Adobe Illustrator CS3 How-Tos 100 Essential

Easy-to-scan guide makes quick work of the most useful features of Adobe Illustrator CS3!

David Karlins is a digital graphic design author, consultant, and instructor. He has presented seminars on Illustrator for design professionals, among them the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. David writes about digital graphic design for online and print publications, including Graphics Unleashed, CreativePro, and Macworld magazine. David is the author of over a dozen books on digital graphic design and Illustrator, including Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, Illustrator CS2 Gone Wild, and How to do Everything with Adobe Illustrator. David has taught at the University of California Extension School of Graphic and Interactive Design and for the San Francisco State University Digital Video Intensive program, and he currently teaches Illustrator for the San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program. David provides resources for the Illustrator community at www.illustratorgonewild.com.

Getting started	p. 1
Creating a new document	p. 2
Defining preferences	p. 6
Controlling the workspace	p. 8
Defining guides	p. 10
Creating and using grids	p. 11
Saving files	p. 13
Printing files	p. 16
Using the control panel	p. 18
Finding tools	p. 20
Applying stroke and fill colors	p. 23
Relying on smart guides	p. 26
Drawing lines and shapes	p. 29
Drawing lines	p. 30
Drawing ellipses and circles	p. 34
Drawing spirals	p. 36
Drawing rectangles	p. 37
Drawing polygons and stars	p. 39
Drawing grids	p. 41
Drawing with the pencil tool	p. 42
Drawing with the pen tool	p. 45
Using the eraser and path eraser tools	p. 49
Creating compound paths	p. 51
Dividing paths with the scissors and knife tools	p. 53
Clipping with masks	p. 55
Defining an interactive crop area	p. 57
Drawing with brushes	p. 59
Applying or drawing with brushes	p. 60
Creating calligraphic brushes	p. 64
Creating art brushes	p. 66
Creating scatter brushes	p. 69
Working with pattern brushes	p. 73
Editing paths	p. 79
Selecting path segments and paths	p. 80
Defining, selecting, and isolating groups	p. 82
Selecting and editing anchors	p. 83
Aligning anchors	p. 85
Selecting similar objects	p. 87
Editing with the bounding box	p. 90
Duplicating	p. 93
Scaling	p. 95
Rotating	p. 101
Shearing (skewing)	p. 104
Distorting with envelopes	p. 106
Using pathfinders	p. 108
Creating fills and strokes	p. 111
Using color and pattern swatches	p. 112
Using color guides and live color	p. 116
Grabbing colors with the eyedropper	p. 121
Defining gradients	p. 123
Formatting strokes	p. 126
Stacking strokes in the appearance panel	p. 129
Stacking fills in the appearance panel	p. 131
Creating and merging live paint groups	p. 134
Applying color to live paint faces and edges	p. 136
Editing live paint edges	p. 139
Working with layers	p. 141
Organizing projects into layers	p. 142
Viewing and isolating layers	p. 144
Finding objects in layers	p. 145
Using layers for transparency or clipping	p. 146
Placing and editing raster images	p. 147
Using live trace	p. 149
Creating and formatting type	p. 151
Creating type inserted at a point	p. 152
Creating area type	p. 154
Defining font and size	p. 157
Selecting type	p. 159
Kerning, leading, and tracking	p. 161
Scaling type	p. 163
Applying type attributes	p. 164
Using type styles	p. 165
Using OpenType glyphs	p. 168
Outlining type	p. 171
Formatting paragraphs	p. 173
Using paragraph styles	p. 177
Linking type objects	p. 179
Flowing type around paths	p. 180
Placing type on paths	p. 182
Aligning, arranging, and clipping	p. 185
Aligning and distributing objects	p. 186
Snapping to grids	p. 189
Measuring and placing objects	p. 191
Managing stacking	p. 193
Using clipping masks	p. 195
Masking with type	p. 197
Applying opacity masks	p. 199
Transparency, filters, and effects	p. 201
Applying transparency	p. 202
Step and smooth blends	p. 206
Adjusting blends	p. 208
Applying filters	p. 211
Applying effects	p. 214
Using Photoshop effects	p. 217
Warping with liquify tools	p. 219
Using graphic styles	p. 221
3-D efforts	p. 225
3-D extrusion effects	p. 226
3-D rotation and revolve effects	p. 228
Mapping symbols onto 3-D effects	p. 231
Managing illustration workflow	p. 235
Creating symbols and applying instances	p. 236
Editing symbols	p. 239
Previewing in device central	p. 240
Sharing editable illustrator files	p. 243
Exporting vector files	p. 245
Managing file size	p. 247
Exporting to raster formats	p. 248
Saving for the Web	p. 249
Exporting to Flash	p. 251
Exporting HTML pages	p. 254
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