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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

Exploring simple shape tools and the Shaper tool to develop more advanced objects

I personally love creating in Illustrator using the simple shapes that the shape tools offer. Let's first look at the simplest drawing methods and then examine some methods for adding and subtracting from combined objects.

Shape tools

As we look at the list of available shape tools, please be aware that the Flare tool is also in this same family of tools. We will not be discussing it with the others, as it has a very different purpose and often feels like it should be located with some other tool family. If you are unfamiliar with the tool, it is used to create a simulated lens flare and can be fun to use, but this just isn't the right time to examine it. Instead, we will be sticking to the five main shape tools:

  • Rectangle Tool (M)
  • Rounded Rectangle Tool
  • Ellipse Tool (L)
  • Polygon Tool
  • Star Tool

To select any of these tools you can use their keyboard shortcuts...

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