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How this book is organized

What's New in Illustrator 9?

Illustrator Basics

Introduction

Computer & System Requirements

Setting Up Your Page

Making Your Moves Easier

Working with PostScript Objects

Watch Your Cursor!

Bezier-Editing Tools

Geometric Objects

Selecting & Grouping Objects

Joining & Averaging

Working with Palettes

Graphing & Charting

Transformations

Working Smart

Changing Your Views

Zooming In & Out

Show/Hide Choices

Actions

Color in Illustrator

Image Formats

PostScript Printing & Exporting

The Zen of Illustrator

Introduction

Building Houses

Sequential Object Construction Exercises

A Classic Icon

Five Ways to Re-create Simple Shapes

Zen Scaling

Zen Rotation

Creating a Simple Object Using the Basic Tools

A Finger Dance (For Mac and Windows)

Turbo-charge with Illustrator's Power-keys

Lines, Fills & Colors

Introduction

Creating with Lines, Fills and Colors

Simplify Filter

Pathfinder Palette

Distortion Filters

Gallery: Gary Ferster

Simply Realistic

Realism from Geometry and Observation

Combining Circles

Cutting and Joining Overlapping Objects

Gallery: Mark Fox

Isometric Systems

Cursor Keys, Constrain-angles & Formulas

Gallery: Rick Henkel, Kurt Hess, Jared Schneidman

Objective Colors

Custom Labels for Making Quick Changes

Organizing Color

Arranging an Artist's Palette of Colors

Gallery: Christopher Burke, Dorothy Remington, Clarke Tate, Sharon Steuer

Advanced Technique: Intricate Patterns

Designing Complex Repeating Patterns

Distort Dynamics

Adding Character Dynamics with Distort

Pathfinder Palette Charts

Practical Path-cuts

Preparing for Blends with Pathfinder Filters

Gallery: Michael Kline

Cubist Constructs

Creative Experimentation with Pathfinders

Brushes

Introduction

Brush Strokes

Making Naturalistic Pen and Ink Drawings

Gallery: Sharon Steuer, Lisa Jackmore, Jen Alspach, Ellen Papciak-Rose

Preparing Art

Adding Brushes to Existing Artwork

Pattern Brushes

Creating Details with the Pattern Brush

Gallery: Bert Monroy, Shayne Davidson, Steve Spindler, Jacqueline Mahannah

Building Brushes

Building Brushes for Lettering

Advanced Technique: Map Techniques

Simplifying the Creation of Complex Images

Gallery: Joe Lertola

Advanced Technique: Organic Creation

Painting with Brushes, Hatches and Mesh

Special Brushes Supplement

Sandee Cohen

Layers

Introduction

Controlling the Stacking Order of Objects

Making Selections Using the Layers Palette

Gallery: David Nelson

Digitizing a Logo

Controlling Your Illustrator Template

Tracing Details

Tracing Intricate Details with the Pencil

Layering Colors

Coloring Black-and-White Images with Layers

Organizing Layers

Managing Custom Layers and Sublayers

Gallery: Nancy Stahl

Nested Layers

Organizing with Layers and Sublayers

Viewing Details

Using Layers and Views for Organization

Layer Registration

Paste Remembers Layers' Magic Alignment

Gallery: Jeffrey Barney, Dorothea Taylor-Palmer, Charly Palmer

Advanced Technique: Varied Perspective

Analyzing Different Views of Perspective

Type

Introduction

Additional Type Functions (Type Menu)

Converting Type to Outlines

Custom Text Paths

Trickling Type with Variations of Type Style

Gallery: Laurie Szujewska, Ari Weinstein, John Burns, Hornall Anderson Design Works

Masking Letters

Masking Images with Letter Forms

Gallery: Gary Newman

Bookcover Design

Illustrator as a Stand-alone Layout Tool

Gallery: Javier Romero Design Group, Caryl Gorska

Brushed Type

Applying Brushes to Letterforms

Gallery: Tim Girvin, Jennifer Bartlett, Joachim Muller-Lance, Bjorn Akselsen, Pattie Belle Hastings, Karen Roehr, Louis Fishauf, Ellen Papciak-Rose

