Adobe Illustrator CS5 Revealed

✍ Scribed by Chris Botello

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 722
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS5 REVEALED offers comprehensive coverage in all areas of Adobe Illustrator. Beginning with fundamental concepts and progressing to in-depth exploration of the software's full set of features, these step-by-step lessons offer a guided tour of all the program's great features - including an illustrated tutorial on "how to draw with the Pen tool" that you won't find in any other book. This new edition features extensive coverage of important and exciting new features, including the debut of the Perspective Grid, the Bristle Brush, two new Drawing Modes, the brand-new Shape Builder tool, and the gorgeous "Beautiful Strokes."

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 8
BRIEF CONTENTS......Page 11
CONTENTS......Page 13
ART CREDITS......Page 0
INTRODUCTION Getting to Know Illustrator......Page 28
INTRODUCTION Creating Text and Gradients......Page 116
INTRODUCTION Drawing and Composing an Illustration......Page 156
INTRODUCTION Transforming and Distorting objects......Page 218
INTRODUCTION Working with Layers......Page 272
INTRODUCTION Working with Patterns and Brushes......Page 308
INTRODUCTION Working with Distortions, Gradient Meshes, Envelopes, and Blends......Page 366
INTRODUCTION Recoloring Artwork and Working with Transparency, Effects, and Graphic Styles......Page 402
INTRODUCTION Creating and Designing Graphs......Page 464
INTRODUCTION Creating 3D Objects......Page 498
INTRODUCTION Preparing a Document for Prepress and Printing......Page 566
INTRODUCTION Drawing with Symbols......Page 608
INTRODUCTION Preparing Graphics for the Web......Page 646