Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom

Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 • Full-color, step-by-step instructional book • Video training from Adobe Certifi ed Experts A Complete Training Package! You have a personal tutor in the Digital Classroom 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. Aquent Creative Team Aquent Creative Team Illustrator ® CS4 Computer Graphics/General $49.99 US/$54.99 CAN www.digitalclassroombooks.com The Aquent Creative Team consists of Adobe Certifi ed Instructors who create and deliver training programs for creative, marketing, and communications professionals at Aquent Graphics Institute. They have developed many of Adobe’s offi cial training books and technical training programs for Adobe’s employees. • 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 with Layers A dobe ® Tutorials and lesson fi les on companion DVD Training DVD Included Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - AICS4.indb ii 11/25/2008 3:05:32 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Adobe Illustrator® CS4 Digital Classroom AICS4.indb i 11/25/2008 3:05:28 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - AICS4.indb ii 11/25/2008 3:05:32 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Adobe Illustrator® CS4 Digital Classroom Aquent Creative Team AICS4.indb iii 11/25/2008 3:05:32 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Adobe Illustrator® CS4 Digital Classroom Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Boulevard Indianapolis, IN 46256 Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-43635-6 Manufactured in the United States of America 10987654321 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. 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They work with marketing, creative, and communications teams around the world, and teach regularly scheduled classes at AGI’s locations. More information at agitraining.com. AICS4.indb v 11/25/2008 3:05:33 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Acknowledgments Thanks to our many friends at Adobe Systems, Inc. who made this book possible and assisted with questions and feedback during the writing process. Thanks also to the many clients of AGI who have helped us better understand how they use Photoshop and provided us with many of the tips and suggestions found in this book. A special thanks to the instructional team at AGI for their input and assistance in the review process and for making this book such a team effort. AICS4.indb vi 11/25/2008 3:05:33 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Credits Writing Sean Mcknight, Jerron Smith, Caitlin Smith, Robert Underwood Series Editor Christopher Smith Senior Acquisitions Editor Jody Lefevere Technical Editors Chad Chelius, Larry Happy, Cathy Palmer Editor Marylouise Wiack Editorial Manager Robyn Siesky Business Manager Amy Knies Senior Marketing Manager Sandy Smith Vice President and Executive Group Publisher Richard Swadley Vice President and Publisher Barry Pruett Project Coordinator Lynsey Stanford Graphics and Production Specialist Lauren Mickol Media Development Project Supervisor Jeremy Osborn Proofreading Jay Donahue Indexing Broccoli Information Management Stock Photography iStockPhoto.com AICS4.indb vii 11/25/2008 3:05:33 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - AICS4.indb viii 11/25/2008 3:05:33 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - 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 Contents Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 r

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%7% AICS4.indb IX 11/25/2008 3:05:33 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - XContents Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom 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 AICS4.indb X 11/25/2008 3:06:05 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Contents XITable of Contents 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 AICS4.indb XI 11/25/2008 3:06:30 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - XII Contents Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom 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 AICS4.indb XII 11/25/2008 3:06:53 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Contents XIIITable of Contents 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 AICS4.indb XIII 11/25/2008 3:07:06 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - XIV Contents Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom 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 AICS4.indb XIV 11/25/2008 3:07:37 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Contents XVTable of Contents 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 AICS4.indb XV 11/25/2008 3:08:10 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - XVI Contents Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom 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 AICS4.indb XVI 11/25/2008 3:08:37 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - 1Starting 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 AICS4.indb 1 11/25/2008 3:08:49 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - 2Starting Adobe Illustrator CS4 Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom System requirements for Adobe Illustrator CS4: Windows OS • 2GHz or faster processor • Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® Home Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (certifi ed for 32-bit Windows XP and Windows Vista) • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) • 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation • 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card • DVD-ROM drive • Internet or phone connection required for product activation Macintosh OS • PowerPC® G4 or G5 or Intel® processor • Mac OS X v10.4.11–10.5.4 • 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) • 2GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation • 1,024x768 display (1,280x800 recommended) with 16-bit video card • DVD-ROM drive • QuickTime 7 software required for multimedia features • Internet or phone connection required for product activation Starting Adobe Illustrator CS4 As with most software, Adobe Illustrator CS4 is launched by locating the application in your Programs folder (Windows) or Applications folder (Mac OS). If necessary, follow these steps to start the Adobe Illustrator CS4 application: Windows 1 Choose Start > All Programs > Adobe Illustrator CS4. If you have the Creative Suite installed, you may have to select Adobe Illustrator from within the Creative Suite folder. 2 Close the Welcome Screen when it appears. You are now ready to use Adobe Illustrator CS4. Mac OS 1 Open the Applications folder, and then open the Adobe Illustrator CS4 folder. If you have the Creative Suite installed, you may have to select Adobe Illustrator from within the Creative Suite folder. 2 Double-click on the Adobe Illustrator CS4 application icon. 3 Close the Welcome Screen when it appears. You are now ready to use Adobe Illustrator CS4. AICS4.indb 2 11/25/2008 3:08:52 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Fonts used in this book 3Starting up Menus and commands are identifi ed throughout the book by using the greater-than symbol (>). For example, the command to print a document would be identifi ed as File > Print. Fonts used in this book Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom includes lessons that refer to fonts that were installed with your copy of Adobe Illustrator CS4. If you did not install the fonts, or have removed them from your computer, you may substitute diff erent fonts for the exercises or re-install the software to access the fonts. If you receive a Missing Font Warning, press OK and proceed with the lesson. Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS4 preferences When you start Adobe Illustrator, it remembers certain settings along with the confi guration of the workspace from the last time you used the application. It is important that you start each lesson using the default settings so that you do not see unexpected results when working with the lessons in this book. Use the following steps to reset your Adobe Illustrator CS4 preferences. Steps to reset Adobe Illustrator CS4 preferences 1 Quit Illustrator. 2 Locate and rename the AIPrefs (Windows) or Adobe Illustrator Preferences (Mac OS), as follows. In Windows: Rename the AIPrefs fi le (for example, to AIPrefs.old) in the Documents • and Settings/(user)/Application Data/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS4 Settings folder. In Windows Vista: Rename the AIPrefs fi le (for example, to AIPrefs.old) in the Users/• (user)/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS3 Settings/(language_location) folder. In Mac OS: Rename the Adobe Illustrator Preferences fi le in the Users/• (user)/Library/ Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS4 Settings folder. 3 Start Illustrator. Illustrator creates a new preferences fi le. To restore custom settings, delete the new AIPrefs fi le and restore the original name of the previous AIPrefs fi le. AICS4.indb 3 11/25/2008 3:08:52 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - 4Loading lesson files Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom Loading lesson fi les The Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom DVD includes fi les that accompany the exercises for each of the lessons. You may copy the entire lessons folder from the supplied DVD to your hard drive, or copy only the lesson folders for the individual lessons you wish to complete. For each lesson in the book, the fi les are referenced by the fi le name of each fi le. The exact location of each fi le on your computer is not used, as you may have placed the fi les in a unique location on your hard drive. We suggest placing the lesson fi les in the My Documents folder (Windows) or at the top level of your hard drive (Mac OS). Copying the lesson fi les to your hard drive: 1 Insert the Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom DVD supplied with this book. 2 On your computer desktop, navigate to the DVD and locate the folder named ailessons. 3 You can install all the fi les, or just specifi c lesson fi les. Do one of the following: Install all lesson fi les by dragging the ailessons folder to your hard drive.• Install only some of the fi les by creating a new folder on your hard drive named • ailessons. Open the ailessons folder on the supplied DVD, select the lesson you wish to complete, and drag the folder(s) to the ailessons folder you created on your hard drive. Macintosh users may need to unlock the fi les after they are downloaded. This only applies to MacOS computers. After downloading the fi les to your computer, select the ailessons folder, then choose File > Get Info. In the ailessons info window, click the You can drop-down menu labeled Read Only, which is located in the Ownership section of this window. From the You can drop-down menu, choose Read & Write. Click the arrow to the left of Details, then click the Apply to enclosed items... button at the bottom of the window. You may need to click the padlock icon before the Mac OS allows you to change these permissions. After making these changes, close the window. AICS4.indb 4 11/25/2008 3:08:56 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Working with the video tutorials 5Starting up Working with the video tutorials Your Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom DVD comes with video tutorials developed by the authors to help you understand the concepts explored in each lesson. Each tutorial is approximately fi ve minutes long and demonstrates and explains the concepts and features covered in the lesson. The videos are designed to supplement your understanding of the material in the chapter. We have selected exercises and examples that we feel will be most useful to you. You may want to view the entire video for each lesson before you begin that lesson. Additionally, at certain points in a lesson, you will encounter the DVD icon. The icon, with appropriate lesson number, indicates that an overview of the exercise being described can be found in the accompanying video. 