This four-color, beautifully designed book teaches users of all levels how todo everything with Illustrator 11 to create professional-quality graphics forprint and the Web.

Create Illustrations, maps, logos, CD covers, animation objects, fine art, and more with help from this full-color guide. Illustrator expert David Karlins clear, step-by-step instruction will help you quickly grasp and easily master the fundamental and advanced features of this vector graphic tool. You ll also learn the techniques professional artists apply to their work in a special Behind the Scenes section. Whether your goal is to create graphics for professional or personal use, you ll find what you need in How to Do Everything with Illustartor CS A Beginner s Guide.

Maximize the power of the number-one vector graphics program This full-color guide is perfect for designers and artists looking to master the most powerful graphics program available. Whether new to the software or upgrading from an earlier version, you will learn how to use the most important features of the latest version and create print, Web, and motion graphics. The examples in the book demonstrate how to develop logos, editorial and book illustrations, page layouts, magazine ads, business graphs and charts, and more. The book takes you step-by-step through the process of creating various types of illustrations, and demonstrates professional techniques, shortcuts, and solutions.

Listen up, designers, and wipe those grins off your faces! It’s time to get serious about your design work. For too long you’ve allowed yourself to go soft, relying on your software to do all of your creative work for you. This book will NOT show you how to use every tool and feature in Adobe Illustrator. This book WILL, however, teach you the importance of drawing out your ideas, analyzing the shapes, and then methodically building them precisely in vector form using the methods covered in this book. ¿ In Vector Basic Training, acclaimed iillustrative designer Von Glitschka takes you through his systematic process for creating the kind of precise vector graphics that separate the pros from the toolers and hacks. Along the way, he’ll whip your drawing skills into shape and show you how to create elegant curves and precise anchor points for your designs. Between the book and the video tutorials on the included DVD, you’ll be ready for active creative duty in zero hundred hours or less.¿ ¿ In Vector Basic Training, you’ll learn: ¿The tools, plugins, and shortcuts that make up a design pro’s creative armament How to use “The Clockwork Method” to create accurate curves every time When and where to set just the right number of anchor points for any design How to build shapes quickly using familiar Illustrator tools Techniques for art directing yourself so that your work gets the response you desire Why symmetry is your friend and how to use it effectively in your designs Available by download: Von Glitschka reports for duty in over an hour’s worth of video tutorials that walk you through all of the techniques explained in the book. Also included: downloadable art files you can use to follow along on your own. See the instructions for download at the end of your ebook.

Need answers quickly? Adobe Illustrator CC on Demand provides those answers in a visual step-by-step format. We will show you exactly what to do through lots of full colour illustrations and easy-to-follow instructions. Improve publishing and productivity with Adobe Creative Cloud and touch screens Browse, organize, and process files using Adobe Bridge Transform and reshape objects to create a new look Use Live Paint to create, recolor, and modify images Use Live Colour to create colour harmony in a design Create complex shapes, patterns, and perspective objects Transform and touch up text and apply styles to display artistic text Apply appearances and graphic styles for a unique design Package or export designs to use in other programs

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.

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.