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bonus chapter online. Each part reflects a major Illustrator concept; each chapter chomps a concept into easily digestible morsels. The whole thing is arranged in a logical order, so you can read straight through if you’re so inclined. Or you can jump in at any point to find the exact information you need. To help you do that, here’s an overview of what you can find in each of those five parts.
Part I: Driving People Crazy — Illustrator’s Bum Rap
Here’s where you get the absolute basics of Illustrator. What it is, what it does, and why it’s worth the effort. The wonders of blank pages, paths, and the beguiling Pen tool all make their debut here. By the time you finish this part, you have a good overview of the entire program.
Part II: Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork
This part is where the fun begins — you roll up your sleeves and start creating illustrations. Whether or not you can draw using old-fashioned paper and pencil (ewww — how twentieth century), wait’ll you see what you can create with Illustrator!
Part III: Taking Your Paths to Obedience School
With Illustrator, you can really unleash your creativity. Unfortunately, unleashed creativity often results in an unruly mess. This part looks at how to tame the mess through changing parts of graphics, organizing graphics into separate layers, and using many other techniques that prove that organization and creativity are not mutually exclusive. You don’t even need a smock.
Part IV: Practically Speaking: Type, Print, and Files
Illustrator is truly a wondrous modifier of written characters, so I devote this part to working with type, and then getting your creations to print. I cover everything from the most basic formatting to complex type treatments. Stick around here, too, for the skinny on posting your art to the Web and moving files in and out of Illustrator.
Part V: The Part of Tens
No For Dummies book is complete without its Top Ten lists, and this book is no exception. Here are lots of tips to help you use Illustrator more effectively and ways to customize Illustrator (chrome hubcaps optional). Save this part for dessert.
But that’s not all!: A bonus chapter
I tried and I tried but no matter how hard I squeezed, I just couldn’t fit everything into this book. (Kind of like how some people pack a steamer trunk for a weekend getaway lark.) Rather than try to skimp on all I wanted to show you, I put an extra-cool chapter on the Web for you. This chapter covers ten techniques for creating some killer effects. Check ’em out at www.dummies.com/go/illustratorcs_fd.
