Updates the popular Illustrator® 8 f/x and Design and includes new and improved projects that cover the latest upgrades and enhancements to Illustrator. Real-world projects let readers apply their knowledge first hand by creating intricate illustrations and compositing techniques. Includes new information and projects on styles and effects, how to integrate with Adobe® Web products like LiveMotion™ and GoLive™, and other enhanced features. Helps Illustrator users create dynamic graphics for use in print or Web use. Features a 32-page color studio that illustrates how the reader's artwork created from the projects will appear when completed.
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Sherry London (Cherry Hill, NJ) is the author of numerous books on computer graphics applications including Painter 6 f/x and Design, Photoshop 5 In Depth, and Illustrator 9 f/x and Design.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful job and inspiration,
By Joyce Evans (Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Illustrator 9 f/x and Design (Paperback)
Understanding that this book is for intermediate to advanced users and the focus is on design, you did a wonderful job of blending the user levels. The designs are of an intermediate level but the teaching method is easy enough to follow for most users who have a relatively basic grasp of Illustrator or at least other Adobe products.The Cityscape project was thorough and delightful, as well as the projects utilizing inticate blends nd using gradient mask objects and blend modes. Realizing that Illustrator is used heavily for Print design, but also because Illustrator is now more compatible with developing Web design, I'd like to see more examples of interface design. The files used in the tutorials and supplied on the CD were quite helpful. Opening them was a snap using one of the "free" utilities listed to uncompress. I'd rather have them compressed then not included. It's a big benefit to have all the source files to practice on. All in all, I think it is a well rounded book with something for everyone except totally new users who need a "how to use Illustrator book". New users needing to learn the program should check out series such as: Classroom in a book, Quickstart guides, Visual Insight books, 24 hour books etc.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great "INTERMEDIATE to ADVANCED" book,
By Average User (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Illustrator 9 f/x and Design (Paperback)
I know I'm not supposed to comment on other reviews but I can't help myself. I have to ask, if you don't understand what "Zip" is, or how to use the pen tool, what the heck are you buying an intermediate to advanced book for?On to the book. It is a huge book for a design book, it has tons of examples and inspiration. Ms. London knows her subject and teaches it well. If you at least know the basics of Illustrator you will do fine with this book. In fact her teaching style is so easy to understand that if you have a good grasp using design software you'll do fine. Some of the topics are: appling transparencies, using Live Effects, using layers and of course the drawing tools. There is a good bit of focus on the newer features of Illustrator 9
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
An intermediate/advanced book that has great techniques,
By A Customer
This review is from: Illustrator 9 f/x and Design (Paperback)
I have to respectfully disagree with the one-star reviewers listed here. This book is labelled as 'intermediate'--it assumes you already have completed the Adobe Illustrator tutorial which I did. This was the second book I bought. I adore this book. Sherry London presents exercises in well-written, easy-to-follow steps ("8. Create a new layer and name it '02'"). I completed many of the chapters nearly two years ago and still re-read the one on texture with type. It is a detailed and clever use of type (the letters in 'david') as fill for an image: converting an image to gray-scale, posterizing it, converting those areas to closed paths (using Adobe Streamline) and then filling them with weighted fonts. Although she tells you exactly how to adjust the weight, width, & font tints, she provides them on the CD. Further, the lesson creates variations--slanted type, a patterned seamless tile, and a random pattern using the letters as non-compound shapes. These are great techniques, in my opinion. I also really enjoyed her chapter on gradients and blends where she shared with us another bit of pattern magic in the illusion of water. The resulting image is beautiful. Adobe has moved onto Illustrator 10, and I hope that Sherry London will author another great step-by-step intermediate book. I'll keep checking back to see...waiting.
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