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Using Help

About Help

Adobe Systems Incorporated provides complete documentation in an Adobe PDF-based help system. This help system includes information on all tools, commands, and features of an application. It is designed for easy on-screen navigation and can also be printed and used as a desktop reference. Additionally, it supports third-party screen-reader applications that run in a Windows environment.

Navigating in Help

Help opens in an Adobe Acrobat window with the Bookmarks pane open. (If the Bookmarks pane is not open, click the Bookmarks tab at the left edge of the window.) At the top and bottom of each page is a navigation bar containing links to this page (Using Help), the table of contents (Contents), and the index (Index).

To move through pages sequentially, you can click the Next Page and the Previous Page arrows; click the navigation arrows at the bottom of the page; or click Back to return to the last page you viewed.

You can navigate Help topics by using bookmarks, the table of contents, the index, or the Search (Acrobat 6) or Find (Acrobat 5) command.

To ﬁnd a topic using bookmarks:

n the Bookmarks pane, click the plus sign (+) (Windows) or the right-facing arrow

(Mac OS) next to a bookmark topic to view its subtopics.

lick the bookmark to go to that topic.

To ﬁnd a topic using the table of contents:

lick Contents in the navigation bar.

On the Contents page, click a topic to go to that topic.

To view a list of subtopics, click the plus sign (+) (Windows) or the right-facing arrow

(Mac OS) next to the topic name in the Bookmarks pane.

To ﬁnd a topic using the index:

o one of the following:

Click Index in the navigation bar, and then click a letter at the top of the page.

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n the Bookmarks pane, expand the Index bookmark to view the letter subtopics;

then click a letter.

Locate the entry you want to view, and click the page number to go to that topic.

To view other entries for the same topic, click Back to return to the same place in the

index, and then click another page number.

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To ﬁnd a topic using the Search command (Acrobat 6):

Choose Edit > Search.

Type a word or phrase in the text box and click Search. Acrobat searches the document and displays every occurrence of the word or phrase in the Results area of the Search PDF pane.

To ﬁnd a topic using the Find command (Acrobat 5):

Choose Edit > Find.

Type a word or phrase in the text box and click Find. Acrobat searches the document, starting from the current page, and displays the ﬁrst occurrence.

To ﬁnd the next occurrence, choose Edit > Find Again.

Printing Help

Although Help is optimized for on-screen viewing, you can print selected pages or the entire ﬁle.

To print Help:

Choose File > Print, or click the Print icon in the Acrobat toolbar.

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earning about Adobe Illustrator 4

What’s New in Illustrator CS 12

Tutorials 19

Looking at the Work Area 35

Creating Artwork in Illustrator 60

Basic Drawing 85

Arranging and Combining Objects 116

Reshaping Objects 159

Applying Color, Fills, and Strokes 195

Producing Consistent Color 218

Using Transparency, Gradients, and Patterns 236

Enhancing the Appearance of Objects 264

Advanced Drawing 294

Working with Bitmap Images 319

Adding Type to Artwork 323

Formatting Type 348

Creating Web Graphics 392

Saving and Exporting Artwork 423

Printing Artwork 446

Producing Color Separations 479

Automating Tasks 492

Creating Graphs 510

Keyboard Shortcuts 532

Legal Notices 543

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Learning about Adobe Illustrator

Getting Help

Adobe provides a variety of options for you to learn Illustrator, including printed guides, online Help, and tool tips. You can easily access a host of continually updated Web resources for learning Illustrator, from tips and tutorials to tech support information. Getting up to speed depends on your experience with previous versions of Illustrator.

Finding Help for Illustrator features

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Are new to Illustrator and want an overview of tools and features

Are upgrading from a previous version of Illustrator

Are looking for a detailed information about a feature

Want to learn about free content included with Illustrator

Want a PDF version of the Illustrator User Guide and Help system

Want information on keyboard shortcuts

• Browse through the information in “

tor” on page 6 for information on speciﬁc tasks.

• See the “Looking at the Work Area” chapter to get familiar with the work area and tools.

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Go to the Tutorials chapter for hands-on lessons.

• Use the Illustrator tool tips feature to help identify tools, buttons, and palette controls as you work in Illustrator. (See

sing tool tips” on page 45.)

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• See the “What’s New” chapter for information on new functionality in Illustrator CS.

• Browse through the information in “

tor” on page 6 for information on speciﬁc tasks.

• Search for the feature in Illustrator Help or looking it up in the index.

• Choose Help > Welcome Screen, and click Cool Extras to view a catalog of templates, brushes, styles, symbols, swatches, fonts, and sample ﬁles.

• See the

• See the Keyboard Shortcuts appendix.

AICSHelp

ﬁle on the CD.

Working with Illustra-

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Finding Illustrator training resources

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Want to learn new techniques for using Illustrator

Are a developer looking for technical resources

• Complete one of the tutorials available on the Adobe Illustrator Web site.

• Choose Help > Illustrator Online to open the main Adobe Illustrator Web page.

