Illustrator CS5 for Windows and Macintosh
This fully updated edition for Illustrator CS5 covers the essential skills for Illustrator artists, such as drawing geometric and freehand objects; color management; using multiple artboards; applying colors, patterns, and gradients; creating and using brushes; transforming, reshaping, and combining...
| Otros Autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified]
Peachpit Press
2010
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Visual QuickStart Guide
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629231806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- 1 Create &
- Save Files Launching Illustrator
- Creating a new document
- Using templates
- Adding artboards to a document
- Deleting artboards
- Modifying artboards
- Aligning and rearranging artboards
- Choosing artboard options
- Saving a document in the Adobe Illustrator (ai) format
- Ending a work session
- 2 Manage Color Introduction to color management
- Choosing color settings for Illustrator
- Synchronizing the color settings
- Changing the document profile
- Proofing a document onscreen
- 3 Workspaces Features of the Illustrator workspace
- Using tabbed document windows
- Arranging document windows
- Changing the zoom level
- Fitting an artboard in the document window
- Moving an area of a document into view
- Changing the screen mode
- Switching document views
- Creating custom views
- Configuring the panel groups and docks
- Choosing and saving workspaces
- 4 Panels The Illustrator panel icons
- The Tools panel
- The Control panel
- The other essential panels illustrated
- 5 Bridge Opening files from Illustrator
- Launching Adobe Bridge
- Features of the Bridge window
- Choosing a workspace for Bridge
- Previewing graphics in Bridge
- Openingfiles from Bridge
- Customizing the Bridge workspace
- Saving custom workspaces
- Resetting the Bridge workspace
- Using thumbnail stacks
- Searching for files
- Creating and using collections
- Rating and labeling thumbnails
- Choose a sorting order
- Filtering the display of thumbnails
- Assigning keywords to files
- Exporting the Bridge cache
- Managing files using Bridge
- 6 Geometric Objects Selecting and deleting objects
- Creating rectangles and ellipses
- Creating polygons
- Creating stars
- Creating line segments
- Creating spirals
- Creating pixel-perfect artwork for the Web.
- 7 Freehand drawing A quick color primer
- Drawing with the Pencil tool
- Drawing with the Paintbrush tool
- Choosing options for the Pencil and Paintbrush tools
- Drawing with the Blob Brush tool
- Choosing options for the Blob Brush tool
- 8 Select The five selection tools
- Using the Selection tool
- Using the Direct Selection tool
- Selecting objects via a command
- Selecting objects via the Layers panel
- Working with groups
- Isolating individual objects
- Using the Lasso tool
- Using the Magic Wand tool
- Saving selections
- Selecting and deselecting all objects
- 9 Move, Copy &
- Align Moving objects
- Aligning objects with the help of Smart Guides
- Duplicating objects
- Aligning and distributing objects via buttons
- Creating ruler guides
- Creating guides from objects
- Locking and unlocking guides
- Clearing guides
- Using the grid
- 10 Fill &
- Stroke Using color in Illustrator
- Colors for your output medium
- Using the basic color controls
- Saving colors as swatches
- Choosing colors via the Color panel
- Applying colors from a library
- Changing the tint percentage
- Changing the stroke weight, alignment, caps, and joins
- Creating arrows
- Creating a dashed stroke
- Using the Eyedropper tool
- Using the Swatches panel
- Using the Color Guide panel
- Using the Kuler panel
- Replacing colors in your artwork
- Inverting colors
- Colorizing grayscale images
- Blending fill colors
- Creating and editing fill patterns
- 11 Transform Transforming an object via its bounding box
- Using the Free Transform tool
- Using the Scale, Rotate, Shear, and Reflect tools
- Using the Transform and Control panels
- Using the Transform Each command
- Using the Transform effect
- Repeating a transformation
- 12 Reshape The building blocks of a path
- Moving points and segments
- Reshaping curves.
- Converting points
- Adding points
- Deleting points
- Reshaping objects with the Pencil or Paintbrush tool
- Applying a variable width profile preset to an object's stroke
- Changing an object's stroke width using the Width tool
- Reshaping objects with the Blob Brush tool
- Exercise: Draw and reshape objects in a freehand style
- Using the Reshape tool
- Exercise: Draw a brush with the Reshape tool
- Erasing sections of objects
- Aligning points
- Joining endpoints
- Reshaping objects using commands
- Slicing and dicing
- Exercise: Draw a glass of beer (or cream soda!)
