Wiley 978-0-470-39656-8 Datasheet

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Contents at a Glance
Introduction ................................................................ 1
Part I: Driving People Crazy — Illustrator’s Bum Rap
........ 7
Chapter 1: Introducing the World of Illustrator .............................................................9
Chapter 2: Following the Righteous Path .....................................................................37
Chapter 3: Doing Everyday Things with Illustrator .....................................................51
Part II: Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork ................. 73
Chapter 4: Shaping Up, Basically ...................................................................................75
Chapter 5: Getting Your Fill of Fills and Strokes ..........................................................97
Chapter 6: Selecting and Editing Paths .......................................................................119
Chapter 7: Wielding the Mighty Pen Tool ...................................................................133
Chapter 8: Creating Straight and Curved Lines without the Pen Tool ....................149
Chapter 9: Creating Magni cent Brushstrokes ..........................................................165
Chapter 10: Extreme Fills and Strokes ........................................................................185
Chapter 11: Effectively Keeping Up Appearances, with Style(s) .............................199
Part III: Taking Your Paths to Obedience School......... 223
Chapter 12: Pushing, Pulling, Poking, and Prodding .................................................225
Chapter 13: Organizing Ef ciently ................................................................................239
Part IV: Practically Speaking: Type, Print, and Files .....255
Chapter 14: Introducing Letters and Such (Type 101)..............................................257
Chapter 15: Printing Your Masterpiece ......................................................................277
Chapter 16: Moving Files Into and Out of Illustrator .................................................287
Chapter 17: Putting Your Art on the Web ..................................................................305
Part V: The Part of Tens ........................................... 323
Chapter 18: Ten Production-Enhancing Tips .............................................................325
Chapter 19: Ten (Or So) Ways to Customize Illustrator ...........................................335
Index ...................................................................... 343
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Introduction ................................................................. 1
About This Book ..............................................................................................1
What You Don’t Need to Read .......................................................................2
Foolish Assumptions .......................................................................................2
How This Book Is Organized ..........................................................................3
Part I: Driving People Crazy — Illustrator’s Bum Rap .......................3
Part II: Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork ......................................3
Part III: Taking Your Paths to Obedience School ...............................3
Part IV: Practically Speaking: Type, Print, and Files..........................3
Part V: The Part of Tens ........................................................................3
But that’s not all!: Bonus chapters ......................................................4
About All Those Little Icons ...........................................................................4
Road Signs along the Way ..............................................................................4
Where to Go from Here ...................................................................................5
Part I: Driving People Crazy — Illustrator’s Bum Rap ..... 7
Chapter 1: Introducing the World of Illustrator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
From Humble Origins to Master of the Graphics Universe ........................9
A brief history of Illustrator................................................................10
Illustrator’s place in the cosmos .......................................................11
Starting Up Illustrator and Revving It a Little ............................................12
What’s in a Name ( eld)? ....................................................................14
Artboard options .................................................................................14
Page size, units, and orientation ........................................................14
CMYK or RGB? ......................................................................................15
Exploring the Illustrator Workspace ...........................................................19
Illustrator tool time .............................................................................19
Panels to suit any artist ......................................................................20
Menus with the  nest cuisine .............................................................22
Mac and Windows issues spring eternal ..........................................23
De ning the Document Area ........................................................................25
Opening Existing Documents .......................................................................26
Viewing Illustrator Documents ....................................................................27
Zooming in and out of artwork...........................................................28
Scrolling around your document .......................................................30
Looking at the guts of your artwork ..................................................30
Using Templates ............................................................................................31
Saving Illustrator Documents .......................................................................33
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Changing Your Mind ......................................................................................34
Printing Illustrator Documents ....................................................................34
Closing Documents and Quitting Illustrator ..............................................35
Chapter 2: Following the Righteous Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Whether Paths or Pixels Are Better ............................................................38
Paths: The ultimate  exibility in graphics ........................................39
Pixels: Detail and realism to spare ....................................................40
How Paths and Pixels Compare ...................................................................41
A comparison of path and pixel documents ....................................42
When to use paths and when to use pixels ......................................44
Paths and Printing .........................................................................................44
Which is faster — a square or a square? ..........................................45
Printing paths: The evolution of Bézier curves ...............................45
What’s my vector, Victor? ..................................................................46
Gray’s Anatomy of a Path .............................................................................46
In Illustrator, it’s polite to point .........................................................47
You can handle the truth ....................................................................47
Chapter 3: Doing Everyday Things with Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Picking Up Stuff and Moving It Around .......................................................51
Comparing the selection tools ...........................................................52
Moving and transforming objects ......................................................53
