Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book (2020 release)
Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book (2020 release)

Author: Brian Wood

Publisher: Adobe Press

Published: 2019-12-20

Total Pages: 939

ISBN-13: 0136503055

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The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn. The best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Contains 16 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Build a strong foundation by following hands-on projects for creating logos, illustrations, and posters. Learn how to use the Shaper tool and Live Shapes along with dynamic symbols to streamline graphics creation. Create website assets and export them in multiple formats to support modern responsive web designs. From exacting illustration to more free-form painting, you’ll gain vital skills as you progress through the lessons. The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: A Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes.

The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC
The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC

Author: Sharon Steuer

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Published: 2014-09-12

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 0133928772

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For decades, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this expanded 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 top Illustrator artists. You’ll learn to use new features, discover exciting ways to create complex effects, and find fresh ways to use venerable old tools and¿speed up your workflow. This edition includes coverage of the 2014 release and is loaded with and lessons with stunning new artwork that feature: Painting and generating objects with raster brushes Harnessing Live Corners, Live Rectangles, and new ways to reshape paths Manipulating live type characters with the Touch Type tool Creating airbrush and neon effects with gradients on strokes Building complex styles with multiple lines, fills, and effects Composing complex repeating patterns Auto-generating corners for pattern brushes Incorporating transparency into mesh and gradients Building and modifying scenes in perspective and 3D Transforming raster art to Illustrator vectors Preparing artwork for animation and the web Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop and other apps Creating photorealism in Illustrator WOW! ONLINE Register the book at peachpit.com/register to access artwork to pick apart and special PDFs from artists to you. Keep up with tips on the latest Illustrator features at WOWartist.com.

Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator

Author: Jason Hoppe

Publisher: Rocky Nook, Inc.

Published: 2020-02-07

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 1681985330

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Adobe Illustrator: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to building vector graphics, whether you’re creating logos, icons, drawings, typography, or other illustrations—and regardless of their destination: print, web, video, or mobile. First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from Adobe Certified Instructor Jason Hoppe, you will learn the procedures needed to use Illustrator effectively and professionally. Dozens of lessons are included that can be applied to any graphics you have in mind. Through these step-by-step lessons, you’ll be exposed to all of Illustrator’s features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows.

To complete the Course, we’ll supply lesson documents and their assets to download. These can even serve as starting points for your own projects.

Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you’ll use the Compendium to uncover more of the “how” and “why” of Illustrator. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Illustrator’s key features and concepts in depth. With cross references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come.

Learn step by step how to:

    • Draw basic shapes and lines
    • Build graphics using Illustrator’s deep and diverse toolset
    • Create complex icons using the Pathfinder and Shape Builder
    • Use color with predictable and harmonic results
    • Work effectively with type
    • And much more!

The Non-designer's Illustrator Book
The Non-designer's Illustrator Book

Author: Robin Williams

Publisher: Peachpit Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0321772873

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Annotation Many designers and photographers own the entire suite of Adobe creative products, but they manage to learn only one or two of the applications really well. This volume includes many individual exercises designed specifically to teach the tools and features in Illustrator that designers (as opposed to illustrators) need to use.

One Big Book
One Big Book

Author:

Publisher: McSweeneys Books

Published: 2013-10-22

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781938073700

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A new release in our popular Author-Illustrator Starter Kit series! One giant, premium-quality hardcover unlined blank book — 32 pages, 13" square — ready to be turned into a picture book. Just add crayons, markers, and ideas. The blank book is shrinkwrapped with a removable title card that offers a handful of inventive prompts to inspire young writers and artists.

Adobe Illustrator CC For Dummies
Adobe Illustrator CC For Dummies

Author: David Karlins

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-01-29

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1119641535

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Get to know your digital drawing board Adobe Illustrator CC offers a vibrant tool for creating drawings and illustrations in a digital environment. It takes some practice to get a feel for the digital pens, pencils, paintbrushes, and erasers, though. Adobe Illustrator CC For Dummies offers the guidance you need to turn your ideas into real drawings. Written by an Illustrator trainer and expert, this book walks those new to the tool through the basics of drawing, editing, and applying the unique tools found in this popular program. Create illustrations using simple shapes Touch up images using pen, pencil, and brush tools Import your illustrations into other graphic apps Apply special effects and add type This book is essential reading for new and beginning illustrators who are either adopting a digital tool for the first time, switching from an existing tool to Illustrator, or adding Illustrator know-how to existing Adobe knowledge.

Becoming a Successful Illustrator
Becoming a Successful Illustrator

Author: Jo Davies

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-06-19

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1472587359

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Illustration is a diverse and constantly evolving area of art and design and an appealing creative career. But to stand out from the crowd, successful illustrators need to combine creative talent with strong marketing and promotional skills. Becoming a Successful Illustrator provides practical and inspirational guidance on finding and contacting clients, putting together promotional materials and establishing yourself as a professional illustrator. With case studies, and firsthand tips and hints from practising illustrators at varying stages in their careers, and packed with hundreds of beautiful examples of professional work, this is a must-have guide to the working world of illustration. This title is part of the Creative Careers series from Fairchild Books, designed to help bridge the gap between academia and a first job in the creative industries. Brimming with helpful tips and facts about the world of work, they offer an essential guide for any emerging creative practitioner. The cover artwork for Becoming a Successful Illustrator has been shortlisted for an illustration award in the 2013 books category by the prestigious Association of Illustrators.

Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Acrobat 5 in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Acrobat 5 in 24 Hours

Author: Christopher Smith

Publisher: Sams Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 9780672323140

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This manual shows what can be done with XML, while also teaching where the technology is headed. It includes topics like displaying XML files in HTML files, performing queries in XSL and building an online store.