Overview
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 lay-flat book leads you through the paces. Concise two-page spreads let readers digest the information quickly and easilyQjust follow the step-by-step text and four-color graphics. Readers will discover operations and techniques that open up new avenues of creativity.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewIf you use Photoshop and Illustrator together to create traditional graphic or photographic effects, you will adore Design Essentials for Adobe Photoshop 7 and Illustrator 10, Fourth Edition, by Luanne Seymour Cohen. She’s compiled a cornucopia of quick, reliable, how-to recipes for painting, drawing, working with patterns and textures, using text effects, and creating special effects. Each one’s presented step-by-step in color, with a gorgeous full-page image of the finished project. Since many of these techniques are presented with variants, Cohen has squeezed literally hundreds of solutions into this compact book.
So what are you in the mood to do? How about a painted paper illustration? A tissue-paper mosaic? Foliage? Sepia toning? Fake Warhol? Fake Seurat? Composites that look like one authentic image? Gradients on a path for neon tubes? Stippling? 3D boxes? Perspective grids? Posterized photos? Digital woodcuts? Blended Type masks? Type that’s corroded -- or, maybe, recessed? Map symbols? Pattern tiles? Want to superimpose a flat logo on a round image (say, a cup)? Or maybe create marbled paper? (Photoshop 7’s new Liquify feature is super for this.)
We hesitated to use the word “recipe” to describe what’s in here. These aren’t mere formulas: They’re inspirations. Bill Camarda
Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks For Dummies®, Second Edition.