Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips
Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips
ISBN: 032133065X
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 473
Pages: 473
Authors: Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski
- Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- The idea behind this book
- Is this book for you?
- Is this book for Mac or Windows, or both?
- How to use this book
- Chapter 1. Basic Training: Basic Tips You Can t Live Without
- Make Yourself Famous
- Additional Content
- More Additional Content
- Wacom Pen Tablets Work in Illustrator Too
- Ongoing Feedback
- Timing Is Everything
- The Ever-Changing Palette
- Quick Delete from Palettes
- Locking and Unlocking Guides
- Choose the Best Selection Tool for the Job
- Direct Selection Secret
- Quick Selection Tool
- Hide Bounding Box
- Quick Move Dialog
- Selecting the Next Object Below
- Create by Measure
- Position Shapes as You Draw
- Drawing Curves More Easily
- Simplifying a Path
- Select None
- Everything Else But
- What Happens When You Can t See an Object?
- Even It Out
- Reflect vs. Flip
- Tool Preferences
- Name a Swatch
- Reset the Default Fill and Stroke Colors
- Color Picker
- Hide or Show Multiple Layers Easily
- Filters vs. Effects?
- Edit Existing Patterns and Symbols
- Use Text Import Options
- Scale Text Frame But Not Text
- Multiple Glyph Choices
- Effecting a Stroke or a Fill
- Transform Again
- Create Your Own Crop Marks
- Open a Template
- Make Your Own Template
- Save for Microsoft Office
- View Actions in Button Mode
- Hidden Keyboard Commands
- Chapter 2. The View: Viewing, Doing, Undoing, and More
- How Many Undos?
- Actual Size, Fit in Window
- Really Fit in Window
- Switching Between Multiple Open Windows
- Default Workspace to the Rescue
- Your Own Personal Workspace
- Give Your Custom Workspace a Shortcut
- Control Bar Getting in Your Way?
- Palette Shortcuts and Control Palette All in One
- Center That Guide
- Center Guides Automatically
- Change Guide Direction
- Make Guides from Objects
- Lock a Guide to an Object
- Change Locked Guide into a Path
- Lock Everything Else
- Get a New Perspective on Guides
- Auto Add Rulers to Every New Document
- Measure from Where You Want
- Reset the Rulers
- Change Ruler Measurement
- Measure the Way You Want
- Multiple Tools?
- Your Logo Ready Anytime
- Simulate Paper Color
- ShowHide Center Point
- Angled Grid
- Everything You Wanted to Know About...
- Get Object Info
- Actions Within Actions
- Save That View
- Two Views, One Document
- Pinpoint in the Navigator
- Hide and Show Palettes
- Change Your Mind in Mid-Zoom
- The One-Slide Slide Show
- Remember One Palette Shortcut
- Zoom Tool Shortcut
- Hand Tool Shortcut
- Keep Only Selected Objects
- Be Precise
- Front and Center
- Seeing Red
- Add the Unrecordable
- Hide Your Guides in One Click
- Free Resources
- Back To Basics
- Don t Squint, Click
- New Document the Same as Last Time
- Reset the Page
- Change Tools Quickly
- Multiple Pages?
- Chapter 3. Tool Time: Creating in Illustrator CS2
- Photo Inside of Type
- Start with a Font
- Mapping Made Easy
- Find Your Favorite Logo?
- Change Star Shape, Part One
- Change Star Shape, Part Two
- Send Up a Flare
- Permanent Pathfinder
- Spray On, Spray Off
- Years in Graph Data
- That s Out of One Hundred
- Edit Graph Designs
- Sliding Graph Designs
- Drag-and-Drop Instead of Copy-and-Paste
- Change Tool Settings on the Fly
- Make Your Own Spirograph
- Convert to Shape
- Let the Blend Tool Do the Math
- More Blending
- Yet More Blending
- Bend the Blend
- Shapes Around a Circle
- Change the Blend
- Outline Stroke
- Live Trace Not Working How You d Like? Try This
- Is Live Trace Still Not Working How You d Like? Take It a Step Further
- Viewing Reference Photos When Using the Mesh Tool
- Gradient Brushes
- Divide Objects Below
- Change Grids on the Fly
- Live Interlocking Objects
- Live Interlocking Objects, Part 2
- Creating Wireframes
- Add to a Shape to Create a Shape
- Move Points as You Draw
- Auto AddDelete Getting in Your Way
- Multiple Objects as a Mask
- Round Those Corners
- Same Width and Height
- Changing Arcs
- Close a Path Automatically
- Preserve Brush Stroke Options
- Disable Auto AddDelete
- Split into Grid
- The Perfect Star
- Target Practice
- Opacity Masks
- Vintage Texture Effect
- Chapter 4. NipTuck: Selecting, Editing, and Transforming
- Save a Selection
- Reshape Paths by Drawing
- Reshape Paths by Painting?
