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How to Do Everything Adobe® Illustrator ® CS4 About the Author Sue Jenkins is an illustrator, web and graphic designer, photographer, teacher, and writer, and the owner and creative director of Luckychair (www.luckychair.com), a full-service design studio serving businesses across the United States since 1997. When not designing, this Adobe Certified Expert/Adobe Certified Instructor teaches three-day courses in Illustrator, Dreamweaver, and Photoshop at Noble Desktop in New York City. In addition to this Illustrator book, Sue is the author of Dreamweaver All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley), Web Design: The L Line, The Express Line to Learning (Wiley), and Web Design All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley). Sue is also the software instructor in three of ClassOnDemand’s award- winning Adobe training DVDs, namely Dreamweaver for Designers (winner of a 2008 Bronze Telly Award), Designer’s Guide to Photoshop, and Designer’s Guide to Illustrator. Sue lives with her husband and son in Pennsylvania. About the Technical Editor Mara Zebest is a graphic artist who uses her knowledge and skills in both volunteer and commercial work. Mara has taught classes on Adobe and Microsoft programs for a local school district, and has also been a guest instructor at a nearby community college. She has experience working in a graphic marketing department, which has also afforded her printing production experience. Mara has been a contributing author and technical editor for numerous books covering a multitude of Adobe and Microsoft products. Mostly she hates talking about herself in the third person so she’ll stop now. How to Do Everything Adobe® Illustrator ® CS4 Sue Jenkins New York Chicago San Francisco Lisbon London Madrid Mexico City Milan New Delhi San Juan Seoul Singapore Sydney Toronto Copyright © 2009 by The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved. 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To my mom, Marilyn May, for her love and support, and for encouraging me to be an artist. —Sue Jenkins This page intentionally left blank Contents at a Glance PART I Illustrator Basics 1 Workspace Orientation ....................................... 3 2 Creating Documents ......................................... 23 3 Drawing and Editing Lines and Shapes .......................... 41 4 Making Selections .......................................... 53 5 Pencil, Eraser, Paintbrush, and Blob Brush ....................... 59 6 Mastering the Pen Tool ...................................... 73 7 Arrangement, Alignment, and the Pathfinder Panel ................. 85 8 Working with Layers ........................................ 99 PART II The Basics and Beyond 9 Colors, Swatches, and Adobe Kuler ............................ 113 10 Working with Type .......................................... 129 11 Transformation and Reshaping Tools ........................... 147 12 Making Patterns and Gradients ................................ 155 13 Symbols, 3D Mapping, and Flash Integration ..................... 165 14 Graph Tools ............................................... 177 PART III Special Tools and Techniques 15 Creating Blends ............................................ 189 16 Clipping Masks and Compound Paths ........................... 195 17 Transparency and Blending Modes ............................. 203 18 Special Effects and Third-Party Plug-Ins ......................... 215 vii viii How to Do Everything: Adobe Illustrator CS4 19 Custom Graphic Styles and the Appearance Panel ................. 227 20 Live Paint and Live Trace .................................... 237 PART IV Real World 21 Print and Design: Editorial, Branding, Textiles, Crafts .............. 251 22 Taking Illustrations to the Web ................................ 263 23 Printing Your Work ......................................... 281 Appendix Real World Illustrators ....................................... 291 Index .................................................... 299 Contents Acknowledgments ........................................ xix Introduction ............................................. xxi PART I Illustrator Basics CHAPTER 1 Workspace Orientation ................................... 3 The Illustrator Workspace .................................... 3 The Welcome Screen ................................. 4 The Workspace ...................................... 4 The Menu Bar ...................................... 5 The Control Panel ................................... 5 The Status Bar ...................................... 5 The Artboard ....................................... 7 Customizing the Workspace ............................ 7 Panels .................................................. 8 Organizing Panels ................................... 10 The Tools Panel .......................................... 11 Flyout Menus ....................................... 12 Tear off Menus ...................................... 12 Tools and Tool Options ............................... 12 Keyboard Shortcuts .................................. 16 Custom Shortcuts .................................... 16 Preferences and Presets .................................... 17 Preferences ......................................... 17 Presets ............................................ 17 Undoing and Automation ................................... 19 Undo and Redo ..................................... 19 Revert ............................................. 19 The Actions Panel ................................... 19 ix x How to Do Everything: Adobe Illustrator CS4 CHAPTER 2 Creating Documents ...................................... 23 New Documents .......................................... 23 The New Document Dialog Box ........................ 24 Working with Templates .............................. 26 Multiple Artboards ........................................ 27 Creating Multiple Artboards ........................... 27 Editing Artboards .................................... 29 Saving and Exporting Files ................................. 30 Native File Formats .................................. 31 File Versions