Essentials for Design Adobe Illustrator CS 2 - Level 1

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 — Taking a Tour of Adobe Illustrator CS2

Lesson 1: The Illustrator Welcome Screen

Lesson 2: Creating and Opening Documents and Templates

Lesson 3: Saving Documents

Lesson 4: Printing Documents

Lesson 5: Using the Toolbox

Lesson 6: Using Palettes

Lesson 7: Using Rulers

Lesson 8: The Grid and Guides

 

Chapter 2 — The Working Environment

Lesson 1: Document Anatomy

Lesson 2: Document Setup

Lesson 3: Setting Up Workspaces

Lesson 4: Preferences That Govern How You Work

Lesson 5: Preferences That Enhance Performance

Lesson 6: File Handling and the Clipboard

 

Chapter 3 - The Drawing Tools

Lesson 1: Drawing Geometric Shapes

Lesson 2: Drawing Lines

Lesson 3: Drawing Paths with the Pen Tool

Lesson 4: Drawing Curves with the Pen Tool

Lesson 5: Modifying Paths

Lesson 6: Editing Paths

Lesson 7: Painting Paths

 

Chapter 4 - Selecting Object and Groups

Lesson 1: The Select Menu

Lesson 2: The Magic Wand Tool

Lesson 3: The Direct Selection Tool

Lesson 4: The Group Selection Tool

Lesson 5: The Lasso Tool

Lesson 6: Selecting with the Layers Palette

Lesson 7: Optional Selection Methods

 

Chapter 5 - Painting Objects

Lesson 1: CMYK and RGB Color Modes

Lesson 2: The Swatches Palette

Lesson 3: The Color Palette

Lesson 4: Painting Techniques

Lesson 5: Creating and Modifying Gradients

Lesson 6: The Live Paint Bucket Tool

Lesson 7: Working with Patterns

 

Chapter 6 - Working with Type

Lesson 1: Creating Text Elements

Lesson 2: Character Control

Lesson 3: Paragraph Formatting

Lesson 4: Paragraph and Character Styles

Lesson 5: Applying Type to Paths

Lesson 6: Wrapping Text Around Graphics

Lesson 7: Importing, Exporting, and Linking Text

Lesson 8: Converting Type to Outlines

 

Chapter 7 - Working with Objects

Lesson 1: Transforming Objects

Lesson 2: Alternate Transformation Options

Lesson 3: Distorting Objects

Lesson 4: Path Operations

Lesson 5: Positioning Objects

Lesson 6: Aligning and Distributing Objects

 

Chapter 8 — Using and Managing Images

Lesson 1: Placing External Images

Lesson 2: Managing Images with the Links Palette

Lesson 3: Rasterizing Objects

Lesson 4: Filters for Raster Objects

Lesson 5: Clipping Masks and Compounding

 

Chapter 9 - Printing and Publishing Your Documents

Lesson 1: Printing Composites from Illustrator

Lesson 2: Printing Separations from Illustrator

Lesson 3: Spot Color Separations

Lesson 4: Creating a Bleed

Lesson 5: Saving Artwork for the Web

Lesson 6: Using Acrobat Portable Document Format

Lesson 7: Using Encapsulated PostScript

 

Task Guide

File Guide

Glossary

Index