Product DescriptionAdobe Illustrator CS3 is more than just the world's most popular and powerful illustration tool: As part of the Adobe's Creative Suite 3, it's a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS3 features they're most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using the new path eraser tool and making vivid artwork using the new Live Color feature and the updated recolor filters, as well as creating symbols and applying instances and exporting their work to Adobe Flash.
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Rating: - Good book for people who need instructions in a hurry
I learned Illustrator on a need-to-know basis. Like many busy professionals, I learned only as much as I needed to know when I needed to know it. In the past I tried using the Classroom in a Book to increase my Illustrator skills, and while I generally like that approach - the book comes with a CD of sample files that allow the user to complete an interesting, attractive and complex project while working through each chapter - I've never managed to find the time to work through a whole chapter in ... Read More
Rating: - The most straight forward way of delivering all you need to know
This is an excellent series of books. I started out with Photoshop and went on to study Illustrator and Dreamweaver. Is less then a quarter of the size of all the other instructional books out ther but packs ten times of easy to read and understand knowledge. I highly recommend it!
Rating: - it's ok
it's a good book, but it's all in black and white, not like other design books that have magazine paper and color photos explaining the points. there's a lot of text, but not many pictures or diagrams explaining, which in my case helps.
Rating: - Good book, easy to follow
This a very good book that takes you through the basics and beyond. I think an advanced user may not benefit as much as a beginner or intermediate user. One drawback is that the book ignores charts and graphs altogether, which is one of Illustrator's best features. But they aren't much different, if any different, from version 6 on. I've been using Illustrator since '92 so I used the book to find features exclusive to CS3. As for the charts, punch in charts and graphs for Adobe Illustrator into Google ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent instructions, user friendly manual.
I found the format of this instruction guide to be perfect. The authors have chosen 100 essential techniques, and teach these in easy to follow and accessible lessons. By going through the book I was able to grasp the essential, most used tools in Adobe Illustrator. I found the directions and illustrations extremely user friendly, and they manage to make the software package seem easy to use. In the past I have bought the "Bible" instruction books to learn Adobe software, but this book was much more ... Read More
- The most straight forward way of delivering all you need to know
- it's ok
