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Adobe Illustrator CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques (How-Tos) (Paperback)
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Adobe Illustrator CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques is a highly focused survey of the one-hundred most essential things anyone needs to know to use Illustrator CS3.
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Adobe Illustrator CS3 How-Tos:
100 Essential Techniques
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Adobe Illustrator CS3 is more than just the world's most popular and powerful illustration tool: As part of the Adobe's Creative Suite 3, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the new path eraser tool and making vivid artwork using the new Live Color feature and the updated recolor filters, as well as creating symbols and applying instances and exporting their work to Adobe Flash.
Written by veteran illustrators David Karlins and Bruce K. Hopkins,Adobe Illustrator CS2 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques breaks down confusing concepts and clearly explains and illustrates how to master the challenges of drawing and editing vector paths. David Karlins teaches Illustrator at San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program, and Bruck K. Hopkins has been a professional illustrator for a decade, creating everything from fine art to technical drawings.
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Adobe Illustrator CS2
Gone Wild
by David Karlins and Bruce K. Hopkins
features over 50 eye-popping illustration effects, with enough detail so that readers with familiarity with Adobe CS can step-by-step recreate the techniques in the book. Readers learn to create beautiful and complex DNA-like strands of materials, Escher-like patterns, spectacular car body effects, warped-out buildings, surreal complex shadowing, jewels with semi-transparent layers, liquid type, and much more.Illustrator Gone Wild combines technical detail and aesthetic quality with insights, behind the scenes tricks, and war stories from the world of cutting edge professional graphic design.Author David Karlins is one of the most widelypublished authors on Illustrator and vector graphic design. Illustrator Bruce K. Hopkins, was the fabric pattern designer for Joe Boxer shorts during their heyday, creating
dozens of highly recognizable designs. Bruce's spectacular Space poster series and other of his digital fine art projects have been featured in books and galleries.
Note to readers: The owners of the copyrights on these photos have been cool enough to give permission for their use by readers of Illustrator Gone Wild for non-commercial purposes only: Ch 1: Platte-Carree.jpg, Ch 7: DucatiEngine.jpg, Ch 7: Dodge_Truck.jpg, Ch 8: Shanghai.jpg, Ch 8: Serge Timacheff's Chevy, Ch 10: Mandala (Illustrator file), Ch 10: Roy & Troy (downloadable TIFF) (Illustrator file)
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How to Do Everything with Adobe Illustrator CS by David Karlins
In this very attractive presentation, David Karlins, who teaches interactive design at the University of California and at San Francisco State, deconstructs Illustrator to show how it allows such things as blend options, mask edits, rasterize, tweak blends, and create unusual type alignments. At the end of the book, there are 25 pages of exciting illustrations from professional designers, including a dynamite CD cover and a great architectural cutaway. This is not high art, but it is great graphic design. If layout and illustration are your thing, this is absolutely your book.
- Andrew Allentuck, Toronto Globe and Mail
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Bruce Hopkins has been doin' it all with Illustrator since the days when guys and gals wore Joe Boxer shorts.Literally!