The Adobe Illustrator CS6 WOW! Book (Paperback)

Adobe Illustrator is the indispensable vector drawing tool used by digital artists around the world. As a key component of Adobe Creative Suite 6, Illustrator CS6 provides those artists with powerful drawing tools, unparalleled typographic controls, and much more. The award-winning Adobe Illustrator CS6 WOW! Book is updated for intermediate through professional artists and designers to inspire and teach. With its practical, yet beautiful examples, this book focuses on real-world tips, tricks, and techniques extracted from the artwork of many of the world's best Illustrator artists. Along the way, the book incorporates the new Adobe features, such as powerful new ways to create complex repeating patterns, apply gradients to a path, edit and apply custom and preset stroke profiles, add custom and preset live arrows, use improved live trace, work with Bristle and Blob brushes, learn new ways to construct and edit objects, add transparency to mesh and gradients, create 3D with the perspective grid, manage multiple artboards, crop with clipping masks, control transitions with opacity masks, and more.

Adobe Illustrator是全球數位藝術家不可或缺的向量繪圖工具。作為Adobe Creative Suite 6的重要組成部分，Illustrator CS6為這些藝術家提供了強大的繪圖工具、無與倫比的排版控制等功能。屢獲殊榮的Adobe Illustrator CS6 WOW! Book針對中級至專業藝術家和設計師進行了更新，以啟發和教導。本書以實用而美麗的例子為重點，著重於從世界上許多最優秀的Illustrator藝術家的作品中提取的現實世界的技巧和技術。在此過程中，本書還介紹了新的Adobe功能，例如創建複雜重複圖案的強大新方法，將漸變應用於路徑，編輯和應用自定義和預設筆觸配置文件，添加自定義和預設的實時箭頭，使用改進的實時追蹤，使用刷子和斑點筆，學習構建和編輯對象的新方法，將透明度應用於網格和漸變，使用透視網格創建3D，管理多個畫板，使用剪裁遮罩進行裁剪，使用不透明度遮罩控制過渡等等。