0 DVD video icon. Setting up for viewing the video tutorials The DVD included with this book includes video tutorials for each lesson. Although you can view the lessons on your computer directly from the DVD, we recommend copying the folder labeled Videos from the Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom DVD to your hard drive. Copying the video tutorials to your hard drive: 1 Insert the Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom DVD supplied with this book. 2 On your computer desktop, navigate to the DVD and locate the folder named Videos. 3 Drag the Videos folder to a location onto your hard drive. AICS4.indb 5 11/25/2008 3:08:57 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - 6Working with the video tutorials Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player The videos on the Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom DVD are saved in the Flash projector format. A Flash projector fi le wraps the Digital Classroom video player and the Adobe Flash Player in an executable fi le (.exe for Windows or .app for Mac OS). However, please note that the extension (on both platforms) may not always be visible. Projector fi les allow the Flash content to be deployed on your system without the need for a browser or prior standalone player installation. The accompanying video fi les on the DVD use the Adobe Flash Video format to make universal viewing possible for users on both Windows and Mac OS computers. Playing the video tutorials: 1 On your computer, navigate to the Videos folder you copied to your hard drive from the DVD. Playing the videos directly from the DVD may result in poor quality playback. 2 Open the Videos folder and double-click the AIvideos_PC.exe (Windows) or AIvideos_Mac.app (Mac OS) to view the video tutorial. 3 Press the Play button to view the videos. The Flash Player has a simple user interface that allows you to control the viewing experience, including stopping, pausing, playing, and restarting the video. You can also rewind or fast-forward, and adjust the playback volume. A B D E FC A. Go to beginning. B. Play/Pause. C. Fast-forward/rewind. D. Stop. E. Volume Off /On. F. Volume control. Playback volume is also aff ected by the settings in your operating system. Be certain to adjust the sound volume for your computer, in addition to the sound controls in the Player window. AICS4.indb 6 11/25/2008 3:08:59 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Additional resources 7Starting up Additional resources The Digital Classroom series goes beyond the training books. You can continue your learning online, with training videos, at seminars and conferences, and in-person training events. Book series Expand your knowledge of creative software applications with the Digital Classroom series of books. Additional titles covering topics such as Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and InDesign are available. Learn more at digitalclassroombooks.com. Seminars and conferences The authors of the Digital Classroom seminar series frequently conduct in-person seminars and speak at conferences, including the annual CRE8 Conference. Learn more at agitraining.com and CRE8summit.com. Resources for educators Visit digitalclassroombooks.com to access resources for educators, including instructors’ guides for incorporating Digital Classroom into your curriculum or to contact the authors. AICS4.indb 7 11/25/2008 3:09:03 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - AICS4.indb 8 11/25/2008 3:09:03 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - 9Lesson 1, Adobe Illustrator CS4 Jumpstart What you’ll learn in this lesson: Working with • graphic styles Warping text• Adding a symbol to the • Symbols panel Using the Color Guide• Converting artwork• Erasing paths• Creating a 3-D object• Adobe Illustrator CS4 Jumpstart In this lesson, you will complete several exercises and receive an introduction to some of the important capabilities of Adobe Illustrator. Have fun with this lesson—these features are covered in more detail in later lessons. If you feel uncomfortable jumping right in to creating a project, you can skip to Lesson 2, “Getting to Know the Workspace” and come back to this lesson later. Starting up Before starting, make sure that your tools and panels are consistent by resetting your workspace. See “Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS4 Preferences” on page 3. You will work with several fi les from the ai01lessons folder in this lesson. Make sure that you have loaded the ailessons folder onto your hard drive from the supplied DVD. See “Loading lesson fi les” on page 4. Lesson 1 AICS4.indb 9 11/25/2008 3:09:07 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - 10 Starting up Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom 1 See Lesson 1 in action! Use the accompanying video to gain a better understanding of how to use some of the features shown in this lesson. The video tutorial for this lesson can be found on the included DVD. The project In this lesson, you will create artwork for a CD case and map it to a 3-D object. 