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The Illustrator 9 WOW! Book (With CD-ROM)
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by Sharon Steuer, Steven H. Gordon, and Sandra Alves
Sales Rank: 665254
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$0.01
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Paperback: 392 pages
Publisher: Pearson Education December 22, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201704536
ISBN-13: 978-0201704532
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
Product Review
For professional illustrators, and anyone who wants to achieve professional results, The Illustrator WOW! Book is quite simply the best resource that money can buy, aside from Illustrator itself, of course.
Sharon Steuer and her coauthors have managed to produce a book that is both an authoritative practical guide to Illustrator 9.0's tools and features, and a showcase and guide to techniques, as demonstrated by nearly a hundred commercial illustrators.
To bring new users and upgraders up to speed, there are two introductory chapters. Even seasoned users will pick up something from skimming these chapters, thanks to the clear layout which places illustrations and innumerable tip boxes in the outside columns. The remaining chapters are organized into techniques and galleries. Using commercially created work, the techniques each focus on one aspect of how a complex illustration was created. These tutorials pack a lot into a short space because they don't go into specific detail about every single stage in the process--if you need to know the basics, go back to the front of the book!
The galleries further demonstrate the techniques by showcasing an illustration and discussing the process by which it was created--why one approach was chosen over another, which tools where used, how a particular type of effect was produced, what where the special printing considerations, and so on.
As a practical guide to Illustrator techniques, a source of creative ideas, a repository of hints and tips, or a quiet lunchtime browse, you'll need to look hard to find a better, more useful book on Illustrator. --Ken McMahon, Amazon.co.uk
Book Description
Like many long-time Illustrator artists, author Sharon Steuer and her team realized that this latest upgrade from Adobe was not "business as usual." With the addition of transparency as well as Adobe's Save for Web utility, multi-fills and strokes, changes to layers, and many other new and improved features, the book has also been radically revised in this new edition. The Illustrator 9 Wow! Book has grown over 100 pages, and covers step-by-step material for beginners through advanced users. In addition, you'll get the usual assortment of goodies that come with full-color Wow! books, making this book educational, inspiring, and worthy of coffee-table display, all in one.
Customer Reviews & Comments
(...) In the Illustrator book genre, you have but two choices: #1 "pulp" encyclopedias on the software. These basically parallel what the manuals and online help facilities contain -- They're good, but they're basically lots of words, and few pictures. #2 Quick, Beginner books... like the "Dummies" and the "Visual Quick Starts" ... yes, they're good too -- but tend to only scratch the surface of the program. Neither genre approaches the applicability of the software in terms of "why" or "how" the tools fit into the creative process. Steuer's "WOW" book, on the other hand... printed on heavy enamel stock, process color throughout, is actually a THIRD genre -- providing the creative spark of inspiration which is VITAL in taking dry how-to information and applying it to visually exciting creative finished illustration. No, this is NOT a "skim the surface" beginners' book. Yet beginners will benefit because they'll be inspired to skip the 1, 2, 3, exercises and move directly into sophisticated techniques that can be learned quickly and easily. No this is NOT an encyclopedia. Most illustrators don't need an encyclopedia and the sheer bulk of information and tedious trial and error of getting to the answers they need actually retard the creative process rather than support it. Illustrator WOW is a gallery of highly sought after creative visual techniques, along with enough technical how-to tutorial to accomplish the look. (...) The ultimate solution for anyone who is actually serious about getting to the top of the heap in Adobe Illustrator is to buy this book... Illustrator WOW, and then buy "Real World Illustrator" -- these two encompass the very best of all Illustrator books, and arms the artist with both encyclopedia and sheer creative inspiration. Learning without excitement or passion is never effective. I teach Adobe Illustrator at James Madison University. I know what makes the difference between learning how to use a software tool, and learning how to use the tools to create inspired visual communications. You want to learn the tools? Use the Illustrator online help facility. It's all there. You want inspired visual creativity skills? Get Illustrator 9 WOW book. And, that's all I have to say.
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