Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos : 100 Essential Techniques

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Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2005-11-11
Publisher(s): Adobe Press
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Summary

In Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, authors David Karlins and Bruce K. Hopkins bring you 100 carefully selected techniques to help you get right down to working in Illustrator, the world's most popular, most powerful illustration program. Their strategy is to focus on those features you're most likely to use, showcasing each in a clearly explained, well-illustrated, stand-alone technique-complete with a relevant hint or two. These bite-sized lessons offer a great way to learn just what you need to know, when you need it, exploring the program in a way, and at a pace, that makes sense to you. Book jacket.

Author Biography

David Karlins is a freelance graphic and interactive design consultant, and teaches Adobe Illustrator at San Francisco State University's Multimedia Studies Program

Table of Contents

Getting Started
1(28)
Creating a New Document
2(2)
Creating Documents from Templates
4(2)
Defining Preferences
6(2)
Controlling the Workspace
8(2)
Defining Guides
10(2)
Setting Up and Using Grids
12(3)
Saving Files
15(3)
Printing Files
18(2)
Using the Control Palette
20(2)
Finding Tools
22(2)
Applying Stroke and Fill Colors
24(3)
Relying on Smart Guides
27(2)
Drawing Lines and Shapes
29(28)
Drawing Lines
31(3)
Drawing Ellipses and Circles
34(2)
Drawing Spirals
36(2)
Drawing Rectangles
38(2)
Drawing Polygons and Stars
40(2)
Drawing Grids
42(2)
Drawing with the Pencil Tool
44(3)
Drawing with the Pen Tool
47(1)
Smoothing, Moving, and Adjusting Anchors
48(3)
Combining Paths
51(2)
Dividing Paths
53(2)
Clipping with Masks
55(2)
Drawing with Brushes
57(18)
Applying or Drawing with Brushes
58(3)
Creating Calligraphic Brushes
61(2)
Creating Art Brushes
63(3)
Creating Scatter Brushes
66(3)
Working with Pattern Brushes
69(4)
Pressure-Sensitive Drawing with a Tablet
73(2)
Editing Paths
75(24)
Selecting Paths and Groups
76(2)
Selecting and Editing Anchors
78(1)
Selecting Type
79(2)
Selecting Similar Objects
81(2)
Editing with the Bounding Box
83(2)
Duplicating
85(2)
Scaling
87(4)
Rotating
91(2)
Shearing (Skewing)
93(2)
Distorting with Envelopes
95(1)
Using Pathfinders
96(3)
Creating Fills and Strokes
99(24)
Using Color Swatches
100(2)
Creating and Using Pattern Swatches
102(3)
Grabbing Colors with the Eyedropper
105(1)
Defining Gradients
106(4)
Formatting Strokes
110(3)
Stacking Strokes in the Appearance Palette
113(2)
Stacking Fills in the Appearance Palette
115(3)
Creating Live Paint Groups
118(1)
Applying Color to Live Paint Faces and Edges
119(2)
Editing Live Paint Edges
121(2)
Working with Layers
123(16)
Organizing Projects into Layers
124(3)
Finding Objects in Layers
127(2)
Using Layers for Transparency or Clipping
129(2)
Building and Sequencing Layers
131(1)
Placing Raster Images
132(2)
Editing Rasters
134(2)
Using Live Trace
136(3)
Creating and Formatting Type
139(40)
Creating Type Inserted at a Point
140(2)
Creating Area Type
142(3)
Defining Font and Size
145(2)
Kerning, Leading, and Tracking
147(2)
Scaling Type
149(2)
Rotating Characters
151(1)
Applying Type Attributes
152(2)
Using Type Styles
154(2)
Using OpenType Glyphs
156(3)
Outlining Type
159(2)
Formatting Paragraphs
161(4)
Using Paragraph Styles
165(3)
Linking Type Objects
168(2)
Flowing Type Around Paths
170(3)
Placing Type on Paths
173(3)
Using Vertical Type
176(3)
Aligning, Arranging, and Clipping
179(18)
Aligning Objects
180(2)
Snapping to Grids
182(2)
Measuring with Rulers
184(2)
Managing Stacking
186(2)
Using Clipping Masks
188(2)
Masking with Type
190(2)
Applying Opacity Masks
192(2)
Defining a Crop Area
194(3)
Transparency, Filters, and Effects
197(32)
Applying Transparency
198(4)
Step and Smooth Blends
202(2)
Adjusting Blends
204(3)
Applying Filters
207(4)
Applying Effects
211(3)
3D Extrusion Effects
214(2)
3D Rotation and Revolve Effects
216(3)
Mapping Symbols onto 3D Effects
219(3)
Using Photoshop Effects
222(2)
Warping with Liquify Tools
224(2)
Using Graphic Styles
226(3)
Managing Illustration Workflow
229(20)
Using Symbols and Actions
230(4)
Sharing Editable Illustrator Files
234(3)
Exporting Vector Files
237(2)
Managing File Size
239(1)
Saving as Rasters
240(3)
Exporting to Flash
243(2)
Exporting HTML Pages
245(4)
Index 249

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