-- Veteran Adobe author Luanne Cohen shows readers how to combine Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to create superb graphics, textures, patterns, and more.

-- Step-by-step approach and two-page layout can be used as both tutorial and inspirational resource.

-- Cross-platform for both Macintosh and Windows users.

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 easily-just follow the step-by-step text and four-color graphics. Readers will discover operations and techniques that open up new avenues of creativity.