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| Introduction | |
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| Illustrator and You | |
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| The Structure of This Book | |
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| Meet the Margin Icons | |
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| Contacting the Folks Who Are Responsible for All This | |
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| Starting | |
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| Illustrator 9: What It Is | |
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| Adobe: the "Microsoft of Graphics" | |
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| Where Illustrator Fits In | |
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| Close, But Not Kin: Illustrator Versus Photoshop | |
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| The Lowdown on Illustrator 9 | |
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| Growing up with Illustrator | |
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| Witness the Splendor That Is Illustrator | |
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| Getting Illustrator Up and Running | |
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| Accommodating Your Personal Style | |
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| Objects, Images, and the File Formats That Love Them | |
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| Preparing a New Illustration | |
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| Opening and Placing | |
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| Getting Around in Illustrator | |
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| Saving Your Work to Disk | |
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| Creating | |
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| Drawing the Simple Stuff | |
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| Everything You Need to Know about Paths | |
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| The Simplest of Simple Shapes | |
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| Drawing Free-Form Paths | |
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| Painting Paths | |
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| Tracing Templates--No Longer a Black-and-White Issue | |
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| Fixing Things | |
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| Yet One Tools Beats Them All | |
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| Exact Points and Precision Curves | |
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| Selecting Like a House on Fire | |
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| Deselecting Stuff that You Want to Leave As Is | |
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| Dragging Stuff Around | |
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| The Great and Powerful Pen Tool | |
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| Putting the Pen Tool to Work | |
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| Operating on Points Long after the Path Is Done | |
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| The Stretch Tool | |
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| Reliving the Past | |
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| How to Handle Typical Type | |
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| Establishing Text Objects | |
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| Selecting and Editing Text | |
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| Formatting Type | |
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| Character-Level Formatting | |
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| Paragraph-Level Formatting | |
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| The Amazing World of Tabs | |
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| The Text Eyedropper and Paint Bucket | |
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| Some of Your Wackier Text Effects | |
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| Topsy-Turvy Type on a Curve | |
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| Filling a Shape with Text | |
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| Flowing Text from One Shape to Another | |
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| Wrapping Type Around Graphics | |
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| Importing and Exporting Text | |
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| Checking Your Spelling | |
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| Searching and Replacing Stuff | |
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| Creating Rows and Columns | |
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| Fitting Text on the Fly | |
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| Converting Character Outlines to Paths | |
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| This Is Your Brain on Graphs | |
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| Creating a Graph | |
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| Defining the Graph Size with the Graph Tool | |
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| Using the Graph Data Window | |
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| Organizing Your Data for Different Kinds of Graphs | |
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| Applying Automated Changes to a Graph | |
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| Manually Customizing a Graph | |
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| Graphing with Graphics | |
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| Changing | |
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| Modifying and Combining Paths | |
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| One Million Ways to Replicate | |
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| Dragging and Dropping | |
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| Joining Points and Paths | |
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| Splitting Paths into Pieces | |
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| Carving Holes into Compound Paths | |
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| Use a Path to Change a Path | |
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| Developing a Flair for the Schematic | |
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| Measuring and Positioning with Microscopic Precision | |
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| Aligning and Distributing Objects | |
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| Creating and Using Custom Guides | |
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| Smart Guides | |
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| Assembling Paths into Groups | |
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| When Grouping Isn't Protection Enough | |
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| The Celebrated Stacking Order | |
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| Working with Drawing Layers | |
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| Vacuuming Your Illustration | |
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| The Magical World of Transformations | |
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| Making Objects Bigger and Smaller | |
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| Rotating Objects | |
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| Flipping Objects Back and Forth | |
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| Slanting Objects the Weird Way | |
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| Multiple Transformations on Multiple Objects | |
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| Free Transform for All | |
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| Hog-Wild Special Effects | |
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| Freelance Features | |
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| Twirl: Tool, Filter, and Effect | |
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| Using Live Effects | |
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| Imperfecting Paths | |
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| Orderly Distortions and Transformations | |
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| Round Corners | |
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| Pathfinder Effects | |
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| Becoming Master of the Raster | |
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| Raster Effects on Vector Shapes | |
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| Filters and Effects for Raster Images | |
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| Converting Pixels into Vectors | |
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| Linked or Embedded | |
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| Hoist that Raster and Rake those Pixels | |
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| Trading Artwork with Photoshop | |
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| Coloring | |
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| The Slippery Science of Color | |
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| The Great White Light and the Breakaway Color Republics | |
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| Choosing Your Colorspace | |
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| Finding Your Colors in Illustrator | |
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| Applying the Overprint Options | |
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| Applying Automated Color Manipulations | |
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| Fills, Multi-Fills, and Fab Fills | |
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| Filling Closed and Open Paths | |
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| Filling Type and Text Blocks | |
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| Applying a Single Fill | |
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| Applying Multi-Fills and Effects | |
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| Gradients in the Key of Life | |
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| Adjusting a Gradient Fill to Fit its Path | |
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| Gradient Mesh | |
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| Filling Objects with Patterns | |
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| Strokes and Brushes | |
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| Basic Stroke Attributes | |
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| Applying a Stroke from the Stroke Palette | |
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| Stroke Positions and Multi-Strokes | |
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| Stroke Commands, Filters and Effects | |
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| Brushing Up on Your Paths | |
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| Transparency | |
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| Opacity | |
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| Blending Modes | |
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| Knockout Groups | |
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| Opacity Masks | |
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| Using Transparency | |
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| Analyzing Transparency | |
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| Blends, Masks, and Ink Pen Fills | |
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| Blending Paths | |
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| Creating a Blend | |
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| Cool Blend Tool Tricks | |
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| Masking: Filling Objects with Objects | |
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| Hatching Textures | |
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| Web Graphics and Animations | |
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| Creating Web Graphics | |
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| Save for Web Application | |
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| Creating Flash (SWF) Graphics and Animations | |
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| Creating SVG Graphics | |
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| Working Smarter and Faster | |
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| Taking Illustrator's Shortcuts | |
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| Moving Into Actions | |
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| Working With Styles | |
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| Transferring Attributes | |
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| Contextual Menus | |
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| Online Resources | |
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| Printing Your Illustrations | |
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| Printing Composite Pages | |
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| Printing Color Separations | |
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| Unusual Printing Considerations | |
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| Creating PDF Files | |
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| Index | |