Illustrator 9 For Dummies


Book Description

Newcomers and experienced users alike can turn to this guide to easily get up to speed and start creating artwork with the brand new release of Adobe Illustrator. Authored by Illustrator's product manager and foremost Illustrator expert, this book is packed with humor as well as information. Includes quick reference card.




Adobe Illustrator CC For Dummies


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Get to know your digital drawing board Adobe Illustrator CC offers a vibrant tool for creating drawings and illustrations in a digital environment. It takes some practice to get a feel for the digital pens, pencils, paintbrushes, and erasers, though. Adobe Illustrator CC For Dummies offers the guidance you need to turn your ideas into real drawings. Written by an Illustrator trainer and expert, this book walks those new to the tool through the basics of drawing, editing, and applying the unique tools found in this popular program. Create illustrations using simple shapes Touch up images using pen, pencil, and brush tools Import your illustrations into other graphic apps Apply special effects and add type This book is essential reading for new and beginning illustrators who are either adopting a digital tool for the first time, switching from an existing tool to Illustrator, or adding Illustrator know-how to existing Adobe knowledge.




Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book (2020 release)


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The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn. The best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Contains 16 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Build a strong foundation by following hands-on projects for creating logos, illustrations, and posters. Learn how to use the Shaper tool and Live Shapes along with dynamic symbols to streamline graphics creation. Create website assets and export them in multiple formats to support modern responsive web designs. From exacting illustration to more free-form painting, you’ll gain vital skills as you progress through the lessons. The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: A Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes.




Adobe Illustrator 9.0


Book Description

Learn how to create professional-quality artwork for print or the Web using Illustrator 9, the world's most popular illustration application Updated edition of the worldwide bestseller Adobe Illustrator is one of the most popular vector graphics tools in the print and web industry Self-paced lessons are the ideal introduction to Illustrator's complex features "Adobe Illustrator 9.0 Classroom in a Book" shows users how to master Adobe Illustrator in short, focused lessons. Created by Adobe's own training experts, it covers all the new features of Illustrator 9, including added compatibility with Macromedia Flash, a new Transparency Palette, and superior vector and raster graphics. Readers start with an introduction to Illustrator's many tools, brushes, and palettes. Lessons include making selections, painting, gradient fills, drawing straight lines, using type and creating type masks, outlining paths with patterns, printing artwork, producing color separations, and preparing finished artwork for print or the Web. Each lesson builds upon the knowledge learned in previous lessons, so readers have a full tour of the software by the time they have finished the book. The cross-platform CD provides all the lessons and images needed for each chapter. Previous Edition ISBN: 1-56830-470-6 The Adobe Creative Team is made up of members of Adobe's User Education Group. They take their expertise in training users to work with Adobe products, combine it with the creative talents of the Adobe Illustrator team, and add the valuable content of the CD-ROM to make a unique learning package from Adobe Systems.




Five Flying Penguins


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Five little penguins are content in the cold--until they spot a menacing mammal! With a rhyming narrative that counts to five, adorable penguins are soaring--or flying--through the sea, trying to elude a lurking creature. But as young readers of this charming tale will discover, a friendly seal is only looking to play a game of tag.




Adobe Illustrator for Beginners 2021


Book Description

Adobe Illustrator is an application for creating beautiful and unique artworks. It is a vector graphics maker designed and developed by Adobe Inc in 1985. It is included as a part of the Adobe package, i.e., Adobe Creative cloud which includes Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe XD and more. This software is user friendly and supported by both WindowsOS and MacOS. Furthermore, it is widely used by graphic designers for visual designs that combine shapes, text, and images. However, you can create different digital and printed artworks that include logos, icons, book covers, media post images, cartoons, business cards, and many more. Illustrator's most important use is its ability to create solid and quality artworks that are widely supported and used. As a guide, this will walk you through the basics, which will ignite your ability to think creatively using Adobe Illustrator. You will get a simplified breakdown of utilizing this application by showing the various areas and tools on this platform. Hence, you understand → How to use this software → Working with shapes → Drawing and combining shapes → Working with text → The art tools → Tracing a photograph → Using brushes → Transforming objects → 3-d → Shortcuts, tips and tricks, and many more... Now that you have an idea of the amazing things you get to learn from this book, go ahead and grab your copy now rather than later.




Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator 9 in 24 Hours


Book Description

This step-by-step tutorial uses a friendly, conversational, noncondescending approach to teaching readers the basics of Illustrator 9. Covering both Macintosh and Windows platforms, this book covers the following topics: the interface, tools and palettes; setting preferences; drawing and editing objects; layers; working with selections, and more.




Illustrator CS4 For Dummies


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Adobe Illustrator is the gold standard for creating exciting, color-rich artwork for print, the Web, or even mobile devices. Whether you’re stepping up to Illustrator CS4 or tackling Illustrator for the first time, you’ll find Illustrator CS4 For Dummies is the perfect partner. This full-color guide gives you the scoop on the newest tools, tips on color control and path editing, ways to organize graphics, and how to get your work into print or on the Web. You’ve heard Illustrator is a bit complicated? That’s why you need this friendly For Dummies book! It shows you how to: Manage Illustrator CS4’s many tools, commands, and palettes Decide when to choose RGB over CMYK and how to get perfect color when printing Compare path and pixel documents, adjust points on a path, and learn to use the versatile Pen and Pencil tools Use the Character and Paragraph palettes and get creative with type on a path Work in pixel preview mode, create Web-specific vector graphics, and use Flash with Illustrator Set up your pages for printing and work with separations, or save files in Web-friendly formats Create basic shapes, straight lines, and precise curves, then bring it all together into eye-popping artwork Organize with the Layers palette, tweak color, and make the most of styles and effects Use Illustrator together with other elements of the Adobe Creative Suite With plain-English instructions and colorful examples of what you can achieve, Illustrator CS4 For Dummies will make you an Illustrator pro in no time.




Adobe Illustrator CS3


Book Description

The project-based lessons in this text show readers how to use Adobe Illustrator CS3 in real-life, everyday tasks. They give users a complete tour of the software.




Adobe Illustrator 8.0


Book Description

As a beginning to intermediate tutorial for readers who have a basic familiarity with the interface and tools of the Adobe Illustrator, this book teaches users to master Illustrator X in short, focused lessons.