Illustrator CS5 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Paperback)

This fully updated edition for Illustrator CS5 covers the essential skills for Illustrator artists, such as drawing geometric and freehand objects; color management; using multiple artboards; applying colors, patterns, and gradients; creating and using brushes; transforming, reshaping, and combining objects; creating and styling type; applying graphic styles and transparency; using the Pen tool; using the live color, paint, trace, and effects features; using symbols; and output. The new and updated Illustrator CS5 features are clearly marked with bright red stars in both the table of contents and main text.

Among the new CS5 features covered in this volume are bristle brushes, drawing modes, arrows, Width tool, Shape Builder tool, and Mini Bridge. Enhancements to such features as path joining, artboards, pixel-perfect drawing, and Art brushes are also covered.

Readers can follow the steps in a tutorial fashion, or use the book as a reference guide to individual program features. Many of the key illustrations used in the book are available via Web download for practice.

這本針對Illustrator CS5的全新更新版涵蓋了Illustrator藝術家所需的基本技能，包括繪製幾何和手繪物件、色彩管理、使用多個畫板、應用顏色、圖案和漸層、創建和使用筆刷、變形、重塑和結合物件、創建和設計文字、應用圖形樣式和透明度、使用筆工具、使用即時顏色、繪畫、追蹤和效果功能、使用符號以及輸出。新的和更新的Illustrator CS5功能在目錄和主文中都以鮮紅色星號清楚標示。

在這本書中，涵蓋了Illustrator CS5的新功能，包括刷毛筆、繪圖模式、箭頭、寬度工具、形狀建立工具和Mini Bridge。同時也介紹了對路徑連接、畫板、像素完美繪圖和藝術筆刷等功能的增強。

讀者可以按照教程的方式進行步驟，或者將本書作為個別程式功能的參考指南。書中使用的許多關鍵插圖可通過網絡下載進行練習。