Book description
For almost two decades, the best-selling Visual QuickStart Guides by Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas have been the textbooks of choice in classrooms and the go-to tutorial and reference for art and design professionals. This edition includes their trademark features: clear, concise, step-by-step instructions; hundreds of full-color illustrations; screen captures of program features; and supplemental tips and sidebars in every chapter.
This fully updated edition for Illustrator CC covers the new enhancements and features, including significant upgrades to the interface, new unembed an image, multiple file placement, images in Brushes, and touch type and Free Transform tool.
The new and updated Illustrator CC features are clearly marked with bright red stars in both the table of contents and main text.
Readers can follow the steps in a tutorial fashion, or use the book as a reference guide to individual program features. Many of the key illustrations used in the book are available via Web download for practice by readers.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- 1. Create & Save Files
- 2. Manage Color
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3. Workspaces
- Features of the Illustrator workspace
- Using tabbed document windows
- Arranging document windows
- Changing the zoom level
- Moving an area of a document into view
- Fitting an artboard in the document window
- Changing the screen mode
- Switching document views
- Creating custom views
- Configuring the panel groups and docks
- Choosing, saving, managing, and resetting workspaces
- 4. Panels
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5. Bridge
- Opening files from Illustrator
- Launching Adobe Bridge
- Features of the Bridge window
- Choosing a workspace for Bridge
- Previewing graphics in Bridge
- Opening files from Bridge
- Customizing the Bridge window
- Saving custom workspaces
- Resetting the Bridge workspace
- Using thumbnail stacks
- Searching for files
- Creating and using collections
- Rating and labeling thumbnails
- Filtering the display of thumbnails
- Choosing a sorting order for thumbnails
- Assigning keywords to files
- Exporting the Bridge cache
- Managing files via Bridge
- 6. Geometric Objects
- 7. Freehand Drawing
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8. Select
- The five selection tools
- Using the Selection tool
- Using the Direct Selection tool
- Selecting objects via a command
- Selecting objects via the Layers panel
- Working with groups
- Isolating individual objects
- Using the Lasso tool
- Using the Magic Wand tool
- Saving selections
- Selecting and deselecting all objects
- 9. Move, Copy & Align
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10. Fill & Stroke
- Using color in Illustrator
- Colors for your output medium
- Using the basic color controls
- Saving colors as swatches
- Choosing colors via the Color panel
- Applying colors from a library
- Changing the tint percentage
- Changing the stroke weight, alignment, caps, and joins
- Creating arrows
- Creating a dashed stroke
- Using the Eyedropper tool
- Using the Swatches panel
- Using the Color Guide panel
- Using Kuler
- Replacing colors in your artwork
- Inverting colors
- Colorizing grayscale images
- Blending fill colors
- Creating a pattern
- Editing a pattern
- 11. Transform
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12. Reshape
- The building blocks of a path
- Moving points and segments
- Reshaping curves
- Converting points
- Adding points
- Deleting points
- Reshaping objects with the Pencil or Paintbrush tool
- Applying a variable width profile preset to an object’s stroke
- Changing an object’s stroke width using the Width tool
- Reshaping objects with the Blob Brush tool
- Using the Reshape tool
- Erasing sections of objects
- Aligning points
- Joining endpoints
- Reshaping objects using commands
- Slicing and dicing
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13. Layers
- Getting to know the Layers panel
- Creating layers
- Deleting layers and objects
- Selecting listings on the Layers panel
- Selecting objects via the Layers panel
- Restacking layers and objects
- Duplicating layers and objects
- Locking layers and objects
- Hiding layers and objects
- Collecting objects into a new layer
- Releasing objects to layers
- Merging layers and groups
- Flattening layers
- 14. Appearances
- 15. Effects
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16. Graphic Styles
- Graphic styles basics
- Loading graphic styles from a library
- Applying graphic styles
- Removing a graphic style from an object
- Applying multiple graphic styles to an object
- Creating graphic styles
- Redefining graphic styles
- Deleting graphic styles from the panel
- Creating a custom graphic styles library
- Breaking the link to a graphic style
- 17. Image Trace
- 18. Live Paint
- 19. Create Type
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20. Style & Edit Type
- Selecting type
- Changing the font family and style
- Changing the font size
- Changing the leading value
- Applying kerning and tracking
- Using smart punctuation
- Inserting alternate glyphs
- Applying hyphenation
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Changing paragraph indentation
- Changing inter-paragraph spacing
- Using paragraph and character styles
- Using the Touch Type tool
- Hanging punctuation
- Setting tabs
- Changing the baseline shift value
- Creating type outlines
- Wrapping type around an object
- Applying appearance attributes to type
- 21. Pen Tools
- 22. Acquire Images
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23. Brushes
- Applying brushes to existing paths
- Using the Brushes panel
- Removing brush strokes from objects
- Expanding brush strokes
- Creating and editing Calligraphic brushes
- Creating and editing Scatter brushes
- Creating and editing Art brushes
- Creating and editing Bristle brushes
- Creating and editing Pattern brushes
- Painting brush strokes inside objects
- Duplicating brushes
- Editing a brush manually
- Editing brush strokes on objects
- Deleting brushes
- Creating a custom brush library
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24. Gradients
- Applying a gradient to an object’s fill or stroke
- Creating a two-color gradient
- Editing gradient colors via on-object controls
- Saving a gradient as a swatch
- Changing the position, length, or angle of a gradient in an object
- Spreading a single gradient across multiple objects
- Expanding a gradient into paths
- 25. Combine Paths
- 26. Clipping Masks
- 27. Transparency
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28. Symbols
- Accessing the symbol libraries
- Creating individual symbol instances
- Creating symbol sets with the Symbol Sprayer tool
- Replacing symbols in a document
- Creating symbols
- Deleting symbols from the panel
- Creating a custom symbol library
- Editing symbols
- Choosing options for the symbolism tools
- Using the Symbol Shifter, Scruncher, Sizer, Spinner, Stainer, Screener, and Styler tools
- Unlinking symbol instances
- Expanding symbol instances
- 29. Live Color
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30. Preferences
- Opening the Preferences dialog
- General Preferences
- Sync Settings Preferences
- Selection & Anchor Display Preferences
- Type Preferences
- Units Preferences
- Guides & Grid Preferences
- Smart Guides Preferences
- Slices Preferences
- Hyphenation Preferences
- Plug-ins & Scratch Disks Preferences
- User Interface Preferences
- File Handling & Clipboard Preferences
- Appearance of Black Preferences
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31. Print & Export
- Print dialog: General options
- Marks and Bleed options
- Output options
- Graphics options
- Color Management options
- Advanced options
- Summary options
- Using the Separations Preview panel
- Printing and exporting semitransparent objects
- Creating and editing presets
- Producing crop and trim marks
- Choosing a resolution for effects
- Packaging files for output
- Choosing a file format for export
- Saving files in the Adobe PDF format
- Using the Export command
- Using the Document Info panel
- Optimizing files for the Web
- Exporting artwork as CSS code
- Exporting Illustrator files to Adobe Photoshop
- Appendix
- Index
- Vector art and photography
Product information
- Title: Illustrator CC: Visual QuickStart Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2013
- Publisher(s): Peachpit Press
- ISBN: 9780133439137
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