- Editing a Type Path
- Cut or Add a Point
- Join vs. Average Join
- Average and Join in One Step
- The True Center
- Bigger or Smaller a Bit at a Time
- Scale Tool Cloning
- Keep Proportions
- Quick Flip
- Liquify Brush Size
- Select Same, Again
- Select Color from Swatches
- Selecting Groups
- Selecting Mesh Points Easily
- Selecting Multiple Mesh Points Easily
- Let Illustrator Calculate It for You
- Editable Transformations
- Rotate with Care
- Rotation by the Numbers
- Repeat Last Pathfinder
- Transform by Number
- Free Transform
- Pick The Best Transformation
- Select Behind
- New Stroke Options in Illustrator CS2
- Scale Strokes Effects
- Odd Numbers
- Move and Copy
- Straight Cuts
- Move It by Measure
- Draw and Smooth
- Simplify Path
- Magic Wand Not Working
- Copy While Transforming
- Transform Again and Send to Back
- Transform Again, Again
- Aligning the Fast Way
- Align to a Specific Object
- Convert Dashed Stroke to Outline
- Make a Mesh with Text
- Drag-and-Drop
- The Missing Twist Tool
- Chapter 5. Different Strokes: Colors, Swatches, Fills, and Strokes
- Your Colors, Every Time
- Slightly Lighter, Somewhat Darker
- Grab Only the Color
- Make Your Own Patterns
- Transform Just the Pattern
- Color the Opposite
- Use Global Color
- Borrow Some Color
- Persistent Swatches
- Color from Anywhere
- Gradient Palette Shortcut
- One-Color Gradient
- Color Stop
- Duplicate a Color Stop
- Swap Stops
- Use a Swatch as a Stop
- Quick Stroke Change
- Change Color Modes in the Color Palette
- Use Multiple Strokes in Appearance
- Round Joins
- Apply Sampled Colors
- Change Live Paint Behavior
- Same Color Again
- Fill and Stroke from the Keyboard
- None in a Hurry
- Want the Opposite?
- Make a Spot Color
- Complementary Colors
- Invert the Color
- Replace One Swatch with Another
- Grayscale or Color Gray
- Find a Color
- Grayscale Print from a Color File
- Save Swatch Libraries
- Expand a Gradient
- Test Page
- Fade to Nothing
- Use Preview Bounds
- One-Time Preview Bounds
- Chapter 6. Sultans of Swing: A Killer Collection of Illustrator Artists
- Scott Hinton
- David Pounds
- Philip J. Neal
- Mike Sellers
- Todd Ferris
- Scott Weichert
- John Schwegel
- Jib Hunt
- Brooke Nuez
- Erwin Haya
- Mark Anderson
- Christian Musselman
- Chapter 7. Get Smart: Layers and Transparency
- Dim Images
- Name the New Layer
- White Really Isn t White
- Hide Other Layers
- Change One Layer to Outline View
- Change Other Layers to Outline View
- Release the Layers
- Copy an Object to a Layer
- Duplicate the Entire Layer
- Select Everything on a Layer
- Select Everything on Multiple Layers
- Lock All Other Layers
- Use Layers to Unlock Individual Objects
- Locate Layer
- Jump to a Layer
- Custom Layer Row Size
- Expand All Sublayers
- New Layer on Top
- New Layer Below
- Target a Layer
- Moving Targets
- Moving Targets, Part Two
- Paste Remembers Layers
- Mirror Reflections
- Layer Comps?
- Selecting Multiple Layers
- Move Objects to a Different Layer
- Vector Templates?
- Don t Print
- No Sublayers
- Hide Template
- When Select All Doesn t Work
- Merge Selected
- Collect in a New Layer
- Chapter 8. Extreme Makeover: Symbols, Brushes, Appearance, Filters, and Effects
- What Is New Art Has Basic Appearance?
- Effect Gallery
- Scrubby Sliders
- Creating Arrowhead Designs
- Symbolism Chooser
- Using the Eyedropper to Sample Appearance
- Drag an Appearance
- Merge Styles
- Instant Lichtenstein or Pop Art Dot Effect
- Apply the Same Effect Again
- Filters vs. Effects? What s the Difference?
- Reset Effect and Filter Settings
- Add a Second Stroke
- Drop Shadows
- Check Document Raster Effects Settings
- Breaking a Link to a Style
- Disappearing Effects When Switching Between RGB and CMYK
- Add Stroke to Placed Image or Photo
- Redefine Symbols
- Viewing the Intensity of the Symbol Tools
- More Intensity, Different Size
- Change Multiple Symbols
- New Symbol and Instance
- Select All Instances (and Replace Them Too)
- Replacing Symbols
- Reverse Engineering a Graphic Style
- Why Are Some Filters and Effects Grayed Out?
