Description

This best-selling guide from authors Elaine Weinmann and Peter Lourekas has been the go-to tutorial and reference book for graphic design college classrooms for decades. This fully updated edition includes their trademark features: clear, concise, step-by-step instructions; hundreds of full-color illustrations; screen captures of program features; and supplemental tips and sidebars in every chapter. All the new enhancements and features are covered, including significant upgrades to the Pencil tool, Swatches panel, Artboard panel, as well as new Live Corners, reshaping methods, and much more. Many of the key illustrations used in the book are available to students via Web download for practice.

The new and updated Illustrator CC features are clearly marked with bright red stars in both the table of contents and main text.

Table of Contents

1 Create & Save Files

2 Manage Color

3 Workspaces

4 Panels

5 Bridge

6 Geometric Objects

7 Freehand drawing

8 Select

9 Move, Copy & Align

10 Fill & Stroke

11 Transform

12 Reshape

13 Layers

14 Appearances

15 Effects

16 Graphic Styles

17 Image Trace

18 Live Paint

19 Create Type

20 Style & Edit Type

21 Pen Tools

22 Acquire Images

23 Brushes

24 Gradients

25 Combine Paths

26 Clipping Masks

27 Transparency

28 Symbols

29 Live Color

30 Preferences

31 Print & Export

Author

Peter Lourekas is a graduate of the architecture school of the University of Virginia and of the New York Studio School; Elaine Weinmann is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design. They have been writing, designing, and illustrating best-selling computer graphics books for Peachpit Press since 1992 on such topics as Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Painter, and Live Motion.

Their books have been translated into 12 languages and have sold more than 2.1 million copies worldwide. They have also been instructors in New York City at Cooper Union School of Art, Parsons School of Design, Pratt Manhattan, and The New School.

The authors live in Asheville, North Carolina.