Creating Infographics with Adobe Illustrator: Volume 2: 2D and 3D Graphics

This full-color book will teach you how to use Adobe Illustrator's various tools to create infographics, as well as basic page layouts for them. It focuses on Illustrator's powerful graphing tools and 2D and 3D effects.

How can an infographic or graph be altered and adapted to appear more engaging and still display your data accurately? What additional effects can be used on your infographic to produce the results you envision? In this second volume of Creating Infographics with Adobe Illustrator, you will learn the answers to all these questions. Author Jennifer Harder will walk you through creating basic infographics in Illustrator using Illustrator tools such as Graphing Tools as well as how to create 2D effects and 3D shapes with their related materials, including Symbols.

Upon completing this volume, you will have an appreciation for how easy it is to design an infographic or graph to display your data and discover how rudimentary shapes and colors can be altered using patterns, as well as 2D and 3D effects, to enhance readability while conveying meaning to your audience. You will be able to use this knowledge to create your own infographics using Illustrator's wide array of tools.

What You Will Learn

• Use Illustrator's Graphing Tools to create and modify basic charts or graphs
• Work with popular 2D effects to enhance your design in Illustrator
• Create 3D Shapes using Materials and Symbols and modify your 3D Graphs
• Explore basic Image Trace and Perspective options in Illustrator

Who This Book Is For

Beginner-level designers and others who are interested in learning the process of creating infographics for their company, the classroom, for data visualization, an article in a magazine, or a webpage.

這本全彩色書籍將教你如何使用Adobe Illustrator的各種工具來創建資訊圖表，以及為它們創建基本的頁面佈局。它專注於Illustrator強大的圖表工具和2D和3D效果。

資訊圖表或圖表如何改變和適應以呈現更吸引人的外觀，同時仍能準確顯示數據？你的資訊圖表可以使用哪些額外效果來產生你所設想的結果？在《使用Adobe Illustrator創建資訊圖表》第二卷中，作者Jennifer Harder將帶領你使用Illustrator工具（如圖表工具）在Illustrator中創建基本的資訊圖表，以及如何使用相關材料（包括符號）創建2D效果和3D形狀。

完成本卷後，你將體會到設計資訊圖表或圖表以顯示數據有多麼容易，並發現如何使用基本的形狀和顏色通過使用圖案以及2D和3D效果來增強可讀性，同時向觀眾傳達意義。你將能夠利用這些知識使用Illustrator的各種工具創建自己的資訊圖表。

你將學到什麼：
- 使用Illustrator的圖表工具創建和修改基本的圖表或圖表
- 使用流行的2D效果來增強你在Illustrator中的設計
- 使用材料和符號創建3D形狀並修改你的3D圖表
- 在Illustrator中探索基本的圖像追蹤和透視選項

適合對創建公司、教室、數據可視化、雜誌文章或網頁的資訊圖表過程感興趣的初學者設計師和其他人。

Jennifer Harder has worked in the graphic design industry for over fifteen years. She has a degree in graphic communications and is currently teaching Acrobat and Adobe Creative Cloud courses at Langara College. She is also author of several Apress books and related videos.

Jennifer Harder在平面設計行業工作超過十五年。她擁有平面傳媒學位，目前在Langara College教授Acrobat和Adobe Creative Cloud課程。她還是幾本Apress書籍和相關視頻的作者。