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The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow! Book Sharon Steuer Peachpit Press 1249 Eighth Street Berkeley, CA 94710 510/524-2178 510/524-2221 (fax) Find us on the World Wide Web at: http://www.peachpit.com To report errors, please send a note to [email protected] Peachpit Press is a division of Pearson Education Copyright © 2004 by Sharon Steuer Contributing writers: Victor von Salza, Steven H. Gordon, Dave Awl, Lisa Jackmore, Brad Hamann, Sandee Cohen Wow! Series editor: Linnea Dayton Copy editor: Mindi Englart Tech editors: Julie Meridian, Brenda Sutherland, Teri Pettit Book design: Barbara Sudick Cover design: Mimi Heft, Lupe Edgar cover production Cover Illustration: Brad Neal, Yukio Miyamoto, Brad Hamann, Lehner& Whyte, Zhiliang Ma, Marc LaMantia, Judy Stead, Ann Paidrick, Frank Jonen Notice of Rights All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. For information on getting permis- sion for reprints and excerpts, contact [email protected]. All artwork is reproduced by gracious permission of the indi- vidual artists. Unauthorized reproduction of these works is illegal, and may be subject to prosecution. Notice of Liability The information in this book is distributed on an "As Is" basis, without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of the book, neither the author nor Peachpit Press, shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the computer software and hardware products described in it. Trademarks Adobe, the Adobe logo, Illustrator, and Photoshop are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. Apple, Mac, Macintosh, and QuickTime are trademarks of Apple Computer, Ind., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Microsoft is a registered trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other trade- marks are the property of their respective owners. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and Peachpit Press was aware of a trademark claim, the designations appear as requested by the owner of the trademark. All other product names and services identified throughout this book are used in editorial fashion only and for the benefit of such companies with no intention of infringement of the trademark. No such use, or the use of any trade name, is intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with this book. ISBN 0-321-16892-5 9 8 7 6 5 4 32 Printed and bound in the United States of America. The Illustrator CS Wow! Book Writers and Editors Sharon Steuer is the originator of The Illustrator Wow! Books. When not working on Wow! books, Sharon is a painter, illustrator, columnist for creativepro.com, and the author of Creative Thinking in Photoshop: A New Approach to Digital Art. She lives in Connecticut with her cats, Puma and Bear, and radio star husband, Jeff Jacoby. She is extremely grateful to her co-authors, editors, testers, Wow! team members (past and present), Adobe, and Peachpit for making this book possible. Victor von Salza returned to the Wow! team where he made sure that the many new features, enhancements, and changes to Illustrator CS were filtered into the hundreds of things they affected throughout the book. He and Mary Anne live in Portland, Oregon, where they enjoy working, gar- dening, walking, photography, and their bearded collie Spencer (www.vonsalza.com). Steven H. Gordon is a returning co-author for Step-by-Steps and Galleries. He has too many boys to stay sane. If only they wouldn't fall off cliffs in Bryce—the National Park, not the software. Ste- ven runs Cartagram, a custom mapmaking company located in Madison, Alabama. He thanks Monette and his mom for their encouragement, and the boys for their cessation of hostilities. Dave Awl is a Chicago-based writer, editor, and Webmaster. Returning to the Wow! team, he revised and edited most of the chapter Introductions, as well as Chapter 1, and he authored the "What's New" section. Dave is also a poet, playwright, and performer whose work is collected in the book What the Sea Means: Poems, Stories & Monologues 1987-2002. You can find out more about his various creative projects at his Web site: Ocelot Factory (www.ocelotfactory.com). Lisa Jackmore has returned as a contributing writer for Galleries, and the Illustrator Wow! course outline. She is a wonderful artist, both on and off the computer, creating miniatures to murals. By day, she wields a crayon and defends herself against shark-jets and galactic zappers with her son, Sam. By night, she picks up the digital pen and illustrates the adventures she lives during the day. Additional contributing writers and