Adobe Illustrator CS4 is more than just the world’s most popular and powerful illustration tool: As part of the Adobe’s Creative Suite 4, it’s a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS4 features they’re most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using all the new features as well as creating symbols and applying instances and exporting their work to Adobe Flash.
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David Karlins is a veteran Web designer and consultant and is the author of more than a dozen books. David's Web design clients and consultants have ranged from Hewlett Packard to the Himalayan Fair. His articles and reviews appear in online and print publications, including CreativePro and Macworld magazine. David has taught Dreamweaver at the University of California Extension School of Graphic and Interactive Design and currently teaches Dreamweaver for the San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program.
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This book has taken me from being a part-time user of Illustrator to somebody who feels confident every time I now open up the application. Everything is bitesize and easy to digest. A must-have!
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Offers fine easy small lesson plan structures,
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Owners of Illustrator and libraries catering to them will find this a powerful introduction offering a hundred selected techniques to help users get to work. From using the programs new Smart Guide features and using Live Paint to apply color to fills to adjusting gradients right with new interactive tools, this offers fine easy small lesson plan structures with real-world projects to help hit the ground running. Black and white screen shot examples abound.
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I wouldn't recommend this if you've NEVER used Illustrator. However, it is a wonderful resource. I wish he made one for Premiere/After Effects. I teach my video students at the Defense Information School basic Illustrator. I use this book as a teaching guide. I find it more useful than Adobe's "Classroom In A Book." The explainations are crisp, analogies clear, tips applicable. I really like the layout. It reminds me of the "Dummy" series, but much more streamlined.
Bravo for Chris Orwig!
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compound path, graphic styles, text wrap, paragraph styles, stray points, raster effects, swatch library, isolating groups, curve quality, polar grid, applying color, swatch libraries, panel ruler, revolve effects, masking object, liquify tools, tool gallery, masked object, scatter brush, clipping mask, type inserted, isolation mode, opacity mask, tool flyout, panel menu Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Live Paint, Smart Guides, Direct Selection, Getting Started, Editing Paths, Color Guide, Device Central, Managing Illustration Workflow, Live Trace, Line Segment, Character Styles, New Document, Flash Lite, Press Command, Magic Wand, Defining Gradients, Rounded Rectangle, Path Eraser, Stacking Strokes, Smart Punctuation, Blend Options, Flatten Transparency, Flash Player, The Spiral, Art Brush Options Browse Sample Pages:
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compound path, graphic styles, text wrap, paragraph styles, stray points, raster effects, swatch library, isolating groups, curve quality, polar grid, applying color, swatch libraries, panel ruler, revolve effects, masking object, liquify tools, tool gallery, masked object, scatter brush, clipping mask, type inserted, isolation mode, opacity mask, tool flyout, panel menu Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Live Paint, Smart Guides, Direct Selection, Getting Started, Editing Paths, Color Guide, Device Central, Managing Illustration Workflow, Live Trace, Line Segment, Character Styles, New Document, Flash Lite, Press Command, Magic Wand, Defining Gradients, Rounded Rectangle, Path Eraser, Stacking Strokes, Smart Punctuation, Blend Options, Flatten Transparency, Flash Player, The Spiral, Art Brush Options Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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