Teach Yourself VISUALLY Illustrator 10 at Dominant Systems Book Store

This handy guide uses the proven Visual step-by-step approach to learning Illustrator -- in full color! It covers all the ins and outs of using Adobe Illustrator: creating and editing objects, working with bezier and compound paths, creating layers and masks, working with color, adding raster images, and using Illustrator for Web design. Teach Yourself VISUALLY Illustrator 10 is a tutorial for the graphically minded with clear, concise, jargon-free instructions and over 500 color screenshots throughout. Jam-packed with information, this book goes beyond the basics to help Web designers, graphic design professionals, and business graphics users take full advantage of the robust features of Illustrator 10.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I work in web programming, and I'm learning Illustrator for some projects I'm doing. This program is INCREDIBLY complex, and even though I'm very familiar with Photoshop, Illustrator is like a mirror maze. Everything you think you recognize is really an illusion. After failing miserably at learning the program through a few hours of trial and error, I decided I definitely needed a book to help me. After signing out a number of different Adobe Illustrator books from the library and devouring them, I still wasn't sure what the heck was going on. Sure, I knew lots of stuff I could do, but no one ever bothered to tell me how to work the tools I had to use! I wanted remedial help here. I can firgure out the rest of it once I know how the darned program works. So finally, I stumbled across Teach Yourself Visually. And thank God I did. These people understand that when you're learning a new program, you need to learn the interface before you can do anything else. Apparently this simple logic is something that MOST manual writers can't grasp. It's not as big a book as many of the other Illustrator manuals I've read--in fact, it's positively normal-sized. And most of the book is taken up by big full-color screenshots. In fact, that's how you learn with this book. Lots of big full-color screenshots, showing you step-by-step how to operate the program. Each screenshot has a caption telling you just what's going on in the picture, what tools, settings, and menu options you need to select, etc. As far as I'm concerned, this book is perfect. To be honest, I think its usefulness is limited. It's not one of those tomes of arcane lore that you lovingly refer to every time you work on a project. It's a simple, bottom-line tutorial. But that just makes it more important. I'm not a stupid person. I've taught myself things like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Javascript with only minimal help from any kind of reference manual. So trust me: you NEED this book if you want to learn Illustrator within a year. Once you finish it, then move on to all those cool books like The Essential Illustrator. You'll keep those around for a while. But the buck starts here.

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