Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

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CONTENTS

PREFACE. How One-on-One Works xi

LESSON 1. Starting a Document 3

What Is Illustrator? 5

Illustration versus Image 6

Opening an Illustration 7

Organizing Your Artwork 10

Setting Up a New Document 15

Changing the Document Setup and Modifying Artboards 18

Introducing Guides, Smart Guides, and Layers 24

Creating Custom Workspaces 28

Saving Your Artwork 34

LESSON 2. Lines, Shapes, and Color 39

Endpoints and Closed Paths 41

Drawing Lines, Arcs, and Spirals 41

Splitting, Joining, and Aligning 44

Drawing Primitive Shapes 51

Combining Simple Shapes into Complex Ones 62

Coloring Your Artwork 66

Filling, Stroking, and Stacking 74

LESSON 3. Using the Pen Tool 85

What Makes the Straight Line Bend 87

Establishing a Bitmapped Tracing Template 88

Making Free-Form Polygons and Spline Curves 90

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Drawing Fluid Bézier Curves 96

Cutting, Separating, and Closing Paths 101

LESSON 4. Creating and Formatting Text 109

The Mechanics of Type 111

Placing, Entering, and Editing Text 112

Applying Formatting and Effects 117

Editing Area Type 122

Placing Type on a Path 127

Advanced Formatting, OpenType Fonts,

and Special Characters 129

LESSON 5. Transform and Reshape 137

The Fine Art of Reshaping 137

Moving and Cloning Path Elements 139

Offsetting Paths to Simulate Depth 146