CITATION

Jenkins, Sue. How to Do Everything Adobe Illustrator. McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2009.

How to Do Everything Adobe Illustrator

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Published:  March 2009

eISBN: 9780071603119 0071603115 | ISBN: 9780071603102

Book description:

Master Adobe Illustrator CS4

Filled with full-color examples, this hands-on guide explains how to use the latest release of the premier vector graphics program. How to Do Everything: Adobe Illustrator CS4 takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a wide variety of illustrations, and demonstrates expert techniques, shortcuts, and solutions. A gallery profiling professional illustrators and their work highlights real-world examples. With this book, you'll learn how to use all the program's tools and settings to draw just about anything you can imagine!

  • Use the drawing, painting, selection, and arrangement tools

  • Add vibrancy to your illustrations using colors, swatches, and Adobe Kuler

  • Work with layers, format text, and create custom graphs

  • Create patterns, gradients, and blends

  • Apply vector and raster special effects

  • Use Live Paint, Live Trace, the Appearance panel, and the Graphic Styles panel

  • Create logos, page layouts, book jackets, ads, and web graphics

  • Print high-quality work

  • Integrate Illustrator artwork into Adobe Flash to create motion graphics

  • And much more

Master Adobe Illustrator CS4

Filled with full-color examples, this hands-on guide explains how to use the latest release of the premier vector graphics program. How to Do Everything: Adobe Illustrator CS4 takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a wide variety of illustrations, and demonstrates expert techniques, shortcuts, and solutions. A gallery profiling professional illustrators and their work highlights real-world examples. With this book, you'll learn how to use all the program's tools and settings to draw just about anything you can imagine!

  • Use the drawing, painting, selection, and arrangement tools

  • Add vibrancy to your illustrations using colors, swatches, and Adobe Kuler

  • Work with layers, format text, and create custom graphs

  • Create patterns, gradients, and blends

  • Apply vector and raster special effects

  • Use Live Paint, Live Trace, the Appearance panel, and the Graphic Styles panel

  • Create logos, page layouts, book jackets, ads, and web graphics

  • Print high-quality work

  • Integrate Illustrator artwork into Adobe Flash to create motion graphics

  • And much more

 

Sue Jenkins is an illustrator, web and graphic designer, photographer, teacher, writer, and the owner and creative director of Luckychair (www.luckychair.com), a full service design studio. She is an Adobe Certified Expert, an Adobe Certified Instructor, the instructor in three Adobe software training DVDs, and the author of several web design books.