The seamless interaction between the various applications in Adobe Creative Suite 5 makes it easier than ever to create professional designs. This book provides a solid foundation in the three most popular software titles — Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. The ten projects in this book were designed to represent the range of jobs likely to be encountered during a professional career in graphic design. The step-by-step exercises are intended to simulate a realistic workflow while you learn to:

• Customize workspace settings to enhance your productivity regardless of the job specifications.
• Define appropriate file dimensions, resolution, and compression settings for a variety of file types.
• Use Photoshop’s powerful controls for correcting colors, adjusting lighting, and repairing other types of visual damage in your images.
• Use Illustrator’s toolset to combine, edit, and transform primitive shapes to create complex vector-based illustrations.
• Add unique, eye-catching, colorful effects by compositing and manipulating raster images, vector objects, and text elements to create unified, cohesive designs.
• Create unique artistic effects using a variety of filters, adjustments, brushes, patterns.
• Save files with appropriate settings and formats for various distribution methods.