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If you want expert instruction that fi ts into your schedule, Digital Classroom delivers

Adobe Certified Experts guide you through 12 lessons, helping you learn essential

Illustrator CS4 skills at your own speed Full-color, step-by-step instructions in the

book are enhanced with video tutorials on the DVD With Digital Classroom, you

have your own private instructor showing you the easiest way to learn Illustrator CS4.

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• Use Illustrator CS4, reset the workspace,

and navigate the program

• Create and save graphic styles and

apply them to elements in your design

• Speed up your work with custom shortcuts

• Work with the Shape tools and the

Transform panel

• Explore color options using global colors,

Live Paint, Live Color, and blending modes

• Draw lines, trace objects, and format text

• Use Eff ects and organize your illustrations

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Writing

Sean Mcknight, Jerron Smith,

Caitlin Smith, Robert Underwood

Starting Up

About Digital Classroom 1

Prerequisites 1

System requirements 1

Starting Adobe Illustrator CS4 .2

Fonts used in this book 3

Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS4 preferences .3

Loading lesson fi les 4

Working with the video tutorials 5

Setting up for viewing the video tutorials 5

Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player 6

Additional resources 7

Lesson 1: Adobe Illustrator CS4 Jumpstart Starting up 9

Creating the background 11

Taking advantage of graphic styles 13

One object, multiple fi lls and strokes 14

Saving a graphic style 17

Creating a symbol from the circle art 18

Creating the text logo 21

Applying the graphic style to the text logo 22

Warping the text logo 23

Using the Color Guide 24

Incorporating an image into your artwork 26

Erasing vector paths and shapes 28

Creating a 3-D object 30

Lesson 2: Getting to Know the Workspace Starting up 33

Opening Illustrator 34

Choosing a workspace 34

Opening a fi le 36

The document window 37

Switching screen modes 38

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Contents

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Changing your view 38

Preview versus Outlines 39

Zooming and scrolling 40

Scrolling with the Hand tool 44

Changing views with the Navigator panel 45

The Tools panel 46

Using tools and panels 47

The Control panel 50

Moving the Control panel 51

Panel groups and the dock 51

Custom workspaces 54

Saving workspaces 54

Using the Manage Workspaces dialog box 55

Customizing keyboard shortcuts 56

Custom shortcuts 57

Saving shortcut sets 59

Deleting shortcut sets 59

Self study 60

Review 60

Lesson 3: Illustrator CS4 Essentials Starting up 63

Using the shape tools 64

Repositioning and visually resizing the rectangle 66

Finding or changing the shape’s dimensions using the Transform panel 67

Rotating and shearing using the Transform panel 68

Constraining a shape 69

Entering exact dimensions 70

Selecting artwork 72

Helpful keyboard shortcuts for selections 72

The selection tools 72

Using shape and transform tools to create artwork 76

Using the transform tools 77

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Adding a fi ll color 78

Entering a shape size in the Transform panel 79

Viewing in Outline view 80

Rotating the shape 81

Changing the color of the triangles 82

Using layers when building an illustration 83

Creating a new blank layer 84

Cutting and pasting objects 85

Creating bubbles 87

Cloning the bubble group 88

Repeating a resize transform 89

Moving objects from one layer to another 91

Self study 92

Review 92

Lesson 4: Adding Color Starting up 93

Basics of the Appearance panel 94

Fills and strokes 95

Saving swatches 96

Global colors 98

Saving a set of colors as a group 99

Using the Color Guide panel 100

Coloring objects 102

Live Paint 102

Live Color 103

Creating a gradient swatch 104

Creating a pattern swatch 106

Loading Pantone colors 110

Applying spot colors to the logo 111

Self study 113

Review 114

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Lesson 5: Working with the Drawing Tools

Starting up 115

Working with the Pen tool 116

Drawing straight lines 117

Drawing curved lines 119

Drawing hinged curves 121

Drawing curved lines to straight lines 122

Drawing straight lines to curved lines 124

Tracing images 125

Placing an image as a template 125

Other drawing tools 128

Using the Line Segment and Arc tools 128

Using the Pencil, Smooth, and Path Eraser tools 130

Using the Eraser tool 132

Editing existing paths 132

Adding and removing points 133

Refi ning a curve 134

Cutting and joining paths 135

Working with Live Trace 137

Using the tracing presets 137

Understanding tracing options 139

Expanding Live Traced artwork 141

Working with Live Paint 142

Creating a Live Paint group 142

Setting Gap Detection options 142

Using the Live Paint Bucket tool 143

Using the Live Paint Selection tool 144

Self study 145

Review 145

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Lesson 6: Working with and Formatting Text

