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THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO CSS AND HTML WEB DESIGN
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Graphic design software
Adobe Photoshop (www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/) is a Mac and Windows application
that??™s pretty much ubiquitous in the print design world. Immensely powerful and
surprisingly user-friendly once you get to grips with the interface, more recent versions
have provided a number of tools geared toward web designers, including a decent Save
for Web function. Now part of the same suite as Dreamweaver, Photoshop integrates with
the popular web design application, and if you can afford it, the application is pretty much
unbeatable for bitmap editing.
Adobe Photoshop Elements (www.adobe.com/products/photoshopel) is also available for
Mac and Windows, and is a cut-down consumer-oriented version of Photoshop. Although
not as feature-rich as its bigger brother, Elements nonetheless has enough useful tools to
warrant purchase for any designer on a tight budget. Note that the Mac and Windows versions
of Elements are significantly different in terms of feature set, with the Mac version
lacking a number of the extras from the Windows version (although many of those deal
with asset organization, a task iPhoto can deal with on Mac OS X).
Adobe Fireworks (www.adobe.com/products/fireworks/) is a Mac and Windows application
formerly part of Macromedia??™s suite of web design tools. Previously something of a
web-focused rival to Photoshop, Adobe has repositioned Fireworks as a tool primarily
aimed at rapidly working up mockups of websites.
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