Designers starting out know Adobe Illustrator as “that program for designing logos,” but it’s capable of so much more: ads, illustrations, page layouts, and Web graphics, to name just a few applications. It’s the industry-standard application for vector graphics.
You don’t even have to be a virtuoso at drawing to create good [...]
Adobe Creative Suite makes it easy to reuse text created in Adobe Illustrator CS. Now, with Adobe Creative Suite, you can edit Illustrator text directly in Adobe Photoshop CS, so that you don’t have to switch applications just to tweak the text. And by using the Edit Original and Update Link commands in Adobe InDesign [...]
System requirements
This update requires Adobe Illustrator CS (International English, U.S. English, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, or Swedish versions). Illustrator CS Japanese customers should update to version 11.0.1, not 11.0.2. For additional information, refer to the current system requirements for Illustrator CS.
Installation Instructions
After downloading a DMG file on a Macintosh, double-click the file to [...]
Once you’ve created the opacity mask, you can use the thumbnails in the Transparency palette to work with both the mask and the artwork beneath it. Instead of one thumbnail as you saw before, there are now two thumbnails: the one on the left is the artwork, the one on the right is the mask. [...]
For this exercise, imagine you want to create a gradient that fades from 100-percent color to none (which is not currently possible as you can’t assign the None attribute to a color stop in a gradient). Begin by creating a rectangle and fill it with a solid color. Next, select the rectangle and copy it [...]
A layer clipping mask is very similar to a clipping mask, with one main difference: instead of masking another selected object or group of objects, it masks entire layers. In reality, layer clipping masks are far easier to control and work with because you aren’t constantly selecting and deselecting objects to define what is or [...]
A clipping mask can be made up of any vector object, including editable text. To create a clipping mask, you select both the path that will be the mask and the art that you want to appear inside of the mask. The path that you want to use as the mask must be the topmost [...]
Masking in Adobe Illustrator CS is a way to define parts of your artwork as being hidden from view. Rather than having to delete unwanted parts of your art, you can use a vector shape to define an area that acts like a window: Anything that appears within the borders of the shape is visible, [...]
Now that you understand how path type works, you’re ready to learn how to work with path type on a closed path. When you convert a path to a Path Type object, the point at which you click the path becomes the start point. On an open path, you can easily see [...]
Positioning text on a path—especially a curved path—can be difficult because the spacing can look irregular. However, you can adjust these and other settings by selecting the Path Type object and choosing Type > Type on a Path > Type on a Path Options. The following settings are available in the [...]