editors: Brad Hamann (www.bradhamann.com) is a fabulous illustrator, and we're thrilled that he has joined us as a writer of Galleries and Step-by-Steps. Mindi Englart is back for the third time as our copy editor. Mindi is a ghost-writer, teacher, and author of children's books ([email protected]). In the wee hours and during family vacations, Adobe's own Julie Meridian, Brenda Sutherland, and Teri Pettit collectively provided us with phenomenal help this edition. Sandee Cohen, a.k.a. vectorbabe.com, was our emergency technical consultant. Please see the Acknowledgments for a thorough listing of the Wow! team contributors. Acknowledgments As always, my most heartfelt gratitude goes to the more than 100 artists and Illustrator experts who generously allowed us to include their work and divulge their techniques. First thanks must go to Mordy Golding, who, as an Adobe Illustrator product manager, contin- ues to champion this book. He, along with Nancy Ruenzel, Kelly Ryer, and the Adobe Press folks at Peachpit, found a way to bring this book into the Adobe Press family. And thanks to all at Adobe who answered our zillions of questions, and came through with our special requests. This revision required a major team effort, and would not have happened without an amaz- ing group of people. Thank you Victor von Salza for becoming our stupendous Wow! taskmaster of all things great and small. Victor is quite brilliant at managing the zillions of details necessary to coordinate a team scattered across the country, and to produce this mammoth book. Oh, and that's in addition to his writing a bit, porting the book from QuarkXPress to InDesign, updating the style sheets to take advantage of InDesign features, and working on the Wow! CD. Thankfully, Steven Gordon agreed to return to the team to tackle a batch of new Step-by-Steps and Galleries— Steven always adds a dose of humor to his incredible resourcefulness, for which we're all exceed- ingly grateful. Dave Awl did a great job of reigning in his humor for this serious writing. Thank you, Dave for the meticulous revisions to Chapter 1 and the other chapter introductions. Thank you Lisa Jackmore for doing such a great job with Galleries and the IllustratorCS Wow! Course Out- line (from www.ssteuer.com/edu). Thanks to talented Laurie Grace for updating screenshots. Thank you Mindi Englart for returning as our Wow! copy editor—we couldn't have made it without you. Thank you to Peg Maskell Korn for being involved since the beginning, and biting the upgrade bullet so she could rejoin the team and get back to work! Thank you Julie Meridian, Brenda Suther- land, and Teri Pettit for the amazing technical feedback for this edition. As always, thanks also go to our stellar team of testers and consultants, especially Adam Z Lein, Jean-Claude Tremblay, Bob Geib, Vicki Loader, Gary Newman, Chuck Sholdt, Federico Platon, Eric Snowden, and Mike Schwabauer. Thank you to Sandee Cohen who continues as our official kibbitzer. And thanks to Emily Glossbrenner for the index! Thank you Mimi Heft and Lupe Edgar for the beautiful new cover design. Thank you Adam Z Lein for the fab online database that helps us to track each detail of the book. Thank you Kelly Anderson for your help updating and redesigning files for the Wow! CD. And thank you Suying Yang for the translation help, Thomas Phinney for the font help, and Thomas Hackett of AGT« Seven for the early proofs. Thank you to all the folks at Commercial Document Services for the fabulous printing job. And thanks also to HotDoor, Virtual Mirror, Comnet, cValley, Barney's Mac Software, Artlandia, Avenza, Aridi, Dynamic Graphics, Image Club Graphics, Photosphere, and Ultimate Symbol for allowing us to include them on the Wow! CD. Last, but not least, thanks to Linnea Dayton for being the Wow! series editor, and to everyone at Peachpit Press (especially Nancy Davis, Connie Jeung- Mills, Jay Payne, Gary-Paul Prince, Hannah Onstad-Latham, Victor Gavenda, Lisa Brazieal, and Kim Lombardi) for all the things you do to make sure this book happens. WOW! BOOK PRODUCTION NOTES: Interior Book Design and Production This book was produced in InDesign using primarily Minion Pro and Frutiger OpenType fonts. Barbara Sudick is the artist behind the original Illustrator Wow! design and typography; using Jill Davis's layout of The Photoshop Wow! Book as a jumping-off point, she designed the pages in QuarkXPress. Hardware and Software With the exception of some of the testers, all of the Wow! staff use Macintosh computers. We used InDesign 2, Photoshop CS, 6 and 7 (depending on the user), and Snapz Pro X for the screenshots. We used