The Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book for CS6 and CC: Hundreds of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques from Top Illustrator Artists - Softcover

Steuer, Sharon

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9780133928501: The Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book for CS6 and CC: Hundreds of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques from Top Illustrator Artists

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ISBN 10: 0133928500 ISBN 13: 9780133928501

Publisher: Peachpit Pr, 2014

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For decades, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this expanded edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, you’ll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from top Illustrator artists. You’ll learn to use new features, discover exciting ways to create complex effects, and find fresh ways to use venerable old tools and�speed up your workflow. This edition includes coverage of the 2014 release and is loaded with and lessons with stunning new artwork that feature:

Painting and generating objects with raster brushes
Harnessing Live Corners, Live Rectangles, and new ways to reshape paths
Manipulating live type characters with the Touch Type tool
Creating airbrush and neon effects with gradients on strokes
Building complex styles with multiple lines, fills, and effects
Composing complex repeating patterns
Auto-generating corners for pattern brushes
Incorporating transparency into mesh and gradients
Building and modifying scenes in perspective and 3D
Transforming raster art to Illustrator vectors
Preparing artwork for animation and the web
Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop and other apps
Creating photorealism in Illustrator

WOW! ONLINE Register the book at peachpit.com/register to access artwork to pick apart and special PDFs from artists to you. Keep up with tips on the latest Illustrator features at WOWartist.com.

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From the Author:

This 14th edition of the Illustrator WOW! series is an expansion of the CS6 WOW! Book, and is available in full-color printed, as well as PDF versions. With more than 50 all new pages dedicated to CC features, this edition is completely up-to-date through the recent (2014) CC release. The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC contains lots of new CC-created artwork, and is packed with the latest tips, tricks and techniques. In addition to the all-new CC pages, you'll also find special CC symbols throughout the "universal" CC/CS6 book highlighting changes between the CS6 and CC workflow.

Although I am the lead author and producer, this book is the result of a huge collaborative effort and I am very grateful to everyone who worked so hard to make this book possible!

About the Author:

Sharon Steuer is an artist who has been creating, writing about, and teaching workshops on digital art since the early 80s. The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book, which is in its 14th edition, has three times won the Benjamin Franklin Award for “Best Computer Book.” In addition, Sharon is the author of Creative Thinking in Photoshop: A New Approach to Digital Art, teaches courses in artistic painting with Illustrator on lynda.com, and is a regular columnist for creativepro.com. Her digital paintings and illustrations have appeared in numerous books and magazines and have been exhibited nationally. You can see her work and keep in touch with her via: www.sharonsteuer.com, facebook.com/SharonSteuer, twitter.com/SharonSteuer.

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