Covering Photoshop, InDesign, QuarkXPress and more, this updated edition provides relevant and practical step-by-step guides to understanding and harnessing the power of your computer to create professional, appealing and engaging projects. Ideal for students and junior professionals alike who want to produce captivating designs and become better graphic designers fast!

Produced by the experts at MacUser magazine and containing over 190 pages of updated information about new design package as well as help, advice, workshops and hints to becoming a better designer, this MagBook is the ultimate reference for anyone in the industry looking to acquire new skills and gain inspirational ideas.

With fully illustrated tutorials across key design programs and techniques, you'll not only learn how to create convincing rain effects using Photoshop, generate isometric projections vital for generating eye-catching 3D-designs and create realistic torn notepaper, you'll also improve your ideas, and most importantly your design skills.

Techniques covered include: layering styles to create 3D effects, mastering bézier curves in InDesign, QuarkXPress, and Illustrator, using Adobe's liquify filter, creating PDFs, working from Raw images and creating customised maps, using InDesign CS4 and much more. Make sure you also download our other MagBooks - The Independent Guide to the iPad, The Independent Guide to the iPad, The Independent Guide to the iPod, The Independent Guide to the iPhone and the Independent Guide to the iPhone. The MacUser magazine app is also available on the App store (search ""MacUser""), for 116 pages of Apple and Mac news, reviews and labs each fortnight