• Choose Help > Online Support to go directly to the Adobe Illustrator support page.

• Open Adobe’s home page at www

.adobe.com. Then select

Products and click the Illustrator link.

Note:

You must have an Internet connection and an Internet browser in order to access the Adobe Web site using these commands.

Resources on the Adobe Web site are continually updated and include the following step-by-step tutorials; updates, patches, and plug-ins; Illustrator Top Issues containing the latest Illustrator technical support solutions; technical guides; a searchable database of answers to technical questions; and links to user forums.

Go to h

ttp://partners.adobe.com/asn/techresources.jsp.

The Adobe Solutions Network (ASN) provides resources for developers, print service providers, and others interested in making the most of Adobe products and technologies. Here, you can ﬁnd access to such information as SDKs, the developer knowledgebase, and technical guides for areas such as PDF, PostScript and printing technologies, fonts, XMP, and SVG.

Are looking for a book or selfguided training option

Visit the Adobe Press site at www.adobe.com/misc/ books.html or contact your local bookseller. Adobe Press books provide in-depth training in Adobe software, including the acclaimed Classroom in a Book

series developed by

experts at Adobe.

Want information about becoming an Adobe Certiﬁed Expert, Adobe Certiﬁed Instructor, or Adobe

Visit the Partnering with Adobe Web site at h

ners.adobe.com.

Certiﬁcation is available worldwide.

ttp://part-

Authorized Learning Provider

Finding support for Illustrator

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Want answers to common troubleshooting questions

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Choose Help > Online Support and follow the links to the Support Knowledgebase. You can browse top issues for Illustrator and search a database with answers to technical questions.

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Finding support for Illustrator

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Want customer or technical support

• Refer to the technical support card provided with your software.

• When you register your product, you may be entitled to technical support for up to 90 days from the date of your ﬁrst call. Terms may vary depending on the country of residence. To register online, choose Help > Registration. You can also register by ﬁlling out and returning the warranty registration card included with your software package.

• See the ReadMe installed with the program for additional information.

• See the Adobe Illustrator support page for information on top support issues and troubleshooting information for common problems. This support page includes access to an extensive Support Knowledgebase, which you can search for answers to speciﬁc Illustrator questions and problems. To access the Adobe Illustrator support page, choose Help > Online Support.

Working with Illustrator

You can work with Illustrator in different ways. Whether you’re creating graphics for the Web or high-resolution images for print, Illustrator delivers easy-to-use tools and editable effects to let you experiment at will—or revise as needed—and still meet your deadlines.

If you want to jump-start a project

Illustrator provides a variety of professionally-designed resources to help get your creative juices ﬂowing:

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Use templates to start typical design projects. Illustrator comes with templates for business documents (letterhead, business cards, envelopes, and so on), CD and DVD booklets, brochures, certiﬁcates, greeting cards, Web sites, and more

create new templates to meet your design and production needs. (See “

page 62 and “Creating new templates” on page 63.)

Use libraries of symbols, brushes, styles, and swatches to speed up the design process.

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Creating new documents” on

. In addition, you can

For a catalog of the libraries, choose Help > Welcome Screen, and click Cool Extras.

If you want to draw an illustration

From the industry-standard Pen tool to versatile brushes and symbols, Illustrator supplies tools that support your illustration style:

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Use the Pen tool to draw precise paths—smooth, ﬂowing curves or straight lines—or use the dynamic pencil to draw on-screen as easily as you do on paper. (See “D

precise paths with the Pen tool” on page 98 and “Drawing freeform paths with the Pencil tool” on page 96.)

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Use the specialized shape tools to draw rectangles, circles, arcs, grids, spirals, stars, and more. (See “D

rawing simple lines and shapes” on page 87.)

rawing

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Use brushes to create hand-drawn effects, such as calligraphic strokes, and paint

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patterns that ﬂow along a path. Customize the brushes or edit the strokes at any time to ﬁne-tune the image. (See “U

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If you start an illustration by sketching it on paper, simply scan your drawing and place

sing brushes” on page 294.)

it into Illustrator as a template layer. Then use the Auto Trace tool to automatically trace the image. (See “

Use symbols to add individual design elements to an illustration or create natural-

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looking masses of repeating elements such as foliage or crowds. (See “D

Tracing artwork” on page 113.)

rawing with

symbols” on page 306 and “Using the symbolism tools” on page 310.)

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Create complex shapes quickly by combining simple shapes into compounds. Then edit the compounds if you need to without redrawing the original shapes. (See “

Combining

objects into complex shapes” on page 148.)

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Reshape objects with the Illustrator transformation tools. You can apply the changes interactively, or enter speciﬁc settings to control the results precisely. (See “

Choosing a

reshaping method” on page 159.)

If you want to apply sophisticated color effects

Illustrator offers advanced ﬁll and stroke options such as patterns, gradients, and the ability to add multiple ﬁlls and strokes to a single object. In addition, you can apply transparency and masks to produce painterly, see-through effects:

Use the Transparency palette to apply transparency to vector objects, bitmap images,

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or type. You have the option of limiting transparency to a layer, a group, or an object’s ﬁll or stroke, and transparent objects and type remain fully editable. (See “

transparency” on page 236.)

