Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book [Paperback]

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Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201756242 | ISBN-13: 978-0201756241 | Publication Date: February 11, 2002

Illustrator has long since grown from simple illustration tool to full-fledged graphics package. So don't waste time groping your way throughIllustrator 10's deep tool kit. Pick up Adobe Illustrator 10 Classroomin a Book, a thorough, self-paced guide to the key features of theprogram, developed by the staff at Adobe and packed full of professionaltechniques and tips.

Adobe Illustrator 10 Classroom in a Book delivers what no other bookcan promise: official training from Adobe, tested in the company's ownclassrooms and labs. This comprehensive workbook is structured as a seriesof lessons, with a companion CD containing all the necessary files. Eachchapter is a hands-on project, and each project builds on your growingknowledge of Illustrator. Review questions wrap up every lesson toreinforce the concepts you've just put into practice. With Adobe Illustrator 10 Classroom in a Book, you'll learn how to manipulate type, blend colors, apply special effects, and prepare your work forprinting and other output in record time.

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From Library Journal

Virtual Classroom covers basic program features and techniques step by step, with helpful notes and shortcuts. Per the series, it also includes video lessons on a CD-ROM that show and expand on the techniques in the text. Adobe's official effort, Classroom in a Book starts with a quick tour of common functions and moves on to more detailed lessons on specific topics and techniques, such as creating web graphics and working with layers. The review questions and suggestions for further practice ending each chapter, as well as the CD's lesson art files, are useful self-study aids. QuickStart jumps right into the Illustrator interface, though it does so a bit messily at first. Other chapters, however, provide helpful illustrations and screen shots. This is better reference than self-study material readers can easily look up how to accomplish common tasks. Special Edition is more appropriate for intermediate to advanced users, spending extra time covering version 10's new features and advanced topics like dynamic data-driven graphics. Troubleshooting sections at the end of each chapter answer common questions. All of these titles are appropriate purchases for public libraries. Institutions owning version 9 guides should upgrade for coverage of 10's new features.
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Illustrator has long since grown from simple illustration tool to full-fledged graphics package. So don't waste time groping your way through Illustrator 10's deep tool kit. Pick up the Adobe Illustrator 10 Classroom in a Book, a thorough, self-paced guide to the key features of the program, developed by the staff at Adobe and packed full of professional techniques and tips.

Adobe Illustrator 10 Classroom in a Book delivers what no other book can promise: official training from Adobe, tested in the company's own classrooms and labs. This comprehensive workbook is structured as a series of lessons, with a companion CD containing all the necessary files. Each chapter is a hands-on project, and each project builds on your growing knowledge of Illustrator. Review questions wrap up every lesson to reinforce the concepts you've just put into practice. With this book, you'll learn how to manipulate type, blend colors, apply special effects, and prepare your work for printing and other output in record time.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 528 pages
• Publisher: Adobe Press (February 11, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201756242
• ISBN-13: 978-0201756241
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #532,869 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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86 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars More helpful if less errors, June 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

I've used Class Room in a Book series before but with better success. Unfortunately, I would have rated this Illustrator 10 book higher if not for the critical errors and omissions in the book and included CD which caused many waisted hours. The first pages inacurately describe where the AICIB file is located and what special steps are needed to make a search of the file possible. Also several instances of incorrect instructions such as on page 196 step 3 indicating to in error choose File when they meant Edit or the complete omission of practice file in lesson 10 CD. But most disturbing is the omission of a clear easy way to find a "corrections" link that lets book purchasers find important corrected information and get the files that were not included. The book doesn't do that and the subsequent adobe site doesn't adequately address these concerns from AI 10 Classroom in a Book readers. A user friendly approach needs to be applied to help readers accomplish their learning goals. So instead of 5 stars I'll have to rate it a 2 star product until those concerns are better addressed.

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best beginners supplement to product manual, October 24, 2003

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This review is from: Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

Although I had a lot of experience with CAD programs, I struggled with Illustrator 8. I finally upgraded to v. 10 and bought Classroom In a Book for that version. You CAN teach yourself Illustrator with the manual and this book in a few weeks. ICIAB is a good supplement to the manual, which for reasons that always baffled me, has too few illustrations for information aimed at visually oriented people.

You will have to do some experimentation to get full benefit from the lessons, but I picked up things I was clueless on before. It does help to have some additional book such as Visual series (PeachPit Press) for details not covered.

Downside: some errors of tools or keys, nothing serious. But I was disappointed by two topics; the web chapter separately covers making a Flash animation for the web, and slicing a graphic for the web, but while the "finished" version of the lesson shows both in a complete web page, the lesson doesn't tell you how to put them together without the Adobe Web program (too expensive for me). You have put both html files in a text editor and combine them using the complete example for reference as to where to put the Flash file and what to include or leave out.

Also, the section in lesson 6 on data/variable objects is applied in a page of business cards, but doesn't explain how to get the data base and variable fields applied to all incidences of the biz cards on the sheet. I did figure it out for myself, but it took me about an hour of experiment, and is almost as tedious as just editing the file, though once the database is set up it would be quick to print out new cards with the variations.

But overall, a really good way to learn Illustrator to an intermediate level, and a whole lot cheaper than any class I've looked into (plus classes tend to be taught on MACs in my area).

42 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just the right book to start with., April 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book (Paperback)

Before studying this book I was somewhat familiar with Illustrator 9, but I wanted to take more hands-on lessons by actually creating something with the little knowledge I had.
This book is a wonderful starting point to learn Illustrator 10 with its easy-to-follow lessons, and helpful/useful tips that are found on pretty much every page of the book, and even if you're an experienced Illustrator user you'll find great tips on this book.

I own both 'Classroom in a book' and 'Visual quickstart by Peachpit Press' and I recommend the people who are new to Illustrator purchase the Quickstart book to use as a reference book, and this 'Classroom' book as a workbook.
Trust me you won't regret. :-)