How often have you wished you had access to the team behind your favorite software--in this case, Adobe Illustrator--so that you could really pick their brains about all of its coolest features? With this book, you do.
In these pages, the Adobe Creative Team gives you a guided tour of the graphics powerhouse, Adobe Illustrator CS2. Best of all, it does so at your pace. Whether your beautifully designed graphics end up in print, the Web, broadcast video, or even cell phone displays, this book shows you how to get them there--easily, elegantly, and efficiently.
You'll find step-by-step, project-based lessons in all of Illustrator's key features, including those that are new to CS2: Live Trace, Illustrator's powerful bitmap-to-vector tracing tool; Live Paint, a revolutionary paint tool that lets you apply color to vector graphics intuitively and easily; the new Control Palette, which makes tools easier to locate and select, the Adobe Bridge file browser, tighter integration with Photoshop CS2, and more. Each chapter contains a project that builds on your growing knowledge of the program, while the companion CD includes all the files you need to complete the book's lessons.
What’s New in Adobe illustrator CS2
A Quick Tour of Adobe illustrator CS2
Lesson 1 Getting to Know the Work Area
Lesson 2 Selections and Shapes
Lesson 3 Transforming Objects
Lesson 4 Drawing with the Pen tool
Lesson 5 Color and Painting
Lesson 6 Working with type
Lesson 7 Working with Layers
Lesson 8 Blending Shapes and Colors
Lesson 9 Working with Symbols
Lesson 10 Working with Brushes and Scribbles
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