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About the AuthorsJennifer Smith has more than two decades of design and electronic publishing experience. Jennifer delivers professional development education for companies around the world relating to effective ways to use creative technology to achieve design and user experience objectives. She is a founding member of American Graphics Institute (AGI) and serves as Vice President of AGI. Prior to founding AGI she worked in advertising as an art director and served as a principal in a Pennsylvania-based design firm. Jennifer is widely regarded as one of the foremost authorities in electronic publishing and design and is often requested as a speaker at seminars and conferences around the world. Jennifer is the author of more than ten books on electronic publishing, including Adobe Creative Suite 5 Design Premium for Dummies, published by Wiley. She has also written several of the Classroom in a Book series for Adobe Press. Jennifer bridges the gap between technical and creative, working easily with both developers and designers. Her ability to translate technical skills to address business issues allows organizations to reach their objectives with effective design and creativity. She uses technology to achieve design objectives for use on-line or in print. A renaissance artist with technology, you’ll find Jennifer integrating her Photoshop work in interactive projects using Flash or Silverlight, and finessing her creations using her skills with coding, creating 3-D renderings for product designers, or working with graphics professionals to achieve the highest quality and most accurate color.
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IXTable of Contents
Starting Up
About Digital Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Starting Adobe Illustrator CS5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Fonts used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS5 preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Loading lesson fi les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Working with the video tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Setting up for viewing the video tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Lesson 1: Adobe Illustrator CS5 Jumpstart
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Setting up the artboard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Creating the background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Access additional Swatch Libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Using the new Shape Builder tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Creating the smaller combined shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Applying color and eff ects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Cloning the small shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Aligning and distributing the shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Adding Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Applying the Warp eff ect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Adding text to the small shape areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Distorting a shape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Importing an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Creating the pseudo horizontal image scroll . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Adding symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Adding lines of text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Creating the Zip code text box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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Lesson 2: Getting to Know the Workspace
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Opening Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Choosing a workspace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Opening a fi le. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
The document window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using Artboards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Navigating multiple artboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using the new Artboards panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Creating New Artboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Switching screen modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Changing your view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Preview versus Outlines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Zooming and scrolling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Scrolling with the Hand tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Changing views with the Navigator panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
The Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Using tools and panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
The Control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Moving the Control panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Panel groups and the dock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Custom workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Saving workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Using the Manage Workspaces dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Customizing keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Custom shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Saving shortcut sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Deleting shortcut sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
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Lesson 3: Illustrator CS5 Essentials
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Using the shape tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Repositioning and visually resizing the rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Finding or changing the shape’s dimensions using the Transform panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Rotating and shearing using the Transform panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Constraining a shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Entering exact dimensions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Selecting artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Helpful keyboard shortcuts for selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
The selection tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Using shape and transform tools to create artwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Using the transform tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Adding a fi ll color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Entering a shape size in the Transform panel . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Viewing in Outline view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Rotating the shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Changing the color of the triangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Using layers when building an illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Creating a new blank layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Cutting and pasting objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Creating bubbles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Cloning the bubble group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Repeating a resize transform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Moving objects from one layer to another . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
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Lesson 4: Adding Color
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Basics of the Appearance panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Changing colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Adding Eff ects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Creating a colorful illustration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Using Live Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Converting the artwork to a Live Paint group. . . . . . . . . . 109
Applying Live Paint to the group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Adding a symbol to your artwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Expanding the symbol. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Saving swatches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
What is a Global Color? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Selecting the Same color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Saving a set of colors as a group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Creating a color group from selected colors . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Using the Color panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Adding Pantone (Spot) Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Adding Pantone colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Lesson 5: Working with the Drawing Tools
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Working with the Pen tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Drawing straight lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Drawing curved lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Drawing hinged curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Drawing curved lines to straight lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Drawing straight lines to curved lines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Manually tracing images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Placing an image as a template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Other drawing tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Using the Line Segment and Arc tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Using the Pencil, Smooth, and Path Eraser tools . . . . . . . 137
Using the Eraser tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
