Perspective Warps and Distorts with Adobe Tools: Volume 2
Putting a New Twist on Illustrator
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Welcome to my book, Perspective Warps and Distorts with Adobe Tools: Volume 2.
In this book we will be exploring how to work with various warping tools and effect filters in Adobe Illustrator, though at points throughout the book we will also be using and looking at graphics acquired from Adobe Photoshop. Knowing how to work between these two applications is a crucial part of understanding how to successfully manipulate your designs. In Illustrator, we will alter vector graphics and learn how to do so with the Layers panel in various non-destructive ways.
- 1.
Introducing what warps and distorts in Illustrator are and the types of graphics files you can work with, as well as an overview of those Illustrator workspace tools and panels that we will be using throughout the book
- 2.
Working with the Pen, Selection, and Shapes tools, along with various panels
- 3.
Working with various Transform tools and dialog boxes, including Rotate, Reflect, Scale, Shear, Reshape, and Free Transform
- 4.
Working with the Puppet Warp tool and comparing its settings to the ones found in Photoshop
- 5.
Working with the Shape Warp (Liquify) tools
- 6.
Working with the Blend tool and symbols
- 7.
Warping patterns, using repeat commands, using Capture patterns from Photoshop, and creating brushes
- 8.
Working with Gradients, the Mesh tool, and the Transparency panel
- 9.
Creating Envelope distorts to warp shapes and text
- 10.
Working with Type tools and text paths to warp text
- 11.
Working with Effect filters to create live effects and create graphic styles
- 12.
Working with symbol-warping tools
- 13.
Working with the 3D and Materials effects and Perspective tools
- 14.
Discovering how you can use your warp designs with other Adobe apps besides Photoshop and Illustrator
Graphics and Multimedia for the Web with Adobe Creative Cloud
Accurate Layer Selections Using Photoshop’s Selection Tools
Perspective Warps and Distorts with Adobe Tools: Volume 1
Source code or other supplementary material can be found at: github.com/apress/puppet-warps-distorts-vol2.
Additional resources and information regarding Illustrator will be found in Chapter 1.
For their assistance with writing this book, I’d like to thank several people. This includes my parents, from whom I inherited my drawing skills, for encouraging me to continue to find new ways to look at using Adobe applications. I am grateful for their assistance over the years in selecting the final artwork for this book and doing some of the proofreading of my notes before I sent them to my editors. I also want to thank my program coordinator at Langara College, Raymond Chow, for his suggestions and advice on what art and drawing in Photoshop and Illustrator should be about for students. I must also thank my editors and technical reviewers at Apress, and a special thank-you goes to Spandana Chatterjee and Mark Powers for giving me the opportunity to continue my writing on topics that I enjoy. I hope you, the reader, will enjoy them too.
As a freelancer, Jennifer frequently works with Adobe PDFs to help enhance websites and other instructional documents.
She enjoys talking about Adobe software, and her interests include writing, illustration, and working on her websites.
is a visual artist, graphic designer, and photographer and has worked at an ad agency, print media house, and educational institute for about nine years. He has a post-graduate degree in applied arts from Kurukshetra University in Haryana, India. He currently runs a photo/video production company.