Whether you are creating a catchy and fun cartoon, designing a print banner advertisement, or developing content for a mobile game, save time and money with expert techniques, trips and tricks from by Adobe Certified Expert, Rafiq Elmansy with Illustrator Foundations. With practical applications and step by step tutorials, solve problems quickly to develop creative projects on time and to budget. Want to hone your Illustrator skills so you can remain competitive in a diverse market while concentrating on your vector graphics projects? Then Illustrator Foundations is for you! With real-world professional projects you'll discover how to: develop mobile applications, work with layers, masks, vector images and many more tips and tricks not found anywhere else! Harness the full Creative Suite software package with tips on how to integrate Illustrator with Photoshop and After Effects. This book is a goldmine of artistic inspiration, timesaving practical tips, tricks and step-by-step walkthroughs; you'll wonder how you survived this long without it. Put the Adobe Illustrator CS6 techniques to the test with the fully updated companion website with downloadable Illustrator source files, examples and video tutorials.
Contents
Chapter 01: Introduction to Adobe Illustrator CS6
Introducing Illustrator CS6 and its new features
The anatomy of Illustrator main interface
Illustrator docking panels
Manage Illustrator workspaces
Working with the Illustrator resources
Chapter 02: Working with Documents
Creating New Documents
Illustrator presets and templates
XMP Metadata
Understanding Art boards
Working with rulers and guides
Working with grids
Working with smart guides
Working with document views
Chapter 03: Working with selection
Working with the selection tools
Selection with attribute or type
Saving selection
Selection beneath objects
Selection preferences
Chapter 04: Laye
Understanding the layers
Layer panel
Working with groups
Isolated modes
Chapter 05: Drawing in Illustrator
Path primitives
Anchor points
Working with paths
Compound paths
Drawing in perspective
Drawing with the pencil tool
Working with stokes
The Erase tool
Working with shapes
Managing the drawing task
Chapter 06: Colors and Gradient
Working with the color swatches panel
Working with transparency
Working with gradient
Working with patterns
Live Painting
Chapter 07: Editing artwork
Transforming artwork
Resizing, reflecting and skewing artwork
Alignment and distribution
Working with Pathfinder
Chapter 08: Objects and symbols
Understanding the symbols in Illustrator
Working with the Symbols panel
Managing artwork with symbols
Working with the Symbol Sprayer tool
Working wit Slice 9 feature
Chapter 09: Working with images...
