Real World Adobe® Illustrator® 10

by McClelland, Deke

• ISBN13: 9780201776300
• ISBN10: 0201776308
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Peachpit Press

Summary

Untitled Adobe Illustrator is used by over one million graphics and Web professionals to create, design, and layout publications for print and the Web. Users rely on its layered work environment and vector-drawing tools to achieve superior results with logos, advertisements, technical, and fine arts illustrations. Entertaining, up-to-date and comprehensive,Real World Adobe Illustrator 10is the definitive guide to learning industrial-strength techniques using Adobe Illustrator. Author,Deke McClelland, covers every tool and feature in Illustrator, providing helpful tips and hints throughout. Dozens of step-by-step techniques are provided and thoroughly illustrated. This edition has been fully updated for Illustrator 10, and includes information on using Illustrator to produce Web graphics, with special focus on animated GIF, JPEG, Flash, and LiveMotion formats.

Author Biography

Deke McClelland is the award winning author of more than 60 books on computer graphics and electronic publishing

Table of Contents

Introduction	xv
PART ONE WELCOME TO ILLUSTRATOR	1	(102)
Meet Illustrator 10	3	(12)
The Interface	15	(46)
The Artboard	61	(18)
Files and Formats	79	(24)
PART TWO WORKING WITH SHAPES	103	(216)
Creating Lines and Shapes	105	(38)
Exact Points and Precision Curves	143	(50)
Modifying and Combining Paths	193	(30)
Developing a Flair for the Schematic	223	(46)
The Magic of Transformations and Distortions	269	(50)
PART THREE TYPE, SYMBOLS, AND GRAPHS	319	(158)
How to Handle Typical Type	321	(40)
Some of Your Wackier Text Effects	361	(46)
Symbolic Acts	407	(24)
This Is Your Brain on Graphs	431	(46)
PART FOUR COLOR AND EFFECTS	477	(244)
The Slippery Science of Color	479	(40)
Fills, Multi-Fills, and Fab Fills	519	(36)
Strokes and Brushes	555	(38)
Blends, Masks, and Pen & Ink Fills	593	(38)
Transparency	631	(24)
Hog-Wild Special Effects	655	(38)
Becoming Master of the Raster	693	(28)
PART FIVE GOING PUBLIC	721	(158)
Creating Web Graphics	723	(54)
Animation and Data-Driven Graphics	777	(24)
Illustrator and Other Programs	801	(24)
Printing Your Illustrations	825	(38)
Illustrator Actions	863	(16)
Index	879