Apply blending modes to blend the colors of graphics and type with the colors on

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underlying layers. By experimenting with different mode settings in the Transparency palette, you can create a wide range of effects. (See “U

sing blending modes” on

page 239.)

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Use clipping masks to cut an object away from its background, or create opacity masks to let elements on an underlying layer show through an object. (See “U

masks to change the shape of objects” on page 155 and “Creating and editing opacity masks” on page 243.)

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Paint objects by ﬁlling them with solid colors or patterns. Or use gradients to produce painterly ﬁlls that ﬂow between multiple colors, similar to watercolors. (See “Applying

color ﬁlls and strokes to objects” on page 214, “Using the Gradient palette” on page 248, and “Working with patterns” on page 255.)

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Select Add New Fill or Add New Stroke from the Appearance palette to apply multiple strokes and ﬁlls to a single object. (See “

Creating multiple ﬁlls and strokes in an object”

on page 217.)

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If you want to add visual impact to your artwork

With Illustrator’s dynamic tools and effects, you’ll be able to make your ideas come to life:

Import ﬁles from other applications to add diverse elements to your artwork. (See

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“Imp

orting artwork” on page 74 and “Managing linked and embedded artwork” on

page 80.)

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Use graphic styles to quickly add ﬂair to text and artwork. Illustrator comes with over

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150 preset styles, plus you can save new styles with a single click. (See “U

sing graphic

styles” on page 289.)

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Use effects to experiment with a limitless variety of appearances while keeping the ability to edit the underlying objects. Effects can be modiﬁed or removed instantly, so you’ll always be in control of the ﬁnal artwork. (See “U

sing ﬁlters and effects” on

page 273 and “Summary of ﬁlters and effects” on page 276.)

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When applying styles and effects, use the Layers palette to target any object, group, or layer you want to change. Then use the Appearance palette to keep track of and modify the results. (See “

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Bend, stretch, and twist your graphics in any way imaginable with live enveloping,

Targeting layers, groups, and containers” on page 268.)

warping, and liquify tools. The distorted objects remain editable, no matter how much they have been manipulated. (See “R

“R

eshaping objects with effects and ﬁlters” on page 180, and “Reshaping objects with

eshaping objects with envelopes” on page 170,

the liquify tools” on page 168.)

If you want to create professional-quality type

Illustrator provides powerful, ﬂexible features for creating and modifying type. With the new typographic controls in this version of Illustrator, you be able to set type like a pro:

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Add type anywhere in your artwork—horizontally, vertically, along paths, inside shapes, around shapes, in rows and in columns. If you can imagine it, Illustrator can do it. (See

“

Creating type” on page 324.)

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Use the OpenType and Glyphs palettes to gain access to special characters in OpenType font, including ligatures, fractions, swash characters, titling characters, ordinals, and ornaments. Illustrator comes with a variety of OpenType features in your work right away. (See “

Applying OpenType features to characters” on

page 360.)

Use the Character and Paragraph palettes to keep typographic controls at your

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ﬁngertips. These palettes provide a host of formatting options—from font, size, leading, kerning, and tracking to alignment, justiﬁcation, and indentation. (See “F

characters” on page 350 and “Formatting paragraphs” on page 364.)

Once your type is formatted exactly as desired, save the settings in a character or

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paragraph style. Styles help you format type quickly and maintain high standards by ensuring that all of the text in a design is consistent. (See “U

paragraph styles” on page 375.)

Use the Adobe Every-line Composer to automatically typeset blocks of text. The Every-

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line Composer produces elegant line breaks with minimal hyphenation, consistent word and letter spacing, and no distracting rivers of white space ﬂowing from line to line. (See “

Use editing features—including spell-checking, ﬁnd and replace, and smart punctu-

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Working with composition” on page 370.)

ation—to ﬁne-tune your text. Illustrator comes with dictionaries for twenty-nine different languages so you can use these features regardless of which language the text is in. (See “E

diting text” on page 339.)

fonts so you can use these

ormatting

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If your artwork includes Japanese text, turn on the Show Asian Options preference.

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Illustrator includes features for tsume, tate-chu-yoko, warichuu, mojikumi, kinsoku shori and composite fonts. (See “

Working with Chinese, Japanese, and Korean type” on

page 378.)

If you want to create graphics for the Web

Illustrator provides Web-savvy tools to help you minimize ﬁle size without sacriﬁcing the quality of your artwork—and unlike their raster-based counterparts, the vector elements you create in Illustrator remain completely editable.

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To manage repeating graphics efﬁciently, create a symbol and then use as many instances of it as you need. File size stays small because the symbol is deﬁned only once, and the instances reference the symbol. In addition, the instances update automatically when you edit the symbol. (See “D

Create vector- or raster-based slices from objects, groups, or layers. The slices update

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automatically when elements are repositioned or edited, and you can export individual slices in Macromedia Flash (SWF), SVG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, or HTML format, all within the same HTML table. (See “D

ividing artwork into slices” on page 394.)

rawing with symbols” on page 306.)

