How to Do Everything with Adobe Illustrator CS

410 Pages·2003·10.98 MB·English

by  David Karlins

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.How to Do Everything with Illustrator CS
by David Karlins ISBN:0072230924
McGraw-Hill/Osborne © 2003 (377 pages)
This handy resource teaches you how to generate professional graphics for multiple media,
including print and Web, including drawing with many techniques, learn 3D effects, export different
file types for Web use, and much more.
Table of Contents
How to Do Everything with Illustrator CS
Introduction
Part I - Prepare Your Illustrator Project
Chapter 1 - Introducing Illustrator CS and Its Interface
Chapter 2 - Set Up Your Project
Chapter 3 - Import Artwork
Part II - Draw Objects
Chapter 4 - Draw with the Pencil and Brush Tools
Chapter 5 - Work with Shapes
Chapter 6 - Draw with the Pen Tool
Chapter 7 - Scale, Skew, and Rotate
Part III - Add Type
Chapter 8 - Create and Edit Text
Chapter 9 - Format Type
Chapter 10 - Flow Text
Part IV - Work with Drawings
Chapter 11 - Combine and Arrange Objects
Chapter 12 - Create Blends
Chapter 13 - Clip with Masks
Chapter 14 - Trip Out with Effects and Filters
Chapter 15 - Bend with Envelopes and the Liquify Tools
Part V - Manage Fills
Chapter 16 - Manage Colors and Gradients
Chapter 17 - Adjust Transparency
Chapter 18 - Use Brushes and Pattern Fills
Chapter 19 - Work with Bitmap Art in Illustrator
Part VI - Use Layers and Styles
Chapter 20 - Arrange Illustrations with Layers
Chapter 21 - Apply Graphic Styles, Symbols, and Actions
Part VII - From Illustrator to Print and Web
Chapter 22 - Print Illustrations
Chapter 23 - Prepare Illustrations for the Web
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Index
List of Figures
List of Sidebars
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Back Cover
Create illustrations, maps, logos, CD covers, animation objects, fine art, and more with help from this full-color guide.
Illustrator expert David Karlins’ clear, step-by-step instruction will help you quickly grasp—and easily master—the
fundamental and advanced features of this vector graphics tool. You’ll also learn the techniques professional artists apply to
their work in a special “Behind the Scenes” section. Whether your goal is to create graphics for professional or personal use,
you’ll find what you need in How to Do Everything with Illustrator CS.
Understand Illustrator’s capabilities in drawing and design
Gain total control over lines, curves, fills, and color effects
Draw with objects, shapes, intersections, and cutting, and many other techniques
Add and alter type, edit colors, sizes, fonts, and more
Use new, advanced tools for paragraph formatting
Master fills and effects—even integrate bitmap images
Work with layer, style, and action strategies
Venture into 3-D effects, warps, and envelopes
Manage Illustrator’s many color palette options for Web and print
Export to GIF, JPEG, PNG. SVG, PDF, and Flash files for Web use
About the Author
David Karlins is a graphic and Web designer who teaches Adobe Illustrator at San Francisco State University’s Multimedia
Studies Center. His previous books include Build Your Own Web Site and Adobe Illustrator 10 Virtual Classroom.
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How to Do Everything with Illustrator CS
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Dedication
Dedicated to every illustrator who needs to enhance his or her skills to get a job!
About the Author
David Karlins teaches graphic and interactive design at the University of California Extension and in San Francisco
State University’s Multimedia Studies Program. He is a graphic and web consultant and designer and the author of a
dozen books on graphic and web design, including Build Your Own Web Site (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2003) and Adobe
Illustrator 10 Virtual Classroom (McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2001). Contact David through his web site,
www.davidkarlins.com.
About the Illustrator
Bruce K. Hopkins is the lead illustrator for this book. He has been a freelance illustrator for 20 years, the last 12 of
which he has also worked as a fine artist. Bruce has produced artwork for a variety of illustration projects, including
educational toys, novelty prints for apparel, catalogs and packaging, digital illustration for technical manuals, patent
drawings, and a teaching book for children. For the last two years he has been focusing much of his energy on
creating fine art and promoting himself as a fine artist. His fine art works include an ongoing botanical series painted in
gouache, a series of more than 200 geometric digital giclee prints called the “Space” series, an ongoing collection of
nude figure studies on paper, and, most recently, a series of local landscapes. Contact Bruce through his web site at
www.bkhopkins.com or via e-mail at [email protected].
Acknowledgments
Creating this book presented a unique and special mission. We set out to create a book that both clearly and
completely explained “how to do everything” in Illustrator and used artwork that provided real-world examples and
creative inspiration.
A unique and special group of people helped me meet that challenge. In creating the basic content of this book, I drew
heavily on my experiences teaching Illustrator and on the questions, discoveries, complaints, and inspiration provided
by my students. I’ve also drawn from my professional design interactions with clients, and the book includes insights
from those experiences as well.
To solve the challenge of providing creative, useful, and aesthetic illustrations throughout the book, I turned to three
sources. First and foremost, I drew on the amazing portfolio of Bruce K. Hopkins. Bruce has literally done it all in the