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Editing existing paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Adding and removing points. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Refi ning a curve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Cutting and joining paths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Working with Live Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Using the tracing presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Understanding tracing options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Expanding Live Traced artwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Working with Live Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Creating a Live Paint group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Setting Gap Detection options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Using the Live Paint Bucket tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Using the Live Paint Selection tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Combining shapes using the new Shape Builder tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Combining the shapes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Subtracting with the Shape Builder tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Creating the fi sh eyes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Lesson 6: Exploring Additional Color Options
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Taking a look at the fi nished illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Adding tonal values with gradients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Customizing an existing gradient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Saving the Gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Applying a second instance of the gradient . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Using the Gradient panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Updating a gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Creating and using patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Creating a bounding box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Applying the pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Editing a pattern fi ll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Locating existing patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Finishing up the illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
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Creating a Color Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Using the Color Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Lesson 7: Working with and Formatting Text
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Formatting type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Paragraph formatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Formatting imported type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Paragraph and character styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Editing styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Advanced techniques with text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Text on a path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Warping text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Text in a shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Creating outlines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Check spelling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Find and Replace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
Lesson 8: Organizing your Illustrations with Layers
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Getting to know the Layers panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Using layers to organize your illustrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Using the Layers panel to make selections . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Creating new layers and moving items between layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Paste remembers layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Template layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
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Lesson 9: Working with Symbols
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Cleaning out the symbol library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Creating symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Editing symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Importing a symbol library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Using the symbolism tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Editing nested symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Replacing symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Saving symbol libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Lesson 10: Using Eff ects and Transparency
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Working with the Appearance panel and eff ects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Applying eff ects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Editing eff ects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Using graphic styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
Creating and saving graphic styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Applying and modifying graphic styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Working with object transparency. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Working with multiple opacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Working with blending modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Saving and importing graphic styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Applying graphic styles to layers and symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
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Lesson 11: Exporting and Saving Files
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Saving using the AI fi le format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Saving an illustration with layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Make a template layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Using the Transform Eff ect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Duplicating a Stroke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Saving diff erent versions of the logo onto separate layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Expanding appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Save the fi rst version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Using Live Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Using the Color Guide panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Saving the third version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Using Recolor Artwork. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Saving a layered PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Integration with other applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Exporting for Photoshop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Integrating with InDesign. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Integrating with Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Integrating with Microsoft Expression Blend (XAML). . . 267
Integrating with Premiere and After Eff ects . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Saving as EPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Save for Web & Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Making a Flash animation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Exporting a Flash animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Lesson 12: Advanced Blending Techniques
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Using the Blend Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Applying a gradient . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Applying Radial Gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Applying gradients using Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
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Adjusting the Mesh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Revisiting Blend Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
More mesh work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Overlapping images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Applying a gradient mesh using the Mesh tool . . . . . . . . 298
Finishing up with the Mesh tool and automatically adding a Highlight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Using the Symbol Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Creating a symbol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
Modifying a Symbol’s appearance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Self study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Lesson 13: Adobe Illustrator CS5 New Features
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Getting into perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Using the Perspective Grid feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Defi ning the grid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Changing the plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Using the Perspective Selection tool. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Creating shapes with the Shape Builder tool . . . . . . . . . . 316
To combine shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
To delete shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
To divide overlapping shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
New Brush Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Advanced drawing controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Artboard panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Pixel grid alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Appendix
Appendix A - Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Appendix B - Keyboard shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
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1Starting Up
About Digital ClassroomAdobe® Illustrator® CS5 lets you create artwork for a variety of uses. Illustrator’s drawing tools let you take advantage of many ways to control color, text, and artwork in your designs. Illustrator provides you with ways to express your creative ideas and experiment with the presentation. Illustrator CS5 is also tightly integrated with other Adobe products such as Photoshop® CS5 and Flash® CS5 Professional.
