The Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book
The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator ? now fully updated for Illustrator CS3
For years, Sharon Steuer and her international Wow! team have been reaching out to the world of professional illustrators to showcase the range and quality of work these artists are doing in Illustrator. In this revised edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, youll find tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from more than 100 of these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS3, Sharon shows you how to perform magical color changes using Live Color, and prepare animations for Flash. You'll not only learn how to?think in Illustrator?with the Zen of Illustrator lessons, you'll also master the newest, hottest, and most challenging techniques.
This edition is loaded with new lessons on these subjects, and many more:
Using the new Live Color features
Creating animations and integrating Illustrator with Flash
Working with Live Trace and Live Paint
The basics of using layers, templates, the Free Distort tool, and more
"Opacity Mask 101? based on the cover image
Applying blending modes and transparency to raster images
Masking with live type
Simulating ink and watercolor paintings
Working with live fills, multiple strokes, and Live 3D
Basic to advanced blends, gradients, and mesh
Colorizing photos
Demystifying photorealistic mesh
NOTE:
User Level: This book is for Intermediate through Professional-level Illustrator artists and designers.
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Adobe Illustrator CS3 Classroom in a Book
Adobe Photoshop CS3 One-On-One
Real World Adobe InDesign CS3
Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual
InDesign CS3 One on One
How to Cheat in Flash CS3: The art of design and animation in Adobe Flash CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Classroom in a Book
Real World Adobe Illustrator CS3
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The Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book Reviews
For the beginning illustrator/AI user, this is a great book with lots of useful techniques, easy to follow, comes with a CD.
but it's full of little nice surprises. it is really a great book for both beginners and experienced users, especially the showcase sections, you can learn a lot form that one. i've been using adobe illustrator for over 12 years now and it was a nice thing to find out i could still find some new tricks and different ways to use the tools that the ones I'm used to. the book does what it says.
This book is amazing for graphic artists. It's full of tons of tricks to perfect your design game. I recommend it.
I was very disappointed in this book. The book features many pages of fancy colored illustrations created w/ the program but does not go into any details on how they were created. Important areas such as Pathfinder and custom brush, I felt was glossed over. You'll find much better tutorials on Adobe's website.
Even some of Illustrator's advanced features like Live Trace and mesh blends; not enough instructions provided. The help files on the accompanying CD is no better. The cost of the book, even used, does not justify the content; sparse on instructions for a highly complicated program. Illustrator requires detailed instructions because it is not necessarily user intuitive nor friendly.
Its a good book for getting inspiration with the full color gallery section but don't expect much on clear detailed instructions. Tutorials on the bezier pen tool is marginal at best.
It is very hard to follow and I am constantly lost during the sample exercises in each chapter. I wish this book had the same type of format. I have given up on the book as of now, the eighth week of class.
I had to purchase this book for a Adobe Illustrator class I am currently taking. My professor has even told us to not follow quite a few of the steps and shows us the right way to do it. I took a class last semester on InDesign, the text book was amazing (Exploring InDesign by Terry Rydberg). I have to admit, this book really hasn't helped me learn a thing.
I'm so thankful I have a lecture to supplement reading, but at the same point that means I cannot miss one class.
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