For decades, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this expanded edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, you’ll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from top Illustrator artists. You’ll learn to use new features, discover exciting ways to create complex effects, and find fresh ways to use venerable old tools and¿speed up your workflow. This edition includes coverage of the 2014 release and is loaded with and lessons with stunning new artwork that feature: <ul>
<li>Painting and generating objects with raster brushes</li> <li>Harnessing Live Corners, Live Rectangles, and new ways to reshape paths</li> <li>Manipulating live type characters with the Touch Type tool</li> <li>Creating airbrush and neon effects with gradients on strokes</li> <li>Building complex styles with multiple lines, fills, and effects</li> <li>Composing complex repeating patterns</li> <li>Auto-generating corners for pattern brushes</li> <li>Incorporating transparency into mesh and gradients</li> <li>Building and modifying scenes in perspective and 3D</li> <li>Transforming raster art to Illustrator vectors</li> <li>Preparing artwork for animation and the web</li> <li>Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop and other apps</li> <li>Creating photorealism in Illustrator</li> </ul>
WOW! ONLINE Register the book at peachpit.com/register to access artwork to pick apart and special PDFs from artists to you. Keep up with tips on the latest Illustrator features at WOWartist.com.

The Adobe Illustrator Wow! Book for CS6 and CC: Hundreds of Tips, Tricks, and Techniques from Top Illustrator Artists

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For decades, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Adobe Illustrator. In this edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, you’ll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from top illustrators. You’ll discover exciting ways to create complex effects, learn fresh ways to use venerable tools to speed up your workflow, and find updated information on features through the 2019 CC release. This edition is loaded with lessons, technical information, and stunning artwork galleries including: <ul>
<li>Coloring with Freeform Gradients, Gradients, Mesh</li> <li>Transforming with Puppet Warp</li> <li>Painting and generating artwork with raster brushes</li> <li>Harnessing Live Corners/Rectangles, and new reshaping tools</li> <li>Mastering type effects and controls </li> <li>Creating airbrush and neon effects with gradients on strokes</li> <li>Quickly styling with multiple lines, fills, and effects</li> <li>Creating complex repeating patterns</li> <li>Forming 3D and perspective effects</li> <li> Exploring different ways to globally change artwork </li> <li>Preparing and saving artwork for print and web</li> <li>Using Adobe Illustrator with Adobe Photoshop and other apps</li> </ul>
Register your book at peachpit.com to download artwork that you can manipulate in Adobe Illustrator, see the “How to use this book” section for details. “This book has the perfect mix of inspiration and instruction–I have yet to find a better motivational tool for using Illustrator to push the envelope and create art that forces people to notice.” MORDY GOLDING, Senior Director of Content, lynda.com “Every Illustrator user should have a copy of the WOW! book. Period.” DAVID BLATNER, co-publisher of CreativePro.com and InDesignSecrets.com

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The Illustrator 8 Wow! Book

A reference guide to production techniques using this computer art program. Includes step-by-step instructions for creating the book's color examples, and covers basics and the newest features of Illustrator 8. The CD-ROM contains a tryout version of Adobe Illustrator 8; various brushes, filters, clip arts, and fonts; and some basic tutorials. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

An updated edition includes time-saving techniques and tips for users of Adobe Illustrator 7, exploring the software's basic tools and latest features with full-color examples and samples from leading Illustrator artists and designers. Original. (All Users).

The Illustrator 7 WOW Book

In The Illustrator 10 Wow! Book, a diverse cast of artists share both their work and the hands-on techniques behind each piece. Follow along as more than 100 of the country's top Illustrator artists take you on a beautiful, inspirational tour of the latest Illustrator features and how to use them, dispensing hundreds of hard-won tips and savvy shortcuts along the way. The Illustrator 10 Wow! Book covers the entire spectrum, from the basics to the sophisticated, making it a must-have for beginners and professionals alike.
Once again, author Sharon Steuer and her team have gathered a thoughtfully edited collection of artwork and techniques that showcases the creative possibilities of Illustrator and how to realize them using the program's powerful arsenal of tools. Updated for Illustrator 10, this edition holds new transparency lessons and covers, in detail, how to construct images with live Pathfinders and Compound Shapes; how to work with envelopes, warps, and symbols; and more. Some things never change: Each chapter still includes lush, full-color galleries of the contributing artists' work, and the accompanying CD-ROM holds the actual files behind many of the works found in the book so you can pick them apart and follow along, plus custom Wow! actions and brushes, clip art, demos, and other Illustrator goodies that you can add to your own virtual studio.

