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| Important: Read me first! | |
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| How to use this book | |
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| Illustrator and OS X | |
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| Illustrator Basics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Computer & System Requirements | |
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| Setting Up Your Page | |
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| Making Your Moves Easier | |
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| Working with Objects | |
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| Watch Your Cursor! | |
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| Bezier-Editing Tools | |
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| Geometric Objects | |
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| Selecting & Grouping Objects | |
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| Joining & Averaging | |
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| Working with Palettes | |
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| Graphing & Charting | |
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| Transformations | |
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| Working Smart | |
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| Changing Your Views | |
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| Zooming In & Out | |
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| Show/Hide Choices | |
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| Actions | |
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| Color in Illustrator | |
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| Image Formats | |
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| PostScript Printing & Exporting | |
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| The Zen of Illustrator | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Building Houses: Sequential Object Construction Exercises | |
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| A Classic Icon: Five Ways to Re-create Simple Shapes | |
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| Zen Scaling | |
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| Zen Rotation | |
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| Creating a Simple Object Using the Basic Tools | |
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| A Finger Dance: Turbo-charge with Illustrator's Power-keys | |
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| Drawing & Coloring | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic Drawing & Coloring | |
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| Expanding Your Drawing & Coloring Toolset | |
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| Pathfinder Palette | |
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| Gallery: Gary Ferster | |
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| Simple Realism: Realism from Geometry and Observation | |
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| Gallery: Mark Fox | |
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| Cutting & Joining: Basic Path Construction with Pathfinders | |
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| Add & Expand: More Pathfinder Palette Basics | |
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| Divide & Color: Applying Pathfinder Divide & Subtract | |
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| Cubist Constructs: Creative Experimentation with Pathfinders | |
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| Isometric Systems: Cursor Keys, Constrain-angles & Formulas | |
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| Gallery: Rick Henkel, Kurt Hess, Jared Schneidman | |
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| Objective Colors: Custom Labels for Making Quick Changes | |
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| Organizing Colors: Arranging an Artist's Palette of Colors | |
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| Gallery: Clarke Tate, Christopher Burke, Dorothy Remington | |
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| Distort Dynamics: Adding Character Dynamics with Transform | |
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| Distort Filter Flora: Applying Distort Filters to Create Flowers | |
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| Gallery: Laurie Grace | |
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| Vector Photos: Pen and Eyedropper Technique | |
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| Gallery: Brad Hamann | |
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| Advanced Technique: Intricate Patterns: Designing Complex Repeating Patterns | |
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| Brushes, Symbols & Hatches | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Brushes | |
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| Symbols | |
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| Symbols vs. Scatter Brushes | |
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| Pen & Ink: Hatch Effects | |
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| Pen & Ink: Photo Crosshatch | |
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| Gallery: Adam Z Lein | |
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| Ink Brush Strokes: Making Naturalistic Pen and Ink Drawings | |
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| Gallery: Sharon Steuer, Lisa Jackmore, Jen Alspach, Ellen Papciak-Rose | |
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| Preparing Art: Adding Brushes to Existing Artwork | |
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| Pattern Brushes: Creating Details with the Pattern Brush | |
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| Gallery: Bert Monroy, Shayne Davidson, Steve Spindler, Jacqueline Mahannah | |
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| Building Brushes: Building Brushes for Lettering | |
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| Advanced Technique: Map Techniques: Simplifying the Creation of Complex Images | |
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| Gallery: Joe Lertola | |
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| Symbol Basics: Creating and Working with Symbols | |
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| Gallery: Sandee Cohen, Diane Hinze Kanzler & Sandee Cohen, Kevin Barrack, Victor von Salza | |
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| Advanced Technique: Organic Creation: Painting with Brushes, Hatches, and Mesh | |
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| Special Brushes Supplement | |
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| Layers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Controlling the Stacking Order of Objects | |
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| Making Selections Using the Layers Palette | |
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| Gallery: David Nelson | |
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| Digitizing a Logo: Controlling Your Illustrator Template | |
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| Tracing Details: Tracing Intricate Details with the Pencil | |
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| Colors with Layers: Coloring Black-and-White Images with Layers | |
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| Organizing Layers: Managing Custom Layers and Sublayers | |
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| Gallery: Nancy Stahl | |
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| Nested Layers: Organizing with Layers and Sublayers | |
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| Advanced Technique: Varied Perspective: Analyzing Different Views of Perspective | |
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| Type | |
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| Introduction | |
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| More Type Functions (Type & Window Menus) | |
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| Converting Type to Outlines | |
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| Custom Text Paths: Trickling Type with Variations of Type Style | |
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| Gallery: Laurie Szujewska, Ari M. Weinstein, John Burns, Hornall Anderson Design Works | |
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| Masking Letters: Masking Images with Letter Forms | |
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| Gallery: Gary Newman | |
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| Bookcover Design: Illustrator as a Stand-alone Layout Tool | |
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| Gallery: Javier Romero Design Group, Caryl Gorska | |
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| Brushed Type: Applying Brushes to Letterforms | |
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| Gallery: Joachim Muller-Lance, Tim Girvin, Jennifer Bartlett, Bjorn Akselsen, Pattie Belle Hastings, Karen Roehr, Louis Fishauf, Ellen Papciak-Rose | |
