Adobe Illustrator: A Visual Guide for the Mac

by Janet Ashford, Linnea Dayton, Linnea Daytom

An inspirational and practical guide to using Adobe Illustrator. The book's clear, colorful illustrations and concise information-packed captions show step-by-step how to accomplish the key challenges... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 020140723X
• ISBN13: 9780201407235
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best Illustrator "how-to's" around

Regarding Adobe Illustrator: A Visual Guide for the Mac - A step-by-step approach to learning illustration software...Inspiring projects, of which you probably would need to know the program before tackling them. I'm only surprised and disappointed that these two excellent authors, Janet and Linnea have not done a revise as Adobe Illustrator 8 is way new and greatly improved since 1995. Hence only 4 stars, but 5 thumbs up if they ever released a revise!If you're looking for projects to do, and you know your way around Illustrator, this is a great book to pick up for your library.

Practical step-by-step projects in Adobe Illustrator

This book is one of my favorite graphic design books. I can't believe no one else has written a customer review! "Adobe Illustrator:A Visual Guide for the Mac" shows examples of things you need to do in Illustrator, and how to get them done. The authors make skillful use of the step-by-step approach. The examples and projects are visually appealing and the instructions are clear and easy to follow. I especially like the section on creating vector art with a hand drawn look, "Softening the postscript line," and the section on manipulating and coloring clip art,"Modifying clip art." Although this book was written in 1995 for version 5 or 6, the instructional techniques work just fine in Illustrator version 7. This book is simply jam-packed, from cover to cover, with useful advice, ideas, and detailed instructions for creating and working with vector art. I highly recommend it as a must-have for any desktop publisher, graphic designer or digital illustrator.