Illustrator CS for Dummies by Ted Alspach ISBN:076454084x John Wiley & Sons © 2004 This reference covers the latest updates to Adobe Illustrator, including Web graphic tools and new effects you can apply to your images. Table of Contents Illustrator CS For Dummies Introduction Part I - Driving People Crazy Illustrator s Bum Rap Ch apt er 1 - Introducing the World of Illustrator Ch apt er 2 - Following the Righteous Path Ch apt er 3 - Doing Everyday Things with Illustrator Part II - Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork Ch apt er 4 - Shaping Up, Basically Ch apt er 5 - Getting Your Fill of Fills and Strokes Ch apt er 6 - Selecting and Editing Paths Ch apt er 7 - Wielding the Mighty Pen Tool Ch apt er 8 - Creating Straight and Curved Lines without the Pen Tool This document is created with the unregistered version of CHM2PDF Pilot Ch apt er 9 - Creating Magnificent Brushstrokes Ch apt er 10 - Extreme Fills and Strokes Ch apt er 11 - Effectively Keeping Up Appearances, with Style(s) Part III - Taking Your Paths to Obedience School Ch apt er 12 - Pushing, Pulling, Poking, and Prodding Ch apt er 13 - Organizing Efficiently Part IV - Practically Speaking: Type, Print, and Files Ch apt er 14 - Introducing Letters and Such (Type 101) Ch apt er 15 - Printing Your Masterpiece Ch apt er 16 - Putting Your Art on the Web Ch apt er 17 - Moving Files Into and Out of Illustrator Part V - The Part of Tens Ch apt er 18 - Ten Production-Enhancing Tips Ch apt er 19 - Ten (Or So) Ways to Customize Illustrator This document is created with the unregistered version of CHM2PDF Pilot Bo nus Ch apt er 1 - Taking Images Out of the Realm of Reality Index List of Figures List of Tables List of Sidebars This document is created with the unregistered version of CHM2PDF Pilot Back Cover So you thought Illustrator should really be called Intimidator? Not so! Let this book draw you a map through the jungle of pages, paths, pixels, and Pen tools, and before you know it, you ll have your creations in print, on the Web, or even on a PDA. Then, just smile mysteriously when folks say Wow! About the Author Ted Alspach is considered the leading authority on the history, use, and functionality of Adobe Illustrator. He has written more than 25 books on graphics and desktop publishing. 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Dedication To all the people who are experimenting with Illustrator for the first time may this book serve as a guide to the wonders of vector graphics. Author s Acknowledgments The people who deserve the most thanks are the dedicated, incredibly talented staff at Adobe Systems, Inc. that work on Adobe Illustrator. The engineers, quality engineers, product management, UI, program management, and all the other people worked for more than 11/2 years to produce such a superb product. Extra-special thanks to the Illustrator management team of Lydia Varmazis, Leon Brown, Mordy Golding, Susan Gile, Ning-Ju Nan, Rob Sargent, Teresa Crotty, Pamela Ruhl, John Farmer, Chris Scott, Heather Bowman, Mike Abbott, Brian Miyakusu, Yvonne Murray, Margot McClaughry, Shane Tracy, and Julie Meridian. Publisher s Acknowledgments We re proud of this book; please send us your comments through our online registration form located at www.dummies.com/register/. 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The other half knowledge is what this book is all about. Like a tragic hero, the great power of Illustrator is also its terrible curse. With its 30+ palettes, 70+ tools, and scores of menu items, its sheer depth is enough to make the most hardened graphics expert go shaky in the knees. Don t be fooled by Illustrator s vastness, however, because you will find a unique, consistent logic underlying it all. After you master a few basics, all the rest falls nicely into place. In this book, our mission is to get you past Illustrator s intimidation factor and into its Wow! factor. I take you from being befuddled and mystified by Illustrator s nigh-infinite options to creating the kinds of graphics that others look at and say, Wow, how did you do that? This document is created with the unregistered version of CHM2PDF Pilot About This Book This book is written to make your journey into Adobe Illustrator flexible and self-paced. Each chapter is as self-contained as possible. You can hop in anywhere you want, with a minimum of flipping to other parts of the book to find out what you missed. If your goal is to find out more about the Pencil tool, for example, you can skip everything else and go directly to Chapter 8 without getting hopelessly lost. On the other hand, if you re determined to find out as much about the program as possible, you can read the book from cover to cover. I organized the book so that the chapters move from simple to more complex concepts. The early chapters make a good base for understanding the latter ones. Use this book as both a reference book and an on-site trainer for Adobe Illustrator. To find out more about a specific feature, look for it in the Index or Table of Contents. To get a more in-depth feel for the feature, follow the step-by-step instructions that accompany the information on the major features. By and large, people get more out of doing than out of reading about doing. Adobe Illustrator is a classic case-in-point. Don t bother to memorize anything in this book. Instead, pick up a concept, work with it in Illustrator for a while, and then come back to the book when you re ready for something new. Above all, have fun with it! Adobe Illustrator is one of the coolest programs on the planet. With a little practice, you can be creating illustrations that knock your socks off. Note Because I realize that some folks use PCs and some folks use Macs, I try to offer commands for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. Occasionally I offer information specific to one platform or the other, including keyboard shortcuts. While you journey through this book, you ll see that many figures (those that show you what you see on-screen) are a mixed bag of all things Mr. Gates and Mr. Jobs. This document is created with the unregistered version of CHM2PDF Pilot [...]