Adobe Illustrator CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

by David Karlins

Adobe Illustrator CS4 is more than just the world’s most popular and powerful illustration As part of the Adobe’s Creative Suite 4, it’s a key component of an overall design workflow that lets users work seamlessly among all of their graphics applications to create graphically rich content for print, Web, motion graphics, and mobile devices. This info-packed guide lets users get right down to work by focusing on the Illustrator CS4 features they’re most likely to use and showcasing each in a stand-alone tip--complete with a relevant hint or two and a graphic example. In this fashion, readers learn just what they need to know, exploring the program in a way that makes sense to them. Before they know it, users will be using all the new features as well as creating symbols and applying instances and exporting their work to Adobe Flash.

245 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2008

About the author

David Karlins is the author of several vector illustration books and videos including How to Do Everything with Adobe Illustrator CS, Illustrator 10 Virtual Classroom (book and video), and Adobe Illustrator CS2 Gone Wild. He is a freelance graphic and interactive design consulting, and teaches Illustrator at San Francisco State University Multimedia Studies Program.

Reviews

[lime-lightdesigns.com Shel Holliday · Rating 5 out of 5]

Breaks down the basics! Easy to follow. Great for the beginner or even a rusty expert!