Learning Illustrator CS6: With 100 Practical Exercises - Brossura

MEDIAactive

Brossura

ISBN 10: 8426719007 ISBN 13: 9788426719003

Casa editrice: Marcombo Sa, 2013

Riassunto

Learning Illustrator CS6
Illustrator CS6, vector drawing application from Adobe, is an excellent tool for computer-aided design. Thanks to its amazing and powerful features, you can create original artwork using drawings and images for it. Do not hesitate to make the 100 exercises in this book to discover the thousand and one possibilities hidden in this great program, as advocated by professionals.

With this book:

Meet the new applications of pattern creation tool enhanced.
Discover also improved image tracing tool that now provides clean lines and perfect fit.
Apply gradients on strokes to get interesting and striking results.
Leverage the revamped interface with optimized panels and other new features that make it more intuitive, efficient and flexible.
Enjoy improvements to some effects, such as Gaussian blur, glare and shadows, which are applied much faster now.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

MEDIAactive is a company that has specialized in the creation of teaching materials for more than ten years and has published more than 120 technical manuals, CD-ROMs, and online courses that have been used by schools and by individuals. MEDIAactive’s courses target inexperienced computer users who utilize a variety of different software tools—users who demand and expect a quick and easy guide to learn the most widely available programs in the market. In collaboration with the publisher Marcombo, which specializes in the editing of technical books, MEDIAactive has created an educational series that embraces these ideals, designing manuals where each of the program functions are learned through easy-to-follow practical exercises, step-by-step and click-by-click instructions, with illustrations that leave no doubt about the implementation of the processes. This learning system results in a greater retention and understanding of program functions, no matter how basic or advanced.

Contenuti:

001 Discovering the workspace..............................................14 002 Customizing the workspace............................................16 003 Creating Documents........................................................18 004 Designing with artboards................................................20 005 Page size and orientation................................................22 006 Using rulers, guides and grid...........................................24 007 Varying the background of a document.........................26 008 Selecting objects with the Selection tool........................28 009 The Lasso and Magic Wand tools.....................................30 010 Moving and rotating objects...........................................32 011 Varying the scale and shearing objects.......................34 012 Copying and duplicating................................................36 013 Expanding, grouping and ungrouping...........................38 014 Locking and unlocking objects.......................................40 015 Distributing and aligning objects....................................42 016 Uniting and combining objects......................................44 017 Stacking objects...............................................................46 018 Creating straight lines.....................................................48 019 Creating rectangles and squares......................................50 020 Creating circles and ellipses............................................52 021 Drawing polygons and stars............................................54 022 Drawing arcs....................................................................56 023 Drawing spirals................................................................58 024 Drawing grids..................................................................60 025 Drawing with the Pencil tool .........................................62 026 Drawing with the Pen tool.................................................. 64 027 Editing anchor points.......................................................... 66 028 Converting lines to curves and vice versa........................... 68 029 Adding a fill to an object..................................................... 70 030 Varying the characteristics of the stroke............................. 72 031 Selecting and deleting fills and strokes............................... 74 032 Inserting and customizing arrowheads................................ 76 033 Dividing, cutting and trimming objects........................... 78 034 Erasing paths with the Eraser tool....................................... 80 035 Creating a Live Paint group................................................. 82 036 Coloring Live paint groups................................................. 84 037 The Shape Builder tool........................................................ 86 038 Creating strokes with calligraphic brushes ........................ 88 039 Using scatter, art and pattern brushes................................ 90 040 Working with the Blob Brush............................................. 92 041 Drawing with the Bristle brush........................................... 94 042 Applying gradients.............................................................. 96 043 Crear degradados sobre trazos............................................. 98 044 Creating radial and elliptical gradients..................... 100 045 Creating a mesh object...................................................... 102 046 Changing gradients to mesh objects................................. 104 047 Filling with patterns.......................................................... 106 048 Creating your own pattern................................................ 108 049 Reflecting objects............................................................... 110 050 Adding and editing text.................................................... 112 051 Formatting text...................................................................114 052 Working with long texts....................................................116 053 Varying formatting paragraphs..........................................118 054 Creating and using paragraph styles..................................120 055 Varying the scale and rotating the text..............................122 056 Converting type to outlines...............................................124 057 Converting type to live paint groups.................................126 058 Applying effects to type......................................................128 059 Wrapping text around an object........................................130 060 Entering text on a path......................................................132 061 Applying effects to text on a path .....................................134 062 Organizing different layers ................................................136 063 Applying revolving and extrusion to give depth...............138 064 Adding bevels to extrusions...............................................140 065 Mapping artwork onto a 3D object ...................................142 066 Creating drawings in perspective.......................................144 067 Blending objects.................................................................146 068 Modifying blended objects.................................................148 069 Distorting objects using an envelope.................................150 070 Editing and removing envelopes........................................152 071 Using clipping masks..........................................................154 072 Varying and editing clipping masks...................................156 073 Adding symbols..................................................................158 074 Searching for symbols in the library..................................160 075 Editing and duplicating symbols.......................................162 076 Expanding a symbol instance............................................164 077 Creating new symbols .......................................................166 078 Creating symbol sets..........................................................168 079 Editing symbol sets (I)........................................................170 080 Editing symbol sets (II).......................................................172 081 Adding and modifying flares..............................................174 082 Importing a bitmap image.................................................176 083 Manipulating linked or embedded files ............................178 084 Importing Photoshop images ............................................180 085 Moving paths from Photoshop to Illustrator.....................182 086 Converting an image to an editable vector........................184 087 Modifying the result of a Live Trace..................................186 088 Tracings and Live Paint groups..........................................188 089 Rasterizing a drawing.........................................................190 090 Applying a raster effect.......................................................192 091 Using artistic effects............................................................194 092 Applying Gaussian Blur and other effects..........................196 093 Adding a brush stroke effect...............................................198 094 Applying pixelate and sketch effects..................................200 095 Adding texture effects.........................................................202 096 Using distort effects............................................................204 097 Applying light to a 3D object.............................................206 098 Exporting artwork to Flash.................................................208 099 Creating Flash animations in Illustrator............................210 100 Creating PDF files...............................................................212

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Marcombo Sa
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 8426719007
• ISBN 13: 9788426719003
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 213