realm of Illustrator artwork, ranging from fine art to technical illustrations. Being able to access, dissect, rearrange, and
just plain mess with Bruce’s amazing inventory of projects was a huge element of making this book the combination of
technique and aesthetics that we were aiming to produce.
I also drew on projects created by students in my online Illustrator course in San Francisco State University’s
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Multimedia Studies Program. Those students generously shared the results of hours of their hard work and creativity.
And I had the audacity to ask the most successful graphic designers in the business to let me share and deconstruct
some of their best projects for the “Behind the Scenes” gallery at the end of this book.
Finally, this book required exponentially more blood, sweat, and tears (of joy—of course!) from the editors, artists, and
production folks at McGraw-Hill/Osborne. My appreciation to all of them!
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Introduction
A Unique Approach to Learning Illustrator
This book provides a clear, concise, and coherent introduction to Adobe Illustrator CS. Illustrator has an overwhelming
set of tools, features, and effects. Some of these features are relatively esoteric, and part of my job as author of this
book was to identify the Illustrator features you really need as an aspiring graphic designer or digital artist.
To do that, I’ve emphasized and gone into detail about how to use the Pen tool, how to create and manage
illustrations, and how to prepare your illustrations for various forms of output. This knowledge is the key to
understanding Illustrator (and other vector art programs), and you’ll use it nearly every time you use the program,
regardless of your level of experience.
Illustrator’s vector-based logic can be disorienting. I’ve been teaching and writing about vector-based graphic tools
since before you were born. OK, maybe not—but for 16 years. In that time, I’ve learned (through trial and error) how to
demystify Illustrator and make the learning process both effective and fun.
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How Is this Book Organized?
There are two possible approaches to using this book. You can go through it cover to cover. Or you can use it as a
reference to look up features you need. The book will work either way. If you’re new to Illustrator, I’d strongly suggest
setting aside some quality time and working through the book from beginning to end. It will be helpful to at least
familiarize yourself with the exploration of the Illustrator interface in Chapter 1 before either proceeding from beginning
to end or jumping around in the book.
As you read and refer to this book, take time to check out the artwork used to illustrate the feature you’re exploring.
Since many of the projects used as models in the book are plundered from the archives of Bruce K. Hopkins, you’ll get
a chance both to see a feature demonstrated and to see how that feature is used in the real world trenches of
professional design and illustration.
At any point in the process (including right now), feel free to jump to the back of the book and check out the “Behind
the Scenes: A Gallery with Techniques from the Pros” section. There you’ll find a representative selection of
accessible projects (a poster, a map, a CD cover, a business card, and more) created for the “real world.” Turn to this
section for inspiration, to see the techniques you’re mastering applied to completed projects, or just to browse some
very cool projects. The artwork in the “Behind the Scenes” section is deconstructed so you can see how professional
artists and designers created it.
Illustrator is used widely in both Macintosh and PC environments. We’ve done everything we could to make this book
“bilingual” for Mac and PC users. Where keystroke or menu commands are different for different operating systems,
you’ll find it easy to identify the instructions for your operating system and environment. Where there are different
keystrokes for Mac and Windows (PC), I’ll put the Windows keystrokes in parentheses. For instance, where the
instructions say to hold down the OPTION (ALT) key, Mac users will hold down the OPTION key and PC users will
hold down the ALT key. If a menu option works one way in OSX, and differently for Windows and OS9 users (we tried
to make this book as backward-compatible as possible), then the instructions will be spelled out explicitly. For
instance, if I want you to access the Preferences dialog box, I’ll tell you to choose Edit | Preferences in OS9 or
Windows, or Illustrator | Preferences in OSX. And we’ve kept the screen shots as closely cropped as possible so you
won’t be distracted by operating system elements foreign to your own work environment. Finally, I’ve compiled
separate lists of the most useful Illustrator keyboard shortcuts for Mac and PC and included this list inside the back
cover of the book.
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Who Is this Book Written For?
This book is written for the beginning or intermediate user of Illustrator who is interested in learning to use Illustrator for
professional or personal projects. Because Illustrator’s vector logic is so different from the underlying structure of
programs such as Photoshop, even folks who have used Illustrator find it somewhat intimidating.
If you’re brand new to Illustrator, you’ll find that this book is just what you need. If you’ve been using Illustrator for
years but remain confused by some of the features or wonder if you’re doing things the most efficient and effective
way, you’ll find this book highly valuable, too.
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Part I: Prepare Your Illustrator Project
Chapter List
Chapter 1: Introducing Illustrator CS and Its Interface
Chapter 2: Set Up Your Project
Chapter 3: Import Artwork