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| Crunching Type: Transforming Type Using Warps & Envelopes | |
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| Blends, Gradients & Mesh | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Blends | |
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| Gradients | |
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| Gradient Mesh | |
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| Examining Blends: Learning When to Use Gradients or Blends | |
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| Shades of Blends: Creating Architectural Linear Shading | |
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| Gallery: Janet Good, Gary Ferster, Linda Eckstein, Peter Cassell, Steven Stankiewicz | |
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| Unlocking Realism: Creating Metallic Reflections with Blends | |
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| Blending Realism: Keeping Blends Clean and Accessible | |
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| Gallery: Jared Schneidman, Andrea Kelley | |
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| Unified Gradients: Redirecting Fills with the Gradient Tool | |
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| Gallery: Filip Yip, Hugh Whyte, Caryl Gorska, Tim Webb, Rick Barry, Ellen Papciak-Rose | |
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| Rolling Mesh: Converting Gradients to Mesh, then Editing | |
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| Advanced Technique: Mastering Mesh: Painting with Areas of Color Using Mesh | |
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| Gallery: Ivan Torres | |
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| Gallery: Yukio Miyamoto | |
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| Transparency & Appearances | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Basic Transparency | |
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| Appearances | |
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| The Finer Points of Appearances | |
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| Transparency 101: Assigning Opacity to Default Brushes | |
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| Advanced Technique: Transparent Color: Customizing Transparent Brushes & Layers | |
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| Basic Transparency: Blending Modes, Opacity & Isolate Blending | |
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| Gallery: Gary Ferster, Adam Z Lein | |
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| Basic Highlights: Making Highlights with Transparent Blends | |
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| Gallery: Nancy Stahl | |
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| Basic Appearances: Making and Applying Appearances | |
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| Advanced Technique: Tinting a Scan: Using Transparency Effects & Simplify Path | |
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| Advanced Technique: It's a Knockout!: See-through Objects with a Knockout Group | |
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| Advanced Technique: Opacity Masks 101: Applying Glows and Using Opacity Masks | |
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| Gallery: Tom Patterson, Sandra Alves, Peter Cassell | |
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| Live Effects & Styles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Effects vs. Filters | |
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| Effect Pathfinders | |
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| Styles in Illustrator | |
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| Warps and Enveloping | |
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| Gallery: Ted Alspach | |
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| Scratchboard Art: Using Multiple Strokes, Effects, and Styles | |
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| Embossing Effects: Building 3D Appearances | |
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| Gallery: Steven Gordon, Ted Alspach | |
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| Warps & Envelopes: Using Warping and Enveloping Effects | |
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| Advanced Technique: Enveloping Magic: Using Envelopes to Shape Meshes | |
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| Blurring the Lines: Photorealism with Blends and Effects | |
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| Advanced Techniques | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Clipping Masks | |
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| Mask Problem-Solving Strategies | |
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| Advanced Technique: Colorful Masking: Fitting Blends into Custom Shapes | |
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| Advanced Technique: Contouring Masks: Using Masks to Control Realistic Tonality | |
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| Advanced Technique: Reflective Masks: Super-Realistic Reflection | |
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| Gallery: Gary Ferster, Greg Maxson | |
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| Advanced Technique: Glowing Starshine: Blending Custom Colors to Form a Glow | |
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| Gallery: Kenneth Batelman, Alan James Weimer | |
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| Advanced Technique: Masking Opacity: Making Transparency Irregular | |
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| Advanced Technique: Wrapping Textures: Creating Meshes for a True 3D Look | |
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| Advanced Technique: Modeling Mesh: Shaping and Forming Mesh Objects | |
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| Gallery: Javier Romero | |
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| Web & Animation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Working in RGB in Illustrator | |
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| A Few Thoughts on RGB and CMYK Color | |
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| Assigning URLs and Slicing | |
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| Release to Layers | |
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| Export File Formats | |
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| SVG | |
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| Data-Driven Graphics | |
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| Gallery: Ivan Torres | |
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| Off in a Flash: Making Artwork for a Flash Animation | |
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| Gallery: Kevan Atteberry | |
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| Symbol Flashes: Creating a Shockwave Flash Animation | |
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| Advanced Technique: (Illustrator with Photoshop): Making Waves: Transforming and Blending for Animation | |
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| Gallery: d'JAXN, Daniel Giordan | |
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| Webward Ho!: Designing a Web Page in Illustrator | |
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| Gallery: Steven Gordon | |
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| Illustrator & Other Programs | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Placing Artwork in Illustrator | |
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| Illustrator & Other Programs | |
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| Illustrator & Adobe Photoshop 7 | |
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| Illustrator & Adolbe InDesign 2 | |
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| Illustrator, PDF & Adobe Acrobat 5 | |
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| Illustrator & Adobe Streamline 4 | |
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| Illustrator & Adobe Dimensions 3 | |
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| Illustrator & Other 3D Programs | |
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| Gallery: Bert Monroy | |
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| Illustrator with Photoshop: Software Relay: An Illustrator-Photoshop Workflow | |
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| Gallery: Rob Magiera | |
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| Advanced Technique: Illustrator with Photoshop: Shape Shifting: Exporting Paths to Shapes in Photoshop | |
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| Gallery: Ron Chan, Louis Fishauf, Lance Hidy, Timothy Donaldson, Lance Jackson, Filip Yip, Christopher Spollen, Wendy Grossman, Rick Johnson, Bryan Christie, Joe Jones, Eliot Bergman, Steven Gordon, Tom Willcockson | |
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| Artist Appendix | |
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| Resources Appendix | |
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| General Index | |