Adobe Illustrator CS for Dummies

Adobe Illustrator CS for Dummies

By Ted Alspach
ISBN:076454084x
John Wiley & Sons © 2004
Format : CHM


Introduction
Welcome to Illustrator CS For Dummies. You’re reading this book because you want to find out more about Adobe Illustrator. That’s a very smart move because Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard graphics software. Not only does it outsell all its competitors combined, it’s also the most powerful graphics-creation tool ever created. With Illustrator, all you need to produce graphics like the best you’ve seen in print or on the Web is knowledge and artistic ability. Artistic ability is a challenge that you can handle on your own. The other half — knowledge — is what this book is all about.
Like a tragic hero, the great power of Illustrator is also its terrible curse. With its 30+ palettes, 70+ tools, and scores of menu items, its sheer depth is enough to make the most hardened graphics expert go shaky in the knees. Don’t be fooled by Illustrator’s vastness, however, because you will find a unique, consistent logic underlying it all. After you master a few basics, all the rest falls nicely into place.
In this book, our mission is to get you past Illustrator’s intimidation factor and into its Wow! factor. I take you from being befuddled and mystified by Illustrator’s nigh-infinite options to creating the kinds of graphics that others look at and say, “Wow, how did you do that?”



Table Of Contents
Introduction
Part I - Driving People Crazy — Illustrator’s Bum Rap
Chapter 1 - Introducing the World of Illustrator
Chapter 2 - Following the Righteous Path
Chapter 3 - Doing Everyday Things with Illustrator
Part II - Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork
Chapter 4 - Shaping Up, Basically
Chapter 5 - Getting Your Fill of Fills and Strokes
Chapter 6 - Selecting and Editing Paths
Chapter 7 - Wielding the Mighty Pen Tool
Chapter 8 - Creating Straight and Curved Lines without the Pen Tool
Chapter 9 - Creating Magnificent Brushstrokes
Chapter 10 - Extreme Fills and Strokes
Chapter 11 - Effectively Keeping Up Appearances, with Style(s)
Part III - Taking Your Paths to Obedience School
Chapter 12 - Pushing, Pulling, Poking, and Prodding
Chapter 13 - Organizing Efficiently
Part IV - Practically Speaking: Type, Print, and Files
Chapter 14 - Introducing Letters and Such (Type 101)
Chapter 15 - Printing Your Masterpiece
Chapter 16 - Putting Your Art on the Web
Chapter 17 - Moving Files Into and Out of Illustrator
Part V - The Part of Tens
Chapter 18 - Ten Production-Enhancing Tips
Chapter 19 - Ten (Or So) Ways to Customize Illustrator
Bonus Chapter 1 - Taking Images Out of the Realm of Reality
Index
List Of Figures
List Of Tables
List Of Sidebars

Author Information
Ted Alspach is the author of more than 30 books on graphics, design, and Web publishing, including Illustrator 11 Bible (published by Wiley Publishing, Inc.), PageMaker 7 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide, and PDF with Acrobat 5 Visual QuickStart Guide. Ted is a Group Product Manager at Adobe Systems, Inc.

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