Adobe Illustrator CS5

Table of Contents

Living In A Resolution-Independent World

Introduction

Illustrator CS5 Seeing Is Believing

The Anatomy Of A Vector Illustration

Vector Versus Raster

Working With Illustrator Workspaces And Preferences

Introduction

Creating A New Illustrator Document

Setting Up The Illustrator Workspace

Creating Custom Workspaces

Timesaving Shortcuts

Working Smart With Preferences

How Illustrator Selects And Aligns Objects

Introduction

Three Ways To Select - It’s Black And White

Working With The Wand And Lasso Tools

Aligning Manually And With The Align Panel

Using Smart Guides

Back To The Basics: Generating Geometric Shapes

Introduction

Creating Rectangles

Working With Ellipses And Polygons

Tricks With Stars And Flares

Additional Geometric Shapes

Illustrator’s Hidden Math Feature

QuickTip: Tricks With The Tilde Key

QuickTip: Creating Rounded Corners

Generating Fills, Strokes, Patterns, And Gradients

Introduction

Working With The Illustrator Swatches Panel

Adding Solid-Color Fills To An Object

Cool Color With Kuler

Working With Illustrator Patterns

Creating Custom Patterns

Modifying Existing Patterns

Fun With Illustrator Strokes

Tricks With Illustrator Gradients

Adding Custom Colors To The Swatches Panel

Using Global Colors

Transforming An Illustrator Object

Introduction

Transform With Rotate And Scale

Working With The Transform Panel

Understanding The Transform Each Command

Creating A Reflection

Using The Free Transform Tool

Working With The Layers Panel

Introduction

The Illustrator Layers Panel

Organizing A Complex Project

Layer Options

Layer Panel Options

Copying Using The Layers Panel

Opacity And Blending Modes

Merging And Flattening Layers

Working With Adobe Illustrator Text

Introduction

Creating A Type Container

Working With Point Type

Converting Objects To Type Containers

Creating Type On A Path

Utilizing The Character Panel

Formatting Text With The Paragraph Panel

Getting Efficient With With Styles

Working With Threaded Text

More On Text

Introduction

The Magical Eyedropper Tool And Type

Placing Text On A Circle

Working With Tabs And Glyphs

Converting Type To Outlines

Working With Pen And Point

Introduction

Pen Tool Fundamentals

Manipulating Pen Objects

Combining Paths To Create Objects

Creating A Mask

Working With Illustrators Pencil And Brush Tools

Introduction

The Illustrator Pencil Tool

Using A Calligraphic Brush

Creating A Calligraphic Brush

The Amazing Symbol Sprayer Tool

Illustrator’s Scatter Brush

Tricks With Illustrator Brushes

Find Your Own Path With Pathfinder

Introduction

Unite And Minus Front

Intersect And Exclude

Divide And Trim

Merge And Crop

Outline And Minus Back

Getting Creative With Masks

Introduction

Basics Of Clipping Masks

Clipping Masks And Text

Clipping Masks And Compound Paths

Opacity Masks And Gradients

More On Opacity Masks

QuickTip: Adjusting An Opacity Mask

Working With Warps, Envelopes, And Meshes

Introduction

Working With The Width And Warp Tools

Twirl Pucker And Bloat Tools

Scallop Crystalize And Wrinkle Tools

The Envelope Distort Features

The Amazing Mesh Tool

Controlling A Mesh With Global Swatches

QuickTip: Fine Tuning The Width Tool

Getting Creative With Illustrator Effects

Introduction

Setting Effects Options

Controlling And Moving Effects

Controlling Effects With The Appearance Panel

Converting Effects To Pixels

Svg Effects, And The Effects Gallery

Working With Graphic Styles

Introduction

Graphic Styles 101

Applying Graphic Styles

Merging Graphic Styles

Creating Custom Graphic Styles

Saving Graphic Style Libraries

Moving Into The Third Dimension

Introduction

Working With Extrude And Bevel

Generating Chrome Text

Working With Revolve

Creating A Revolve Bottle

Generating A 3D Ribbon

Using The Rotate Option

Adobe Illustrator And Animation

Introduction

Frame-By-Frame Animation

Animation With The Blend Tool

Animations On A Path

Fading Text Animation

Pulsing Text Animation

Creating An Animated GIF

Working With Templates And Actions

Introduction

Working With Illustrator Templates

Creating An Action

Saving Time With Batch Processing

Heading Out To The World Wide Web

Introduction

Web Format Basics

Modifying Color For The Web

Slicing Images For Efficiency And Beyond

Creating A Navigation Bar

Moving From Illustrator To Flash

From Raster To Vector With The Amazing Live Trace

Introduction

Working With Livetrace

Livetrace Features

Editing Livetrace Objects

Creating Custom Presets

Generating Custom Swatch Libraries

A Peek Into The Future

Live Paint, And The Shape Builder Tool

Introduction

Working Through Live Paint

The Shape Builder Tool

Live Trace And Live Paint

Live Paint And Gap Detection

Working With Kuler Color

Modifying A Color Set Using Live Color

Illustrator Integration And Export Options

Introduction

Saving An Illustrator Document

Converting Illustrator To Photoshop

Working With InDesign And The TIF Format

The Universal Portable Document File

Moving Beyond Illustrator With EPS

Printing, Exporting, And Saving Your Illustrator Artwork

Introduction

Working With Bleeds

Text To Outlines, And Other Print Options

Working With Multiple Art Boards

Transparency Flattener Preset Options

Moving To Powerpoint And The WWW

Using Save And Save As

Goodbye