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Title: Illustrator 9 f/x and Design by Sherry London ISBN: 1-57610-750-7 Publisher: Coriolis Group Books Pub. Date: 23 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Wonderful job and inspiration
Comment: Understanding that this book is for intermediate to advanced users and the focus is on design, you did a wonderful job of blending the user levels. The designs are of an intermediate level but the teaching method is easy enough to follow for most users who have a relatively basic grasp of Illustrator or at least other Adobe products.
The Cityscape project was thorough and delightful, as well as the projects utilizing inticate blends nd using gradient mask objects and blend modes.
Realizing that Illustrator is used heavily for Print design, but also because Illustrator is now more compatible with developing Web design, I'd like to see more examples of interface design.
The files used in the tutorials and supplied on the CD were quite helpful. Opening them was a snap using one of the "free" utilities listed to uncompress. I'd rather have them compressed then not included. It's a big benefit to have all the source files to practice on.
All in all, I think it is a well rounded book with something for everyone except totally new users who need a "how to use Illustrator book". New users needing to learn the program should check out series such as: Classroom in a book, Quickstart guides, Visual Insight books, 24 hour books etc.
Rating: 5
Summary: An intermediate/advanced book that has great techniques
Comment: I have to respectfully disagree with the one-star reviewers listed here. This book is labelled as 'intermediate'--it assumes you already have completed the Adobe Illustrator tutorial which I did. This was the second book I bought.
I adore this book. Sherry London presents exercises in well-written, easy-to-follow steps ("8. Create a new layer and name it '02'"). I completed many of the chapters nearly two years ago and still re-read the one on texture with type. It is a detailed and clever use of type (the letters in 'david') as fill for an image: converting an image to gray-scale, posterizing it, converting those areas to closed paths (using Adobe Streamline) and then filling them with weighted fonts. Although she tells you exactly how to adjust the weight, width, & font tints, she provides them on the CD. Further, the lesson creates variations--slanted type, a patterned seamless tile, and a random pattern using the letters as non-compound shapes. These are great techniques, in my opinion. I also really enjoyed her chapter on gradients and blends where she shared with us another bit of pattern magic in the illusion of water. The resulting image is beautiful.
Adobe has moved onto Illustrator 10, and I hope that Sherry London will author another great step-by-step intermediate book. I'll keep checking back to see...waiting.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great work, Sherry!
Comment: I notice that most people rated this book very highly. A few people rated it very lowly. Nothing in the middle....
This book has inspired me to take Illustrator to places I would have never imagined. I have only started to explore it, I will continue for many, many months and probably still be learning new ways to use Illustrator. I've used the techniques on my own designs. I've thought of new designs of my own, starting with some of Sherry's ideas. Her artwork is only a starting point that teaches the techniques.
If you know your way around the program, and you want to try things that you won't find in a basic "How To" book, if you want your creative imagination stimulated, this is the book to use with Illustrator 9.
I knew what I was getting when I ordered this book -- a book for an intermediate level user. To learn to use Illustrator, I bought a different book, plus took an online course to learn the basics.
As for the files on the CD, they had to be zipped because one CD wouldn't hold them all, along with the other files on the CD. (Doesn't that tell us that there is a wealth of information in this package?) I doubt copyright regulations would have permitted her to include Win-Zip on the CD, but it can be gotten as a free download. So I have no complaint there.
It appears to me that the people who find this book useful find it very useful. I, too, am disappointed by the way the reviews are weighted -- first glance shows that the book is mediocre, which it certainly is not.
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Title: The Illustrator 9 WOW! Book (With CD-ROM) by Sharon Steuer, Steven H. Gordon, Sandra Alves ISBN: 0201704536 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 22 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Special Edition Using Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) 9 by Peter Bauer ISBN: 0789724278 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Real World Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) 9 by Deke McClelland, Sandee Cohen ISBN: 0201704056 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 20 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) 9 in 24 Hours by Mordy Golding ISBN: 0672319381 Publisher: Sams Pub. Date: 23 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Illustrator 9 Visual Insight by T. Michael Clark ISBN: 1576107493 Publisher: Coriolis Group Books Pub. Date: 21 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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