The Illustrator 7 WOW Book [Paperback]

Sharon Steuer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 1998

This new, cross-platform edition of The Illustrator 7 Wow! Book includes eye-catching and time-saving techniques and tips for beginning through advanced users of Adobe Illustrator 7. Illustrator 7's basic tools and functions are explored, professional production techniques are demonstrated by using real-life "step-by-step" examples and full-page gallery samples from over 70 of the nation's leading Illustrator artists and designers. The content covers the latest features and techniques in Illustrator 7, all depicted in full color.The book is now accompanied by a hybrid Macintosh/Windows CD-ROM packed with demo versions of Illustrator 7, Photoshop, all major plug-in filters, Illustrator tutorials, and many more specially created goodies collected or created by the author.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

This outstanding full-color book shows you how to create compelling images in Adobe Illustrator 7 for Macintosh and Windows. The author, Sharon Steuer, starts out with two chapters on the basics of the package, explaining Bezier curves and Bezier-editing tools, geometric objects, grouping, graphing, transformations, palettes, views, color, image formats, and printing. Exercises teach you how to work with some of these features and use Illustrator's keyboard commands to improve your productivity.

The heart of the book features hands-on exercises wherein you apply a variety of artistic techniques. You work with lines, fills, colors, templates, layers, blends, gradients, filters, type, layout, masks, and special effects; receive advice on working with other programs, such as Adobe Photoshop; and get tips on creating Web and multimedia graphics. Steuer provides lots of illustrations as well as suggestions, and when she just touches upon one feature, she refers you to other sections where it is explored in greater detail. In the course of her writing, Steuer contacted a wide variety of graphic artists, who contributed their own artwork along with descriptions of how they achieved various effects in this artwork. (All of this is in the image Galleries.) These contributors also provided many of the book's tips.

The book is geared toward everyone from beginner to expert user, but it'll help to be pretty comfortable with the package before you delve into the advanced techniques. Appendices include contact information for the contributing artists and for companies whose products are referred to in the book. There's also a list of other useful graphics books. The companion CD-ROM includes clip art images, fonts, demo software, filters, tutorials, and more.

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The book is now accompanied by a hybrid Macintosh/Windows CD-ROM packed with demo versions of Illustrator 7, Photoshop, all major plug-in filters, Illustrator tutorials, and many more specially created goodies collected or created by the author.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 40 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Pr (January 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201688972
• ISBN-13: 978-0201688979
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,286,255 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

(Visit her at: http://www.facebook.com/SharonSteuer)
Sharon Steuer loves collaborating with other creatives--and working with the Illustrator WOW! team, and the contributing artists to the Illustrator WOW! Books, provides endless wonderful opportunities for collaboration.

For more than two decades, Sharon has pioneered the merging of traditional and digital art forms. Sharon's recent artwork weaves together her oil paintings, drawings, digital paintings, photographs, and personal artifacts to explore and reflect fragmented memory. Awards for her artwork include the national Faber Birren Color Award, a Windsor Newton Painting award, and an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts.

In addition to the 11 editions of the Illustrator WOW! Books, Sharon is author of "Creative Thinking in Photoshop," and has been a contributor to creativepro.com, as well as many other books and articles. She lives with her husband, sound artist and SFSU professor Jeff Jacoby, in San Francisco, California.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Advanced Artist Need Only Apply!, April 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Illustrator 7 WOW Book (Paperback)

This book is full of information, but only useful if you are familiar with Adobe Illustrator. It can be very confusing to the beginner. If you are somewhat experienced with Adobe Illustrator, this book can be very helpful to get to the next level. If you are a beginner, stay away. Try Real World Illustrator 7 instead, it is much more basic in its approach.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "A must-have" illustrator 7.0 master tips and techniques, July 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Illustrator 7 WOW Book (Paperback)

The "real deal". An industrial strength "how to" for the serious computer artist and graphics illustrator... Sharon's master piece is a gem.

As director of Desktop America a NYC, computer graphics school in NYC, I insist all my Illustrator students use Sharon's Illustrator 7.0 WOW book... We use the tips and techniques in our course outlines and portfolio project development. WOW 7.0 is direct and to the point, "expert how to examples", "a real industry staple" - save time creating professional vector based graphics and get this book

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Thin., July 2, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Illustrator 7 WOW Book (Paperback)

I was very disappointed by the content of this book. Especially since I had gotten a lot of use out of the Wow!Photoshop book. Very little linear direction and a less than intuitive cd make this book a reference for ideas or tips but certainly not a tutorial. And now that I have learned Illustrator I can't imagine why I would need it. Also, the fall back line used liberally throughout "this is covered in the Illustrator manual" was like a teacher reminding you that you should have done your homework. P-U!