Perspective Warps and Distorts with Adobe Tools: Volume 2: Putting a New Twist on Illustrator

Gain skills in illustration and logo manipulation that will enhance your designs and make them more appealing--either in your portfolio or for your client's next graphic project.
As Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator have evolved, new and unique features have been added to these programs that offer different options for warping and distorting graphics and shapes. For the beginner and intermediate student or graphic artist, choosing or knowing which distort or warp tool to use among so many available can become overwhelming and confusing.
This book primarily focuses on teaching how to work with various warping tools and effect filters in Illustrator, though you will also be using or comparing graphics from Adobe Photoshop. Knowing how to work between these two applications is a crucial part of understanding how to successfully manipulate your designs. In Illustrator, you'll see how to alter vector graphics, and learn how to do this with your Layers panel in various non-destructive ways.
Some of the tools mentioned in this book will be familiar to you, as you may have used them frequently. However, others are well hidden, are new, or perhaps you have never considered that you could use that tool, dialog box, or filter effect to warp or distort. What You Will Learn

• Become proficient in using the warping and distorting tools and effects in Illustrator
• Discover how to add perspective to your design or make them look three dimensional
• Work with the Appearance panel, Graphic Styles, and Symbols
• Combine older tools and newer, enhanced ones

Who This Book Is ForBeginner- and Intermediate-level readers interested in pursuing careers as graphic artists, photographers, or video artists/animators.

提升你的設計技巧，使其更具吸引力，不論是在你的作品集中還是為客戶的下一個圖形項目中，學習插圖和標誌操作的技能。隨著Adobe的Photoshop和Illustrator的發展，這些軟體新增了新的獨特功能，提供了不同的選項來扭曲和變形圖形和形狀。對於初學者和中級學生或圖形藝術家來說，在這麼多可用的扭曲或變形工具中選擇或了解應該使用哪一個可能會讓人感到不知所措和困惑。

本書主要著重於教授如何在Illustrator中使用各種扭曲工具和效果濾鏡，但你也會使用或比較來自Adobe Photoshop的圖形。了解如何在這兩個應用程序之間工作是成功操作你的設計的重要一環。在Illustrator中，你將學習如何修改向量圖形，並以各種非破壞性的方式在圖層面板中進行操作。

本書提到的一些工具對你來說可能很熟悉，因為你可能經常使用它們。然而，其他工具可能被很好地隱藏起來，是新的，或者你可能從未考慮過你可以使用該工具、對話框或濾鏡效果來扭曲或變形。

你將學到什麼：
- 熟練使用Illustrator中的扭曲和變形工具和效果
- 發現如何為你的設計添加透視或使其看起來立體
- 使用外觀面板、圖形樣式和符號
- 結合舊工具和新的增強工具

適合閱讀本書的讀者：
對於初學者和中級讀者，有興趣從事圖形藝術家、攝影師或視頻藝術家/動畫師的職業。

Jennifer Harder has worked in the graphic design industry for over ten years. She has a degree in graphic communications and is currently teaching Acrobat, InDesign, and Dreamweaver courses at Langara College.

Jennifer Harder在平面設計行業工作超過十年。她擁有平面傳媒學位，目前在Langara College教授Acrobat、InDesign和Dreamweaver課程。