... of features Illustrator 10 For Dummies and the Illustrator 10 Bible were written during this time • Illustrator CS: The new features of Illustrator CS include 3D effects, type enhancements, and the Scribble effect, which make this the best version of Illustrator ever Yet another edition of both the Illustrator Bible and Illustrator For Dummies were written, and my internal involvement with Illustrator. .. Macworld Illustrator Bible and Illustrator Filter Finesse, a book all about Illustrator plug-ins Illustrator 7.0: The first truly cross-platform version of the product was the beginning of the end for previous PC market-leader CorelDRAW I alpha-tested Illustrator for the first time, and consulted with Extensis for Vector Tools, a fantastic set of productivity plug-ins for Illustrator The Illustrator. .. The Illustrator startup process displays the splash screen an image to look at while the program is cranking up As Illustrator continues the startup process, the flower image disappears and is replaced with something entirely new for Version CS: The Welcome to Adobe Illustrator dialog box, shown in Figure 1-1 The Welcome to Adobe Illustrator dialog box gives the following options to start using Illustrator: ... how to use Illustrator (as well as QuarkXPress and Photoshop) I met my wife (an avid Illustrator artist and author herself) by training her on the 3.2 version of Illustrator • Illustrator 5.0/5.5: Illustrator came with palettes and Photoshop filter support I wrote the first edition of the Macworld Illustrator Bible, the first fully comprehensive book on Illustrator I also started beta-testing Illustrator. .. Creating new documents • Saving your artwork • Printing Illustrator documents • Bailing out of a document (and Illustrator itself) The first time you run Illustrator, you ll probably think that Adobe Intimidator would be a more appropriate name for Adobe Illustrator The program s dozens of tools, hundreds of commands, and more than 30 palettes can transform confident, secure individuals into drooling, confused,... news for Illustrator was a set of comprehensive tools for creating Web graphics I wrote the first version of the Illustrator For Dummies book, as well as the Illustrator 9 Bible • Illustrator 10: Even more Web functionality was added as well as OS X native capabilities, along with several new production and creativity tools I began overseeing the Illustrator business as Group Product Manager, working... on-screen today In the field of professional graphics and publishing, each software program has to perform only a few basic functions: graphics creation, image editing, page layout (for print), or Web layout Illustrator is the de facto standard in graphics creation While there are two competing programs out there (Macromedia FreeHand and CorelDRAW), Illustrator is used three times as much as the other... and formats, including Photoshop and PDF Adobe has products in the other categories (two in the page layout category) One benefit of using Illustrator is that it works very well (as you may expect) with the other Adobe products, most of which have a similar interface and way of working If you know one Adobe product well, chances are you ll have an easy time of figuring out other Adobe products Illustrator. .. cross-platform, like the product) was written for this version • Illustrator 8:0: This version added a huge set of minor enhancements, answered long-time customer requests, and broke new ground with brushes and gradient mesh features I wrote Illustrator Studio Secrets, as well as the fourth installment of the Illustrator Bible During this time, I began working for Extensis as a product manager for Photoshop... guide to show you how far things are apart from each other One great thing about Illustrator: For the most part, size doesn t matter (no, really) When you create graphics for the Web, you can determine the size of the graphic when you save it When you re creating graphics for print, most of the time you ll be creating graphics to be imported into page layout applications, such as QuarkXPress, PageMaker, . big news for Illustrator was a set of comprehensive tools for creating Web graphics. I wrote the first version of the Illustrator For Dummies book, as well as the Illustrator 9 Bible. • Illustrator. Overview Welcome to Illustrator CS For Dummies. You re reading this book because you want to find out more about Adobe Illustrator. That s a very smart move because Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard. functionality of Adobe Illustrator. He has written more than 25 books on graphics and desktop publishing. This document is created with the unregistered version of CHM2PDF Pilot Illustrator CS For Dummies