This book addresses all those nasty problems that designers working on prepress production want the service bureau or printer to fix, but really should handle themselves. A veritable cornucopia of tips, tricks, explanations, and experienced wisdom. Take advantage of Scott Kelby's eye-popping tips and tricks for text, images, and creating interfaces. Each trick is fully illustrated. A complete exploration of the software, covering all of the new features and providing real-world examples and techniques for turning concept into design.
Every page is in color and is filled with tips, notes, warnings, and screenshots.
This volume will benefit beginners the most. Topics covered include tools and palettes, working with selections, layers, masks, channels, retouching, effects, color management, and creating images for print or the Web. This hands-on guide includes lessons on Illustrator's shape tools, color, patterns, gradients, lines, curves, brushes and much more. Everything from basic interfaces to the process of assembling complex movies is covered here. All rights reserved.