Adobe Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom is like having your own personal instructor guiding you through each lesson while you work at your own speed. This book includes 13 self-paced lessons that let you discover essential skills and explore the new features and capabilities of Illustrator CS5. Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions, lesson files, and video tutorials, all of which are available on the DVD included with the printed version of this book, or online at www.digitalclassroombooks.com/epub/illustratorcs5. This book has been developed by the same team of Adobe Certified Instructors and Illustrator experts who have created many of the official training titles for Adobe Systems.
PrerequisitesBefore you start the lessons in Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom, you should have a working knowledge of your computer and its operating system. You should know how to use the directory system of your computer so that you can navigate through folders. You need to understand how to locate, save, and open files. You should also know how to use your mouse to access menus and commands.
Before starting the lessons files in Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom, make sure that you have installed Adobe Illustrator CS5. The software is sold separately, and not included with this book. You may use the 30-day trial version of Adobe Illustrator CS5 available at the adobe.com web site, subject to the terms of its license agreement.
System requirementsBefore starting the lessons in Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom, make sure that your computer is equipped for running Adobe Illustrator CS5, which you must purchase separately. The minimum system requirements for your computer to effectively use the software are listed on the following page.
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Starting Adobe Illustrator CS5
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System requirements for Adobe Illustrator CS5:
Windows OS• Intel® Pentium® 4 or AMD Athlon® 64 processor• Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 3; Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business,
Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1; or Windows 7• 1GB of RAM• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during
installation (cannot install on removable fl ash-based storage devices)• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card• DVD-ROM drive• Broadband Internet connection required for online services
Macintosh OS• Intel processor• Mac OS X v10.5.7 or v10.6• 1GB of RAM• 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during
installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive fi le system or on removable fl ash-based storage devices)
• 1024x768 display (1280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card• DVD-ROM drive• Broadband Internet connection required for online services
Starting Adobe Illustrator CS5As with most software, Adobe Illustrator CS5 is launched by locating the application in your Programs folder (Windows) or Applications folder (Mac OS). If necessary, follow these steps to start the Adobe Illustrator CS5 application:
Windows1 Choose Start > All Programs > Adobe Illustrator CS5. If you have the Creative Suite
installed, you may have to select Adobe Illustrator from within the Creative Suite folder.
2 Close the Welcome Screen when it appears. You are now ready to use Adobe Illustrator CS5.
Mac OS1 Open the Applications folder, and then open the Adobe Illustrator CS5 folder. If you
have the Creative Suite installed, you may have to select Adobe Illustrator from within the Creative Suite folder.
2 Double-click the Adobe Illustrator CS5 application icon.
3 Close the Welcome Screen when it appears. You are now ready to use Adobe Illustrator CS5.
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Fonts used in this book
3Starting up
Menus and commands are identifi ed throughout the book by using the greater-than symbol (>). For example, the command to print a document would be identifi ed as File > Print.
Fonts used in this bookIllustrator CS5 Digital Classroom includes lessons that refer to fonts that were installed with your copy of Adobe Illustrator CS5. If you did not install the fonts, or have removed them from your computer, you may substitute diff erent fonts for the exercises or re-install the software to access the fonts.
If you receive a Missing Font Warning, press OK and proceed with the lesson.
Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS5 preferencesWhen you start Adobe Illustrator, it remembers certain settings along with the confi guration of the workspace from the last time you used the application. It is important that you start each lesson using the default settings so that you do not see unexpected results when working with the lessons in this book. Choose one of the following methods to reset your Adobe Illustrator CS5 preferences to their defaults.
Steps to reset default Adobe Illustrator CS5 preferences
1 Quit Adobe Illustrator CS5.
2 Press and hold Alt+Control+Shift (Windows) or Option+Command+Shift (Mac OS) as you start Illustrator. Your current settings are deleted.
Steps to save and then create new default Adobe Illustrator CS5 preferences
1 Quit Adobe Illustrator CS5 Illustrator.
2 Locate and rename the AIPrefs (Windows) or Adobe Illustrator Preferences (Mac OS).
• In Windows: Rename the AIPrefs fi le (for example, to AIPrefs_old) in the Documents and Settings/(user)/Application Data/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings folder.
