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The 15 project-based lessons in this book show students step-by-step the key techniques for working in Illustrator and how to create vector artwork for virtually any project and across multiple media: print, websites, and interactive projects. In addition to teaching the key elements of the Illustrator interface, this completely revised edition covers the new Touch Type tool for manipulating individual text characters, other type improvements like faster performance and a new font search, new brush options like painting with a brush made from a photo or auto-corners for seamless pattern brushes, transforming the visual designs in Illustrator to CSS style, and much more. New to this Illustrator CC edition—students now download the lesson files from the Peachpit website, so they can work along, step-by-step, with the book.
Instructor Notes for this title will be available soon on the Pearson Higher Ed site.
Download a copy of Adobe Creative Cloud PTG Product Guide from the PTG Academic Sales NEO group:
https://neo.pearson.com/groups/ptg-academic-sales
It includes a complete list of PTG CC products by application and user level and includes bestseller information.
Product Description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator CC
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support
of Adobe product experts.
Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book contains 15 lessons that cover the basics, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Purchasing this book gives you access to the downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book, and to electronic book updates covering new features that Adobe releases for Creative Cloud customers. For access, go to www.peachpit.com/redeem and redeem the unique code provided inside this book.
“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-bystep instructions, and the project files for the students.”
Barbara Binder,
Adobe Certified Instructor
Rocky Mountain Training
Getting Started
What’s New In Adobe Illustrator CC
A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator CC
1 Getting to Know the Work Area
2 Selecting and Aligning
3 Creating and Editing Shapes
4 Transforming Objects
5 Drawing with the Pen and Pencil Tools
6 Color and Painting
7 Working with Type
8 Working with Layers
9 Working with Perspective Drawing
10 Blending Colors and Shapes
11 Working with Brushes
12 Applying Effects
13 Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles
14 Working with Symbols
15 Combining Illustrator CC Graphics with Other Adobe Applications
The 15 project-based lessons in this book show students step-by-step the key techniques for working in Illustrator and how to create vector artwork for virtually any project and across multiple media: print, websites, and interactive projects. In addition to teaching the key elements of the Illustrator interface, this completely revised edition covers the new Touch Type tool for manipulating individual text characters, other type improvements like faster performance and a new font search, new brush options like painting with a brush made from a photo or auto-corners for seamless pattern brushes, transforming the visual designs in Illustrator to CSS style, and much more. New to this Illustrator CC edition—students now download the lesson files from the Peachpit website, so they can work along, step-by-step, with the book.
Instructor Notes for this title will be available soon on the Pearson Higher Ed site.
Download a copy of Adobe Creative Cloud PTG Product Guide from the PTG Academic Sales NEO group:
https://neo.pearson.com/groups/ptg-academic-sales
It includes a complete list of PTG CC products by application and user level and includes bestseller information.
Product Description
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator CC
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support
of Adobe product experts.
Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book contains 15 lessons that cover the basics, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Purchasing this book gives you access to the downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book, and to electronic book updates covering new features that Adobe releases for Creative Cloud customers. For access, go to www.peachpit.com/redeem and redeem the unique code provided inside this book.
“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-bystep instructions, and the project files for the students.”
Barbara Binder,
Adobe Certified Instructor
Rocky Mountain Training
Getting Started
What’s New In Adobe Illustrator CC
A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator CC
1 Getting to Know the Work Area
2 Selecting and Aligning
3 Creating and Editing Shapes
4 Transforming Objects
5 Drawing with the Pen and Pencil Tools
6 Color and Painting
7 Working with Type
8 Working with Layers
9 Working with Perspective Drawing
10 Blending Colors and Shapes
11 Working with Brushes
12 Applying Effects
13 Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles
14 Working with Symbols
15 Combining Illustrator CC Graphics with Other Adobe Applications