- 13 Layers Getting to know the Layers panel
- Creating layers
- Deleting layers and objects
- Selecting listings on the Layers panel
- Selecting objects via the Layers panel
- Restacking layers and objects
- Duplicating layers and objects
- Locking layers and objects
- Hiding layers and objects
- Collecting objects into a new layer
- Releasing objects to layers
- Merging layers and groups
- Flattening layers
- 14 Appearances Applying appearance attributes
- Editing appearance attributes
- Hiding and deleting appearance attributes
- Copying appearance attributes
- Expanding appearance attributes
- 15 Effects Applying Illustrator effects
- Editing, duplicating, and deleting effects
- A few Illustrator effects up close
- Rasterizing objects
- Applying Photoshop effects via the Effect Gallery
- 16 Graphic Styles Graphic styles basics
- Loading graphic styles from a library
- Applying graphic styles
- Removing graphic styles
- Adding graphic styles
- Creating graphic styles
- Redefining graphic styles
- Deleting graphic styles from the panel
- Creating a custom graphic style library
- Breaking the link to a graphic style
- 17 Live Trace The tracing features in Illustrator
- Tracing a raster image
- Applying tracing options.
- Managing tracing presets
- Releasing a tracing
- Converting a tracing to paths
- 18 Live Paint Creating a Live Paint group
- Using the Live Paint Bucket tool
- Using the Live Paint Selection tool
- Reshaping a Live Paint group
- Adding new faces and edges to a Live Paint group
- Choosing gap options for a Live Paint group
- Expanding and releasing Live Paint groups
- 19 Create Type The type tools
- Choosing a font and font size for a type tool
- Creating point type
- Creating type in a rectangle
- Creating area type
- Creating path type
- Copying or moving type characters
- Importing text into Illustrator
- Threading type objects
- Rotating type
- Exercise: Putting type on a circle
- 20 Style &
- Edit Type Selecting type
- Changing the font
- Changing the font size
- Changing the leading value
- Applying kerning and tracking
- Using smart punctuation
- Inserting alternate glyphs
- Applying hyphenation
- Changing paragraph alignment
- Changing paragraph indentation
- Changing inter-paragraph spacing
- Using paragraph and character styles
- Hanging punctuation
- Setting tabs
- Changing the baseline shift value
- Creating type outlines
- Creating special effects with type
- Exercise: Create a shadow for point type
- Applying appearance attributes to type
- Exercise: Add multiple strokes to a character
- Exercise: Use the Free Distort effect on type
- 21 Pen Tools Drawing with the Pen tool
- Converting anchor points on paths
- Exercise: Draw a knife with the Pen tool
- 22 Acquire Images How images are acquired in Illustrator
- Using the Open command
- Using the Place command
- Importing Photoshop images into Illustrator
- Managing linked images
- Dragging and dropping images into Illustrator
- 23 Brushes Applying brushes to existing paths
- Using the Brushes panel
- Removing brush strokes.
- Expanding brush strokes
- Creating and editing Calligraphic brushes
- Creating and editing Scatter brushes
- Creating and editing Art brushes
- Creating and editing Bristle brushes
- Painting brush strokes inside objects
- Duplicating brushes
- Editing brushes manually
- Editing brush strokes on objects
- Deleting brushes
- Creating brush libraries
- 24 Gradients Applying a gradient
- Creating a two-color gradient
- Editing gradient colors via on-object controls
- Saving a gradient as a swatch
- Changing the position, length, or angle of a gradient in an object
- Spreading a single gradient across multiple objects
- Expanding a gradient into paths
- 25 Combine Paths Using the Shape Builder tool
- Applying the Shape Mode commands
- Applying the Pathfinder commands
- Using the Compound Path command
- Working with compound paths
- Applying Pathfinder effects
- 26 Clipping Masks Creating a clipping set
- Selecting objects in a clipping set
- Adding objects to, and deleting them from, a clipping set
- Releasing a clipping set
- 27 Transparency Changing an object's opacity or blending mode
- Controlling which objects the transparency settings affect
- Using the transparency grid
- 28 Symbols Accessing the symbol libraries
- Creating individual symbol instances
- Creating symbol sets with the Symbol Sprayer tool
- Replacing symbols
- Creating symbols
- Deleting symbols from the panel
- Saving symbol libraries
- Editing symbols
- Choosing options for the symbolism tools
- Using the Symbol Shifter, Scruncher, Sizer, Spinner, Stainer, Screener, and Styler tools
- Unlinking symbol instances
- Expanding symbol instances
- 29 Live Color Creating color groups via the Recolor Artwork dialog
- Using the color wheel in the Recolor Artwork dialog
- Assigning colors to artwork via the Recolor Artwork dialog.
- Reducing colors via the Recolor Artwork dialog.
