Customer Reviews

Illustrator 10 Bible

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This book is OK for an intermediate or an advanced user especially if you are the kind of person who can visualise what the author is talking about && if you are comfortable with large volumes of text telling you how to do things in illustrator. This kind of visualisation to understand the concept and putting it to practice could eventually take up too much of your precious time. I especially had a tough time trying to understand what the author was talking about making seamless tiles on page 406 of the book. After referring to another book called "Illustrator 9 Wow Book" I figured out that I can make seamless tiles using a different & much more easy technique.
Still I gave it a 4/5 rating since I could manage the rest of the topics in this book.
If you like a visual approach on Illustrator 10 training try one of the videotraining packages on DVD...

I ordered this book because it looked encyclopedic and I hoped I could get by with a single reference work on Illustrator. While this book has a lot of information and is useful, I wouldn't recommend it if it's the only or the first book you're going to get. This volume is rather thin in terms of useful graphics and illustrations, ironically for a book on how to use a program called "Illustrator." It is not tightly edited. In using it I have encountered numerous glitches: instances where the software doesn't look or behave quite as described, concepts and terms are used that have not been previously defined or explained, figures are mis-identified in the text, tools and techniques are recommended without a clear explanation of how to find them in the menus, etc etc.

I stumbled on this book a few months ago and it has opened up the world of Illustrator to me like nothing else has been able to. It is like the book was written with me in mind. I passed it on to my friend, and she found it to be just as helpful.

A great book.

I have only read about half of this book, but my productivity has soared as a result. The authors really know their stuff.Very easy to follow and full of great examples.

This has everything you need to know about Illustrator. I've been using it for years, but I should have picked up this book when I started. I've learned an amazing array of fantastic tips and I've been saving oodles of time since I opened the book.

Highly useful.

In general an extremely helpful book that should be the foundation of anyone's self-taught course on Illustrator. There were some annoying omissions, which I was able to cover through other books, but overall I have found the book indespensible.

I help teach Illustrator at a local college and I thought I would buy the Illustrator CS Bible because Adobe really updated alot of things in Illustrator CS. To my amazement, there are things in the Illustrator's Bible that fall short. For example, text on a circular path has changed, when you center the text, the new text engine pushes the text (it does center the text) about 180 degrees--something which is not mentioned in the Bible. That and a few other things and typos all make this book a serious consideration for future Illustrator Bible purchases. I know that teachers often tell students to buy Bible books to have, at the minimum, a reference to the program. And for that purpose, the Illustrator Bible does an adequate job. However, for those that are coming from Illustrator 10 (or prior) and want to learn Illustrator CS--I would perhaps go to other sources to learn what Illustrator CS has to offer.