Free training document material on 76 pages by Sharon Steuer.
This PDF tutorial is created for students who would like to learn the basics of the Adobe Illustrator CS6. Designers from all fields-illustrators, animators, package designers, graphic designers, web designers, and more-will find Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5 their one-stop guide to creating powerful designs in Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator was first developed for the Apple Macintosh in December 1986 as a commercialization of Adobe’s internal font development software and PostScript. Along with tips, sidebars, and expert commentary, there are also numerous 4-color illustrations and screen shots from contributing artists included to offer readers the most complete coverage on this extraordinary application.
The multiple artboards that were introduced in CS4 are easier to manage in CS5, with a full Artboards panel. This edition also covers the refinements to Illustrator's drawing tools, such as its Stroke panel and brushes, including the new Bristle Brush for painting, as well as the Shape Builder tool, which makes it easier to merge, break apart, or modify objects. This edition has been thoroughly updated for Illustrator CS5 and includes techniques on using the new perspective tools to draw, move, scale or duplicate objects in perspective.
With an easy, engaging style, author and past Illustrator product manager Mordy Golding takes readers through all of the features of the program, explaining not only how to use the multitude of features but also why and when to use them. A Glossary and Appendices (dealing with scripting) round out the book.Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5 is the definitive reference to Adobe's industry-standard vector graphics software. More advanced topics like moving objects in 3D and working with text and symbols are covered next, and finally the authors walk the reader through the construction of a simple scene. Then the perspective drawing features in Illustrator CS5 are introduced, beginning with working in Perspective View, followed by lessons in drawing and creating and transforming shapes in perspective. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular vector graphics editor or a seasoned graphic arts professional interested in better acquainting yourself with the new features and functions of Illustrator CS5, you're sure to benefit from this free software tutorial. 172 pages of this ebook take its reader through various Photoshop tools and basics with easy to understand illustrations. The book begins with describing the way perspective works in the real world. Need help figuring out how to save PDF-compatible AI files from Illustrator CS5. Que Publishing has published many professional books on Photoshop, dreamviewer, illustrator, InDesign which has ratings of 4+ stars on Amazon.In order to help Photoshop beginners, they have made this eBook on Photoshop CS5 available for download.
By explaining the concepts of linear perspective, they have tried to make the entire book self-contained as much as possible however, basic exposure to the previous versions of Adobe Illustrator is assumed. The authors’ goal has been to bridge that gap. Perspective drawing is a relatively specialized domain pursued by technical artists and draftsmen while Illustrator caters to a wide array of professionals and hobbyists ranging from traditional graphic designers and package designers to web and interactive designers. The scores of questions asked by pre-release testers of Illustrator CS5 due to lack of acquaintance with the terminology of perspective motivated the authors-members of the Illustrator development team- to write this book. Adobe Illustrator CS5 brings to users a hitherto new paradigm of vector drawing - perspective or “3D-like” drawing.