Each book in the popular Visual Quickstart Guide series uses a format in which illustrations predominate, to provide a fast, simple guide to help readers get up and running with a new program.

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to master Adobe PageMaker, fully updated to cover version 7.0. Classroom-in-a-book format teaches PageMaker in short, project-oriented lessons. This page layout program now offers loads of new features, including a new simplified workflow with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and added integration with popular business tools such as Microsoft Word, QuarkXPress, and more.

A visual guide to the features and functions of Adobe Photoshop explains how to alter or manipulate images with color, layers, text, light, filters, and masks.

"Classroom in a Book: Adobe PageMaker 6.5" is a cross-platform, self-paced training guide to all the power and features of the top-rated DTP software. In a matter of hours, users can fully comprehend the complexities of the software by "doing" rather than reading. The CD contains the art files, text files, fonts, and training materials needed to complete the tutorial lessons.

The Against the Clock series is ideal for any course that includes graphic arts software and computer design software as part of the curriculum. Courses can be found in Office Information Systems, Computer Science, and Fine Arts Departments, as well as Continuing Education, Journalism, and Printing and Lithography. With the advent of digital video cameras, high-speed hard drives, and ultra-fast processors, the reality of editing digital video, stills, and audio clips has become a reality. This ATC book focuses on the use and mastery of Adobe's Premiere, the most popular and powerful non-linear video editing suite. With dramatically improved audio features, built-in storyboarding editors, and highly-sophisticated editing tools, the program is challenging to learn. Adobe Premiere 6: Digital Video Editing adopts a sensible and well-thought-out approach to the task and provides the learner all the information they need to become an effective and skilled videographer.