Master Adobe Illustrator CS4
Filled with full-color examples, this hands-on guide explains how to use the latest release of the premier vector graphics program. How to Do Everything: Adobe Illustrator CS4 takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a wide variety of illustrations, and demonstrates expert techniques, shortcuts, and solutions. A gallery profiling professional illustrators and their work highlights real-world examples. With this book, you'll learn how to use all the program's tools and settings to draw just about anything you can imagine!
Use the drawing, painting, selection, and arrangement tools
Add vibrancy to your illustrations using colors, swatches, and Adobe Kuler
Work with layers, format text, and create custom graphs
Create patterns, gradients, and blends
Apply vector and raster special effects
Use Live Paint, Live Trace, the Appearance panel, and the Graphic Styles panel
Create logos, page layouts, book jackets, ads, and web graphics
Print high-quality work
Integrate Illustrator artwork into Adobe Flash to create motion graphics
And much more
