How to Do Everything Adobe Illustrator

Master Adobe Illustrator CS4

Filled with full-color examples, this hands-on guide explains how to use the latest release of the premier vector graphics program. How to Do Everything: Adobe Illustrator CS4 takes you step-by-step through the process of creating a wide variety of illustrations, and demonstrates expert techniques, shortcuts, and solutions. A gallery profiling professional illustrators and their work highlights real-world examples. With this book, you'll learn how to use all the program's tools and settings to draw just about anything you can imagine!

Use the drawing, painting, selection, and arrangement tools

Add vibrancy to your illustrations using colors, swatches, and Adobe Kuler

Work with layers, format text, and create custom graphs

Create patterns, gradients, and blends

Apply vector and raster special effects

Use Live Paint, Live Trace, the Appearance panel, and the Graphic Styles panel

Create logos, page layouts, book jackets, ads, and web graphics

Print high-quality work

Integrate Illustrator artwork into Adobe Flash to create motion graphics

And much more