Real world Illustrator 9 / Deke McClelland, Sandee Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McClelland, Deke, 1962-

Contributor:

Cohen, Sandee, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer graphics.

Adobe Illustrator (Computer file).

Physical Description:

xxix, 839 pages, 16 pages of color plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Real world illustrator nine

Real world Adobe Illustrator 9

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : Peachpit, 2000.

Summary:

Two prolific authors of how-to books have collaborated on this comprehensive look at Illustrator 9. The book doesn't require any prior experience, and lays a good foundation before it dives into more advanced tasks. More experienced users can scan Chapter 1, which lists what's new in Version 9 and points to the appropriate chapters so readers can get up to speed quickly.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Illustrator 9: What It Is 3

Adobe: the "Microsoft of Graphics" 4

Where Illustrator Fits In 5

Close, But Not Kin: Illustrator Versus Photoshop 5

The Lowdown on Illustrator 9 10

Growing up with Illustrator 14

Chapter 2 Witness the Splendor That Is Illustrator 17

Getting Illustrator Up and Running 18

Accommodating Your Personal Style 40

Chapter 3 Objects, Images, and the File Formats That Love Them 65

Preparing a New Illustration 66

Opening and Placing 74

Getting Around in Illustrator 85

Saving Your Work to Disk 95

Part 2 Creating 103

Chapter 4 Drawing the Simple Stuff 105

Everything You Need to Know about Paths 106

The Simplest of Simple Shapes 109

Drawing Free-Form Paths 122

Painting Paths 126

Tracing Templates

No Longer a Black-and-White Issue 128

Fixing Things 131

Yet One Tools Beats Them All 137

Chapter 5 Exact Points and Precision Curves 139

Selecting Like a House on Fire 140

Deselecting Stuff that You Want to Leave As Is 151

Dragging Stuff Around 151

The Great and Powerful Pen Tool 162

Putting the Pen Tool to Work 166

Operating on Points Long after the Path Is Done 176

The Stretch Tool 186

Reliving the Past 188

Chapter 6 How to Handle Typical Type 191

Establishing Text Objects 192

Selecting and Editing Text 198

Formatting Type 201

Character-Level Formatting 202

Paragraph-Level Formatting 212

The Amazing World of Tabs 223

The Text Eyedropper and Paint Bucket 229

Chapter 7 Some of Your Wackier Text Effects 235

Topsy-Turvy Type on a Curve 236

Filling a Shape with Text 251

Flowing Text from One Shape to Another 253

Wrapping Type Around Graphics 260

Importing and Exporting Text 265

Checking Your Spelling 268

Searching and Replacing Stuff 272

Creating Rows and Columns 279

Fitting Text on the Fly 282

Converting Character Outlines to Paths 285

Chapter 8 This Is Your Brain on Graphs 287

Creating a Graph 288

Defining the Graph Size with the Graph Tool 291

Using the Graph Data Window 294

Organizing Your Data for Different Kinds of Graphs 301

Applying Automated Changes to a Graph 311

Manually Customizing a Graph 324

Graphing with Graphics 328

Part 3 Changing 341

Chapter 9 Modifying and Combining Paths 343

One Million Ways to Replicate 344

Dragging and Dropping 352

Joining Points and Paths 354

Splitting Paths into Pieces 356

Carving Holes into Compound Paths 360

Use a Path to Change a Path 367

Chapter 10 Developing a Flair for the Schematic 377

Measuring and Positioning with Microscopic Precision 378

Aligning and Distributing Objects 386

Creating and Using Custom Guides 392

Smart Guides 398

Assembling Paths into Groups 404

When Grouping Isn't Protection Enough 405

The Celebrated Stacking Order 407

Working with Drawing Layers 409

Vacuuming Your Illustration 421

Chapter 11 The Magical World of Transformations 423

Making Objects Bigger and Smaller 424

Rotating Objects 439

Flipping Objects Back and Forth 444

Slanting Objects the Weird Way 446

Multiple Transformations on Multiple Objects 451

Free Transform for All 453

Chapter 12 Hog-Wild Special Effects 461

Freelance Features 463

Twirl: Tool, Filter, and Effect 466

Using Live Effects 470

Imperfecting Paths 476

Orderly Distortions and Transformations 484

Round Corners 486

Pathfinder Effects 487

Chapter 13 Becoming Master of the Raster 491

Raster Effects on Vector Shapes 492

Filters and Effects for Raster Images 499

Converting Pixels into Vectors 502

Linked or Embedded 508

Hoist that Raster and Rake those Pixels 509

Trading Artwork with Photoshop 519

Part 4 Coloring 523

Chapter 14 The Slippery Science of Color 525

The Great White Light and the Breakaway Color Republics 526

Choosing Your Colorspace 532

Finding Your Colors in Illustrator 532

Applying the Overprint Options 551

Applying Automated Color Manipulations 554

Chapter 15 Fills, Multi-Fills, and Fab Fills 561

Filling Closed and Open Paths 562

Filling Type and Text Blocks 564

Applying a Single Fill 567

Applying Multi-Fills and Effects 568

Gradients in the Key of Life 573

Adjusting a Gradient Fill to Fit its Path 579

Gradient Mesh 583

Filling Objects with Patterns 589

Chapter 16 Strokes and Brushes 597

Basic Stroke Attributes 598

Applying a Stroke from the Stroke Palette 601

Stroke Positions and Multi-Strokes 613

Stroke Commands, Filters and Effects 617

Brushing Up on Your Paths 623

Chapter 17 Transparency 643

Opacity 644

Blending Modes 649

Knockout Groups 655

Opacity Masks 657

Using Transparency 661

Analyzing Transparency 665

Chapter 18 Blends, Masks, and Ink Pen Fills 671

Blending Paths 672

Creating a Blend 674

Cool Blend Tool Tricks 688

Masking: Filling Objects with Objects 697

Hatching Textures 703

Chapter 19 Web Graphics and Animations 717

Creating Web Graphics 720

Save for Web Application 724

Creating Flash (SWF) Graphics and Animations 737

Creating SVG Graphics 743

Chapter 20 Working Smarter and Faster 747

Taking Illustrator's Shortcuts 748

Moving Into Actions 751

Working With Styles 763

Transferring Attributes 764

Contextual Menus 769

Chapter 21 Printing Your Illustrations 771

Printing Composite Pages 772

Printing Color Separations 782

Unusual Printing Considerations 789

Creating PDF Files 801.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0201704056

OCLC:

44737190