Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

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CONTENTS

PREFACE. How One-on-One Works xi

LESSON 1. Starting a Document 3

What Is Illustrator? 5

Illustration versus Image 6

Opening an Illustration 7

Organizing Your Artwork 10

Setting Up a New Document 15

Changing the Document Setup and Modifying Artboards 18

Introducing Guides, Smart Guides, and Layers 24

Creating Custom Workspaces 28

Saving Your Artwork 34

LESSON 2. Lines, Shapes, and Color 39

Endpoints and Closed Paths 41

Drawing Lines, Arcs, and Spirals 41

Splitting, Joining, and Aligning 44

Drawing Primitive Shapes 51

Combining Simple Shapes into Complex Ones 62

Coloring Your Artwork 66

Filling, Stroking, and Stacking 74

LESSON 3. Using the Pen Tool 85

What Makes the Straight Line Bend 87

Establishing a Bitmapped Tracing Template 88

Making Free-Form Polygons and Spline Curves 90

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Drawing Fluid Bézier Curves 96

Cutting, Separating, and Closing Paths 101

LESSON 4. Creating and Formatting Text 109

The Mechanics of Type 111

Placing, Entering, and Editing Text 112

Applying Formatting and Effects 117

Editing Area Type 122

Placing Type on a Path 127

Advanced Formatting, OpenType Fonts,

and Special Characters 129

LESSON 5. Transform and Reshape 137

The Fine Art of Reshaping 137

Moving and Cloning Path Elements 139

Offsetting Paths to Simulate Depth 146

Working with the Scale Tool 150

Rotate, Reflect, and Series Duplication 157

Transforming with Respect to Independent Origins 163

Scaling Partially Selected Paths 169

LESSON 6. Pathfinder Operations 179

Compound Paths versus Compound Shapes 179

Meet the Pathfinder Panel 181

Adding and Subtracting Shapes 185

Using the Divide Operation 188

Crop, Exclude, and Intersect 193

LESSON 7. Blends, Masks, and Gradient Mesh 203

Designing Custom Gradients 205

Blending Between Paths 206

Editing and Masking a Blend 209

Creating Specialty Blends 213

Making the Most of Clipping Masks 219

Creating and Editing a Gradient Mesh 226

LESSON 8. Working with Transparency 243

Yeah, But Will It Print? 245

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Opacity and Knockout Group 246

Working with Opacity Masks 251

Applying Blend Modes 260

Cropping Entire Layers 267

LESSON 9. Brushes and Symbols 271

Dynamic Brushstrokes 273

Symbols and Instances 274

Enhancing Line Art with Art Brushes 275

Expressing Text as an Art Brush 291

Replicating, Updating,

and Replacing Symbols 306

Using the Symbolism Tools 317

LESSON 10. The Amazing World of Dynamic Effects 329

The Best (and Worst) Effects 331

Applying and Editing Graphic Styles 333

Exploiting the Transform Effect 349

Building Up a Complex Transformation Series 358

Creating 3D Text and Graphics 372

LESSON 11. Live Trace, Paint, and Color 385

Similar Names, Different Features 387

Creating a Black-and-White Trace 388

Tracing Full-Color Artwork 403

Filling and Stroking Path Intersections Dynamically 413

Recoloring Artwork with Live Color 419

LESSON 12. Printing and Exporting 435

General Printing Considerations 437

Printing Artwork to a Local Printer 439

Exporting Artwork for the Web 450

Web Optimizing a Low-Color Graphic 454

Exporting a Layered Photoshop Image 459

INDE X . 465