The Illustrator 10 Wow! Book

Lavishly illustrated with drawings from actual design projects by Corel artists, this book shows how to use CorelDRAW versions 3 through 9 for both Mac and Windows. It is organized to be useful to beginning through advanced users; each section includes basic information, tips for efficiency, step-by-step techniques, and a visual resource reference offering easy access to some of the non-intuitive twists and turns of the program. Illustrations include many kinds of work, among them: logos, business cards, posters, architectural renderings, book covers, cartoons, technical illustration web page designs, and fine art illustration. The enclosed CD-ROM contains tutorials, clip art, stock illustrations, fonts, demos, CorelDRAW scripts, and extensions. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The CorelDraw Wow! Book

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ng and time-saving techniques and tips for beginning through advanced users of Adobe Illustrator 6. Sharon Steuer, an artist and illustrator for more than a decade, writes regularly for Computer Artist magazine.

The Illustrator 6 Wow! Book

Designed to dazzle and inspire but not leave you in the dust, this beautifully designed volume lets you follow along as it dissects real-world projects from some of today's top Illustrator artists. In the process it teaches you how to use Illustrator in ever more creative ways for your own projects. Best-selling author and award-winning artist Sharon Steuer uses four-color pictures of real Illustrator projects to show what's possible and then employs simple, step-by-step instructions to explain the techniques that will produce those effects. You'll find comprehensive ground-up coverage of all of Illustrator CS' most important capabilities. Veteran users will be grateful to explore Illustrator CS' new features: powerful new tools for creating 3D graphics on the fly, a new Scribble Effect that lets you add a loose, hand-drawn look to your artwork, a redesigned text engine, enhanced PDF support, and more. On the CD, you'll find artwork from the book, technical documents, third-party software, clip art, and more.

The Adobe Illustrator Cs Wow! Book

Designed to dazzle and inspire but not leave you in the dust, this beautifully designed volume lets you follow along as it dissects real-world projects from some of today’s top Illustrator artists. In the process it teaches you how to use Adobe Illustrator CS2 in ever more creative ways for your own projects. Best-selling author and award-winning artist Sharon Steuer uses lavish, four-color images of real-world Illustrator CS2 projects to show what’s possible and then employs simple, step-by-step instructions to explain the techniques that will produce those effects. You’ll find comprehensive coverage of all of Illustrator CS2’s most important capabilities. Veteran users will be grateful to explore Illustrator CS' new features, including the new drawing tool, Live trace, Live paint, SVG-T and much more. On the CD, you'll find many examples of artwork from the book, third-party software, demos, samples, and more.

The Adobe Illustrator CS2 Wow! Book: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques from 100 Top Illustrator Artists

The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator — now fully updated for Illustrator CS3 For years, Sharon Steuer and her international W ow! team have been reaching out to the world of professional illustrators to showcase the range and quality of work these artists are doing in Illustrator. In this revised edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, youll find tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from more than 100 of these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS3, Sharon shows you how to perform magical color changes using Live Color, and prepare animations for Flash. You'll not only learn how to“think in Illustrator”with the Zen of Illustrator lessons, you'll also master the newest, hottest, and most challenging techniques. This edition is loaded with new lessons on these subjects, and many more: Using the new Live Color features Creating animations and integrating Illustrator with Flash Working with Live Trace and Live Paint The basics of using layers, templates, the Free Distort tool, and more "Opacity Mask 101” based on the cover image Applying blending modes and transparency to raster images Masking with live type Simulating ink and watercolor paintings Working with live fills, multiple strokes, and Live 3D Basic to advanced blends, gradients, and mesh Colorizing photos Demystifying photorealistic mesh NOTE: User Level: This book is for Intermediate through Professional-level Illustrator artists and designers.

The Adobe Illustrator CS3 Wow! Book: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques from 100 Top Illustrator Artists

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