HAPPY BOOKSGIVING
Use code BOOKSGIVING during checkout to save 40%-55% on books and eBooks. Shop now.
Publishers of technology books, eBooks, and videos for creative people
Register your product to gain access to bonus material or receive a coupon.
Adobe Illustrator is the indispensable vector drawing tool used by digital artists around the world. As a key component of Adobe Creative Suite 6 and the Creative Cloud (CC), Illustrator provides artists with powerful drawing and painting tools, unparalleled typographic controls, and much more. The award-winning Adobe Illustrator CS6 WOW! Book is updated for features through Illustrator CS6, with updates on features introduced through the CC provided through PDF booklets (see Related Product below). Created for intermediate through professional artists and designers, this book focuses on real-world tips, tricks, and techniques extracted from the artwork of many of the world's best Illustrator artists. Along the way you’ll learn powerful new ways to create complex repeating patterns, apply gradients to a path, edit and apply custom and preset stroke profiles, add custom and preset live arrows, use improved live trace, work with Bristle and Blob brushes, learn new ways to construct and edit objects, add transparency to mesh and gradients, create 3D with the perspective grid, manage multiple artboards, crop with clipping masks, control transitions with opacity masks, and more.
Author Talk: Sharon Steuer on the Best New Features of Adobe Illustrator CS6 (Podcast Transcript)
Five Favorite New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS4/CS5/CS6
Adobe Illustrator Wow! Booklet for June 2013 CC Release "Sneak Peek" Excerpt
Download Chapter 4 Expressive Strokes
1) Your Creative Workspace
Isolation mode
Layers
Appearances
Targeting
Panels and workspaces
Basic multiple artboards
2) Creative Type & Layout
Advanced multiple artboards
Type and design stuff
Symbols and effects for artboards
3) Creative Construction
New Drawing Modes (normal, behind, inside)
Pathfinder
LivePaint
Shape Builder
Path Join enhancements
New Live Trace Options panel
4) Creative Strokes
Bristle Brush
Blob Brush
New Art Brush Scale Option
Variable Width Lines
Saving and Applying Line Profiles
Creating and Applying Live Arrows
Pattern Brush
Symbols
5) Creative Coloring
Blends
Gradients
Gradients on a path
Gradient Mesh
Live Color part 2
6) Creative Complexity
Pattern Making
Clipping Masks
Transparency
Opacity Masks
3D
Perspective Grid
Other Live Effects
7) Creative Associations
Working with other programs