- Sharon Steuer and Mordy Golding Talk about Adobe Illustrator CS5
- 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.
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- Illustrator CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide -- Panels
- 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.
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- Creating Web Content in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- 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.
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- Top 10 New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS5
- 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.
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- Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5: Creative Drawing
- 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.
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- Working with Type in the Adobe Illustrator CS5 Perspective Grid
- 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.
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- Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 Classroom in a Book: Editing the Perspective Grid
- Apr 14, 2010
- This excerpt from Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 Classroom in a Book shows you how to edit the Perspective Grid.
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- Working with Panels in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- 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.
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- Using Layers for Transparency and Clipping in Illustrator CS4
- 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.
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- Mapping Artwork onto 3D Effects in Illustrator CS4
- 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.
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- How to Use Multiple Artboards in Adobe Illustrator
- May 4, 2009
- David Karlins examines how to create and modify multiple artboards and how they can (and cannot) be used.
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- Creative Drawing in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- 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.
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- Editing Paths in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- 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.
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- Applying Selection Techniques in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Oct 22, 2008
- Learn how to apply Illustrator selection techniques in this excerpt from Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book.
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- Working with the Color Guide Panel in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Oct 15, 2008
- Learn how to use the Color Guide panel to pick harmony rules such as color tints and analogous colors.
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- Reshaping Text with an Envelope Warp in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- 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.
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- Creating Transitions with Blends in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- 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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- Making Transformations in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Oct 9, 2008
- The best part of drawing on a computer is that you rarely have to start over. Whether you've changed your mind about an angle or you drew a bunch of repeated objects too small (oops), Illustrator makes modifying your artwork very easy. Mordy Golding discusses how to use Illustrator's transform capabilities to manipulate any number of objects onscreen.
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- Vector Drawing with Illustrator: Easier Than You Think
- Jan 11, 2008
- You've probably been creating bitmap art for years, or even decades. David Karlins thinks it's about time you investigated the possibilities of creating vector drawings. The concepts and terminology are a bit less like working with paint on canvas - but the technology is a lot more powerful.
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- Mastering Vector Design: How to Create Illustrator Patterns
- Jan 4, 2008
- David Karlins dispels some of the myths about using patterns in Adobe Illustrator. With some very simple techniques, you can create and use fascinating patterns for strokes and fills.
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