Use the Release to Layers command to shufﬂe objects from one layer onto individual

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layers. Then export the layers in Photoshop format or as a Macromedia Flash (SWF) ﬁle for animation in another Adobe application. (See “R

eleasing items to separate layers”

on page 139.)

Use the Image Map pop-up menu in the Attributes palette to deﬁne an image map.

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Enter a URL, and Illustrator automatically generates a linked image map when you export the ﬁle in Web format. (See “

Apply drop shadows and other effects as editable SVG effects. These low-memory

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Creating image maps” on page 400.)

vector effects are rasterized only when viewed in an SVG viewer, so they look crisp at any size. (See “

Apply type anti-aliasing selectively to keep small text easy to read. (See “R

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Creating Web graphics with SVG” on page 401.)

asterizing and

anti-aliasing type” on page 346.)

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Choose View > Pixel Preview to see how your vector objects will appear when they are rasterized for the Web. (See “

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Set the Color palette to display only Web-safe colors, or use the Only Web Colors option

Working in pixel preview mode” on page 393.)

in the Color Picker. In addition, you can convert an existing print ﬁle to RGB by choosing File > Document Color Mode > RGB. (See “Using the Color palette” on page 201 and

“U

sing the Color Picker” on page 200.)

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The Save for Web dialog box displays side-by-side previews of your artwork to let you compare different compression options and select settings that keep the image quality high and the ﬁle size low. (See “

Optimizing images” on page 407.)

If you want to speed up everyday tasks

Saving a few seconds here and there can shave hours off a complex project, and Illustrator is packed with features to handle common tasks quickly and efﬁciently.

Specify a tolerance range for the Magic Wand tool to select a range of objects with

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similar attributes—every object with a stroke weight between 1 and 3 points, for example. Save and load selections easily using the Select menu. (See “U

Wand tool and palette” on page 121.)

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Use graphic styles and effects to change the appearance of vector objects instantly.

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Because the original objects remain intact, you can modify the results at any time. (See

“U

sing graphic styles” on page 289 and “Using ﬁlters and effects” on page 273.)

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Manage complex artwork efﬁciently by using the Layers palette to organize the ﬁle into distinct layers and sublayers. You can also use the Layers palette to apply appearance attributes to layers, groups, and objects. (See “

Organizing objects using layers” on

page 135.)

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Position objects quickly using the precision layout tools in Illustrator, including snap-to grids, Smart Guides, and the Align palette. (See “La

ying out artwork with precision” on

page 67 and “Aligning and distributing objects” on page 128.)

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Sample text and color attributes with the Eyedropper tool and apply the attributes to other objects. (See “

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Use the Swatches palette to store color and pattern swatches in a custom swatch set.

Copying attributes between objects” on page 271.)

When you copy an object from one ﬁle to another, any swatches associated with the object are added to the Swatches palette in the destination document. (See “

Working

with swatches” on page 202.)

If you want to use Illustrator with other applications

When you use Illustrator with other Adobe software, you can take advantage of superior Adobe technologies such as cross-product color-management tools, ﬁle information, Smart Object technology, transparency tools, and a uniﬁed interface that makes it easy to put your expertise in one application to work in another:

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Preserve layers, masks, transparency, compound shapes, and editable type when passing ﬁles between Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Retain rollover and animation information in linked Photoshop ﬁles when exporting from Illustrator as CSS layers. (See “Exp

page 416.)

Edit native Illustrator ﬁles directly in Adobe InDesign. Adjust transparency settings in

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InDesign, and preserve live effects, such as drop shadows.

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Drop Illustrator ﬁles inside Adobe GoLive and then double-click the ﬁles to launch Illustrator and make edits. The changes appear automatically in the GoLive ﬁle. Fine-tune the optimization settings directly in GoLive, and import data-driven graphics templates into GoLive for automated network publishing.

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Export EPS and Macromedia Flash (SWF) ﬁles for use in LiveMotion. Export Illustrator blends as SWF sequences that can be animated in LiveMotion. Double-click a placed Illustrator ﬁle to launch Illustrator; any edits update automatically in the LiveMotion ﬁle. (See “

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Save your Illustrator ﬁles in Adobe PDF format to create documents anyone can view using the industry-standard Adobe Reader

page 425.)

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Import layered Illustrator artwork into Adobe After Effects, and integrate easy-to-edit Illustrator graphics into your Adobe Premiere video productions.

orting artwork” on page 437 and “Exporting layers as CSS layers” on

Creating Web graphics with SWF” on page 406.)

. (See “

Saving artwork in Adobe PDF” on

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Create templates in Illustrator and deﬁne variable elements. Then use Adobe AlterCast

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image server software (available only in English) to replace the variable text and graphics automatically and generate an unlimited number of unique iterations of the design. (See “

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Use the Save for Microsoft Ofﬁce command to create a ﬁle you can use in a PowerPoint presentation, a Word document, or an Excel spreadsheet.

