Description:
This well-designed, full-color book shows you how to combine Adobe Photoshop, the bitmap-image editor, and Adobe Illustrator, the vector-image editor, to produce professional-level artwork. The writer presents advice and examples from several artists to show you, step by step, how to achieve various effects using these popular tools. Photoshop and Illustrator Studio Secrets describes how to use Illustrator images in Photoshop and vice versa. The author also explains how to use Macromedia FreeHand, another vector program, with Photoshop. There's even introductory material on using Photoshop and Illustrator with third-party plug-ins and with other graphics tools such as Adobe PageMaker, MetaTools Painter and Bryce, Macromedia FreeHand and Dimensions, QuarkXPress, and more. The last half of the book focuses on hands-on projects in which you learn how to use Illustrator and Photoshop to trace photos, create logos and interesting type, produce layouts, and apply 3-D effects and textures. The companion hybrid CD-ROM offers demo versions of Illustrator, Photoshop, Painter 5, Extensis plug-ins, and more.
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