The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book

About this book

The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustratornow 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 worlds best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this completely updated edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book youll 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: Creating artwork with the dynamic Perspective Grid Fast construction with the Shape Builder tool and drawing modes Working with the painterly and naturalistic Bristle Brushes Creating variety in strokes with the new Width tool Enhanced Web Flash and animation workflow Fast and easy masking using the Draw Inside mode Layering transparency in photorealistic gradient mesh Managing multiple artboards with the new Artboards panel Integrating Blob Brush artwork with Live Paint Working quickly using the improved Appearance panel For intermediate through professional-level illustrators. Find Artwork to pick apart custom WOW! scripts by Premedia Systems and many demos and plug-ins on the DVD-ROM: Custom WOW! scripts created by Premedia Systems for colorizing objects and resizing multiple artboards. The best demos and plug-ins hand-picked by WOW! technical editor Jean-Claude Tremblay Bonus ReadMe documents including PDFs from the Adobe technical team and commissioned artists Details about creating SmallCaps in Illustrator by ILene Strizver from thetypestudio.com Two full PDF chapters from Mordy Goldings Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5 Technical experts from Sandee Cohens InDesign: Visual QuickStart Guide and Conrad ChavezsReal World Adobe Photoshop for Photographers Many art files from the book to deconstruct