Blends & Gradients

Introduction

Blends

Gradients

Gradient Mesh

Examining Blends

Learning When to Use Gradients or Blends

Shades of Blends

Creating Architectural Linear Shading

Gallery: Janet Good, Gary Ferster, Linda Eckstein, Joe Shoulak, Nancy Stahl

Unlocking Realism

Creating Metallic Reflections with Blends

Blending Realism

Keeping Blends Clean and Accessible

Gallery: Jared Schneidman, Andrea Kelley

Unified Gradients

Redirecting Fills with the Gradient Tool

Gallery: Filip Yip, Hugh Whyte, Caryl Gorska, Rick Barry, Ellen Papciak-Rose

Rolling Mesh

Converting Gradients to Mesh Then Editing

Advanced Technique: Mastering Mesh

Painting with Areas of Color Using Mesh

Gallery: Ivan Torres

Transparency, Styles & Effects

Introduction

Basic Transparency

Appearances

Finessing the Finer Points of Appearances

Effects vs Filters

Styles in Illustrator

Gallery: Sandra Alves

Basic Transparency

Blending Modes, Opacity & Isolate Blending

Gallery: Gary Ferster, Alan James Weimer, Hornall Anderson Design Works, Jared Schneidman

Basic Highlights

Making Highlights with Transparent Blends

Gallery: Nancy Stahl

Basic Appearances

Making and Applying Appearances

Scratchboard Art

Using Multiple Strokes, Effects and Styles

Embossing Effects

Building 3D Appearances

Dramatic Effects

Applying Glows and Using Opacity Masks

Advanced Technique: Tinting a Scan

Using Transparency Effects & Simplify Path

Advanced Technique: It's a Knockout!

See Through Objects with a Knockout Group

Advanced Technique: Masking Opacity

Making Transparency Irregular

Gallery: Scott Crouse, Tom Patterson

Advanced Techniques

Introduction

Clipping Masks

Mask Problem-Solving Strategies

Advanced Opacity Masks

Vector Based Filters

Advanced Technique: Colorful Masking

Fitting Blends into Custom Shapes

Gallery: Kenneth Batelman, John Kanzler

Contouring Masks

Using Masks to Control Realistic Tonality

Advanced Technique: Reflective Masks

Super-Realistic Reflection

Gallery: Gary Ferster, Greg Maxson

Advanced Technique: Glowing Starshine

Blending Custom Colors to Form a Glow

Gallery: Christopher Morris, Scott Crouse, K. Daniel Clark

Advanced Technique: Painterly Effects

From Gradient Lighting to Painterly Trees

Gallery: Joe Shoulak, Andrea Kelley, Alan James Weimer, Diane Hinze Kanzler & Sandee Cohen, Kevin Barrack, Adam Z Lein

Illustrator & Other Programs

Introduction

Illustrator, Photoshop & Rasterization

Illustrator, Dimensions & Streamline

Illustrator Paths & Other Programs

Drag & Drop or Copy & Paste

Raster Images in Illustrator

Exporting Illustrator to Other Programs

Gallery: Bert Monroy

Sketching Tools

Illustrator as a Primary Drawing Tool

Gallery: Lance Hidy, Ron Chan, Chris Morris, Louis Fishauf, Timothy Donaldson, Filip Yip, Joe Jones, Rick Johnson, Christopher Spollen, Wendy Grossman, David Stillman, Ivan Torres, Dan Cosgrove, & David Fridberg, Lance Jackson, Steven Gordon, Eliot Bergman, Joe Jones, Tom Willcockson

Web, Multimedia & Animation

Introduction

Working in RGB in Illustrator

A Few Thoughts on RGB and CMYK Color

The Attributes Palette & URLs

Release to Layers

Export File Formats

Advanced Technique: Making Waves

Transforming and Blending for Animation

Gallery: d'JAXN, Daniel Giordan

Tabs for the Web

Preparing Navigational Web Maps

Gallery: Pamela Drury Wattenmaker, Dave Joly

Web-safe Color

Special Supplement by Weinman/Heavin

Who's Who in 9 Wow!

Technical Notes

Acknowledgments

Artists

Resources

Publications

General Index