-- Accessible guides that teach the important principles behind illustrating basic images on a computer are few in number.

-- The author, a seasoned professional computer cartoonist, will cover the fundamental techniques and tools that will allow readers to create digital illustrations through step-by-step examples.

-- A bundled CD-ROM will include Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator trial versions, plus a host of useful illustration plug-ins and filters to achieve professional effects!

The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to Computer Illustration explores the fundamentals behind creating fun and useful graphic illustrations with a computer. Readers will learn skills necessary to create bit map and vector drawings and bring them to life with graphic painting techniques. More advanced methods of filtering, layering and masking will also be taught through manipulating on-screen images. And finally, readers will also be shown how best to present their finished masterpiece through print, as published Web art or stored as an image file and sent as an attachment via e-mail!