick and easy navigation through the book, so that these crucial time saving tips are always at your fingertips.Knowing exactly where to find things saves any designer precious hours, too often spent scrolling through menu bars and palettes. The book begins with keyboard shortcuts, widgets, and batch actions that are guaranteed to spare a few seconds each time they're used. The next section moves on to outline the quickest ways to navigate software, desktops, and scripts and plugins, all of which will save about a minute each. The third section shows the reader how customized settings that suit their particular working practices can save anything from a few minutes to an hour of a design process. Also included here are a host of online resources for matching and identifying colors, fonts, and print specs, ideal answers to save a designer valuable time spent in online searches for the most authoritative advice. The final section of this book provides a range of best-practice advice such as setting up style-sheets, files, and print presets, all of which can save designers hours, if not days otherwise spent cleaning up files before they go to print.

Great Graphic Design In Half The Time

A&C Black Visual Arts

Web Tricks and Techniques: Photo Manipulation : Fast Solutions for Hands-On Web Design

In the realm of traditional photography, designers create perfect images that require time and painstaking effort to refine. But on the Web - a medium which requires a much lower level of image quality - there is room for cutting corners and saving time. This step-by-step guide looks at 60 time-saving tricks, all executed using Photoshop software, for manipulating photographs on the Web. The book shows how to achieve a variety of effects such as removing portions of images, creating painterly effects, and combining several images into one.

Rockport Pub

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