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Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

By : Clint Balsar
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Adobe Illustrator for Creative Professionals

By: Clint Balsar

Overview of this book

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based art tool for visual creatives. It is an industry-standard tool that helps you take a design from concept to completion, including the process of peer collaboration and client feedback. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, you’ll begin to build confidence as you master the methods of successful illustrators in the industry by exploring crucial tools and techniques of Adobe Illustrator. You’ll learn how to create objects using different tools and methods while assigning varied attributes and appearances. Throughout the book, you’ll strengthen your skills in developing structures for maintaining organization as your illustration grows. By the end of this Adobe Illustrator book, you’ll have gained the confidence you need to not only create content in the desired format and for the right audience but also build eye-catching vector art based on solid design principles.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Reviewing the Necessary Knowledge
4
Part 2 – Advanced Illustrator Methods
10
Part 3 – Real-World Applications

Output methods for more media options

Adobe Illustrator is a tool that allows you, as a designer, to develop your work for a multitude of media formats. It also allows you to easily convert your work to a different media than that which it was originally created for. It is still best practice to create your files with the output in mind. But, there are times when you will still need to change how the file will be seen.

There are quite a few file types that Illustrator will allow you to output to, so I have broken them down and discussed the benefits of each in the next sections.

Mobile, Web, Print, Film & Video, and Art & Illustration

Your creations in Illustrator can be output to several different formats depending on the needs of the hosting environment. For example, if you are developing for the web, you can create the document in RGB Color Mode rather than CMYK Color Mode. RGB Color Mode is an appropriate choice for anything intended for the web, as monitors and...