Adobe Illustrator CS3 How-Tos 100 Essential Techniques
by Karlins, David; Hopkins, Bruce K.Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-08-08
Publisher(s): Adobe Press
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Summary
Easy-to-scan guide makes quick work of the most useful features of Adobe Illustrator CS3!
Author Biography
David Karlins is a digital graphic design author, consultant, and instructor. He has presented seminars on Illustrator for design professionals, among them the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. David writes about digital graphic design for online and print publications, including Graphics Unleashed, CreativePro, and Macworld magazine. David is the author of over a dozen books on digital graphic design and Illustrator, including Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, Illustrator CS2 Gone Wild, and How to do Everything with Adobe Illustrator. David has taught at the University of California Extension School of Graphic and Interactive Design and for the San Francisco State University Digital Video Intensive program, and he currently teaches Illustrator for the San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program. David provides resources for the Illustrator community at www.illustratorgonewild.com.
Table of Contents
| Getting started | p. 1 |
| Creating a new document | p. 2 |
| Defining preferences | p. 6 |
| Controlling the workspace | p. 8 |
| Defining guides | p. 10 |
| Creating and using grids | p. 11 |
| Saving files | p. 13 |
| Printing files | p. 16 |
| Using the control panel | p. 18 |
| Finding tools | p. 20 |
| Applying stroke and fill colors | p. 23 |
| Relying on smart guides | p. 26 |
| Drawing lines and shapes | p. 29 |
| Drawing lines | p. 30 |
| Drawing ellipses and circles | p. 34 |
| Drawing spirals | p. 36 |
| Drawing rectangles | p. 37 |
| Drawing polygons and stars | p. 39 |
| Drawing grids | p. 41 |
| Drawing with the pencil tool | p. 42 |
| Drawing with the pen tool | p. 45 |
| Using the eraser and path eraser tools | p. 49 |
| Creating compound paths | p. 51 |
| Dividing paths with the scissors and knife tools | p. 53 |
| Clipping with masks | p. 55 |
| Defining an interactive crop area | p. 57 |
| Drawing with brushes | p. 59 |
| Applying or drawing with brushes | p. 60 |
| Creating calligraphic brushes | p. 64 |
| Creating art brushes | p. 66 |
| Creating scatter brushes | p. 69 |
| Working with pattern brushes | p. 73 |
| Editing paths | p. 79 |
| Selecting path segments and paths | p. 80 |
| Defining, selecting, and isolating groups | p. 82 |
| Selecting and editing anchors | p. 83 |
| Aligning anchors | p. 85 |
| Selecting similar objects | p. 87 |
| Editing with the bounding box | p. 90 |
| Duplicating | p. 93 |
| Scaling | p. 95 |
| Rotating | p. 101 |
| Shearing (skewing) | p. 104 |
| Distorting with envelopes | p. 106 |
| Using pathfinders | p. 108 |
| Creating fills and strokes | p. 111 |
| Using color and pattern swatches | p. 112 |
| Using color guides and live color | p. 116 |
| Grabbing colors with the eyedropper | p. 121 |
| Defining gradients | p. 123 |
| Formatting strokes | p. 126 |
| Stacking strokes in the appearance panel | p. 129 |
| Stacking fills in the appearance panel | p. 131 |
| Creating and merging live paint groups | p. 134 |
| Applying color to live paint faces and edges | p. 136 |
| Editing live paint edges | p. 139 |
| Working with layers | p. 141 |
| Organizing projects into layers | p. 142 |
| Viewing and isolating layers | p. 144 |
| Finding objects in layers | p. 145 |
| Using layers for transparency or clipping | p. 146 |
| Placing and editing raster images | p. 147 |
| Using live trace | p. 149 |
| Creating and formatting type | p. 151 |
| Creating type inserted at a point | p. 152 |
| Creating area type | p. 154 |
| Defining font and size | p. 157 |
| Selecting type | p. 159 |
| Kerning, leading, and tracking | p. 161 |
| Scaling type | p. 163 |
| Applying type attributes | p. 164 |
| Using type styles | p. 165 |
| Using OpenType glyphs | p. 168 |
| Outlining type | p. 171 |
| Formatting paragraphs | p. 173 |
| Using paragraph styles | p. 177 |
| Linking type objects | p. 179 |
| Flowing type around paths | p. 180 |
| Placing type on paths | p. 182 |
| Aligning, arranging, and clipping | p. 185 |
| Aligning and distributing objects | p. 186 |
| Snapping to grids | p. 189 |
| Measuring and placing objects | p. 191 |
| Managing stacking | p. 193 |
| Using clipping masks | p. 195 |
| Masking with type | p. 197 |
| Applying opacity masks | p. 199 |
| Transparency, filters, and effects | p. 201 |
| Applying transparency | p. 202 |
| Step and smooth blends | p. 206 |
| Adjusting blends | p. 208 |
| Applying filters | p. 211 |
| Applying effects | p. 214 |
| Using Photoshop effects | p. 217 |
| Warping with liquify tools | p. 219 |
| Using graphic styles | p. 221 |
| 3-D efforts | p. 225 |
| 3-D extrusion effects | p. 226 |
| 3-D rotation and revolve effects | p. 228 |
| Mapping symbols onto 3-D effects | p. 231 |
| Managing illustration workflow | p. 235 |
| Creating symbols and applying instances | p. 236 |
| Editing symbols | p. 239 |
| Previewing in device central | p. 240 |
| Sharing editable illustrator files | p. 243 |
| Exporting vector files | p. 245 |
| Managing file size | p. 247 |
| Exporting to raster formats | p. 248 |
| Saving for the Web | p. 249 |
| Exporting to Flash | p. 251 |
| Exporting HTML pages | p. 254 |
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