Contents

Chapter One: Getting Started

#1 Creating a New Document

#2 Defining Preferences

#3 Controlling the Workspace

#4 Defining Guides

#5 Creating and Using Grids

#6 Saving Files

#7 Printing Files

#8 Using the Control Panel

#9 Finding Tools

#10 Applying Stroke and Fill Colors

#11 Relying on Smart Guides

Chapter Two: Drawing Lines and Shapes

#12 Drawing Lines

#13 Drawing Ellipses and Circles

#14 Drawing Spirals

#15 Drawing Rectangles

#16 Drawing Polygons and Stars

#17 Drawing Grids

#18 Drawing with the Pencil Tool

#19 Drawing with the Pen Tool

#20 Using the Eraser and Path Eraser Tools

#21 Creating Compound Paths

#22 Dividing Paths with the Scissors and Knife Tools

#23 Clipping with Masks

#24 Defining an Interactive Crop Area

Chapter Three: Drawing with Brushes

#25 Applying or Drawing with Brushes

#26 Creating Calligraphic Brushes

#27 Creating Art Brushes

#28 Creating Scatter Brushes

#29 Working with Pattern Brushes

Chapter Four: Editing Paths

#30 Selecting Path Segments and Paths

#31 Defining, Selecting, and Isolating Groups

#32 Selecting and Editing Anchors

#33 Aligning Anchors

#34 Selecting Similar Objects

#35 Editing with the Bounding Box

#36 Duplicating

#37 Scaling

#38 Rotating

#39 Shearing (Skewing)

#40 Distorting with Envelopes

#41 Using Pathfinders

Chapter Five: Creating Fills and Strokes

#42 Using Color and Pattern Swatches

#43 Using Color Guides and Live Color

#44 Grabbing Colors with the Eyedropper

#45 Defining Gradients

#46 Formatting Strokes

#47 Stacking Strokes in the Appearance Panel

#48 Stacking Fills in the Appearance Panel

#49 Creating and Merging Live Paint Groups

#50 Applying Color to Live Paint Faces and Edges

#51 Editing Live Paint Edges

Chapter Six: Working with Layers

#52 Organizing Projects into Layers

#53 Viewing and Isolating Layers

#54 Finding Objects in Layers

#55 Using Layers for Transparency or Clipping

#56 Placing and Editing Raster Images

#57 Using Live Trace

Chapter Seven: Creating and Formatting Type

#58 Creating Type Inserted at a Point

#59 Creating Area Type

#60 Defining Font and Size

#61 Selecting Type

#62 Kerning, Leading, and Tracking

#63 Scaling Type

#64 Applying Type Attributes

#65 Using Type Styles

#66 Using OpenType Glyphs

#67 Outlining Type

#68 Formatting Paragraphs

#69 Using Paragraph Styles

#70 Linking Type Objects

#71 Flowing Type Around Paths

#72 Placing Type on Paths

Chapter Eight: Aligning, Arranging, and Clipping

#73 Aligning and Distributing Objects

#74 Snapping to Grids

#75 Measuring and Placing Objects

#76 Managing Stacking

#77 Using Clipping Masks

#78 Masking with Type

#79 Applying Opacity Masks

Chapter Nine: Transparency, Filters, and Effects

#80 Applying Transparency

#81 Step and Smooth Blends

#82 Adjusting Blends

#83 Applying Filters

#84 Applying Effects

#85 Using Photoshop Effects

#86 Warping with Liquify Tools

#87 Using Graphic Styles

Chapter Ten: 3-D Effects

#88 3-D Extrusion Effects

#89 3-D Rotation and Revolve Effects

#90 Mapping Symbols onto 3-D Effects

Chapter Eleven: Managing Illustration Workflow

#91 Creating Symbols and Applying Instances

#92 Editing Symbols

#93 Previewing in Device Central

#94 Sharing Editable Illustrator Files

#95 Exporting Vector Files

#96 Managing File Size

#97 Exporting to Raster Formats

#98 Saving for the Web

#99 Exporting to Flash

#100 Exporting HTML Pages

Index