The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book

The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator—now completely reorganized, fully updated, and created for intermediate through professional users of Illustrator CS5 For years, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this completely updated edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, you’ll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS5, Sharon shows you how to integrate the new perspective grid, Shape Builder tool, Bristle Brushes, transparency in gradient mesh, new drawing modes, multiple artboards, and more. This edition is loaded with new lessons, galleries, and stunning new artwork that features:




Creating artwork with the dynamic Perspective Grid



Fast construction with the Shape Builder tool and drawing modes



Working with the painterly and naturalistic Bristle Brushes



Creating variety in strokes with the new Width tool



Enhanced Web, Flash, and animation workflow



Fast and easy masking using the Draw Inside mode



Layering transparency in photorealistic gradient mesh



Managing multiple artboards with the new Artboards panel



Integrating Blob Brush artwork with Live Paint



Working quickly using the improved Appearance panel

For intermediate through professional-level illustrators.

Find Artwork to pick apart, custom WOW! scripts by Premedia Systems, and many demos and plug-ins on the DVD-ROM:


Custom WOW! scripts created by Premedia Systems for colorizing objects and resizing multiple artboards.
The best demos and plug-ins hand-picked by WOW! technical editor Jean-Claude Tremblay
Bonus ReadMe documents including PDFs from the Adobe technical team and commissioned  artists
Details about creating SmallCaps in Illustrator by ILene Strizver from thetypestudio.com
Two full PDF chapters from Mordy Golding's Real World Adobe Illustrator CS5
Technical experts from Sandee Cohen's InDesign: Visual QuickStart Guide, and Conrad Chavez's Real World Adobe Photoshop for Photographers
Many art files from the book to deconstruct