Adobe Illustrator 10-Design Professional [Paperback]

Chris Botello (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 16, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0619110139 | ISBN-13: 978-0619110130 | Edition: 1

Part of the Design Professional Series, this text offers coverage of basic through more advanced features of Adobe Illustrator 10 including everything from drawing and composing an illustration to preparing these illustrations for print production.

Product Details

• Paperback: 485 pages
• Publisher: Course Technology; 1 edition (September 16, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0619110139
• ISBN-13: 978-0619110130
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #898,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chris Botello is a Photoshop artist and graphic designer living in Los Angeles, where he works as a retoucher and finisher on movie posters and marketing campaigns for the motion picture industry. He began his career as a production manager for Premiere magazine. Chris has designed movie posters for Miramax Films and served as the art director for Microsoft's launch of sidewalk.com/boston. He is the author of the Revealed Series books on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator as well as InDesign and is the co-author of YouTube for Dummies. When not working, Chris loves to travel and gets the opportunity to do so as a guest instructor for Crystal Cruises. Visit www.cengage.com/community/mediaarts&design for more information.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Step-by-Step Approach, January 23, 2003

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"rexina" (Torrance, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Illustrator 10-Design Professional (Paperback)

Wow! Finally, a book that doesn't try "to teach" Illustrator but instead teaches "how to use" Illustrator. The difference is so important. This book is a series of step-by-step exercises. You follow the author as he creates some very cool and complex graphics with Illustrator 10. So you learn hands-on. It starts simple with great introductions and gets progressively more challenging. And since the author is a great designer, you learn all his tips and tricks and techniques for using Illustrator. I teach a college class on graphic arts, and this is the only book I'm using for Illustrator. The students love the approach and they stay interested because the graphics are so interesting. Good job!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A really underrated publisher, November 29, 2002

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Elizabeth M (Houston, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adobe Illustrator 10-Design Professional (Paperback)

I got this book as a screener for a class on Adobe Illustrator and I am really impressed. For one, it's not an overwhelming book- it's got beautiful color graphics and spaces out the text very well on the page so it's easy to follow the examples. Plus, there are a whole bunch of really good example files you can download from the publisher's site. The examples here really help you learn the software bit by bit. Nothing about this book is intimidating; it really helps you get into the software without frustration. There are a couple of confusing passages, but that's many less than most books have. Plus, I've never enjoyed all of the black and white books filled with text out there nearly as much as I enjoyed this. Better than the more popular titles, no names mentioned.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Humphrey, May 14, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Adobe Illustrator 10-Design Professional (Paperback)

This book was a reqired textbook for my intro design course. Not only was it easy for me to follow, but it was easy for the class and the teacher, who is a Graphic Designer by day. The teacher hadn't used the book in prior semesters, but he loved it and will use it from now on. The book made us create projects and we all now have something for our portfolios!