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, Illustrator CS. 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 CS: powerful new type tools, the Scribble Effect, hundreds of professionally designed templates, support for 3D graphics, and more. Each chapter contains a project that builds on your growing knowledge of the program, and a companion CD includes all the files needed to complete the book's lessons.
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Rating: - Teach Yourself Illustrator
If you don't have the time or the money to take a lengthy class on Adobe Illustrator, just buy this book. There are a lot of instructional books out there for Illustrator and other Adobe programs, but this is by far the best and most concise. It includes a CD with lessons and images, and if you start at the beginning and plow through it, you'll learn Illustrator competently enough to get you up and running with the program.
Rating: - Illustrator CS training guide
This workbook is incredibly useful for gaining a thorough understanding of Adobe Illustrator. Shortcuts are introduced throughout the lessons and extra information is included in grey text boxes in the book along the way. Lessons are outlined well in the table of contents for quick reference.
Rating: - Adobe Illustrator Classroom In A Book
This book combined with the CD is fabulous. Immediately you feel like your getting the hang of this very complex software.
Rating: - Enlightening
This books gives you tht basic ins and outs of Illustrator in a comprehensive step by step format.
Rating: - A Great Way to Get Started With Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator CS Classroom in a Book (like the other books in the series) is extremely thorough, providing repeated opportunities to try the features of the software. After finishing the lessons, it's a great resource to have nearby.
The 19 lessons provide step-by-step instructions and screenshots for both Mac and Windows environments, so you don't have to worry about which version of Illustrator you are using. Each lesson also ends with Review Questions (with answers) to help ... Read More
- Teach Yourself Illustrator
