The Graphic Designer's Digital Toolkit

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 576 pages
• Published by: Delmar Cengage Learning
• Edition: 3rd Edition January 23, 2008
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1428359850
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1428359857
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 2.8 pounds

Product Description
Being a successful graphic designer today requires more than knowing the essential features of industry-standard software applications. It also requires an understanding of how to integrate these programs into a seamless whole while producing work that conforms to design principles and client expectations. This fully revised edition of The Graphic Designer's Digital Toolkit, 3rd Edition provides a full-color, comprehensive overview of Macintosh OS X and Windows Vista operating systems, design fundamentals, and the "Big 3" digital design programs used in the graphics industry today: Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Photoshop CS3, and Adobe InDesign CS3. The book looks at the essential features of each, then reveals in practical detail the skills and technology necessary for effective design for print and Web Media. This project-based book features a highly visual introduction to the essential tools and functions of each application from the perspective of the working designer. Readers are then given the opportunity to put what they learn to work by tackling design projects from concept to completion with assignments drawn from the everyday world of professional graphic designers.

Book Info
Text provides an overview of the 'big three' digital design programs used in industry today: Illustrator, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress. looks at in detail how to merge the results of these programs into good, workable design. Softcover. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Graphic Designer's Digital Toolkit (General Interest) (Paperback) I bought this as a textbook for a college course. While the intro to Mac was helpful, and the author sets up and goes through real-life type projects in a logical manner, the many errors in the book interfere with learning. For example, the reader is told to press 'm' to access the move tool when pressing 'm' really accesses the marquee tool. Often when the examples are worked step-by-step they don't look like the finished product as shown in the book, especially when using text. Overall disappointing. And I've only gone through the Photoshop part so far. I would have given them 3 stars if there was an errata page online that could help me. But there's not.