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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.

Starting up

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Starting Adobe Illustrator CS5


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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Loading lesson files


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.


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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Working with the video tutorials


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.


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.


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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