Distorting paths ...................................................................................55
Organizing objects ...............................................................................57
Using the “Hard” Stuff ...................................................................................59
Transparency .......................................................................................59
Blends ....................................................................................................60
Clipping masks .....................................................................................60
Compound paths and shapes .............................................................62
Flares .....................................................................................................64
Entering the Wide World of the Web ..........................................................66
Saving the World ............................................................................................67
Save ........................................................................................................68
Save As ..................................................................................................68
Save a Copy...........................................................................................69
Save for Web .........................................................................................69
Export ....................................................................................................69
Using Illustrator for What It Does Best .......................................................71
Part II: Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork ................. 73
Chapter 4: Shaping Up, Basically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Creating Basic Shapes ...................................................................................76
Drawing rectangles and squares ........................................................76
Drawing ellipses and circles ...............................................................78
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Creating polygons and stars ...............................................................78
Creating grids .......................................................................................82
Putting Together Shapes ..............................................................................84
Shape Modes ........................................................................................85
Compound Shapes ...............................................................................86
Path nders............................................................................................87
Creating Objects by Using the Path nder Panel .......................................89
Crescent moon .....................................................................................89
Sunrise ...................................................................................................90
Legal Graf ti ...................................................................................................91
Using the Symbol Sprayer ...................................................................91
Creating a custom symbol ..................................................................93
Editing your symbols...........................................................................94
Setting the Symbolism options ..........................................................95
Chapter 5: Getting Your Fill of Fills and Strokes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Understanding Fill and Stroke ......................................................................97
Filling and stroking paths with color...............................................100
Making a bold stroke .........................................................................100
Adding multiple strokes to a single path ........................................102
Filling crossed and open paths ........................................................102
The Swatches Panel .....................................................................................103
All the colors in the rainbow and then some .................................103
Swatch options for super colors ......................................................105
Swatch libraries .................................................................................106
The Color Panel ...........................................................................................106
Dissecting the Color panel ................................................................107
Modes and models .............................................................................108
Filling with Patterns and Textures ............................................................112
Applying patterns to paths ...............................................................112
Making patterns .................................................................................113
Using the Gradient Fill ................................................................................114
The Gradient tool ...............................................................................114
Modifying gradients ...........................................................................115
Gradient-mania: Color-tweaking made simple ...............................116
Radial: The secret gradient...............................................................117
Chapter 6: Selecting and Editing Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
Selecting with the Illustrator Tools ...........................................................120
Natural selection ................................................................................121
Direct Selection tool ..........................................................................122
Group Selection tool ..........................................................................123
Selecting more or less of what you have ........................................124
Freeform selections: Lasso tool .......................................................125
Magic Wand tool ................................................................................125
Selecting without Tools: The Select Menu ...............................................126
Select menu options ..........................................................................126
Specialized selection functions for important occasions .............128
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Editing and Adjusting Points ......................................................................128
A relocation bonus for points ..........................................................129
Fine-tuning curves with direction points ........................................129
Converting anchor points .................................................................130
Adding and subtracting points (path math) ..................................131
Chapter 7: Wielding the Mighty Pen Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Performing with the Pen, the Path, and the Anchor Points ...................134
Smooth anchor points .......................................................................134
Straight-corner anchor points ..........................................................135
Curved-corner anchor points ...........................................................135
Combination-corner anchor points .................................................136
Creating Straight Lines with the Pen Tool ................................................139
Open and Closed Paths ...............................................................................140
Creating Super-Precise Curves with the Pen Tool ..................................140
Taming the draggin’ ...........................................................................140
Following the one-third rule .............................................................142
Following rules for the other two-thirds .........................................143