• In Windows Vista or Windows 7: Rename the AIPrefs fi le (for example, to AIPrefs_old) in the Users/(user)/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings/(language_location) folder.
• In Mac OS: Rename the Adobe Illustrator Preferences fi le in the Users/(user)/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings folder.
3 Start Illustrator. Illustrator creates a new preferences fi le.
To restore custom settings, delete the new AIPrefs fi le and restore the original name of the previous AIPrefs fi le.
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Adobe Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom
Loading lesson fi lesThe Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom DVD includes fi les that accompany the exercises for each of the lessons. You may copy the entire lessons folder from the supplied DVD to your hard drive, or copy only the lesson folders for the individual lessons you wish to complete.
For each lesson in the book, the fi les are referenced by the fi le name of each fi le. The exact location of each fi le on your computer is not used, as you may have placed the fi les in a unique location on your hard drive. We suggest placing the lesson fi les in the My Documents folder (Windows) or at the top level of your hard drive (Mac OS).
Copying the lesson fi les to your hard drive:1 Insert the Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom DVD supplied with this book.
2 On your computer desktop, navigate to the DVD and locate the folder named ailessons.
3 You can install all the fi les, or just specifi c lesson fi les. Do one of the following:
• Install all lesson fi les by dragging the ailessons folder to your hard drive.
• Install only some of the fi les by creating a new folder on your hard drive named ailessons. Open the ailessons folder on the supplied DVD, select the lesson you wish to complete, and drag the folder(s) to the ailessons folder you created on your hard drive.
Unlocking Mac OS fi les
Macintosh users may need to unlock the fi les after they are copied from the accompanying disc. This only applies to Mac OS computers and is because the Mac OS may view fi les that are copied from a DVD or CD as being locked for writing.
If you are a Mac OS user and have diffi culty saving over the existing fi les in this book, you can use these instructions so that you can update the lesson fi les as you work on them and also add new fi les to the lessons folder
Note that you only need to follow these instructions if you are unable to save over the existing lesson fi les, or if you are unable to save fi les into the lesson folder.
1 After copying the fi les to your computer, click once to select the ailessons folder, then choose File > Get Info from within the Finder (not Illustrator).
2 In the ailessons info window, click the triangle to the left of Sharing and Permissions to reveal the details of this section.
3 In the Sharing and Permissions section, click the lock icon, if necessary, in the lower right corner so that you can make changes to the permissions.
4 Click to select a specifi c user or select everyone, then change the Privileges section to Read & Write.
5 Click the lock icon to prevent further changes, and then close the window.
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Working with the video tutorials
5Starting up
Working with the video tutorialsYour Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom DVD comes with video tutorials developed by the authors to help you understand the concepts explored in each lesson. Each tutorial is approximately fi ve minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson.
The videos are designed to supplement your understanding of the material in the chapter. We have selected exercises and examples that we feel will be most useful to you. You may want to view the entire video for each lesson before you begin that lesson. Additionally, at certain points in a lesson, you will encounter the DVD icon. The icon, with appropriate lesson number, indicates that an overview of the exercise being described can be found in the accompanying video.
0 DVD video icon.
Setting up for viewing the video tutorialsThe DVD included with this book includes video tutorials for each lesson. Although you can view the lessons on your computer directly from the DVD, we recommend copying the folder labeled Videos from the Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom DVD to your hard drive.
Copying the video tutorials to your hard drive:1 Insert the Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom DVD supplied with this book.
2 On your computer desktop, navigate to the DVD and locate the folder named Videos.
3 Drag the Videos folder to a location onto your hard drive.
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Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash PlayerThe videos on the Illustrator CS5 Digital Classroom DVD are saved in the Flash projector format. A Flash projector fi le wraps the Digital Classroom video player and the Adobe Flash Player in an executable fi le (.exe for Windows or .app for Mac OS). However, please note that the extension (on both platforms) may not always be visible. Projector fi les allow the Flash content to be deployed on your system without the need for a browser or prior standalone player installation.