Microsoft Ofﬁce” on page 437

Working with data-driven graphics” on page 503.)

(See

“

Saving artwork for

)

If you want to automate time-consuming processes

Tight deadlines require efﬁcient workﬂow, especially for designers and developers working in high-volume publishing environments. Illustrator lets you automate some of the most repetitive tasks, such as batch processing and creating variations of similar designs.

Build a basic template in Illustrator and deﬁne objects in the design as variables. Then

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use an automated script or an image server to produce unique variations, using data stored in any ODBC-compliant source. (See “

page 503.)

Automate repetitive tasks using the rich scripting support, which allows access to

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almost every function in Illustrator. Write scripts using JavaScript, AppleScript, or Microsoft Visual Basic. (See “U

Use the Illustrator Actions palette to group a series of commands into a single action.

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sing scripts” on page 502.)

Then play back the action to repeat the entire set of steps automatically. You can even use the Batch command to apply an action to a folder of ﬁles and subfolders. (See “U

sing actions” on page 492.)

Working with data-driven graphics” on

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What’s New in Illustrator CS

3D effect

Rendering objects in perspective is a time-honored way to give printed materials the illusion of depth. Now, Illustrator CS makes it easy to add 3D elements to your work, whether you’re producing a logo, a package design, or a title for a video production. Using the integrated new 3D effect, you can transform type and other shapes you draw into 3D objects, and then rotate them in space and even customize their lighting. 3D shapes are “live,” so changes you make to the original 2D object are automatically reﬂected in the 3D shape.

For more information on the 3D effect, see “

Creating 3D objects” on page 185.

Scribble effect

Have fun making vector artwork look loose and hand-drawn with the new live Scribble effect. Great for adding a child-like charm to artwork, the Scribble effect is also handy for quickly making formal design elements look casual and friendly, masking images, creating scratchboard-like illustrations, adding cross-hatching to a design, or creating animated wiggly lines.

For more information on the Scribble effect, see “

page 287.

Making objects look hand-sketched” on

Templates and other professionally-designed content

Illustrator CS includes more than 200 real-world, professionally-designed templates— including 50 Japanese language templates—that help you start typical projects quickly. Templates provide a range of design ideas and include custom-sized artboards, layers, styles, swatches, symbols, and more. Illustrator CS also includes a template ﬁle format, so you can save your own templates. For more information on using templates, see “

new documents” on page 62 and “Creating new templates” on page 63.

In addition to templates, Illustrator CS comes with more than 100 free OpenType fonts (including Roman, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean fonts) and professional swatch and symbols libraries. To view a catalog of the content that comes with Illustrator CS, choose Help > Welcome Screen and click Cool Extras.

Creating

Type enhancements

Illustrator CS introduces a redesigned text engine and forward-looking features that make it easier than ever to set great-looking type.

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Paragraph and character styles Paragraph and character styles help you maintain high

production standards by ensuring that all of the text in a design uses consistent formatting, whether for entire paragraphs or shorter segments, such as run-in heads or words that require particular emphasis. Styles also save you time because they enable you to apply a rich set of formatting attributes with a single click of a mouse.

For more information on character and paragraph styles, see “U

sing character and

paragraph styles” on page 375.

OpenType font support The OpenType font standard was developed jointly by Adobe

and Microsoft, and brings the advantages of both the TrueType and PostScript font formats into a new format that takes advantage of Unicode character encoding.

OpenType fonts use a single font ﬁle for both Macintosh and Windows computers, so you can move ﬁles from one platform to another without worrying about font substitution and other problems that cause text to reﬂow. A single OpenType font ﬁle can also include many more glyphs (a glyph is a visual representation of a character) than other font formats, including glyphs previously only available in expert sets and characters for nonwestern languages such as Greek and Cyrillic.

In addition to these general beneﬁts, Illustrator CS includes special OpenType commands for automatic context-sensitive substitution of alternate glyphs. When you select any of these options, Illustrator automatically replaces the default glyph for a particular character or combination of characters with any contextually appropriate alternative. For example, if you have the Fractions option selected and type 3/16 in an OpenType font that supports arbitrary fractions, the numbers will be automatically reformatted as a fraction; if you select the Swash option and the selected OpenType font includes alternate Swash glyphs, they will be used.

For more information on OpenType font support, see “

Applying OpenType features to

characters” on page 360.

Easy access to alternate glyphs The new Glyphs palette in Illustrator CS offers a fast,

accessible way to see all of the glyphs in a font, such as Ornaments, Terminal Forms, Discretionary Ligatures, and more. Simply double-clicking inserts the selected glyph. Previously, you could access these special characters only by memorizing keyboard shortcuts or manually formatting individual characters using a separate “expert” version of a font that included the character you wanted.

For more information on using the Glyphs palette, see “Inser

ting glyphs” on page 340.