Drawing the tricky anchor points with the Pen tool .....................145
Drawing Shapes with the Pen Tool ............................................................146
Drawing a sad, lumpy circle with the Pen tool ..............................146
Drawing a heart ..................................................................................147
Chapter 8: Creating Straight and Curved Lines
without the Pen Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149
Using the Pencil Tool as a Pencil ...............................................................150
Minimal effort and hefty stress reduction ......................................150
A few unexpected exceptions to all this bliss ................................151
Cherishing the Multipurpose Pencil Tool ................................................152
Making the Pencil tool work just for you ........................................152
Changing the path not penciled .......................................................157
Working with the all-natural “Smoothie” tool ................................157
Using the Pen with the Pencil ....................................................................159
Swapping one tool for another .........................................................159
Precision versus speed: You make the call ....................................159
Lines Made Quick and Easy ........................................................................160
Working with the Line Segment tool ...............................................160
Setting the tool options .....................................................................161
Curvy with the Arc Tool .............................................................................162
Getting the arc you want ...................................................................162
Spiraling out of control .....................................................................163
Chapter 9: Creating Magnifi cent Brushstrokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Brushing Where No Stroke Has Gone Before ...........................................165
Embracing your inner artist .............................................................167
The Paintbrush tool options ............................................................168
Creating a New Brush ..................................................................................168
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Working with the Different Brush Types ..................................................170
Art brushes for times when you’re a bit wacky .............................170
Scatter brushes for times when you’re a bit wacky ......................172
Pattern brushes — too cool and utterly wacko .............................176
Calligraphic brushes for formal occasions .....................................181
Chapter 10: Extreme Fills and Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
Messing Around with Meshes ....................................................................185
Adding a gradient mesh manually ...................................................187
Letting gradient mesh do the work for you ....................................188
Creating soft bevels with Gradient Mesh ........................................189
Making Objects Partially Transparent and Blending Colors ..................191
Fade away with opacity .....................................................................191
Big fun with math! Blending graphics with blend modes .............192
Discovering How Strokes Work .................................................................193
Caps, joins, and dashes .....................................................................194
Clipping Masks .............................................................................................197
Chapter 11: Effectively Keeping Up Appearances, with Style(s). . . .199
The Effect Menu ...........................................................................................200
Applying live effects to objects ........................................................201
3D Effects ............................................................................................203
Removing and changing effects .......................................................204
Rasterization effects ..........................................................................205
The Appearance Panel ................................................................................206
Reading the Appearance panel ........................................................207
Adding  lls and strokes .....................................................................209
Changing the appearance of groups and layers ............................211
Applying effects to strokes and  lls ................................................214
Going back to adjust settings ...........................................................215
Removing appearances .....................................................................215
Killing live effects until they’re dead ...............................................216
Figuring Out Styles ......................................................................................217
Applying styles to objects ................................................................217
Creating and editing styles ...............................................................218
Spotting the difference between graphic and text styles .............221
Applying graphic styles to text ........................................................221
Part III: Taking Your Paths to Obedience School......... 223
Chapter 12: Pushing, Pulling, Poking, and Prodding . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225
Understanding the Five Transformation Sisters ......................................225
Move .................................................................................................... 226
Scale .....................................................................................................227
Rotate ..................................................................................................230
Re ect ..................................................................................................230
Shear ....................................................................................................232
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Additional Transformation Tidbits ...........................................................233
The Transform panel .........................................................................233
Copying while transforming .............................................................234
Transform Each ..................................................................................234
Transform Again ................................................................................235
Partial transformations .....................................................................236
Blending: The Magic Transformation .......................................................237
Chapter 13: Organizing Effi ciently. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .239
Stacking Illustrator Artwork .......................................................................239
Stacking order ....................................................................................240
Moving art up (front) or back (down) in the stacking order .......241
Managing the Mess ......................................................................................242
Using the Layers panel ......................................................................242
Lock and Unlock, View and Hide .....................................................245
Copying layers (quickly and completely) .......................................246
Viewing objects and groups .............................................................246
Using your options on layers, groups, and objects .......................246
Imposing Slavish Conformity with Groups ...............................................248
Lining Up .......................................................................................................248