1 Launch Adobe Illustrator CS4. 2 Choose File > Browse in Bridge or press the Go to Bridge button ( ) in the application bar at the top of the workspace. By pressing the Go to Bridge button within Illustrator, you launch a separate application called Adobe Bridge. Bridge is an indispensable application that acts as the central command center for all your CS4 Suite applications and helps you organize your Adobe Illustrator projects. You can use Bridge to help you easily locate fi les. With Adobe Bridge, you can see a preview of every fi le within any folder. 3 Once Bridge opens, navigate to the ai01lessons folder within the ailessons folder that you copied to your computer and double-click ai0101_done.ai to open it. The artwork for a CD cover appears. The CD artwork contains objects created in Adobe Illustrator CS4 using auto trace, symbols, the Eraser tool, and Live Color feature. In the following exercises, you will create this fi le. You can keep this completed fi le open for reference, or choose File > Close to close it. The completed CD artwork. 1 AICS4.indb 10 11/25/2008 3:09:23 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Creating the background 11Lesson 1, Adobe Illustrator CS4 Jumpstart 1 4 The Illustrator CS4 workspace is consistent with the other applications in the Creative Suite 4, which helps you to fi nd the tools you need faster, no matter which application you are using. Click on the gray bar above the Tools panel to toggle between a one-column and two- column view. The images in this lesson display the two-column Tools panel, but you can choose whichever format you prefer, as both options allow you to access all the tools. The Tools panel can be viewed as one column or two. 5 For this lesson, you want to have multiple panels showing at the same time. To make sure that you can follow the lesson more easily, choose Window > Workspace > Essentials. Creating the background For this artwork, you will create a simple, solid-colored background and then build additional graphics using the Live Trace, Symbols, and Live Color features. 1 Choose File > New. The New Document dialog box appears. Type ai0101 into the Name text fi eld. 2 Choose Print from the New Document Profi le drop-down menu. By choosing the Print preset your default colors, patterns, and gradients are built from CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black) colors. Choose Print from the New Document Profi le drop-down menu. AICS4.indb 11 11/25/2008 3:09:29 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - 12 Creating the background Adobe Illustrator CS4 Digital Classroom 1 3 Make certain that Letter is chosen from the Size drop-down menu, and choose Inches from the Units drop-down menu. Note that the New Document Profi le categorization changes to Custom. Press OK; the new document is created. The document window contains a blank artboard, which represents the entire region that can contain printable artwork. 4 Select the Rectangle tool ( ) from the Tools panel. You will use this shape tool to create the initial background for your artwork. Click once on the artboard to prompt the Rectangle dialog box. 5 Type 5 in the Width text fi eld, then click on the word Height; the amount of 5 is automatically entered into the Height text fi eld as well. Press OK and a 5-inch square is created. Enter 5 in the Width text fi eld, then click on the word Height to enter the same value in its text fi eld. 6 Select the square with the Selection tool ( ), then click the Fill color swatch in the Control panel to reveal the Fill Swatches panel. Select an orange color. This example uses the orange color with values C=0 M=50 Y=100 K=0. To fi nd this exact shade, place your cursor over the diff erent orange swatches without clicking and a tool tip containing each color’s respective CMYK values appears. Select an orange fi ll color from the Control panel. 7 With the square still selected, click the Stroke color swatch in the Control panel and choose None ( ). Choose to have no color on the stroke. AICS4.indb 12 11/25/2008 3:09:32 PM Simpo PDF Merge and Split Unregistered Version - Taking advantage of graphic styles 13Lesson 1, Adobe Illustrator CS4 Jumpstart 1 8 Choose Object > Lock > Selection or press Ctrl+2 (Windows) or Command+2 (Mac OS) to keep the orange rectangle visible and lock it in its current position. If you need to reposition a shape, choose Object > Unlock, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+2 (Windows) or Command+Option+2 (Mac OS). 9 Choose File > Save. In the Save As dialog box, navigate to the ai01lessons folder. Since you named the document ai0101 when you created the new fi le, ai0101.ai automatically appears in the Save As text fi eld. Press Save. 10 When the Illustrator Options dialog box appears, press OK. Keep the fi le open for the rest of the lesson. Taking advantage of graphic styles Adobe Illustrator CS4 gives you the ability to save combinations of attributes such as fi lls, strokes, and special eff ects collectively as a graphic style. Graphic styles save you time and help keep your styles and colors consistent across a document or series of documents. When using a graphic style, you can apply interesting eff ects to multiple objects at once. In this example, you will create a graphic style using the Eff ects menu and the Appearance panel. 1 Press the letter D on your keyboard. This reverts you to the default colors—a white fi ll and a black stroke. 2 Click and hold on the Rectangle tool ( ) in the Tools panel and select the hidden Ellipse tool ( ). Select t