Adobe Illustrator CS3 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

by David Karlins and Bruce K. Hopkins

Book Overview

With new features and tight integration, Adobe Illustrator CS3 is an essential tool for creative professionals. By distilling its focus to a series of key tips and tricks, this guide teaches the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321508947
• ISBN13: 9780321508942
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Adobe Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

5 stars!! Excellent book!

This instruction manual is great! I am someone who has trouble learning new software on my own. I found the organization of this book, however, to be so user friendly I was able to start using Illustrator all by myself! The authors focus on 100 most used tasks in Illustrator. They have excellent step by step instructions. Illustrations are also helpful and informative. This book is easy to follow and well written. It will help you use illustrator in practical ways, and also to create art! I give this 5 stars!

Excellent instructions, user friendly manual.

I found the format of this instruction guide to be perfect. The authors have chosen 100 essential techniques, and teach these in easy to follow and accessible lessons. By going through the book I was able to grasp the essential, most used tools in Adobe Illustrator. I found the directions and illustrations extremely user friendly, and they manage to make the software package seem easy to use. In the past I have bought the "Bible" instruction books to learn Adobe software, but this book was much more helpful and user friendly. I always felt bogged down by all the information in other guidebooks, but this one presents the most useful tools so that anyone can get started and start effectively using Adobe Illustrator. I highly recommend this to anyone (at any level) learning Adobe Illustrator. I feel confident using this software now, thanks to this book.

Perfect Learning Tool

I love this book! I just finished it and I had to write a review because I am so impressed by how easily it taught me the complex techniques of illustrator. It was an easy read but at the same time covered all the main points of the program. I already had a knowledge of Dreamweaver and Flash coming in and this book was definitely the missing link in my design knowledge. I never thought I would be able to draw or create such awesome images from scatch! This book, combined with the program, is definitely enough to send you on your way. I only wish I had read this book sooner!

Accessible and well organized

As a beginner at AI, I needed a way to get a quick understanding of the software without having to wade through a bunch of opinion or wasted commentary. This book provided me with a very clean, staged, well-organized and well-written introduction. It covers all the important topics in a sequence that helps you build skills, but without forcing you to do exercises that might be good pedagogically, but don't give the sophisticated practitioner any direct line to his or her particular goal. Highly recommended.