Sams Teach Yourself Illustrator 8 in 24 Hours

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 408 pages
• Published by: Sams October 16, 1998
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0672313545
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0672313547
• Book Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Product Review
If you need a highly regimented approach to learning new software and you're trying to make your way through the maze that is Adobe Illustrator, this Sams Teach Yourself guide can help. In 24 hours, you learn about the essence of working with vector-based images and become proficient enough to create attractive illustrations of your own. Each chapter, or hour, concludes with a summary, a quiz, exercises, and a review of terms, so you can assess what you've learned.

Author Mordy Golding first teaches you how to set up and customize documents, draw basic objects, and work with selections, layers, Bézier paths, paintbrush tools, colors, fills, strokes, and compound paths and masks. Next, you work with transformations, text and typography, raster images, vector filters, and charts and graphs. Finally, you learn about saving and exporting files, using Actions, scanning images, printing files, creating color separations, creating Web graphics, and dealing with cross-platform issues. The author addresses both Windows and Macintosh users but is sensitive to the differences between the two platforms. --Kathleen Caster

Book Description
This step-by-step tutorial uses a friendly, conversational, and non-condescending approach to teach readers the basics of Illustrator 8. The book's tone is one of a teacher sitting with you explaining how to use the program. This title covers both the Macintosh and Windows platforms. Sams Teach Yourself Illustrator 8 covers the following topics, and more: - The Interface, Tools, and Palettes, - Setting Preferences, - Drawing & Editing Objects, - Layers, - Working with Selections, - Bezier Paths, - Masks, - Transformations, - Color.

Reader Reviews
I am new Illustrator 8 and do not feel comfortable with the Adobe User Guide... which I think is showing too much in a small book... This book is great. It has useful illustrations that greatly supports the explanation. I guess only with enough illustrations one gets to know the features and how the tools can be used in different ways to produce the different effects in the illustrations. This book is a great help to me in learning Illustrator 8. I think you will also love it if you are also new to the software.