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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

Powerful and creative plugins from Astute Graphics

As you get more and more comfortable with the tools already offered to you within Illustrator, the inevitable need to ask even more from it will occur. It might be based on a desired look or even a specific printing requirement. Although Adobe has done an excellent job developing Illustrator through the years, there are still areas where a third-party developer can devote a great deal of time and resources to bring even more out of the software. A third-party developer has the benefit of having a more limited focus than Adobe, since Adobe is looking at how everything works within Illustrator and even how it interacts with the additional software titles offered by their company.

There are many plugins out there, but the one that I go to most often and has the most opportunities to extend the capabilities of what Illustrator can do for me is the Astute Graphics (AG) collection (https://astutegraphics.com). The collection offers 21...