Starting up 147

Formatting type 148

Paragraph formatting 150

Formatting imported type 153

Paragraph and character styles 155

Text wrap 160

Advanced techniques with text 161

Text on a path 161

Warping text 162

Text in a shape 164

Creating outlines 165

Check spelling 167

Find and Replace 169

Self study 170

Review 170

Lesson 7: Organizing your Illustrations with Layers Starting up 171

Getting to know the Layers panel 172

Using layers to organize your illustrations 174

Using the Layers panel to make selections 175

Creating new layers and moving items between layers 176

Paste Remembers Layers 179

Template Layers 179

Self study 180

Review 180

Lesson 8: Working with Symbols Starting up 181

Cleaning out the symbol library 182

Creating symbols 183

Editing symbols 184

Importing a symbol library 186

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Using the symbolism tools 188

Editing nested symbols 194

Replacing symbols 194

Saving symbol libraries 196

Self study 196

Review 196

Lesson 9: Using Eff ects and Transparency Starting up 197

Working with the Appearance panel and eff ects 198

Applying eff ects 199

Editing eff ects 201

Using graphic styles 203

Creating and saving graphic styles 204

Applying and modifying graphic styles 205

Working with object transparency 206

Working with multiple opacity 207

Working with blending modes 208

Saving and importing graphic styles 209

Applying graphic styles to layers and symbols 210

Self study 212

Review 212

Lesson 10: Exporting and Saving Files Starting up 215

Saving using the AI fi le format 216

Saving an illustration with layers 217

Make a template layer 217

Using the Transform Eff ect 219

Duplicating a Stroke 220

Saving diff erent versions of the logo onto separate layers 221

Expanding appearance 221

Save the fi rst version 222

Using Live Paint 222

Using the Color Guide panel 223

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Saving the third version 223

Using Recolor Artwork 224

Saving a layered PDF 225

Integration with other applications 227

Exporting for Photoshop 227

Integrating with InDesign 227

Integrating with Flash 227

Integrating with Premiere and After Eff ects 227

Saving as EPS 228

Save for Web & Devices 229

Making a Flash animation 231

Exporting a Flash animation 234

Self study 237

Review 237

Lesson 11: Advanced Blending Techniques Starting up 239

Using the Blend Tool 240

Applying a gradient 243

Applying Radial Gradients 246

Applying gradients using Illustrator’s Gradient Mesh options 247

Adjusting the Mesh 250

Revisiting Blend Options 251

More mesh work 254

Overlapping images 256

Applying a gradient mesh using the Mesh tool 258

Finishing up with the Mesh tool and automatically adding a Highlight 262

Using the Symbol tools 264

Creating a symbol 266

Modifying a Symbol’s appearance 268

Self study 270

Review 270

Contents

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Lesson 12: Illustrator CS4 New Features

Starting up 271

The new user interface 272

Application bar 272

Application Frame 273

Document tabs 274

Document groups 275

Arranging documents 276

Screen modes 277

Smart Guides 277

Multiple artboards 279

New Artboard tool 280

Printing and PDFs with artboards 281

The new Appearance panel 282

Enhanced Gradient tool 283

1 Starting Up

About Digital Classroom

Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 lets you create artwork for a variety of uses Illustrator’s drawing

tools let you take advantage of many ways to control color, text, and artwork in your designs

Illustrator provides you with ways to express your creative ideas and experiment with the

presentation Illustrator CS4 is also tightly integrated with other Adobe products such as

Photoshop® CS4 and Flash® CS4 Professional

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom is like having your own personal instructor guiding

you through each lesson while you work at your own speed This book includes 12

self-paced lessons that let you discover essential skills and explore the new features and

capabilities of Illustrator CS4 Each lesson includes step-by-step instructions, lesson fi les, and

video tutorials, all of which are available on the included DVD This book has been developed

by the same team of Adobe Certifi ed Instructors and Illustrator experts who have created many

of the offi cial training titles for Adobe Systems

Prerequisites

Before you start the lessons in Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom, you should have a working

knowledge of your computer and its operating system You should know how to use the

directory system of your computer so that you can navigate through folders You need to

understand how to locate, save, and open fi les You should also know how to use your mouse to

access menus and commands

Before starting the lessons fi les in Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom, make sure that you have

installed Adobe Illustrator CS4 The software is sold separately, and not included with this book

You may use the 30-day trial version of Adobe Illustrator CS4 available at the adobe.com web

site, subject to the terms of its license agreement

System requirements

Before starting the lessons in Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom, make sure that your computer

is equipped for running Adobe Illustrator CS4, which you must purchase separately The

minimum system requirements for your computer to eff ectively use the software are listed on

the following page

Starting up