How To Do Everything With Illustrator Cs

This four-color, beautifully designed book teaches users of all levels how todo everything with Illustrator 11 to create professional-quality graphics forprint and the Web.

Create Illustrations, maps, logos, CD covers, animation objects, fine art, and more with help from this full-color guide. Illustrator expert David Karlins clear, step-by-step instruction will help you quickly grasp and easily master the fundamental and advanced features of this vector graphic tool. You ll also learn the techniques professional artists apply to their work in a special Behind the Scenes section. Whether your goal is to create graphics for professional or personal use, you ll find what you need in How to Do Everything with Illustartor CS A Beginner s Guide.

Master Adobe Illustrator CS4 Filled with full-color examples, this hands-on guide explains how to use the latest release of the premier vector graphics program. How to Do Everything: Adobe Illustrator CS4 takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a wide variety of illustrations, and demonstrates expert techniques, shortcuts, and solutions. A gallery profiling professional illustrators and their work highlights real-world examples. With this book, you'll learn how to use all the program's tools and settings to draw just about anything you can imagine! Use the drawing, painting, selection, and arrangement tools Add vibrancy to your illustrations using colors, swatches, and Adobe Kuler Work with layers, format text, and create custom graphs Create patterns, gradients, and blends Apply vector and raster special effects Use Live Paint, Live Trace, the Appearance panel, and the Graphic Styles panel Create logos, page layouts, book jackets, ads, and web graphics Print high-quality work Integrate Illustrator artwork into Adobe Flash to create motion graphics And much more

Learn object-oriented programming in no time with help from this easy-to-understand guide, ideal for novice and expert programmers alike. Discover why objects are so successful as the model for this type of programming and how objects are classified. Distinguish between how people see the world and how computers “see” it. Learn about attributes and methods, inheritance, polymorphism, real-world and case modeling, object-oriented programming languages, and much more. Each chapter ends with a quiz, culminating in a final exam at the end of the book so you can test your knowledge.

Easy-to-scan guide makes quick work of the most useful features of Adobe Illustrator CS2!

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Written in an easy-to-follow format perfect for this new product, this resource teaches even inexperienced users how to create and burn professional, high-quality DVDs in no time. Intended for videographers, video productions companies, and digital video enthusiasts of all levels, this great guide gives readers help with all the basics, as well as sophisticated DVD features such as subtitles, alternate audio tracks, and motion menus.

Provides beginning to intermediate users with the information they need to create and maintain striking Web sites through detailed instructions. This book also serves as a tutorial to read straight through or as a reference book to consult on particular topics.

Designed to dazzle and inspire but not leave you in the dust, this beautifully designed volume lets you follow along as it dissects real-world projects from some of today's top Illustrator artists. In the process it teaches you how to use Illustrator in ever more creative ways for your own projects. Best-selling author and award-winning artist Sharon Steuer uses four-color pictures of real Illustrator projects to show what's possible and then employs simple, step-by-step instructions to explain the techniques that will produce those effects. You'll find comprehensive ground-up coverage of all of Illustrator CS' most important capabilities. Veteran users will be grateful to explore Illustrator CS' new features: powerful new tools for creating 3D graphics on the fly, a new Scribble Effect that lets you add a loose, hand-drawn look to your artwork, a redesigned text engine, enhanced PDF support, and more. On the CD, you'll find artwork from the book, technical documents, third-party software, clip art, and more.