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Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

By : Balsar
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Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

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By: Balsar

Overview of this book

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based art tool for visual creatives. It is an industry-standard tool that helps you take a design from concept to completion, including the process of peer collaboration and client feedback. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll begin to build confidence as you master the methods of successful illustrators in the industry by exploring crucial tools and techniques of Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn how to create objects using different tools and methods while assigning varied attributes and appearances. Throughout the book, you’ll strengthen your skills in developing structures for maintaining organization as your illustration grows. By the end of this Adobe Illustrator book, you’ll have gained the confidence you need to not only create content in the desired format and for the right audience but also build eye-catching vector art based on solid design principles.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Part 1 – Reviewing the Necessary Knowledge
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Part 2 – Advanced Illustrator Methods
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Part 3 – Real-World Applications

Using groups, nested groups, and Isolation Mode for improved workflow

Any time you create an item consisting of several objects, those objects can then be selected and combined into one group. In Figure 10.12, you can see that I have selected both the green treetop shape and the brown tree trunk shape (hold Shift while clicking on each):

Figure 10.12 – Organizing artwork into a group

After selecting the objects you would like to be combined, navigate to Object > Group (Ctrl/Command + G) in the top menu. This will create a connected relationship between these shapes that makes it easy to perform further adjustments to them. Adjustments such as sizing and position can now be performed as though these objects are a single unit. When needed, the object can also be ungrouped to adjust individual components.

After creating a group, it will appear in the Layers panel as one item labeled <Group>. Just to the left of this label will be a small arrow...

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