The Adobe Illustrator CS5 Wow! Book at Dominant Systems Book Store

The definitive full-color book on mastering Adobe Illustrator—now completely reorganized, fully updated, and created for intermediate through professional users of Illustrator CS5 For years, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this completely updated 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 these top Illustrator artists. Using Adobe Illustrator CS5, Sharon shows you how to integrate the new perspective grid, Shape Builder tool, Bristle Brushes, transparency in gradient mesh, new drawing modes, multiple artboards, and more. This edition is loaded with new lessons, galleries, and stunning new artwork that features:

Creating artwork with the dynamic Perspective Grid

Fast construction with the Shape Builder tool and drawing modes

Working with the painterly and naturalistic Bristle Brushes

Creating variety in strokes with the new Width tool

Enhanced Web, Flash, and animation workflow

Fast and easy masking using the Draw Inside mode

Layering transparency in photorealistic gradient mesh

Managing multiple artboards with the new Artboards panel

Integrating Blob Brush artwork with Live Paint

Working quickly using the improved Appearance panel

For intermediate through professional-level illustrators.

Customer Reviews & Comments
Looking on the office shelf, I can see a copy of Illustrator CS WOW! books ranging from CS through to CS4. I only joined the Adobe Illustrator crowd at version 10, and when CS appeared back in 2003, I wanted to learn a little more and it was Sharon Steuer's book that I reached out for. I found it invaluable. I just received the latest incarnation of the long-running series: The Adobe Illustrator CS5 WOW! Book. Immediately I thought the cover was one of the best and makes powerful use of the new brush tools introduced in Illustrator CS5. It's hard to image that the artwork is vector based and could be expanded to the size of a ocean liner! I have to confess to Sharon (the author) that even though I was one of the reviewers of chapters as the book was being assembled, I didn't have time in the past year to read a good portion. Therefore a large amount is new to me and I've already gleaned valuable nuggets and snippets of information and tips. This is the great thing about this book and why I've kept with every edition; it's an invaluable resource for novices and experienced users alike. You can probably guess that I like this book. I've only spent some hours reading it physically in front of me and I'm sure it's going to stay on the desk from weeks to come. I don't want to miss a trick. If you're serious about learning Adobe Illustrator - experienced user or not - go out and get this book!

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