This pack is designed to serve as a reference source of Illustrator 7 tips and techniques. It should appeal to designers and production professionals who already have some experience using Adobe Illustrator and Macromedia FreeHand. The CD-ROM includes animated tutorials, examples of award-winning Illustrator and FreeHand artwork, useful presets and demo or sample files from Adobe.
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This glossy full-color guide teaches you everything you need to know to perfect your artwork in Adobe Illustrator 7.0 for Macintosh and Windows. You'll first learn how to use the Illustrator interface effectively--via keyboard shortcuts, grids, and layers, for example--and how to use Illustrator with Macromedia FreeHand, another vector-editing package. There's also an extensive guide to using Extensis VectorTools 2.0 for Macintosh, a set of plug-ins for improving your productivity in Illustrator and FreeHand, and a guide to using other Illustrator plug-ins, including ones for special effects and CAD work.
Next the author, Ted Alspach, delves into the essentials of using Illustrator for serious commercial and fine art. He offers tips and techniques from many Illustrator artists, supplying images of their work and explanations of what they did to create them. Various projects teach you how to create the illusion of depth via layering and other techniques, use strokes creatively, work with blends and gradients, create interesting type effects, add texturing details to enrich drawings, and work with patterns, textures, and backgrounds. The final chapter is a gallery of artwork by some of the contributing artists along with brief descriptions of the tools the artists used. Finally, there's a guide to the contributing artists and their contact information. In all, the book is best for intermediate and advanced users, since most of the projects assume you know Illustrator fairly well.
The included hybrid CD-ROM has demonstration versions of Adobe Illustrator 7.0, Adobe Photoshop 4.0, Adobe Dimensions 3.0, and Adobe Streamline 4.0 as well as demo and full versions of several plug-ins (most of these are for Macintosh). --Kathleen Caster
From Library Journal
While this book's title implies a focus on Adobe's Illustrator 7, it is really a compendium of lots of vector-related "secret" information for Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, and other vector programs. Postscript, plug-ins, strokes, blends, type, patterns, and gradients are a few of the advanced topics covered. Not recommended for beginners, but real graphic designers will love this heavily illustrated book.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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I recently picked this book up to learn a few new things about the great drawing program Adobe Illustrator. I was totally impressed. The artwork in the book is amazing. And the tips and tutorials on how the artwork was accomplished are very thorough and to the point. The artists are very good and their insight into how they created their art is very inspiring. I highly recommend this book to all digital artists, and even those who are just casual users of a computer.
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