Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 417 pages
- Published by: Adobe Press November 15, 1998
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1568304706
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1568304700
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.9 pounds
Product Review
If you're looking for a thorough, hands-on guide to Adobe Illustrator 8, give this Classroom in a Book a close look. Developers at Adobe created the book's well-rounded exercises and explanations for beginning users who want to master the core features of this newly updated illustration program. The included CD-ROM has project files for working along with the book. Each chapter, or lesson, begins with a "Getting Started" section and ends with review questions and answers, so you can better evaluate what you've learned. A full-color section shows you the process or results of each lesson. First, you get a tour of the interface and learn how to work with the program's shape tools, color, patterns, gradients, lines, curves, and brushes. Next, you transform objects, manipulate type, blend shapes and colors, work with the Pathfinder palette, use layers, apply watercolor and airbrush effects, and draw 3-D cylinders and boxes with the illusion of depth. Finally, you're ready for output. You learn how to create color separations, prepare your work for the printer, work with Photoshop images, and optimize graphics for the Web. From beginning to end, the book is full of helpful hints for creating good-looking illustrations.
--Kathleen Caster
Book Description
Adobe Illustrator X Classroom in a Book teaches users to master Illustrator X in short, focused lessons that explore all of Adobe Illustrator's tools and techniques. By following along with the cross-platform CD and the book's lessons, read
-Includes training material from Adobe's
software training experts and tested in Adobe's own classrooms
-Teaches Adobe Illustrator X in short, accessible lessons at a pace you can control
-The definitive, time-tested Photoshop tutorial that outclasses all other Photoshop titles available
-Previous edition was the best-selling Illustrator title at Ingrams in 1997
Reader Reviews
I found this book very useful since I know very little about Illustrator. It is not an easy to master application. The book covers all the basics. Examples are easy to follow. The level of this book is Beginners to Intermediate. I didn't encounter any technical problem when installing the CD. Like all Classroom in a book, there is no colourful illustration or picture. Everything is in black and white. It is a bit dry when compared to the Illustrator 8 Wow Book. However the Wow book is not as comprehensive as this one.
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