Books : Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
EAN: 9780321573780
ISBN: 0321573781
Label: Adobe Press
Manufacturer: Adobe Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: November 22, 2008
Publisher: Adobe Press
Sales Rank: 2259
Studio: Adobe Press
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The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator CS4
Adobe Illustrator CS4 Classroom in a Book contains 15 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Illustrator and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Learn how to create artwork for illustrations, logos, stationery, page layouts, posters, and integrate with Adobe Flash® movies, Adobe InDesign® layouts, and more!
“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.” —Barbara Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor, Rocky Mountain Training
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
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I have used Classroom in a Book for all of Adobe's software. It is also a great reference book for after you have done all the lessons.
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Very recently, in late 2008, Adobe released version CS4 of one of their main product suites. I reviewed a companion book about Photoshop CS4, Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book. So how does the current book on Illustrator CS4 compare?
The quick answer is that Illustrator is more about actual drawing using your mouse and keyboard. Here, you can start from scratch, with a blank canvas. The book shows how to draw simple curves, and goes on from there to more sophisticated methods. Thus we meet Bezier curves, that are drawn using control points. And there is are rich palette of colouring options. Along with a varied set of fonts.
Illustrator has a complex set of options that permits all this, and hides a lot of underlying mathematical complexity, that is relegated to the computer's responsibility.
There are certainly commonalities between the 2 books. Especially concerning layers. These let you compose very intricate final images from a variety of simpler images, each in its own layer.
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