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The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator—now completely reorganized, fully updated, and created for intermediate through professional users of Illustrator CS5 For years, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this completely updated edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, you’ll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS5, Sharon shows you how to integrate the new perspective grid, Shape Builder tool, Bristle Brushes, transparency in gradient mesh, new drawing modes, multiple artboards, and more. This edition is loaded with new lessons, galleries, and stunning new artwork that features:
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Table of Contents
1) Your Creative Workspace
Iso 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
LiveTrace
4) Creative Strokes
Bristle Brush
Blob Brush
New Art Brush Scale Option
Variable Width Art/Pattern Brush
Symbols
New Strokes
5) Creative Coloring
Blends
Gradients Mesh
Live Color part 2
6) Creative Complexity
Masking
Transparency
3D
Perspective Grid
Other Live Effects
7) Creative Associations
Working with other programs