Botello, a designer and retoucher on movie campaigns, uses lessons to teach those in the multimedia and design community the features of Adobe Illustrator CS6, including its new features, such as gradient strokes, image trace, the pattern options panel, and direct naming of layers. He provides projects and instructions, and outlines basic to advanced illustrator skills for creating artwork. Discussion ranges from fundamental concepts to in-depth discussion of the software's features, from creating text and gradients, to working with patterns and brushes, to creating 3D objects, to preparing graphics for the web, and includes conceptual information, step-by-step lessons, and illustrated tutorials on how to draw with the Pen tool. The companion website includes an interactive ebook, quizzes, flashcards, video lessons, and other resources. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS6 REVEALED offers you comprehensive coverage in all areas of Adobe Illustrator. Beginning with fundamental concepts and progressing to in-depth exploration of the software's full set of features, these step-by-step lessons offer you a guided tour of all the program's great features - including an illustrated tutorial on "how to draw with the Pen tool" that you won't find in any other book. This new edition highlights extensive coverage of important and exciting new features, including dramatic improvements to Illustrator's built-in tracing utility and a major upgrade for creating patterns.
