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Adobe insider Ted Alspach helps you unlock the power of CS3

The new CS3 version of Illustrator is light years beyond previous versions, and whether you're a novice or veteran designer, you'll want to get quickly up to speed on this powerful new tool. With clear explanations and plenty of examples, Adobe insider Ted Alspach reveals the secrets on how to best use Illustrator CS3 for Web graphics, integrate it with the rest of the Creative Suite, work in 3D—and above all, why it's such a radical step up from CS2. Tap the power of Illustrator CS3 for your projects with this in-depth guide from an industry expert.

• Use Live Color to get color options you never had before

• Integrate Illustrator CS3 seamlessly with Photoshop and Flash

• Quickly start new documents with preset profiles

• Work easily with transparency, fonts, styles, and effects

• Get more out of Illustrator with hundreds of tips and tricks

• Learn about scripting and Web graphics generation for online design

Customize the Illustrator workspace

Generate color sets with Live Color

Create graphics for the Web

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #104112 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-27
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 744 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780470126349
• Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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From the Back Cover
Adobe insider Ted Alspach helps you unlock the power of CS3

The new CS3 version of Illustrator is light years beyond previous versions, and whether you're a novice or veteran designer, you'll want to get quickly up to speed on this powerful new tool. With clear explanations and plenty of examples, Adobe insider Ted Alspach reveals the secrets on how to best use Illustrator CS3 for Web graphics, integrate it with the rest of the Creative Suite, work in 3D—and above all, why it's such a radical step up from CS2. Tap the power of Illustrator CS3 for your projects with this in-depth guide from an industry expert.

• Use Live Color to get color options you never had before

• Integrate Illustrator CS3 seamlessly with Photoshop and Flash

• Quickly start new documents with preset profiles

• Work easily with transparency, fonts, styles, and effects

• Get more out of Illustrator with hundreds of tips and tricks

• Learn about scripting and Web graphics generation for online design

Customize the Illustrator workspace

Generate color sets with Live Color

Create graphics for the Web

About the Author
Ted Alspach is the author of more than 30 books on graphics and publishing, including Illustrator For Dummies and previous editions of the Illustrator Bible. Ted spent eight years at Adobe on the Illustrator and Creative Suite product management teams, enabling him to provide a unique perspective on getting the most out of Adobe Illustrator CS3.

Customer Reviews

Ted does it again! Great Illustrator CS3 Bible reference
It has been 2 years from last "Illustrator CS2 Bible" and now we have updated version of it to CS3.
This time book again written by Ted Alspach alone and he stays the guard of this reference from version 7 (in far 1997). And the most interesting thing that every time Ted tried to power this book on 100% with information.

Bible keeps not only it's author, but also great style. With minimum clear explanation it gives you the most full information on an object. There're couple of color insert with nice Illustrator examples (seems very creative). Book consist of 700 pages. Pages are not not white shiny to make you blind, but pretty good indeed and in calculation of (book information*paper quality)/price buyer wins a couple of times.

All information you need is included: from novice to professionals - this reference is for everybody. To study new features or start from basics, to draw simple lines up to combine them in one complicated object and up to professional printing process of your work.

Great information order, information presented very clear and it is easy to follow, easy to find and it is explained step by step.

As we all know Illustrator belongs to Adobe family products, that's why almost every month such programs as Illustrator, Flash, Photoshop and other are used together to make work more easy and productive. Ted took one chapter of this time to explain the very basics of this programs integration (to expand our vision on this program and it's possibilities).
Illustrator is also a very powerful program and has a lot of "hot keys" and the complete list of it you can find in Appendix.

For people who never used Bibles, I would like to give table of content to let you know what you can expect from Bibles:

Part I: Illustrator Basics
- What's new in Illustrator CS3
- Understanding Illustrator's Desktop
- Working with Illustrator Documents
- Understanding Drawing and Painting Techniques
- Creating Objects, Graphs and Symbols
- Learning how to select and edit
- Understanding Color, Gradients and Mess

Part II:
- Using Illustrator to Organize Objects
- Working with Type
- Using Creative Strokes and Fills with Patterns
- Applying Transformations and Distortions
- Using Path Blends, Compound Path and Masks
- Using Live Trace
- Using Live Paint
Part III:
- Working with Graphic Styles, Filters and Effects
- Creating 3D in Illustrator
- Customizing and Automating Illustrator

Part IV:
- Understanding PostScript and Printing
- Creating Web Graphics

Appendix: Shortcuts in Illustrator CS3
Index


But in couple of words, we have here a titanic work of Ted Alspach that was put on paper for your satisfaction. And I really can't imagine a person that would not enjoy it. This book is really all you need.

The missing owner's manual
Excellent book for those that want an owners manual for Illustrator. The book explains each tool and command in Illustrator quite well. The only issue I saw was that it did not have enough details on design techniques. Even though it started explaining how blends are created I was left craving for more information. It would have been nice if they would have shown how blending works on a few different objects.
The book does have a nice keyboard shortcut guide in the back. In my opinion the book was still worth it and will make an excellent reference book.
To recap, if you want a reference book this is it, if you want a how-to book for designing look elsewhere.

Only a user "reference" guide
I purchased this book because of the quality of the "Bible" series I have purchased in the past (Word, Project, Access, Excel, QuickBooks, Dreamweaver, Visio, PowerPoint, etc). This was by far the most disappointing.

The power of the Bible series is in the projects & examples included in each manual and accompanying CD; step-by-step instructions on "how to" use the features of the software. The CS3 Illustrator Bible contains very few examples; it is wordy and will not help you much if you want to explore and learn to use the CS3 Illustrator software.

If you are looking for a resource to learn "how" to use CS3 Illustrator, I would suggest searching for a different book...