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21.	Shading with the Adobe Illustrator CS5 Mesh Object By Brian Wood Oct 19, 2010 Simple lines can convey straightforward ideas, but subtlety often requires shading. Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, demonstrates using mesh objects to add gradients to curves. Brian shares his best tips for saving steps and preventing headaches as you work with mesh objects.
22.	Create a PDF Portfolio Using Adobe Illustrator By xtine burrough Oct 18, 2010 Adobe Illustrator’s multiple Artboards feature saves some students and professionals the time it takes to learn a new software program. In this article, a multi-page PDF portfolio—an essential document for students and professionals alike—is created in Illustrator. If you’ve never used InDesign, but you need to make a multi-page document, author xtine burrough explains how this process is just what you need.
23.	Taking Advantage of Layer Strategies in Adobe Illustrator CS5 By Brian Wood Oct 12, 2010 Whether you want to create multiple versions of a single object or you're building incredibly complex artwork, layers can be very helpful for controlling and keeping track of your Illustrator art objects and documents. Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, demonstrates strategies for making layers really useful.
24.	Sharon Steuer and Mordy Golding Talk about Adobe Illustrator CS5 By Sharon Steuer, Mordy Golding Sep 21, 2010 Sharon Steuer (author of The Adobe Illustrator CS5 WOW! Book) and Mordy Golding (author of Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5) ask each other some burning questions.
25.	Illustrator CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide -- Panels By Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas Sep 7, 2010 This chapter will help you become more intimately acquainted with the Illustrator interface features that you will be using continually as you work: the panels.
26.	Creating Web Content in Adobe Illustrator CS5 By Brian Wood Aug 30, 2010 Brian Wood, author of Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, presents best practices and handy tips for using Illustrator to create and save artwork for your website. Follow his advice to create better-looking and faster-loading art that adds value to your site.
27.	Top 10 New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS5 By Brian Wood Aug 25, 2010 Brian Wood, contributor to Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book, loves the handy new (and often long-awaited) features in Illustrator CS5. He highlights 10 of his favorites for users who want to know whether CS5 fulfills its promises.
28.	Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5: Creative Drawing By Mordy Golding Aug 24, 2010 Creative drawing in Illustrator can be fun to use and also be rather addictive. Mordy Golding shows you how to use Live Paint and how to work with the Pencil Tool, brushes, and Gradient Mesh to get the color, composition, texture, and feel you want.
29.	Working with Type in the Adobe Illustrator CS5 Perspective Grid By David Karlins Jun 21, 2010 In print or online, readers are unimpressed by text that's just plonked down onto a graphical background. On the other hand, type with tasteful effects can make a publication or web page much more inviting. David Karlins, author of Adobe Creative Suite 5 Web Premium How-Tos: Essential Techniques, shows how to manipulate text in Adobe Illustrator CS5 to lend great visual perspective.
30.	Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 Classroom in a Book: Editing the Perspective Grid By Adobe Creative Team Apr 14, 2010 This excerpt from Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to edit the Perspective Grid.
31.	Working with Panels in Adobe Illustrator CS4 By Elaine Weinmann, Peter Lourekas Jun 2, 2009 This chapter will help you become more intimately acquainted with the Illustrator interface features that you will be using continually as you work: the panels.
32.	Using Layers for Transparency and Clipping in Illustrator CS4 By David Karlins Jun 1, 2009 Do you think of layers strictly as a selection tool? You're missing out. David Karlins points out a number of ways in which layers can be used to edit artwork in Illustrator.
33.	Mapping Artwork onto 3D Effects in Illustrator CS4 By David Karlins May 12, 2009 If you're not using Illustrator's 3D effects, you're missing out on some exciting possibilities. David Karlins shows some of the cool projects you can create with these effects - particularly how to map (attach) artwork to a rotated 3D effect, in this case literally painting a map of the world onto a sphere.
34.	How to Use Multiple Artboards in Adobe Illustrator By David Karlins May 4, 2009 David Karlins examines how to create and modify multiple artboards and how they can (and cannot) be used.
35.	Creative Drawing in Adobe Illustrator CS4 By Mordy Golding Jan 6, 2009 Mordy Golding discusses the use of color, composition, texture, and feel, including how to use the Live Paint feature in Illustrator CS4.
36.	Editing Paths in Adobe Illustrator CS4 By David Karlins Dec 30, 2008 David Karlins shows you how to use selection and editing techniques in Adobe Illustrator CS4, including selecting paths and path segments, grouping paths, and aligning anchors.
37.	Applying Selection Techniques in Adobe Illustrator CS4 By Adobe Creative Team Oct 22, 2008 Learn how to apply Illustrator selection techniques in this excerpt from Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book.
38.	Working with the Color Guide Panel in Adobe Illustrator CS4 By Adobe Creative Team Oct 15, 2008 Learn how to use the Color Guide panel to pick harmony rules such as color tints and analogous colors.
39.	Reshaping Text with an Envelope Warp in Adobe Illustrator CS4 By Adobe Creative Team Oct 13, 2008 Warping text is fun because it allows you to give text a more interesting shape. This excerpt from Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book shows you how to use a preset warp shape or a mesh grid as an envelope.
40.	Creating Transitions with Blends in Adobe Illustrator CS4 By Mordy Golding Oct 9, 2008 Computers can be real timesavers. For example, instead of having to draw all the in-between objects to morph one shape into another, you can make Illustrator do the work. Mordy Golding shows off some of the fun and useful transitioning capabilities that Illustrator offers with its blending features.

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