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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

Advanced training on the Pen tool and anchor point editing

So far, we have been focused on creating paths with tools that follow the movement of your mouse, a gesture on the touchpad, or a swipe of a pencil on a tablet.

The Pen tool gives additional control by placing anchor points and direction handles along the path, which you can use to adjust it. The following steps can be used as an introduction if you are somewhat new to this tool:

  1. Select Pen tool (P).
  2. Drop an initial anchor point by clicking anywhere on the artboard.
  3. Move the tool, and then click again to create a straight line.
  4. Hold Shift while clicking to constrain the straight line to a multiple of 45˚.
  5. Click and drag the Pen tool to create the direction handles of the anchor point.
  6. click and drag again to choose the angle and scale of the curve segment, and then release.

As noted in steps 3 and 4, holding down the Shift key while drawing allows you to draw straight lines at controlled...

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