| Somehow, the original software manuals are never enough, are they? They're either arcane, or a bit skimpy. And some of them appear to be written by engineers who are proud of the features, but who may have no idea how their software is used in the real world. Acrobat Adobe Acrobat 7 Tips and Tricks: The 150 Best by Donna Baker (Adobe Press, 2005) Adobe Acrobat 7 PDF Bible by Ted Padova (John Wiley and Sons, 2005) Adobe Acrobat 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by Jennifer Alspach (Peachpit Press, 2005) Adobe Reader 7 Revealed: Working Effectively with Acrobat PDF Files by Ted Padova (Adobe Press, 2005) Reviewing PDF Documents in Acrobat: Visual QuickProject Guide by Donna Baker (Peachpit Press, 2005)
Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Creative Suite 2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques by George Penston (Adobe Press, 2005) Real World Adobe Creative Suite 2 by Sandee Cohen, Steve Werner (Peachpit Press, 2006)
Freehand Macromedia FreeHand MX: Training from the Source by Patti Schulze (Macromedia Press, 2003) Macromedia FreeHand MX for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide by Sandee Cohen (Peachpit Press, 2003)
Illustrator Adobe Illustrator CS2 Revealed by Chris Botello (Course Technology, 2005) Real World Adobe Illustrator CS2 by Mordy Golding (Peachpit Press, 2005)
InDesign Exploring InDesign CS2 by Terry Rydberg (Thomson Delmar Learning, 2005) InDesign Type: Professional Typography with Adobe InDesign CS2 by Nigel French (Adobe Press, 2006) Real World InDesign CS2 by David Blatner, Olav Martin Kvern (Peachpit Press, 2006)
Photoshop Adobe Photoshop CS/CS2 Breakthroughs by David Blatner, Conrad Chavez (Peachpit Press, 2005) The Photoshop CS2 Help Desk Book by Dave Cross (Peachpit Press, 2005) Photoshop CS2: Up To Speed by Ben Willmore (Peachpit Press, 2005)
Photoshop Specialty Topics You would need to build an addition to your house to hold all of the books written about all the versions and the many aspects of Photoshop. But there are a few indispensable resources that can greatly improve your mastery of Photoshop in production. Real World Color Management, Second Edition, for example, is not devoted solely to Photoshop, but it's a classic on the topic of color management. Adobe Photoshop Restoration and Retouching, Third Edition by Katrin Eismann, Wayne Palmer (New Riders Press, 2005) Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace by Dan Margulis (Peachpit Press, 2005) Photoshop Masking and Compositing by Katrin Eismann (New Riders Press, 2004) Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction by Dan Margulis (John Wiley and Sons, 2002) Real World Color Management, Second Edition by Bruce Fraser, Chris Murphy, Fred Bunting (Peachpit Press, 2004)
QuarkXPress At this writing, there are no QuarkXPress 7.0 books to be found. Rest assured, they will start hatching soon. QuarkXPress 6 Bible by Galen Gruman, Barbara Assadi (John Wiley and Sons, 2003) Real World QuarkXPress 6 by David Blatner (Peachpit Press, 2003)
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