Guides that are truly smarter than most of us ...............................249
Let the rulers guide you . . . ..............................................................249
I’m a path, I’m a guide .......................................................................252
Alignment ............................................................................................252
Part IV: Practically Speaking: Type, Print, and Files .....255
Chapter 14: Introducing Letters and Such (Type 101) . . . . . . . . . . . . .257
Using the Word Processor from Outer Space ..........................................258
Controlling type in Illustrator ..........................................................258
The Type tool(s) ................................................................................258
The Character panel ..........................................................................260
The Paragraph panel .........................................................................261
Introducing the Strange Land of Type ......................................................262
Fonts, typefaces, and font families ..................................................262
Serif and sans serif .............................................................................264
The biggest Don’t Do It that I can think of ......................................264
Exploring Size, Leading, and Other Mysterious Numbers ......................265
Measuring can be just plain odd ......................................................265
Measuring can be just plain annoying.............................................267
Spacing out while staring at type.....................................................268
Putting type on the rack....................................................................269
Moving on up and down....................................................................269
Adjusting Entire Paragraphs ......................................................................270
Changing the alignment of a paragraph ..........................................270
Changing the space around the paragraph ....................................270
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Using Type as a Mask ..................................................................................272
Converting Type to Paths ...........................................................................274
Type Styles ...................................................................................................276
Chapter 15: Printing Your Masterpiece . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .277
Printing Quickly ...........................................................................................277
What You See Is Roughly What You Get ...................................................278
Setting Up Your Page to Print (You Hope) ...............................................279
Quick printing .....................................................................................279
Changing Artboard size .....................................................................280
Printing Mechanics ......................................................................................281
Printing composite proofs ................................................................282
Important printing options ...............................................................283
All about Way-Scary Separations ...............................................................283
Separations are not in color .............................................................285
Printing separations ..........................................................................285
Chapter 16: Moving Files Into and Out of Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287
Bringing Files Into Illustrator .....................................................................288
Deciding whether to link or embed .................................................290
Managing links ....................................................................................291
Getting Files Out of Illustrator ...................................................................294
Working with Illustrator and Photoshop ..................................................296
Making life easy: Copy and paste, drag and drop ..........................296
Placing  les .........................................................................................298
Now opening in an application near you ........................................298
Exporting a graphic ...........................................................................299
Using Adobe Illustrator with Nearly Everything Else .............................301
Chapter 17: Putting Your Art on the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .305
From Illustrator to the Web ........................................................................305
Using Web colors only ......................................................................307
Working in Pixel Preview mode .......................................................308
Choosing a  le format .......................................................................309
So which  le format is best, already? ..............................................312
Creating Web-Speci c Pixel Graphics .......................................................313
Saving a graphic as a GIF  le ............................................................315
Saving a graphic as a JPEG  le .........................................................317
Saving a graphic as a PNG-8 or PNG-24  le .....................................319
Creating Web-Speci c Vector Graphics ....................................................319
Saving a graphic as a Flash  le .........................................................320
Saving a graphic as a SVG  le ...........................................................320
Slicing and Dicing Your Graphics ..............................................................321
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Part V: The Part of Tens ........................................... 323
Chapter 18: Ten Production-Enhancing Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .325
Punching Holes ............................................................................................325
Use Photoshop Effects in Illustrator! ........................................................327
When White Isn’t Nothing ...........................................................................327
Expanding to Get to the Root of the Artwork ..........................................329
Quick! Hide! ..................................................................................................330
Taking a Tip from Illustrator ......................................................................331
Changing Your Units Whenever You Want ..............................................331
Reusing Your Brushes, Swatches, and Libraries .....................................332
Avoiding Russian Dolls ...............................................................................332
Selecting Type When You Want .................................................................333
Chapter 19: Ten (Or So) Ways to Customize Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . .335
Positioning Panels .......................................................................................336
The Flexible Tools Panel .............................................................................336
Changing the Items on the Menu ...............................................................337
Changing the Default Settings ....................................................................338
Changing Hidden Commands You Never Knew About ...........................339
Action Jackson .............................................................................................340
Sticky Settings ..............................................................................................342
Index ....................................................................... 343
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