Book description
Adobe Illustrator CS3 is more than just the world's most popular and powerful illustration tool: As part of the Adobe's Creative Suite 3, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the new path eraser tool and making vivid artwork using the new Live Color feature and the updated recolor filters, as well as creating symbols and applying instances and exporting their work to Adobe Flash.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Chapter One. Getting Started
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Chapter Two. Drawing Lines and Shapes
- #12. Drawing Lines
- #13. Drawing Ellipses and Circles
- #14. Drawing Spirals
- #15. Drawing Rectangles
- #16. Drawing Polygons and Stars
- #17. Drawing Grids
- #18. Drawing with the Pencil Tool
- #19. Drawing with the Pen Tool
- #20. Using the Eraser and Path Eraser Tools
- #21. Creating Compound Paths
- #22. Dividing Paths with the Scissors and Knife Tools
- #23. Clipping with Masks
- #24. Defining an Interactive Crop Area
- Chapter Three. Drawing with Brushes
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Chapter Four. Editing Paths
- #30. Selecting Path Segments and Paths
- #31. Defining, Selecting, and Isolating Groups
- #32. Selecting and Editing Anchors
- #33. Aligning Anchors
- #34. Selecting Similar Objects
- #35. Editing with the Bounding Box
- #36. Duplicating
- #37. Scaling
- #38. Rotating
- #39. Shearing (Skewing)
- #40. Distorting with Envelopes
- #41. Using Pathfinders
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Chapter Five. Creating Fills and Strokes
- #42. Using Color and Pattern Swatches
- #43. Using Color Guides and Live Color
- #44. Grabbing Colors with the Eyedropper
- #45. Defining Gradients
- #46. Formatting Strokes
- #47. Stacking Strokes in the Appearance Panel
- #48. Stacking Fills in the Appearance Panel
- #49. Creating and Merging Live Paint Groups
- #50. Applying Color to Live Paint Faces and Edges
- #51. Editing Live Paint Edges
- Chapter Six. Working with Layers
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Chapter Seven. Creating and Formatting Type
- #58. Creating Type Inserted at a Point
- #59. Creating Area Type
- #60. Defining Font and Size
- #61. Selecting Type
- #62. Kerning, Leading, and Tracking
- #63. Scaling Type
- #64. Applying Type Attributes
- #65. Using Type Styles
- #66. Using OpenType Glyphs
- #67. Outlining Type
- #68. Formatting Paragraphs
- #69. Using Paragraph Styles
- #70. Linking Type Objects
- #71. Flowing Type Around Paths
- #72. Placing Type on Paths
- Chapter Eight. Aligning, Arranging, and Clipping
- Chapter Nine. Transparency, Filters, and Effects
- Chapter Ten. 3-D Effects
- Chapter Eleven. Managing Illustration Workflow
- Index
- Media
Product information
- Title: Adobe Illustrator CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2007
- Publisher(s): Adobe Press
- ISBN: 9780321508942
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