Software Essentials for Graphic Designers; Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Acrobat

"A guide to the seven leading software programs in graphic design, presenting the essential basics that students and professionals need on a day-to-day basis to use Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Acrobat, including: seven chapters that focus on a separate program and familiarize the user with the screen, menus, windows, tools, navigation system, and basic procedures specific to each piece of software; overviews of all the software applications and descriptions of how they interact with one another, and features a full glossary of terms; information on such wider aspects of digital technology as color management and printing processes; and instructions in both Mac and PC formats."--BOOK JACKET.

Mark Gatter is the founder of Whole Page Graphics, a graphic website design company, and the author of Getting It Right in Print: A Guide for Graphic Designers, a guide to commercial printing processes.