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Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book, The
- By Sharon Steuer
- Published Aug 9, 2010 by Peachpit Press. Part of the WOW! series.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 7-1/2 X 9-1/8
- Pages: 304
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-71244-7
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-71244-8
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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
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A unique book for Illustrator users, By
This review is from: The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book (Paperback)
This is the review we published in Design Tools Monthly: "The Adobe Illustrator CS5 WOW! Book, by Sharon Steuer, is both practical and inspirational. It's practical because it demonstrates how to use all the new CS5 features and how to "think in Illustrator". It's inspirational because it shows artwork from dozens of top Illustrator artists and explains how they were made. It's also packed with real-world tips as well as a DVD containing plug-ins, brushes and symbols, graphic styles for text, Illustrator files for many of the illustrations, and extra tips. We recommend this book very highly."
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Excellent, hands-on book, By
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This review is from: The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book (Paperback)
I got this book as an advanced tutorial for Illustrator CS5, explaining the new features by using practical exercises.I have limited time and don't enjoy books that have little benefit over the online manual of the Adobe applications, especially if they delve into tedious and boring step-by-step descriptions such as "press key A, now press key B, etc.". This book takes a refreshingly different approach in that each chapter first explains the nuts and bolts of a certain feature, then continues to exemplify it with practical examples of professional Illustrator artists, but at a very detailed level and with the actual files on the enclosed DVD. Thus, it is not only a tutorial, but also a portfolio of stellar works that will inspire any AI user. I had a look at various other Illustrator CS5 books, and this one was the best I found. Can't fault it in any way and wish the authors many happy returns. Highly recommended for any intermediate Illustrator user looking for... Read more
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
wow of a book, By
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I love the WoW books, they are well written, informative, interesting, well illustrated and this version is no different. I've been using the Adobe Creative Suite since it started and Adobe Illustrator since version 8 and this book still has new and exciting things to teach me. The best thing is that the work by artists has an explanation of the process so not only is it WoW but also a HoW book. Love it!
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
1) Your Creative Workspace
Iso mode
Layers
Appearances
Targeting
Panels and workspaces
Basic multiple artboards
2) Creative Type & Layout
Advanced multiple artboards
Type and design stuff
Symbols and effects for artboards
3) Creative Construction
New Drawing Modes (normal, behind, inside)
Pathfinder
LivePaint
Shape Builder
Path Join enhancements
LiveTrace
4) Creative Strokes
Bristle Brush
Blob Brush
New Art Brush Scale Option
Variable Width Art/Pattern Brush
Symbols
New Strokes
5) Creative Coloring
Blends
Gradients Mesh
Live Color part 2
6) Creative Complexity
Masking
Transparency
3D
Perspective Grid
Other Live Effects
7) Creative Associations
Working with other programs
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