November 2010
512 pages
20h 32m
English
Content preview from Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One
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The Scope of This Book
No one book can teach you everything there is to know about Illus-
trator. Here’s a quick list of the topics discussed in each lesson and
its accompanying video, as well as a visual preview (in Figure 12)
of what you’ll encounter in the videos that accompany each lesson.
• Lesson 1: Opening, creating, and organizing your artwork; es-
tablishing artboards, guides, and layers, setting up your work-
space, and navigating inside Illustrator.
• Lesson 2: Drawing lines, arcs, and basic and complex shapes;
choosing, mixing, and applying color to your art; adjusting fill,
stroke, and object order.
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Lesson 3: Drawing with the pen tool, creating fluid Bézier
curves, anchor points, combining paths.
•
Lesson 4: Working with text, placing type on a path, advanced
text formatting, ligatures, glyphs, and other special characters.
•
Lesson 5: Moving, cloning, and scaling elements; offsetting
paths; selecting, transforming, and aligning objects.
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Lesson 6: Using Pathfinder operations, employing the Crop,
Exclude, and Intersect functions to create complex shapes
using Shape Builder.
Video Lesson 1: Navigation
Video Lesson 7: Introducing Filters Video Lesson 8: Liquify in Motion Video Lesson 9: Exploring Camera Raw
Video Lesson 2: The Basic Shape Tools Video Lesson 3: The Pen Tool
Video Lesson 7: Gradients Video Lesson 8: Blend Modes Video Lesson 9: Freehand Painting
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