Essentials for Design Adobe Illustrator CS 2, Level Two

About the Author Dean Bagley has been writing instructional books about Adobe Illustrator for a number of years. He first began when he wrote about Illustrator’s version 5.0. Dean received his degrees in Speech-English-Education from the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. Upon graduation he spent several years teaching English and Speech in secondary schools.   A multi-talented person, Dean has been in the Arts most of his life as a graphic artist, designer, cartoonist, typographer, writer, editor, and publication designer. He spent ten years working as Head of Advertising for his father in his well-known business in the fishing industry, Bagley Bait Company. It was during these years that Dean won both an ADDY Award and a first place award from the Florida Print Industry for the package and catalog design of their monofilament fishing line, Silver Thread.   Also a computer programmer in such languages as BASIC, Pascal, and dBase, Dean found himself in the world of the Internet where creates Web sites, animations and images for use on the Web, using Adobe Illustrator.   Dean also has his own line of children’s books about his cartoon character, Baggy Gator. These stories can be found online at http://baggygator.no-ip.com.

Chapter 1 - Page Geometry

Lesson 1: Using Guides and Layers

Lesson 2: Laying Out Web Pages

Lesson 3: Understanding the Crop Area

Lesson 4: Manage the Startup Document

Lesson 5: Using the Grid Tools

Lesson 6: Perspective Layout

 

Chapter 2 - Effects, Styles and Appearances

Lesson 1: Applying Vector Effects

Lesson 2: Applying Photoshop Effects

Lesson 3: Using the Appearance Palette

Lesson 4: Graphic Styles

Lesson 5: Creating Gradient Meshes

 

Chapter 3 - Working with Symbols

Lesson 1: Using the Symbols Palette

Lesson 2: Creating Symbols

Lesson 3: Editing Symbols and Links

Lesson 4: Using Symbol Libraries

Lesson 5: Using the Symbolism Tools

 

Chapter 4 - Working with Animations

Lesson 1: Creating an Animation

Lesson 2: The Build (Cumulative) Animation

Lesson 3: The Sequence (Non-Cumulative) Animation

Lesson 4: Raster Animation

Lesson 5: Animating Blends

Lesson 6: Using Symbols and Release to Layers

 

Chapter 5 - Creating Web Objects

Lesson 1: Using Save for Web

Lesson 2: Banding and Color Modifications

Lesson 3: Refining Images for the Web

Lesson 4: Creating Image Maps

Lesson 5: Saving for the Web

Lesson 6: Slicing Images

 

Chapter 6 - SVG Graphics and Interactivity

Lesson 1: Exploring Scaleable Vector Graphics

Lesson 2: Adding Interactivity with JavaScript

Lesson 3: JavaScript and XML Naming Conventions

Lesson 4: JavaScript Events

Lesson 5: Embedding the SVG File

Lesson 6: Using SVG Filters

 

Chapter 7 - Working with Dynamic Graphics

Lesson 1: What is Dynamic Data?

Lesson 2: Assigning Variables

Lesson 3: Understanding Data Sets

Lesson 4: Using the eXtensible Markup Language

Lesson 5: Using the Graph Tools

Lesson 6: Customizing Graphs

 

Chapter 8 - Enhancing Your Workflow

Lesson 1: Modifying Objects for Use in Photoshop

Lesson 2: Using Photoshop Techniques in Illustrator

Lesson 3: Using the Actions Palette

Lesson 4: Creating Your Own Actions

Lesson 5: Naming Objects and Menu Selections

Lesson 6: Using Acrobat to Combine Illustrator Files