Product Description

Now entering its third decade, Adobe Illustrator CS3 remains the most popular and viable vector-drawing program for one reason: It's the best. Illustrator offers powerful transformation and reshaping functions, excellent control over text and gradients, and the best color management and print controls in the business. Add dynamic effect filters, program-wide transparency control, and tight integration with Photoshop, InDesign, and Flash, and it s a professional artist's dream come true.

The learning curve is steep, and Illustrator demands the user's full attention. Enter Illustrator CS3 One-on-One, a crash course on everything there is to know about the program. Best-selling author and leading industry expert Deke McClelland teaches the essential tricks and advanced techniques. He also delves into the Illustrator mindset, explaining how to feel at home with the program. At the end of this course, Illustrator will make sense.

Topics Include:

• Understanding Illustrator
• Making the most of the improved CS3 interface
• Using simple shapes to create complex artwork
• Drawing with the Pen tool
• Selecting points, dragging handles, and reshaping segments for custom shapes
• Transforming paths
• Applying Pathfinder operations
• Using the Liquify and Envelope functions
• Creating simple type and elaborate text effects
• Using gradient mesh, blends, masks, and vector-based brushes to create editable artwork
• Making the most of transparency and live effects
• Utilizing Live Trace, Live Paint, and Live Color
• Using symbols to replicate artwork, create 3D illustrations, and generate Flash animation
• Printing and exporting to other applications

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #839929 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-30
• Binding: CD-ROM

From the Publisher
Each lynda.com CD/DVD course offers hours of training movies that you watch on your computer. The movies are recorded in pixel-perfect quality, and include the authors' narration and movements as they teach the subject matter. Courses include the same project files that the instructors use, so you can follow along at your own pace. lynda.com tutorials are great for visual learners and people who like to learn by doing. Topics include software applications, workflow optimization, tips and techniques, and much more. Play, fast-forward, and rewind for easy learning.

About the Author
In 1985, Deke McClelland oversaw the implementation of the first personal computer-based production department in Boulder, Colorado. In 1986, he became the artistic director for Publishing Resources, one of the earliest all-PostScript service bureaus in the United States.

These days, Deke is a well-known expert and lecturer on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, and on the broader realm of computer graphics and design. To date, he has written 84 books that have been translated into 24 languages, with more than 3.5 million copies in print. In addition to videos for lynda.com, Deke produces the One-on-One book series. Published by Deke Press in association with O Reilly Media, this series of full-color tutorials includes the best-selling Adobe Photoshop CS2 One-on-One and Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One.

In 1989, Deke won the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best Computer Book. Since then, he has received honors from the Society for Technical Communication (once in 1994 and twice in 1999), the American Society of Business Press Editors (1995 and 2000), and the Computer Press Association (1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, and twice in 2000). In 2002, he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

Deke lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and two wonderful boys.

Customer Reviews

No book. Only DVD.
I thought this was a book and DVD like all the other series of One-on-One by this author. Since I have other series from this author I wanted to try this one as well. I ordered it and did not realize until I got it that it was just a CD in a case. That's it. NO BOOK. For $150.00 I feel there should be an accompanying book so I am returning the CD. I can't rate the actual product since I did not open it, but wanted to warn others about what you get for your money on this one.

learing Illustrator CS3
If you are looking for an efficient way to learn complex software like illustrator then I can recommend the Lynda.com DVD with Deke McClelland. You can work at your own pace, no need to travel to a class room, you can work along with Deke with the exercise files included with the video. The training has a good structure, exercises come in a good order. For me this is a 5 star training.