Columns, rows, and other area type enhancements Quickly produce multi-column

designs by deﬁning columns and rows in any text area. Specify the number of columns and rows, the width and height of those rows and columns, whether or not they’re a ﬁxed size, and the size of the gutter. You can also determine the size of the inset between the text and the object containing it, how the baseline is set, and whether text ﬂows between linked objects from right to left or left to right.

For more information on setting up rows and columns, see “

Working with blocks of type”

on page 328.

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Optical kerning and optical margin alignment With many fonts, the default spacing

between characters is visually uneven or crowded, even when the kerning pairs built into the font are used. Designers have long used manual kerning to adjust the space between awkward-looking pairs of letters, but the process is time-consuming. To help balance your desire for quality against your drive to meet schedules, Illustrator CS introduces two features that automate kerning:

Optical kerning automatically kerns text to produce optimal spacing. When applied to a

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word, line, or paragraph, Illustrator analyzes the visual characteristics of text and automatically determines the ideal spacing for the characters—even when that text mixes different fonts and font sizes. Kerning is cumulative, so you can always adjust optically kerned text to suit your eye. For more information on using optical kerning, see “

Adjusting kerning and tracking” on page 355.

• Optical margin alignment automatically adjusts the position of punctuation and text

characters at either end of a line to make the edges of a text block look more visually even. You use optical alignment most often to hang punctuation, such as quotation marks and hyphens, but other characters are subtly shifted as well in order to produce typographically good-looking results. For more information on using optical margin alignment, see “

Specifying hanging punctuation” on page 367.

Every-line Composer for optimized paragraph composition The new Every-line Composer in Illustrator CS gives you the ability to produce exquisitely typeset text without ﬁne-tuning line breaks by hand. The main goal in setting longer runs of text—in brochures, packaging, and other materials you create with Illustrator—is to produce the most elegant line breaks you can with minimal hyphenation, consistent word and letter spacing, and no distracting “rivers” of white space ﬂowing from line to line. The Every-line Composer, a unique Adobe composition engine used in Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop, examines all of the text in an area to determine the best combination of line breaks across the entire run. Illustrator CS also includes the Single-line Composer, which applies hyphenation and justiﬁcation settings to one line of text at a time, just as Illustrator did in the past.

For more information on the Every-line Composer and the Single-line Composer, see

“

Working with composition” on page 370.

Custom tab leaders With Illustrator CS, you can customize the dot type and pattern for tab leaders, or you can design your own graphics to use as tab leaders. In addition, Illustrator now lets you set unlimited numbers of tabs.

For more information on setting up tab leaders, see “

Working with tabs” on page 371.

WYSIWYG font menu The Font menu in Adobe Illustrator CS displays each font face you have installed, so you can choose the fonts you want to use visually. Experimenting with different faces is now faster and more direct, and you can see at a glance what format a font uses (for example, the green and black O indicates an OpenType font). If you prefer, you can also disable this option.

For more information on previewing fonts, see “P

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Expanded support for Japanese typography Adobe Illustrator is the standard for

design in most countries, and support for ﬁle sharing between different language versions has long made it possible to share designs globally. Illustrator CS expands this support with more sophisticated controls for formatting Japanese text. This includes customizable mojikumi rule sets for determining optimal character spacing, as well as editable kinsoku shori rule sets for handling Japanese punctuation, characters that cannot begin or end lines, and characters that can’t be separated. Illustrator also includes other enhancements, such as automated tate-chu-yoko controls, a composite font editor, an IME editor for entering Japanese text, and a preference for hiding or showing Japanese text options in Roman versions of Illustrator.

For more information on Japanese type features, see “

Working with Chinese, Japanese,

and Korean type” on page 378.

New options for type on paths Illustrator CS expands your options for designing text on a path. The new Type on a Path submenu on the Type menu provides ﬁve preset alignment options, and the Type on a Path Options dialog box includes additional options for controlling the position of the text relative to the path. Now you can create a wider range of looks for projects that use path text with a minimum of effort.

For more information on setting options for type on paths, see “

Adjusting the position of

type on a path” on page 336.

On-screen highlighting of missing fonts Illustrator CS automatically highlights fonts that are used in a document but are not available on a computer system, so you can identify and ﬁx problems easily. Then use the Find Font command (available in previous versions of Illustrator) to replace the missing fonts with installed ones or identify the missing fonts so you can install them.

For more information on missing fonts, see “Handling missing f

onts” on page 360.

Enhanced hyphenation and justiﬁcation controls Illustrator CS provides signiﬁcantly enhanced hyphenation and justiﬁcation controls. Control how long a word must be before Illustrator hyphenates it, whether Illustrator hyphenates capitalized words, and whether it favors better word and character spacing or fewer hyphens. New Justiﬁcation controls allow you to set minimum, maximum, and desired settings for word spacing, letter spacing, glyph scaling, and more.

For more information on setting up hyphenation and justiﬁcation, see “

Controlling

hyphenation and justiﬁcation” on page 369.