Adobe Acrobat 5 and 6 for distribution of the book pages to testers, the indexer, and the proofreaders. Adam Z Lein created an online Wow! database for us so the team could track the details of the book production. How to contact the author If you've created artwork using the newer features of Illustrator that you'd like to submit for consideration in future Wow! books, please send printed samples to: Sharon Steuer, c/o Peachpit Press, 1249 Eighth Street, Berkeley, CA 94710. Or email us a Web address that contains samples of your work (no files please!): [email protected] xvi Important: Read me first! xvii How to use this book xx Preface: What's New in Illustrator CS? Illustrator Basics 2 Introduction 2 Computer & System Requirements 2 Setting Up Your Page 5 Making Your Moves Easier 6 Working with Objects 8 Watch Your Cursor! 9 Bezier-Editing Tools 11 Geometric Objects 12 Selecting & Grouping Objects 14 Joining & Averaging 15 Working with Palettes 17 Graphing & Charting 19 Transformations 22 Working Smart 24 Changing Your Views 25 Zooming In & Out 26 Show/Hide Choices 28 Color in Illustrator 31 Saving as PDF 32 Image Formats 33 PostScript Printing & Exporting 35 Actions 36 Scripting and Variables 37 Data-driven graphics The Zen of Illustrator 40 Introduction 42 Building Houses: Sequential Object Construction Exercises 48 A Classic Icon: Five Ways to Re-create Simple Shapes 50 Zen Scaling 52 Zen Rotation 53 Creating a Simple Object Using the Basic Tools 54 A Finger Dance: Turbo-charge with Illustrator's Power-keys Drawing & Coloring 64 Introduction 64 Basic Drawing & Coloring 69 Expanding Your Drawing & Coloring Toolset 72 Pathfinder Palette 78 Simple Realism: Realism from Geometry and Observation 81 Gallery: Mark Fox 82 Cutting & Joining: Basic Path Construction with Pathfinders 86 Add & Expand: More Pathfinder Palette Basics 88 Divide & Color: Applying Pathfinder Divide & Subtract 90 Cubist Constructs: Creative Experimentation with Pathfinders 92 Isometric Systems: Arrow Keys, Constrain Angles & Formulas 94-95 Galleries: Rick Henkel, Kurt Hess, Jared Schneidman 96 Objective Colors: Custom Labels for Making Quick Changes 98-105 Galleries: Jean Tuttle, Clarke Tate, Christopher Burke, Dorothy Remington, Karen Barranco, Filip Yip, Gary Ferster 106 Distort Dynamics: Adding Character Dynamics with Transform 108 Distort Filter Flora: Applying Distort Filters to Create Flowers 111 Gallery: Laurie Grace 112 Vector Photos: Pen and Eyedropper Technique 115 Gallery: Brad Hamann 116 Advanced Technique: Intricate Patterns: Designing Complex Repeating Patterns 118 Gallery: Tiffany Larsen Brushes & Symbols 120 Introduction 120 Brushes 123 Symbols 124 Symbols vs. Scatter Brushes 125 Gallery: Chris Bucheit 126 Ink Brush Strokes: Making Naturalistic Pen and Ink Drawings 128-131 Galleries: Sharon Steuer, Lisa Jackmore, Jen Alspach, Ellen Papciak-Rose 132 Preparing Art: Adding Brushes to Existing Artwork 134 Pattern Brushes: Creating Details with the Pattern Brush 136-139 Galleries: Bert Monroy, Shayne Davidson, Steve Spindler, Jacqueline Mahannah 140 Building Brushes: Building Brushes for Lettering 142 Advanced Technique: Map Techniques: Simplifying Complex Image Creation 145 Gallery: Joe Lertola 146 Symbol Basics: Creating and Working with Symbols 149 Gallery: Sandee Cohen & Sharon Steuer 150 Advanced Technique: Organic Creation: Painting with Brushes, Symbols, and Mesh 152 SPECIAL BRUSHES SUPPLEMENT by Sandee Cohen Layers 156 Introduction 160 Controlling the Stacking Order of Objects 162 Making Selections using the Layers Palette 163 Gallery: David Nelson 164 Digitizing a Logo: Controlling Your Illustrator Template 166 Tracing Details: Tracing Intricate Details with the Pencil 168 Colors with Layers: Coloring Black & White Images with Layers 170 Organizing Layers: Managing Custom Layers and Sublayers 173 Gallery: Nancy Stahl 174 Nested Layers: Organizing with Layers and Sublayers 176 Advanced Technique: Varied Perspective: Analyzing Different Views of Perspective Type 180 Introduction 184 Working with Threaded Text 185 Wrapping Text Around Objects 185 Character and Paragraph Styles 186 Taking Advantage of OpenType 187 The Glyphs Palette 188 The Every-line Composer 188 More Type Functions (Type & Window menus) 189 Converting Type to Outlines 191 Using the Appearance Palette with Type 193 Exporting Illustrator Type 194 Custom Text Paths: Trickling Type with Variations of Type Style 196 Stretching Type: Fitting Type by Converting to Outline 198-199 Galleries: John Burns, Hornall Anderson 200 Masking Letters: Masking Images with Letter Forms

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