Learn to draw like a pro using this comprehensive resource. Increase your productivity and master everything from drawing basic shapes to creating color separations, adding special effects--and much more.
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The Singular, Authoritative Resource on Adobe Illustrator 10
Bring your creative ideas to fruition with the most powerful, flexible vector graphics tool available. Conjure and manipulate shapes, work with Illustrator color models, and discover the vast print and Web graphics capabilities in the latest upgrade to this popular application. Author Sandra E. Eddy leads you through all the rendering essentials--plus special effects, typography, layers, transparency, and integrating with other applications. Replete with professional-level information, Adobe Illustrator 10: The Complete Reference will help you expertly navigate the Illustrator workspace and take advantage of its numerous features, and might even improve your drawing skills along the way.
- Fine-tune artwork efficiently by selecting, arranging, and enhancing objects and groups
- Save time with keyboard shortcuts and key combinations
- Develop your artwork using 30 specialized palettes
- Edit your work by moving, scaling, rotating, shearing, and reflecting objects
- Choose and mix colors using color palettes and the Color Picker
- Store and reuse colors, brushes, symbols, and styles in custom libraries
- Blend colors and gradients to add new vibrancy to your artwork
- Adjust the levels of opacity or transparency of objects, groups, and layers
- Design for the Web and use Illustrator's Web-safe features
- Convert vector images to Web-ready raster files for static and animated Web graphics
Includes 16-page full-color insert featuring examples, ideas, and ready-to-apply tactics
About the Author
Sandra E. Eddy (Shushan, NY) specializes in writing both how-to and reference books about the Internet, Internet applications and technologies, Windows, and Windows applications. Until she became a full-time freelance writer in 1993, Sandra was a documentation manager and technical writer for a major software company. From 1984 to 1993, she wrote and edited user and technical manuals for both PC- and mainframe-based computer programs. She has written a number of books including XML in Plain English, 2E, The GIF Animator's Guide, and Teach Yourself XML.
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This chapter covers Illustrator basics for both the PC and the Macintosh. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Direct Selection, Save for Web, Tab Ruler, Mac Shortcut Description, Color Picker, Document Setup, Paint Bucket, Smart Guides, Free Transform, Transform Each, Group Selection, Macromedia Flash, Swatch Options, Delete Anchor Point, Multiple Master, Add Anchor Point, Auto Trace, Format Options, Vertical Area Type, Envelope Distort, Break Link, Delete Selection, Direct Select Lasso, Layer Options, Print Setup New!
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This chapter covers Illustrator basics for both the PC and the Macintosh. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Direct Selection, Save for Web, Tab Ruler, Mac Shortcut Description, Color Picker, Document Setup, Paint Bucket, Smart Guides, Free Transform, Transform Each, Group Selection, Macromedia Flash, Swatch Options, Delete Anchor Point, Multiple Master, Add Anchor Point, Auto Trace, Format Options, Vertical Area Type, Envelope Distort, Break Link, Delete Selection, Direct Select Lasso, Layer Options, Print Setup New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- In the Balance by M.E. White on page 526
- Birth of Venus by BOTTICELLI on page 59
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