Illustrator CS5 for Windows and Macintosh

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinmann, Elaine, Author.

Contributor:

Lourekas, Peter, Contributor.

Series:

Visual QuickStart Guide

Visual quickstart guide Illustrator CS5 for Windows and Macintosh

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adobe Illustrator (Computer file).

Computer graphics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 453 p.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Adobe illustrator CS5 for Windows and Macintosh

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Peachpit Press 2010

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This fully updated edition for Illustrator CS5 covers the essential skills for Illustrator artists, such as drawing geometric and freehand objects; color management; using multiple artboards; applying colors, patterns, and gradients; creating and using brushes; transforming, reshaping, and combining objects; creating and styling type; applying graphic styles and transparency; using the Pen tool; using the live color, paint, trace, and effects features; using symbols; and output. The new and updated Illustrator CS5 features are clearly marked with bright red stars in both the table of contents and main text. Among the many new CS5 features covered in this volume are bristle brushes, drawing modes, arrows, Width tool, Shape Builder tool, and Mini Bridge. Enhancements to such features as path joining, artboards, pixel-perfect drawing, and Art brushes are also covered. 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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

1 Create &amp

Save Files Launching Illustrator

Creating a new document

Using templates

Adding artboards to a document

Deleting artboards

Modifying artboards

Aligning and rearranging artboards

Choosing artboard options

Saving a document in the Adobe Illustrator (ai) format

Ending a work session

2 Manage Color Introduction to color management

Choosing color settings for Illustrator

Synchronizing the color settings

Changing the document profile

Proofing a document onscreen

3 Workspaces Features of the Illustrator workspace

Using tabbed document windows

Arranging document windows

Changing the zoom level

Fitting an artboard in the document window

Moving an area of a document into view

Changing the screen mode

Switching document views

Creating custom views

Configuring the panel groups and docks

Choosing and saving workspaces

4 Panels The Illustrator panel icons

The Tools panel

The Control panel

The other essential panels illustrated

5 Bridge Opening files from Illustrator

Launching Adobe Bridge

Features of the Bridge window

Choosing a workspace for Bridge

Previewing graphics in Bridge

Openingfiles from Bridge

Customizing the Bridge workspace

Saving custom workspaces

Resetting the Bridge workspace

Using thumbnail stacks

Searching for files

Creating and using collections

Rating and labeling thumbnails

Choose a sorting order

Filtering the display of thumbnails

Assigning keywords to files

Exporting the Bridge cache

Managing files using Bridge

6 Geometric Objects Selecting and deleting objects

Creating rectangles and ellipses

Creating polygons

Creating stars

Creating line segments

Creating spirals

Creating pixel-perfect artwork for the Web.

7 Freehand drawing A quick color primer

Drawing with the Pencil tool

Drawing with the Paintbrush tool

Choosing options for the Pencil and Paintbrush tools

Drawing with the Blob Brush tool

Choosing options for the Blob Brush tool

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 &amp

Align Moving objects

Aligning objects with the help of Smart Guides

Duplicating objects

Aligning and distributing objects via buttons

Creating ruler guides

Creating guides from objects

Locking and unlocking guides

Clearing guides

Using the grid

10 Fill &amp

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 the Kuler panel

Replacing colors in your artwork

Inverting colors

Colorizing grayscale images

Blending fill colors

Creating and editing fill patterns

11 Transform Transforming an object via its bounding box

Using the Free Transform tool

Using the Scale, Rotate, Shear, and Reflect tools

Using the Transform and Control panels

Using the Transform Each command

Using the Transform effect

Repeating a transformation

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

Exercise: Draw and reshape objects in a freehand style

Using the Reshape tool

Exercise: Draw a brush with the Reshape tool

Erasing sections of objects

Aligning points

Joining endpoints

Reshaping objects using commands

Slicing and dicing

Exercise: Draw a glass of beer (or cream soda!)

13 Layers Getting to know the Layers panel

Creating layers

Deleting layers and objects

Selecting listings on 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 Applying appearance attributes

Editing appearance attributes

Hiding and deleting appearance attributes

Copying appearance attributes

Expanding appearance attributes

15 Effects Applying Illustrator effects

Editing, duplicating, and deleting effects

A few Illustrator effects up close

Rasterizing objects

Applying Photoshop effects via the Effect Gallery

16 Graphic Styles Graphic styles basics

Loading graphic styles from a library

Applying graphic styles

Removing graphic styles

Adding graphic styles

Creating graphic styles

Redefining graphic styles

Deleting graphic styles from the panel

Creating a custom graphic style library

Breaking the link to a graphic style

17 Live Trace The tracing features in Illustrator

Tracing a raster image

Applying tracing options.

Managing tracing presets

Releasing a tracing

Converting a tracing to paths

18 Live Paint Creating a Live Paint group

Using the Live Paint Bucket tool

Using the Live Paint Selection tool

Reshaping a Live Paint group

Adding new faces and edges to a Live Paint group

Choosing gap options for a Live Paint group

Expanding and releasing Live Paint groups

19 Create Type The type tools

Choosing a font and font size for a type tool

Creating point type

Creating type in a rectangle

Creating area type

Creating path type

Copying or moving type characters

Importing text into Illustrator

Threading type objects

Rotating type

Exercise: Putting type on a circle

20 Style &amp

Edit Type Selecting type

Changing the font

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

Hanging punctuation

Setting tabs

Changing the baseline shift value

Creating type outlines

Creating special effects with type

Exercise: Create a shadow for point type

Applying appearance attributes to type

Exercise: Add multiple strokes to a character

Exercise: Use the Free Distort effect on type

21 Pen Tools Drawing with the Pen tool

Converting anchor points on paths

Exercise: Draw a knife with the Pen tool

22 Acquire Images How images are acquired in Illustrator

Using the Open command

Using the Place command

Importing Photoshop images into Illustrator

Managing linked images

Dragging and dropping images into Illustrator

23 Brushes Applying brushes to existing paths

Using the Brushes panel

Removing brush strokes.

Expanding brush strokes

Creating and editing Calligraphic brushes

Creating and editing Scatter brushes

Creating and editing Art brushes

Creating and editing Bristle brushes

Painting brush strokes inside objects

Duplicating brushes

Editing brushes manually

Editing brush strokes on objects

Deleting brushes

Creating brush libraries

24 Gradients Applying a gradient

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 Using the Shape Builder tool

Applying the Shape Mode commands

Applying the Pathfinder commands

Using the Compound Path command

Working with compound paths

Applying Pathfinder effects

26 Clipping Masks Creating a clipping set

Selecting objects in a clipping set

Adding objects to, and deleting them from, a clipping set

Releasing a clipping set

27 Transparency Changing an object's opacity or blending mode

Controlling which objects the transparency settings affect

Using the transparency grid

28 Symbols Accessing the symbol libraries

Creating individual symbol instances

Creating symbol sets with the Symbol Sprayer tool

Replacing symbols

Creating symbols

Deleting symbols from the panel

Saving symbol libraries

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 Creating color groups via the Recolor Artwork dialog

Using the color wheel in the Recolor Artwork dialog

Assigning colors to artwork via the Recolor Artwork dialog.

Reducing colors via the Recolor Artwork dialog.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612738906

9780131385481

0131385488

9781282738904

1282738909

9780131385474

013138547X

OCLC:

1027130569