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Illustrator CS3 Bible
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| Part No: | 0470126345 |
| Manufacturer: | Wiley |
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| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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Adobe insider Ted Alspach helps you unlock the power of CS3 The new CS3 version of Illustrator is light years beyond previous versions, and whether you're a novice or veteran designer, you'll want to get quickly up to speed on this powerful new tool. With clear explanations and plenty of examples, Adobe insider Ted Alspach reveals the secrets on how to best use Illustrator CS3 for Web graphics, integrate it with the rest of the Creative Suite, work in 3D—and above all, why it's such a radical step up from CS2. Tap the power of Illustrator CS3 for your projects with this in-depth guide from an industry expert.
- Use Live Color to get color options you never had before
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Integrate Illustrator CS3 seamlessly with Photoshop and Flash
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Quickly start new documents with preset profiles
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Work easily with transparency, fonts, styles, and effects
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Get more out of Illustrator with hundreds of tips and tricks
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Learn about scripting and Web graphics generation for online design
Customize the Illustrator workspace
Generate color sets with Live Color
Create graphics for the Web
| Great Book!!!! | 2009-10-23 | 5 / 5 |
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| I bought this book based on my purchase of the other two bibles, Photoshop CS3 and and Flash CS3. Different authors but the style of writing and in depth information is still there. The book doesn't talk down to you yet it helps if you've got some computer graphics experience. I'm not a computer graphics master and I probably never but this book makes the going a little less tough. This book is great. |
| Only a user "reference" guide | 2008-10-15 | 3 / 5 |
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I purchased this book because of the quality of the "Bible" series I have purchased in the past (Word, Project, Access, Excel, QuickBooks, Dreamweaver, Visio, PowerPoint, etc). This was by far the most disappointing.
The power of the Bible series is in the projects & examples included in each manual and accompanying CD; step-by-step instructions on "how to" use the features of the software. The CS3 Illustrator Bible contains very few examples; it is wordy and will not help you much if you want to explore and learn to use the CS3 Illustrator software.
If you are looking for a resource to learn "how" to use CS3 Illustrator, I would suggest searching for a different book...
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| Illustrator CS2 Bible | 2008-10-05 | 4 / 5 |
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| This is a book that has everything you ever wanted to know about Illustrator CS3. The only draw back to this book is that it has no tutoring projects and for me that's an important part of a book. |
| A must have for graphic designers! | 2008-06-17 | 5 / 5 |
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| I just love this book! I started learning Illustrator with CS2. I was connecting the dots with CS3 and decided to get the Illustrator CS3 Bible. By not having classes with Illustrator CS3, I was missing out on all the cool new tools like Live Trace. A great designer always has the best refrence books! I also have the Photoshop CS3 bible and the InDesign bible... get them all!! |
| Is it trustworthy? | 2008-04-28 | 3 / 5 |
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I purchased this book to help migrate from Fireworks 8 to Illustrator CS3. I have read six chapters so far.
Another reviewer commented on the "newspaper" pages, and while the pages are somewhat thin, it doesn't detract from my reading process.
The book's first few chapters covers all of the basics any newcomer needs to start drawing simple designs and my reading was going rather well until I read about symbols.
The author's description of a symbol is, well, nothing. The first mention of symbols is, "Since the addition of the Symbol tools in Illustrator 10, the world has never been the same. Small children can now, with ease, make a sensible drawing using the Symbol Sprayer tool."
So I read on, expecting to be enlightened, and he never even tells the reader what a symbol is, or why "the world has never been the same"! Such a bold statement with absolutely no supporting dissertation. There are 6 pages dedicated to symbols with not one mention of the fact that the concept significantly increases productivity and efficiency.
Luckily, I know enough about symbols to know the author really missed the mark, and instead of exposing their true power, passes them off as art that can be spray painted on the the canvas. Yeah, that's kind of helpful in certain situations, but those situations are far and few between.
If I wouldn't have already understood what symbols are and how they work, I wouldn't have figured it out by using this book. I am, therefor, lead to question how much information is left out. Am I going to be left in the dark on some other basic and important concepts that the author either doesn't understand or doesn't care to share? Probably.
This is the only time I have ever wanted to return a book...I simply don't think I can trust it as an authority on the subject. |
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