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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

The Effect panel and its options

If you are already familiar with Adobe Photoshop, then you will likely be familiar with the Filter menu in that application. If you are not, I would describe this menu as a list of options that will render visual adjustments to the selected item(s). Illustrator has something that is quite comparable to what you would experience in Photoshop. In fact, one of the biggest differences you may notice is the actual name. While the list of available options in this menu are filters in Photoshop, they are considered effects in Illustrator and are divided based on whether they process the object using vectors or pixels. Any third-party software you have installed will be in a third category. You will find all these categories in the Effect menu, located in the top menu:

Figure 5.12 – The effects categories within the Effect menu

In addition to dividing the effects into appropriate categories, the Effect menu also presents two...

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