Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos : 100 Essential

In Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, authors David Karlins and Bruce K. Hopkins bring you 100 carefully selected techniques to help you get right down to working in Illustrator, the world's most popular, most powerful illustration program. Their strategy is to focus on those features you're most likely to use, showcasing each in a clearly explained, well-illustrated, stand-alone technique-complete with a relevant hint or two. These bite-sized lessons offer a great way to learn just what you need to know, when you need it, exploring the program in a way, and at a pace, that makes sense to you. Book jacket.

David Karlins is a freelance graphic and interactive design consultant, and teaches Adobe Illustrator at San Francisco State University's Multimedia Studies Program

Getting Started

1

(28)

Creating a New Document

2

(2)

Creating Documents from Templates

4

(2)

Defining Preferences

6

(2)

Controlling the Workspace

8

(2)

Defining Guides

10

(2)

Setting Up and Using Grids

12

(3)

Saving Files

15

(3)

Printing Files

18

(2)

Using the Control Palette

20

(2)

Finding Tools

22

(2)

Applying Stroke and Fill Colors

24

(3)

Relying on Smart Guides

27

(2)

Drawing Lines and Shapes

29

(28)

Drawing Lines

31

(3)

Drawing Ellipses and Circles

34

(2)

Drawing Spirals

36

(2)

Drawing Rectangles

38

(2)

Drawing Polygons and Stars

40

(2)

Drawing Grids

42

(2)

Drawing with the Pencil Tool

44

(3)

Drawing with the Pen Tool

47

(1)

Smoothing, Moving, and Adjusting Anchors

48

(3)

Combining Paths

51

(2)

Dividing Paths

53

(2)

Clipping with Masks

55

(2)

Drawing with Brushes

57

(18)

Applying or Drawing with Brushes

58

(3)

Creating Calligraphic Brushes

61

(2)

Creating Art Brushes

63

(3)

Creating Scatter Brushes

66

(3)

Working with Pattern Brushes

69

(4)

Pressure-Sensitive Drawing with a Tablet

73

(2)

Editing Paths

75

(24)

Selecting Paths and Groups

76

(2)

Selecting and Editing Anchors

78

(1)

Selecting Type

79

(2)

Selecting Similar Objects

81

(2)

Editing with the Bounding Box

83

(2)

Duplicating

85

(2)

Scaling

87

(4)

Rotating

91

(2)

Shearing (Skewing)

93

(2)

Distorting with Envelopes

95

(1)

Using Pathfinders

96

(3)

Creating Fills and Strokes

99

(24)

Using Color Swatches

100

(2)

Creating and Using Pattern Swatches

102

(3)

Grabbing Colors with the Eyedropper

105

(1)

Defining Gradients

106

(4)

Formatting Strokes

110

(3)

Stacking Strokes in the Appearance Palette

113

(2)

Stacking Fills in the Appearance Palette

115

(3)

Creating Live Paint Groups

118

(1)

Applying Color to Live Paint Faces and Edges

119

(2)

Editing Live Paint Edges

121

(2)

Working with Layers

123

(16)

Organizing Projects into Layers

124

(3)

Finding Objects in Layers

127

(2)

Using Layers for Transparency or Clipping

129

(2)

Building and Sequencing Layers

131

(1)

Placing Raster Images

132

(2)

Editing Rasters

134

(2)

Using Live Trace

136

(3)

Creating and Formatting Type

139

(40)

Creating Type Inserted at a Point

140

(2)

Creating Area Type

142

(3)

Defining Font and Size

145

(2)

Kerning, Leading, and Tracking

147

(2)

Scaling Type

149

(2)

Rotating Characters

151

(1)

Applying Type Attributes

152

(2)

Using Type Styles

154

(2)

Using OpenType Glyphs

156

(3)

Outlining Type

159

(2)

Formatting Paragraphs

161

(4)

Using Paragraph Styles

165

(3)

Linking Type Objects

168

(2)

Flowing Type Around Paths

170

(3)

Placing Type on Paths

173

(3)

Using Vertical Type

176

(3)

Aligning, Arranging, and Clipping

179

(18)

Aligning Objects

180

(2)

Snapping to Grids

182

(2)

Measuring with Rulers

184

(2)

Managing Stacking

186

(2)

Using Clipping Masks

188

(2)

Masking with Type

190

(2)

Applying Opacity Masks

192

(2)

Defining a Crop Area

194

(3)

Transparency, Filters, and Effects

197

(32)

Applying Transparency

198

(4)

Step and Smooth Blends

202

(2)

Adjusting Blends

204

(3)

Applying Filters

207

(4)

Applying Effects

211

(3)

3D Extrusion Effects

214

(2)

3D Rotation and Revolve Effects

216

(3)

Mapping Symbols onto 3D Effects

219

(3)

Using Photoshop Effects

222

(2)

Warping with Liquify Tools

224

(2)

Using Graphic Styles

226

(3)

Managing Illustration Workflow

229

(20)

Using Symbols and Actions

230

(4)

Sharing Editable Illustrator Files

234

(3)

Exporting Vector Files

237

(2)

Managing File Size

239

(1)

Saving as Rasters

240

(3)

Exporting to Flash

243

(2)

Exporting HTML Pages

245

(4)

Index

249

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