The accompanying video fi les on the DVD use the Adobe Flash Video format to make universal viewing possible for users on both Windows and Mac OS computers.
Playing the video tutorials:1 On your computer, navigate to the Videos folder you copied to your hard drive from the
DVD. Playing the videos directly from the DVD may result in poor quality playback.
2 Open the Videos folder and double-click the AIvideos_PC.exe (Windows) or AIvideos_Mac.app (Mac OS) to view the video tutorial.
3 Press the Play button to view the videos.
The Flash Player has a simple user interface that allows you to control the viewing experience, including stopping, pausing, playing, and restarting the video. You can also rewind or fast-forward, and adjust the playback volume.
A B D E FC
A. Go to beginning. B. Play/Pause. C. Fast-forward/rewind. D. Stop. E. Volume Off /On. F. Volume control.
Playback volume is also aff ected by the settings in your operating system. Be certain to adjust the sound volume for your computer, in addition to the sound controls in the Player window.
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Additional resources
7Starting up
Additional resourcesThe Digital Classroom series goes beyond the training books. You can continue your learning online with training videos, or at seminars, conferences, and in-person training events.
Book seriesExpand your knowledge of creative software applications with the Digital Classroom training series which includes books on Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, and more. Learn more at digitalclassroombooks.com.
Training & Professional DevelopmentThe authors of the Digital Classroom seminar series frequently conduct in-person seminars and are available for in-person training and professional development for your organization, company, school, or university. Learn more at agitraining.com.
Resources for educatorsVisit digitalclassroombooks.com to access resources for educators, including instructors’ guides for incorporating Digital Classroom into your curriculum.
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9Lesson 1, Adobe Illustrator CS5 Jumpstart
What you’ll learn in this lesson:• Working with
graphic styles
• Warping text
• Adding a symbol to the Symbols panel
• Using the Color Guide
• Converting artwork
• Erasing paths
• Creating a 3D object
Adobe Illustrator CS5 Jumpstart
In this lesson, you have the opportunity to dive right into Adobe Illustrator CS5 and create an exciting illustration. This lesson helps you quickly discover some of the new features available in CS5. If you are a completely new user, you may want to start with Lesson 2, “Getting to know the Workspace,” and then return to this lesson.
Starting up Before starting, make sure that your tools and panels are consistent by resetting your workspace. See “Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS5 Preferences” on page 3.
You will work with several fi les from the ai01lessons folder in this lesson. Make sure that you have loaded the ailessons folder onto your hard drive from the supplied DVD. See “Loading lesson fi les” on page 4.
Lesson 1
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See Lesson 1 in action!
Use the accompanying video to gain a better understanding of how to use some of the features shown in this lesson. The video tutorial for this lesson can be found on the included DVD.
The project In this lesson you will create a comp (rough design) of a web page using some features that have been around for years, as well as new features recently added to Adobe Illustrator CS5.
1 Launch Adobe Illustrator CS5.
2 Choose File > Browse in Bridge or press the Go to Bridge button ( ) in the Application bar at the top of the workspace.
By pressing the Go to Bridge button, you launch a separate application called Adobe Bridge. Bridge is an indispensable application that acts as the central command center for all your CS5 applications and helps you to organize your Adobe Illustrator projects. You can use Bridge to help you easily locate fi les. With Adobe Bridge, you can see a preview of every fi le within any folder.
3 Once Bridge opens, navigate to the ai01lessons folder within the ailessons folder that you copied to your computer and double-click ai0101_done.ai to open it. If an embedded Profi le Mismatch dialog box appears, leave it at the defaults and press OK. The artwork for a rough design of a web page appears. You can keep this completed fi le open for reference, or choose File > Close to close it. If you are asked to save the fi le, choose No.
The completed rough design for a web page.
The Illustrator CS5 workspace is consistent with the other applications in the Creative Suite 5, which helps you to fi nd the tools you need faster, no matter which application you are using.
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