Expanded language support Spell-check and hyphenate the text in your Illustrator documents in 29 languages, from U.S. and U.K. English, French, and German to Icelandic, Polish, Serbian, and Turkish.

For more information on language support, see “

Assigning a language” on page 359.

Improved text linking and deletion Text linking is now more ﬂexible: any text area, including path text, can be linked to any other text area, so it’s possible to ﬂow text from one area, onto a path, and then into a second area. Plus, you can now delete a linked text block without also deleting any text it contains—the text now ﬂows back into the previous box. Illustrator also now reduces clutter in your documents by automatically deleting empty text blocks that are created by clicking a type tool and not entering text.

For more information on text linking and deletion, see “

Threading text between objects”

on page 333 and “Unthreading text from objects” on page 334.

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Warning about text reﬂow Open documents created in older versions of Illustrator with

conﬁdence: you can choose to have the text in legacy documents remain just as it was designed until you click an insertion point to edit it, or you can choose to update all type objects when you open the ﬁle with Illustrator CS.

For more information on your options for reﬂowing text, see “U

previous versions of Illustrator” on page 323.

pdating text created in

Enhanced PDF support

Adobe Illustrator has used Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) as its native ﬁle format for several versions, making it easy for you, your clients, and others to open and view your artwork ﬁles in Adobe Acrobat or the free Adobe Reader. Now Illustrator CS introduces new support for Adobe PDF, including compatibility with Acrobat 6.0 and the Adobe PDF

1.5 format, extensive security options, and support for layers, printer’s marks, and bleeds in PDF ﬁles. In addition, you can apply transparency ﬂattener styles as you save PDF ﬁles and save PDF settings as presets to streamline PDF creation.

For more information on PDF options, see “

Saving artwork in Adobe PDF” on page 425.

Tighter integration with Adobe Photoshop

Move layered ﬁles between Photoshop and Illustrator more easily. Text editability has been improved because the two programs now share the same underlying text composition technology. Plus, multiple spot channels can be imported and 16-bit color data can be converted to 8-bit on import, so you no longer have to keep two versions of your original ﬁle. Also, you can link Photoshop duotone and tritone PDF images and print them accurately from Illustrator.

For more information on moving artwork between Illustrator and Photoshop, see

“Imp

orting artwork from Photoshop” on page 78, “About importing layers from

Photoshop ﬁles” on page 80, and “Photoshop format (PSD)” on page 440.

Expanded print capabilities

One of the top priorities for Illustrator CS was to reﬁne the printing experience and make Illustrator print jobs more efﬁcient and reliable to output, whether to a desktop printer or a high-end print production device. To achieve this, Illustrator CS introduces a streamlined user interface and next-generation support for fast and reliable printing, so you can easily produce consistent results every time you print.

Illustrator CS eliminates the Page Setup and Separations Setup dialog boxes, and consolidates their functionality in the comprehensive new Print dialog box. You can now specify all print settings in the Print dialog box, from tiling and custom page sizes to printer’s marks, color management output proﬁles, and transparency ﬂattener settings. This new, more uniﬁed interface makes it easier to specify printing options quickly and accurately to achieve the results you want. Other new printing features include an interactive print preview, convenient scaling options, intuitive tiling controls, time-saving print presets, improved consistency with transparency ﬂattener presets, more ﬂexible printer’s marks, independent bleed settings, new separation options, and ﬁner control when printing layers.

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For more information on print capabilities, see “Using the Print dialog box” on page 447.

Adobe Version Cue

Use Adobe Version Cue™ features in Illustrator CS to increase your productivity when you work alone or collaborate with others. You can integrate Version Cue design management into your existing workﬂows within and across the Adobe Version Cue features in Illustrator CS are only compatible with the Adobe Version Cue Workspace, which is a feature that is only available as part of the Adobe Creative Suite. (See “

Working with Adobe Version Cue managed projects” on page 58)

Creative Suite applications. The

Faster performance

Illustrator CS is faster across the board, so you can work more quickly. From copying and pasting to scrolling around the artboard, printing, and saving ﬁles, you can pursue your ideas in a more interactive environment.

Tighter integration with Microsoft Ofﬁce

When you need to move artwork from Illustrator into a PowerPoint presentation, a Word document, or an Excel spreadsheet, the new Save For Microsoft Ofﬁce command saves your graphics in a format that gives you great-looking results every time. Whether you’re working on a Windows or Mac OS system, this new option saves you time by ensuring your artwork displays and prints beautifully when viewed in Microsoft Ofﬁce documents.

For more information on saving for Microsoft Ofﬁce, see “

Ofﬁce” on page 437.

Saving artwork for Microsoft

Support for eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP)

Metadata is increasingly important in all types of publishing: when metadata is embedded in a ﬁle, publishing that ﬁle across print, the Web, eBooks and more can be automated more easily. Developed by Adobe, the eXtensible Metadata Platform (XMP) is an open XML framework that standardizes the creation, processing, and interchange of metadata across publishing workﬂows. By adding metadata in XMP, for example, keywords you add to your ﬁles can be indexed by Internet search engines, making your images more easily accessible online. Because the XMP standard is also supported by Photoshop CS, Acrobat 6.0 Professional, and InDesign CS, the metadata information you enter in your Illustrator ﬁles can be maintained wherever you take the ﬁle.

