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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

Artboards

Artboards retain your art to the chosen media’s resolution or proportion. With the ability to have multiple Artboards we have additional leverages. Artboards can be used in a multitude of ways, but let’s go over a few popular methods for their use:

  • View Options
  • Multiple Artboards within one file
  • Combination of varied size Artboards in a single file
  • Combination of Landscape and Portrait mode Artboards in a single file

Let’s take a look at each method.

View Options

Let’s go over the view options first. After selecting the Artboard Tool (Shift+O) from your Toolbar, you will find that the Properties panel now presents an Artboard Options button to you.

This will allow you to add a couple of valuable guides to your artboard view. Under the Display section of the panel, you can add a check mark for Show Center Mark, Show Cross Hairs, and Show Video Safe Areas (if you are working on video content). The Center Mark and Cross Hairs options allow you to...

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