Adobe Illustrator is the indispensable vector drawing tool used by digital artists around the world. As a core component of Adobe Creative Suite CS3, Illustrator CS3 provides those artists with powerful drawing tools, unparalleled typographic controls, and much more. The award-winning Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book is back to motivate all those artists. With its practical, yet inspiring examples, this book focuses on real-world tips, tricks, and techniques extracted from real-world artworks of more than 100 of the best Illustrator artists. Along the way, it covers all of Adobe Illustrator CS3s new features, including new tools in Live Color, enhancements to essential drawing tools and controls, improvements to the powerful Control panel, the new Eraser tool and Crop Area tool, and much more. Product Description
The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator - now fully updated for Illustrator CS3
For years, Sharon Steuer and her international Wow! team have been reaching out to the world of professional illustrators to showcase the range and quality of work these artists are doing in Illustrator. In this revised edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, youll find tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from more than 100 of these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS3, Sharon shows you how to perform magical color changes using Live Color, and prepare animations for Flash. You'll not only learn how to"think in Illustrator"with the Zen of Illustrator lessons, you'll also master the newest, hottest, and most challenging techniques.
This edition is loaded with new lessons on these subjects, and many more:
Using the new Live Color features
Creating animations and integrating Illustrator with Flash
Working with Live Trace and Live Paint
The basics of using layers, templates, the Free Distort tool, and more
Opacity Mask 101" based on the cover image
Applying blending modes and transparency to raster images
Masking with live type
Simulating ink and watercolor paintings
Working with live fills, multiple strokes, and Live 3D
Basic to advanced blends, gradients, and mesh
Colorizing photos
Demystifying photorealistic mesh
NOTE:
User Level: This book is for Intermediate through Professional-level Illustrator artists and designers.
Backcover
The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator - now fully updated for Illustrator CS3
For years, Sharon Steuer and her international Wow! team have been reaching out to the world of professional illustrators to showcase the range and quality of work these artists are doing in Illustrator. In this revised edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, youll find tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from more than 100 of these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS3, Sharon shows you how to perform magical color changes using Live Color, and prepare animations for Flash. You'll not only learn how to"think in Illustrator"with the Zen of Illustrator lessons, you'll also master the newest, hottest, and most challenging techniques.
This edition is loaded with new lessons on these subjects, and many more:
Using the new Live Color features
Creating animations and integrating Illustrator with Flash
Working with Live Trace and Live Paint
The basics of using layers, templates, the Free Distort tool, and more
Opacity Mask 101" based on the cover image
Applying blending modes and transparency to raster images
Masking with live type
Simulating ink and watercolor paintings
Working with live fills, multiple strokes, and Live 3D
Basic to advanced blends, gradients, and mesh
Colorizing photos
Demystifying photorealistic mesh
NOTE:
User Level: This book is for Intermediate through Professional-level Illustrator artists and designers.
1. Illustrator Basices
2. The Zen of Illustrator
3. Drawing & Coloring
4. Brushes & Symbols
5. Layers & Appearances
6. Type
7. LiveTrace, LivePaint & LiveColor
8. Blends, Gradients & Mesh
9. Transparency
10. Live Effects & Graphic Styles
11. Live 3D Effects
12. Advanced Techniques
13. Web & Animation
14. Illustrator & Other Programs
The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator - now fully updated for Illustrator CS3
For years, Sharon Steuer and her international Wow! team have been reaching out to the world of professional illustrators to showcase the range and quality of work these artists are doing in Illustrator. In this revised edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, youll find tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from more than 100 of these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS3, Sharon shows you how to perform magical color changes using Live Color, and prepare animations for Flash. You'll not only learn how to"think in Illustrator"with the Zen of Illustrator lessons, you'll also master the newest, hottest, and most challenging techniques.
This edition is loaded with new lessons on these subjects, and many more:
Using the new Live Color features
Creating animations and integrating Illustrator with Flash
Working with Live Trace and Live Paint
The basics of using layers, templates, the Free Distort tool, and more
Opacity Mask 101" based on the cover image
Applying blending modes and transparency to raster images
Masking with live type
Simulating ink and watercolor paintings
Working with live fills, multiple strokes, and Live 3D
Basic to advanced blends, gradients, and mesh
Colorizing photos
Demystifying photorealistic mesh
NOTE:
User Level: This book is for Intermediate through Professional-level Illustrator artists and designers.
Backcover
The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator - now fully updated for Illustrator CS3
For years, Sharon Steuer and her international Wow! team have been reaching out to the world of professional illustrators to showcase the range and quality of work these artists are doing in Illustrator. In this revised edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, youll find tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from more than 100 of these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS3, Sharon shows you how to perform magical color changes using Live Color, and prepare animations for Flash. You'll not only learn how to"think in Illustrator"with the Zen of Illustrator lessons, you'll also master the newest, hottest, and most challenging techniques.
This edition is loaded with new lessons on these subjects, and many more:
Using the new Live Color features
Creating animations and integrating Illustrator with Flash
Working with Live Trace and Live Paint
The basics of using layers, templates, the Free Distort tool, and more
Opacity Mask 101" based on the cover image
Applying blending modes and transparency to raster images
Masking with live type
Simulating ink and watercolor paintings
Working with live fills, multiple strokes, and Live 3D
Basic to advanced blends, gradients, and mesh
Colorizing photos
Demystifying photorealistic mesh
NOTE:
User Level: This book is for Intermediate through Professional-level Illustrator artists and designers.
1. Illustrator Basices
2. The Zen of Illustrator
3. Drawing & Coloring
4. Brushes & Symbols
5. Layers & Appearances
6. Type
7. LiveTrace, LivePaint & LiveColor
8. Blends, Gradients & Mesh
9. Transparency
10. Live Effects & Graphic Styles
11. Live 3D Effects
12. Advanced Techniques
13. Web & Animation
14. Illustrator & Other Programs