Chapter Ten: Creating Artwork for the Web in Illustrator CS5
Adobe Illustrator CS5 is a powerful, versatile program for creating any kind of illustration. Here, we’ll focus on a few essential elements of Illustrator that are most useful for creating artwork for Web sites.
Illustrator’s power derives from its vector-based nature. As opposed to bitmap or raster-based artwork that is the specialty of Photoshop, vector-based artwork is scalable (which means it can be resized without distortion).
Illustrator is ideal for designing Web banners, icons, and interactive and navigational elements. These elements can be easily copied and pasted to (or opened from within) Flash Professional CS5 or Flash Catalyst CS5, and integrated into animated or interactive ...
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