Illustrator Type Magic

Step-by-step instruction with full-color illustrations for creating 45 specific type designs with Adobe Illustrator software up to version 7.0. Also presents the techniques most used for manipulating type as an aid to trouble shooting and inspiration. The CD-ROM includes freeware and shareware fonts, stock images, demonstrations of Adobe products, and finished type effects. No index or bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

In some sense, Illustrator is an interface for Postscript, a text printing language, all of which means that the real power of Illustrator is found in its ability to manipulate text. Making text follow the outline of a wine glass is easy in Illustrator and almost impossible in many other programs. Usually, folks will create their text in Illustrator and then import it as a bitmap into Photoshop. Simic's book works from the illustration backwards through all the steps needed to create the effect. A very practical, very useful book.
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