Book description
The only book on Illustrator 10 you need!
Special Edition Using Adobe Illustrator 10 is best suited for the graphics professional who has at least some working knowledge of the software. The book is written by a leading expert, Peter Bauer, who brings years of Illustrator experience and knowledge of how Illustrator operates within the Adobe family of products. Peter draws special attention to new features including: full Mac OS X coverage; new drawing capabilities including grids, lines, arcs, compound-shape enhancements, and Flare tool; enhanced Web features including symbols, slicing, dynamic data-driven graphics, enhanced Flash and SVG support; improved effects including warping and envelope distortion, and Liquify tools; increased productivity with new Magic Wand selection tool, dynamic data-driven graphics, improved interoperability with other Adobe products, and asset management scripting. All of this information is organized by feature so that graphics professionals can easily find the information they want when they want it. Special Edition Using Adobe Illustrator 10 also has several appendices that serve as a quick guide to all of Illustrator's tools, palettes, and menus.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Introduction
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Color Section
- Chapter 9: Working with Blends
- Chapter 12: Understanding and Applying Color
- Chapter 18: Raster Images and Rasterized Objects
- Chapter 19: Exploiting Illustrator’s Transparency
- Chapter 19: Blending Modes (Part 1)
- Chapter 19: Blending Modes (Part 2)
- Chapter 20: Illustrator’s Filters (Part 1)
- Chapter 20: Illustrator’s Filters (Part 2)
- Chapter 20: Illustrator’s Filters (Part 3)
- Chapter 20: Illustrator’s Filters (Part 4)
- Chapter 20: Illustrator’s Filters (Part 5)
- Chapter 21: Designing Web Sites and Web Pages
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I. Overview of Adobe Illustrator 10
- 1. What’s New In Illustrator 10
- 2. The Illustrator Interface and Setup
- 3. Working with Files In Illustrator
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II. Basic Creation In Illustrator
- 4. Creating and Editing Paths
- 5. Shape, Drawing, and Graph Tools
- 6. Utilizing the Four Types of Brushes
- 7. Type and Text In Illustrator
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III. Manipulating Objects In Illustrator
- 8. Transforming and Distorting Objects
- 9. Working with Blends
- 10. Illustrator’s Layers, Sublayers, and Groups
- 11. Output Options
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IV. Enhancing Illustrator Objects
- 12. Understanding and Applying Color
- 13. Applying and Defining Patterns
- 14. Using the Appearance and Styles Palettes
- 15. The Gradient and Gradient Mesh Tools
- V. Getting the Most Out of Illustrator
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VI. Between Vector and Raster
- 18. Raster Images and Rasterized Objects
- 19. Exploiting Illustrator’s Transparency
- 20. Using Filters and Effects
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VII. Illustrator and the Web
- 21. Designing Web Sites and Web Pages
- 22. Saving Images for the Web
- 23. Flash and SVG Support
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VIII. Pre-Press and Four-Color Process Printing
- 24. Commercial Printing and Trapping Issues
- 25. Linking and Embedding Images and Fonts
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IX. Illustrator Efficiency and Interoperability
- 26. Automation Through Actions
- 27. Dynamic Data-Driven Graphics
- 28. Integrating Illustrator and Photoshop
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X. Appendixes
- A. Installing Illustrator
- B. Illustrator Assistance and Resources
- C. Illustrator to Go
Product information
- Title: Special Edition Using Adobe® Illustrator® 10
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2002
- Publisher(s): Que
- ISBN: 9780789727046
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