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Sitemap Table of Contents BackCover Illustrator CS For Dummies Introduction About This Book Why I Wrote This Book What You Don't Need to Read Foolish Assumptions How This Book Is Organized About All Those Little Icons Road Signs along the Way Where to Go from Here Part I: Driving People Crazy - Illustrator's Bum Rap Chapter 1: Introducing the World of Illustrator From Humble Origins to Master of the Graphics Universe Starting Up Illustrator and Revving It a Little Exploring the Illustrator Workspace Defining the Document Area Opening Existing Documents Viewing Illustrator Documents Using Templates Saving Illustrator Documents Changing Your Mind Printing Illustrator Documents Closing Documents and Quitting Illustrator Chapter 2: Following the Righteous Path Whether Paths or Pixels Are Better How Paths and Pixels Compare Paths and Printing Gray's Anatomy of a Path Chapter 3: Doing Everyday Things with Illustrator Picking Up Stuff and Moving It Around Using the " Hard " Stuff Entering the Wide World of the Web Saving the World Using Illustrator for What It Does Best Part II: Drawing and Coloring Your Artwork Chapter 4: Shaping Up, Basically Creating Basic Shapes Putting Shapes Together Creating Objects by Using the Pathfinder Palette Legal Graffiti Chapter 5: Getting Your Fill of Fills and Strokes Understanding Fill and Stroke The Swatches Palette The Color Palette Filling with Patterns and Textures Using the Gradient Fill Chapter 6: Selecting and Editing Paths Selecting with Different Methods Selecting Magically with the Magic Wand Selecting without Tools: The Select Menu Editing and Adjusting Points Chapter 7: Wielding the Mighty Pen Tool Performing with the Pen, the Path, and the Anchor Points Creating Straight Lines with the Pen Tool Open and Closed Paths Creating Super-Precise Curves with the Pen Tool Drawing Shapes with the Pen Tool Chapter 8: Creating Straight and Curved Lines without the Pen Tool Using the Pencil Tool as a Pencil Cherishing the Multipurpose Pencil Tool Using the Pen with the Pencil Lines Made Quick and Easy Curvy with the Arc Tool Chapter 9: Creating Magnificent Brushstrokes Brushing Where No Stroke Has Gone Before Creating a New Brush Working with the Different Brush Types Chapter 10: Extreme Fills and Strokes Messing Around with Meshes Making Objects Partially Transparent and Blending Colors Discovering How Strokes Work Caps, Joins, and Dashes Clipping Masks Chapter 11: Effectively Keeping Up Appearances, with Style(s) The Effect Menu The Appearance Palette Figuring Out Styles Part III: Taking Your Paths to Obedience School Chapter 12: Pushing, Pulling, Poking, and Prodding Understanding the Five Transformation Sisters Additional Transformation Tidbits Blending: The Magic Transformation Chapter 13: Organizing Efficiently Stacking Illustrator Artwork Managing the Mess Imposing Slavish Conformity with Groups Lining Up Part IV: Practically Speaking: Type, Print, and Files Chapter 14: Introducing Letters and Such (Type 101) Using the Word Processor from Outer Space Introducing the Strange Land of Type Exploring Size, Leading, and Other Mysterious Numbers Adjusting Entire Paragraphs Typing on a Path Typing inside a Path Typing around a Path Flowing Type from Path to Path Adjusting the Path (Not the Type) Using Type as a Mask Converting Type to Paths Type Styles Chapter 15: Printing Your Masterpiece Printing Quickly What You See Is Roughly What You Get Setting Up Your Page to Print (You Hope) Printing Mechanics All about Way-Scary Separations Chapter 16: Putting Your Art on the Web From Illustrator to the Web Creating Web-Specific Pixel Graphics Creating Web-Specific Vector Graphics Slicing and Dicing Your Graphics Chapter 17: Moving Files Into and Out of Illustrator Bringing Files Into Illustrator Getting Files Out of Illustrator Working with Illustrator and Photoshop Using Adobe Illustrator with Nearly Everything Else Part V: The Part of Tens Chapter 18: Ten Production-Enhancing Tips Punching Holes Use Photoshop Effects, Not Photoshop Filters! When White Isn't Nothing Expanding to Get to the Root of the Artwork Quick! Hide! Taking a Tip from Illustrator Changing Your Units Whenever You Want Reusing Your Brushes, Swatches, and Libraries Avoiding Russian Dolls Selecting Type When You Want Chapter 19: Ten (Or So) Ways to Customize Illustrator Positioning Palettes The Flexible Toolbox Changing the Items on the Menu The Start-Up Document Changing the Default Settings Changing Hidden Commands You Never Knew About Using a Master Document Action Jackson Sticky Settings Bonus Chapter 1: Taking Images Out of the Realm of Reality Applying Distortion Effects Creating Graphic Ooze with Liquification Pushing the Envelope More Dimensions than a 2D Program Should Have Index Index_A Index_B Index_C Index_D Index_E Index_F Index_G Index_H Index_I Index_J Index_K Index_L Index_M Index_N Index_O Index_P Index_Q Index_R Index_S Index_T Index_U Index_V Index_W Index_Z List of Figures List of Tables List of Sidebars |