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The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book
The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book
paperback
Published:
9 August, 2010
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Description
The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator-now completely reorganized, fully updated, and created for intermediate through professional users of Illustrator CS5 For years, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world's best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this completely updated edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, you'll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS5, Sharon shows you how to integrate the new perspective grid, Shape Builder tool, Bristle Brushes, transparency in gradient mesh, new drawing modes, multiple artboards, and more. This edition is loaded with new lessons, galleries, and stunning new artwork that features:
- Creating artwork with the dynamic Perspective Grid
- Fast construction with the Shape Builder tool and drawing modes
- Working with the painterly and naturalistic Bristle Brushes
- Creating variety in strokes with the new Width tool
- Enhanced Web, Flash, and animation workflow
- Fast and easy masking using the Draw Inside mode
- Layering transparency in photorealistic gradient mesh
- Managing multiple artboards with the new Artboards panel
- Integrating Blob Brush artwork with Live Paint
- Working quickly using the improved Appearance panel
Find Artwork to pick apart, custom WOW! scripts by Premedia Systems, and many demos and plug-ins on the DVD-ROM:
- Custom WOW! scripts created by Premedia Systems for colorizing objects and resizing multiple artboards.
- The best demos and plug-ins hand-picked by WOW! technical editor Jean-Claude Tremblay
- Bonus ReadMe documents including PDFs from the Adobe technical team and commissioned artists
- Details about creating SmallCaps in Illustrator by ILene Strizver from thetypestudio.com
- Two full PDF chapters from Mordy Golding's Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5
- Technical experts from Sandee Cohen's InDesign: Visual QuickStart Guide, and Conrad Chavez's Real World Adobe Photoshop for Photographers
- Many art files from the book to deconstruct
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780321712448 |
| ISBN10 | 0321712447 |
| Number Of Pages | 304 |
| Item Weight | 738 g |
| Product Dimensions | 190 x 20 x 230 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Peachpit Press |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | 1 |