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Illustrator 8 Magic (The Magic Series)

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i was really intimidated when trying to learn illustrator on my own and this book was just exactly what i needed. it presents "homework" assignments and you are walked through step by step on how to recreate the "homework". the instructions are really easy to understand, the work gets a little harder and more involved as you work through the book. it was a TREMENDOUS help in becoming more profficient in illustrator and after i graduated from the book i have often reffered back to it and found exactly the information i needed to make my work perfect.

This is a truely great book, the best software tutorial book I have come across - and I have read a few. What makes it so great? I am not sure, but it actually got me working in Illustrator, something the Illustrator 8 Bible (amongst others) was unable to do.

This book was priceless to me. Don't be put off in any way by the deceptive simplicity of the lessons: if you are a beginner then this is exactly what you need, and as it covers the core functionality of the software is just as useful if you are using a newer version of Illustrator.

I am doing some nice stuff in Illustrator and it was all down to this book. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Thank you, Raymond.

This book is truly pathetic and is totally out of place compared to the many other Magic books that are of much better quality. The projects hardly even look like what a child would come up with. I find this so disappointing, none of the images in the book dazzle the eye or would come close to inspire an adjective like magical. In fact the only thing that comes close is the word Magic on the cover of the book (which was made in Photoshop). All the tips are pretty rudimentary except for a small piece that gets into dimension. If you'd like a book that answers all your, question basic or technical, Illustrator 8 Bible is one great book. For those of you not up to reading a 800 some page book - an excellent book is the Adobe Classroom in a Book. CIAB goes through pretty much all the features of Illustrator and will get you in touch with making images that look far more "magical." If you'd like to get a book that gets you into thinking of depth and dimension, then this is a good book for you (especially for the price), otherwise I think you'll be severely disappointed too.

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