Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator 9 in 24 Hours is a step-by-step tutorial that uses a friendly, conversational, and non-condescending approach to teach you the basics of Illustrator 9. The book's tone is one of a teacher sitting with you explaining how to use the program. Covering both the Macintosh and Windows platforms, Sams Teach Yourself Illustrator 9 covers the following topics: the interface, tools, and palettes; setting preferences; drawing and editing objects; layers; working with selections; Bezier paths; and masks, transformations and color, and more.
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Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator 9 in 24 Hours is a step-by-step tutorial that uses a friendly, conversational, and non-condescending approach to teach you the basics of Illustrator 9. The book's tone is one of a teacher sitting with you explaining how to use the program. Covering both the Macintosh and Windows platforms, Sams Teach Yourself Illustrator 9 covers the following topics: the interface, tools, and palettes; setting preferences; drawing and editing objects; layers; working with selections; Bezier paths; and masks, transformations and color, and more.
About the Author
Mordy Golding is the Director of Art Production for a New York advertising agency. He is both an Adobe-certified instructor and certified technical trainer. In his spare time he is also a consultant, writer, graphic designer, production artist and network manager. With a strong technical background, Mordy has been designing on computers since 1990, and has been a featured panelist at Macworld.
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Since 1990, I have been using Adobe tools to help publish print and web content, and from 2001 through 2004, I was the product manager for Adobe Illustrator (versions 10 and CS). I've been publishing instructional content on the use of Illustrator for over 15 years, and in 2003, I was named a Champion of Graphic Design by Graphics IQ magazine. I'm also the author of over 15 video training titles at Lynda.com and regularly speak at seminars and conferences around the world.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Book for Starting Started with Illustrator,
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This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) 9 in 24 Hours (Paperback)
The author has made some modifications/additions to his previous book (Teach Yourself Illustrator 8 in 24 Hours). But it is largely similar in content. If you expect this book to be largely different, you will be disappointed. As the content is largely same, it retains it top notch style of providing enough illustrations one gets to know the features and how the tools can be used in different ways to produce the different effects in the illustrations.But this book is aimed at the total beginner and those basic features of Illustrator cannot be taken out and hence the great similiarity in content. A mentioned of SVF format is mentioned at the section of importing/exporting files and also the support for the web animation highlighted. But it does not cover in all the new stuff in Illustrator 9. To do so would go beyond 24 hours. If you do not own his previous book and you have no knowledge of Illustrator 9 and want to know the basic stuff quickly, this book is excellent. Expecting instructions of how to use all the new features? Then this book is not for you. Learning Illustrator 9 in 24 hours at beginner's level? This book deserves 5 stars for it.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best Entry Book on Illustrator,
By bradh@ulster.net (www.darkdesign.com) (Woodstock, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) 9 in 24 Hours (Paperback)
I've taught Illustrator. I make my living using Illustrator. My artwork has appeared in the digital gallery on the Illustrator 8 CD. And for my money and time, Mordy Golding's book is the best. I have used it as a classroom text at The New School, and recommended it to my students at Parsons and at Syracuse University. The clear writing, logical progression through the features of the program, and the down home quality of the narrative (besides being pretty funny at times) sets this apart from most dry-as-a-bone treatments. If you are a high end user of Illustrator, this may not be the book for you, but I found it useful even as a review of features I was neglecting to utilize. Cheers to Mr. Golding.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent instruction for the Illustrator 9 beginner.,
By Rory Durden (Mystic, Connecticut USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) 9 in 24 Hours (Paperback)
If you've had no previous exposure to Illustrator at all, and want to find the quickest and easiest way to start learning the program from scratch, this is your book! The lessons are easy to follow, and give you a good grasp on how Illustrator's many tools and functions work. This is the best book I've found for getting an introduction to using the program. By the time you finish it, you'll have a good enough understanding of the program to begin learning Illustrator's more advanced features. This book is written for the complete Illustrator novice, so if you're looking for a more in depth guide to all of what Illustrator 9 has to offer, this book isn't what you're looking for. But if you want a fast, effective, and fun intro to the program, get yourself this book.
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