- See 3D Effects While You re Applying Them
- Rotate 3D Objects the Right Way
- Creating a 3D Banner
- Adding Text to the Banner
- Get Your Artwork in 3D
- 3D as a Style
- Stain Removal
- Scatter Brush Options
- Scatter Enhancers
- Symbol Stacking Order
- Make Your Own Bevels for 3D
- Stain Repellant
- Getting More Symbols in Illustrator
- Free 1,000 Scientific Symbols for Illustrator
- Brush Options vs. Options of Selected Object
- Birthday Brush
- Chapter 9. Trading Spaces: Text, Text, Text
- Selecting Text
- Picking the Next Word
- Select by Paragraphs
- Change the Default Font in Illustrator
- Pick a Font by Name
- Move All Tabs at Once
- Change Tab Style
- Delete All Tabs
- Evenly Spaced Tabs
- Tab Leaders
- Line Up the Tab Ruler
- Align On
- Angled Tabs
- Scroll the View with Text
- Quick Edit
- Hanging Indents
- Reset All Settings
- Colored Text, Colored Box
- Horizontal to Vertical Type
- Kern from the Keyboard
- Tracking with the Keyboard
- Control Number of Recent Fonts
- Font Preview-Or Not
- Reset Kerning and Tracking
- Open and Start Editing
- Edit Imported Text
- Reset Horizontal Scaling
- Set Leading to the Font Size
- Increase or Decrease Leading
- Convert Paragraph Text
- Cleaning Up Your Text
- Make Your Own Typeface
- Chapter 10. Whose Line Is It Anyway? ...And More Text
- Transforming Type
- Drag-and-Drop Text from Desktop
- Before and After Legacy Text
- Type Size by Math
- Gradient-Filled Text
- Hide the Highlight
- Clear the Override
- Override the Override
- Load Styles from Other Documents
- Angled Margins
- Character Rotation
- Convert Warped Text to Outlines
- Edit Warped Text
- Type on a Circle
- Stop Flipping
- Baseline Shift Amount
- Type Not on a Path
- Copy from Text
- Thread Text into a New Box
- Hide Text Threads
- Threaded Text Blocks of Any Shape
- Stop the Threading
- Thread Text on Two Paths
- Text Wrap Around a Photo
- Make a Fraction
- Don t Have an Open Type Font?
- Automatic Ordinals
- Global Change Case
- Blend Two Text Objects
- Your Styles in Every Document
- Columns and Rows Galore
- Columns and Rows in Any Shape
- Turn Off Typographer s Quotes
- Pull It Together
- Chapter 11. Friends: Illustrator with Other CS2 Applications
- Export in Photoshop Format
- Open an Illustrator File In Photoshop
- Place an .ai File into Photoshop
- Drag-and-Drop into Photoshop
- Drag-and-Drop from Desktop
- Open a PSD File in Illustrator
- Place a PSD File into Illustrator
- Place in Illustrator from Adobe Bridge
- Change Between Embedded and Linked Graphics
- Editing Linked Images
- Vector Shapes in Photoshop
- Without Warning
- No Visible Image
- Copying-and-Pasting Between Illustrator and Photoshop
- Drag from Illustrator to Make a Path in Photoshop
- Your Illustrator Logo Built Into Photoshop
- Export Paths from Photoshop
- Borrow Shapes from Photoshop to Use in Illustrator
- Common Color Settings
- Take Your Swatches Anywhere
- Info for Photoshop
- Metadata Templates to Save You Time
- Show Images or Photos in Outline Mode
- Dashed Lines in Photoshop (Thanks to Illustrator)
- Stop Clipping When Saving as an EPS
- Illustrator Layers in Acrobat
- Open a PDF in Illustrator
- Place a PDF with Spot Color
- Sending a File to a Service Bureau
- Reduce File Size
- Cleaning Up Your Illustrations
- Save for Older Versions of Illustrator
- Trial Separation
- Printing Even Larger Than Illustrator Will Let You
- Save Preset for Printing
- Saving Print Settings
- Save for Web Right Within Illustrator
- Start Over in Save for Web
- Remember Your Save for Web Settings
- Optimize by File Size
- Flattener Preview
- Get Your Gradients to Print
- Miss the Old Gal?
- Colophon
- Additional Resources
- Index
- index_SYMBOL
- index_A
- index_B
- index_C
- index_D
- index_E
- index_F
- index_G
- index_H
- index_I
- index_J
- index_K
- index_L
- index_M
- index_N
- index_O
- index_P
- index_R
- index_S
- index_T
- index_U
- index_V
- index_W
- index_Z
Illustrator CS2 Killer Tips
ISBN: 032133065X
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 473
Pages: 473
Authors: Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski