Adobe Illustrator: A Visual Guide for the Mac is an inspirational and practical guide for using this leading PostScript illustration program. The book's clear, colorful illustrations and concise, information-packed captions show step-by-step how to accomplish the graphic effects that electronic designers and illustrators use daily in their work. Through demonstrations created especially for this book, as well as an "inside" look at the work of internationally recognized designers, the book shows beginning, intermediate, and even advanced users how to get the most from Adobe Illustrator. A few of the topics you'll find inside are: *Modelling shapes with color blends *Building and using masks *Turning a package layout into 3D mockup *Blending from one shape to another *Drawing 3-dimensional buttons *Fitting type to a curve *Designing letterforms *Creating custom line styles *Trapping illustrations *Using the step-and-repeat technique for efficiency *Constructing a color palette *Incorporating bitmapped artwork *Simulating transparency. 020140723XB04062001
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Janet AshfordJanet is the co-author (with John Odam) of Start With a Scan. Janet Ashford is a freelance writer and designer and the co-author of threebooks on computer graphics: Adobe Illustrator: A Visual Guide for the Mac (Graphic-Sha/Addison-Wesley, 1995), Aldus PageMaker: A Visual Guide for theMac (Graphic-Sha/Addison-Wesley, 1994), and The Verbum Book of PostScriptIllustration (M & T Books, 1990). For the past five years Ashford has written a regular how-to column oncomputer graphics for MacUser magazine, has been a contributing editor andwriter for Step-By-Step Electronic Design, and has written regularly forPrint and Step-By-Step Graphics. She has created designs for books,newsletters and brochures and produced original illustrations for posters,textbooks, and magazines. Ashford has worked as a fine artist for the past twenty-five years, creatingdrawings, paintings and posters with watercolor, pen-and-ink, oils,acrylics, and silk screen. She is also a musician, and she composed andperformed the original music for the interactive Photo CD that accompaniesThe Official Photo CD Handbook (Peachpit Press, 1995). Before becoming involved with computer graphics, Ashford wrote many booksand articles on childbirth and women's health, including The Whole BirthCatalog (Crossing Press, 1983). She has a B.A. in psychology from UCLA.Ashford and her three children live in Encinitas, California, north of SanDiego. Janet Ashford is a writer and artist focusing on computer illustration and design. She is a regular contributor to MacUser, Print, Step-By-Step Graphics magazines, and is a contributing editor of Step-By-Step Electronic Design newsletter. She is a coauthor of the Verbum Book of PostScript Illustration and a contributor to the Verbum Book of Digital Painting, The Desktop Color Book, and The Photo CD Book. Her background in traditional art media combined with her extensive experience as a computer illustrator and designer give her a unique understanding of the computer graphics field. Linnea Dayton is the co-author of The Photoshop 3 Wow! Book, Mac Edition and The Photoshop 3 Wow! Book, Windows Edition. Linnea Dayton is a contributing editor to Step-By-Step Electronic Design, a full-color monthly newsletter for graphic designers and illustrators, whichshe edited for the first five years of its existence. Formerly managing editor of Verbum magazine, she is co-author of the Verbum book series (PostScript Illustration, Electronic Page Design, Digital Painting, Scanned Imagery, and Digital Typography) as well as The Desktop Color Book, The Photo CD Book, The Photoshop Wow! Book (Mac and Windows editions for Photoshop 2.5), Aldus PageMaker: A Visual Guide for the Mac, and Adobe Illustrator: A Visual Guide for the Mac. Hometown: Southern California Email address: 75300.2510@compuserve.com Latest Peachpit book: The Photoshop 3 Wow! Book (available August '95) Words of wisdom: "Don't give up." How you get into this business?:I earned a Master of Science degree in comparative endocrinology at University of Washington. I worked as a research associate at Scripps Institution of Oceanography for awhile, but abandoned the academic environment for editing (which could be done at home until the kids reached that safe "middle age" range of 7 to 12 years), at which point I went to work as a technical writer. I took a class on how
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Practical step-by-step projects in Adobe Illustrator,
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This review is from: Adobe(R) Illustrator(R): A Visual Guide for the Mac: A Step-by-Step Approach to Learning Illustration Software (Paperback)
This book is one of my favorite graphic design books. I can't believe no one else has written a customer review! "Adobe Illustrator:A Visual Guide for the Mac" shows examples of things you need to do in Illustrator, and how to get them done. The authors make skillful use of the step-by-step approach. The examples and projects are visually appealing and the instructions are clear and easy to follow. I especially like the section on creating vector art with a hand drawn look, "Softening the postscript line," and the section on manipulating and coloring clip art,"Modifying clip art." Although this book was written in 1995 for version 5 or 6, the instructional techniques work just fine in Illustrator version 7. This book is simply jam-packed, from cover to cover, with useful advice, ideas, and detailed instructions for creating and working with vector art. I highly recommend it as a must-have for any desktop publisher, graphic designer or digital illustrator.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not for Beginners,
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This review is from: Adobe(R) Illustrator(R): A Visual Guide for the Mac: A Step-by-Step Approach to Learning Illustration Software (Paperback)
I found a Visual Guide for the Mac confusing the author assumes you already know what the tools are and where they are located. I was also flustrated by working thru more than one example only to find you had to leave Illustrator to perform a task in Adobe Streamline. Well guess what I don't have Adobe Streamline. I found Adobes Users Guide and tours far more informative. A Video would get this information across far better.
4.0 out of 5 stars
One of the Best Illustrator "how-to's" around,
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This review is from: Adobe(R) Illustrator(R): A Visual Guide for the Mac: A Step-by-Step Approach to Learning Illustration Software (Paperback)
Regarding Adobe Illustrator: A Visual Guide for the Mac - A step-by-step approach to learning illustration software...Inspiring projects, of which you probably would need to know the program before tackling them. I'm only surprised and disappointed that these two excellent authors, Janet and Linnea have not done a revise as Adobe Illustrator 8 is way new and greatly improved since 1995. Hence only 4 stars, but 5 thumbs up if they ever released a revise! If you're looking for projects to do, and you know your way around Illustrator, this is a great book to pick up for your library.
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