For more information on XMP, see “

ttp://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/

main.html.

Adding metadata to documents” on page 443 or go to

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Plus more...

Input from customers has helped Adobe make many improvements to the features you rely on. Other enhancements are designed to make Illustrator more intuitive, so new users can get up to speed more quickly. Here’s an overview of some of the user interface enhancements in this release:

• Learn about Illustrator and how to make the most of key features: Watch a 90-minute

Total Training video by expert author and trainer Deke McClelland included on a CD in the box.

• Learn about new features in Illustrator CS and access Tutorials and other free content by

choosing options from the Welcome to Adobe Illustrator CS screen that appears when you ﬁrst launch the program.

• Take advantage of richer support for the SVG ﬁle format: Illustrator now supports the

use of SVG primitives, expanding your options for manipulating objects in the SVG ﬁles you import and export.

• Print and export linked EPS and PDF ﬁles that interact with transparency—including

duotones—without embedding them.

• Open and save Style, Swatch, Brush, and Symbol libraries right from their respective

palettes by choosing the Open Library and Save Library commands from the palette menus.

• Use a lock button on the Transform palette to scale objects proportionally.

• Specify a sample size in pixels for the Eyedropper tool.

• Choose a custom scale size for DXF and DWG ﬁles on import.

• Optimize and export WBMP graphics for use on wireless devices.

• Automate more tasks with Scripting enhancements, including the ability to automate

all new features—such as the new Printing interface—with expanded scripting support.

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Tutorials

About tutorials

The following tutorials are designed to give new users a quick tour of Illustrator. Before you get started, be sure you know how to create and save documents. (See “

documents” on page 62 and “About saving artwork” on page 423.)

In addition to these tutorials, Adobe provides a variety of resources to help you learn Illustrator. (See “ Support Web site at h the Tutorials link.

Getting Help” on page 4.) For more advanced tutorials, go to the Illustrator

ttp://www.adobe.com/support/products/illustrator.html and click

Creating new

Design a quick logo or Web button

Adobe Illustrator provides a variety of tools for creating basic geometric shapes, as well as hundreds of professionally-designed symbols. Follow along and learn how to use shapes and symbols as building blocks for artwork.

1. Draw a shape.

Hold the mouse down on a shape tool in the toolbox, and select the shape tool you want to use. Then drag in the document window to draw the shape.

We selected the Ellipse tool and held down the Shift key while dragging to draw a circle. Holding down the Shift key tells Illustrator to constrain proportions. For example, you can use the Shift key with the Rectangle tool to draw a square.

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2. Fill the shape with color.

Click the ﬁll box in the toolbox. This tells Illustrator that you want to apply color inside the shape rather than to its stroke (or outline). Then click any swatch in the Swatches palette to ﬁll the shape with color. (If the Swatches palette isn’t showing, choose Window > Swatches.)

If you don’t like any of the default colors in the Swatches palette, there are several other ways to select a color. Double-click the ﬁll box in the toolbox to select a color using the Color Picker, or choose Window > Color to select a color using the Color palette. (See

“

Selecting colors” on page 200.) Or click the triangle icon at the top right corner of the

Swatches palette, and choose a swatch library from the Open Swatch Library submenu. (See “

Creating swatch libraries” on page 209.)

3. Change the shape’s stroke weight.

If the Stroke palette isn’t showing, choose Window > Stroke. In the Stroke palette, type a different value in the Weight text box, and press Enter or Return to apply the change.

We increased the stroke weight to 3 points. Although we decided to stick with a black stroke, you can change the stroke color by clicking the stroke box in the toolbox and selecting a different color. (See “

Applying color using the toolbox” on page 214.)

4. Place a symbol instance.

If the Symbols palette isn’t showing, choose Window > Symbols. The Symbols palette displays a variety of default symbols; however many additional symbols are available to you through symbol libraries. To open a symbol library, click the triangle icon at the top right corner of the Symbols palette, and choose an option from the Open Symbol Library submenu.

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Once you locate the symbol you want to use, drag it from the palette into the document window. The placed symbol is called a symbol instance. We used the Home symbol from the Web Icons symbol library.

5. Resize the symbol instance.

Depending on the size of the symbol instance, you may want to make it larger or smaller. First select the Selection tool in the toolbox and click the symbol instance. Then drag one of the corner handles on the symbol instance to enlarge or reduce it. As with drawing shapes, holding down the Shift key as you drag causes Illustrator to constrain the proportions of the symbol instance.

You can also use the Scale tool or the Transform palette to resize selected objects in the document window. (See “

Scaling objects, strokes, and effects” on page 161.)

6. Align the symbol instance and the shape.

Make sure the Selection tool is still active in the toolbox, and drag a marquee around both the shape and symbol instance. Then choose Window > Align to show the Align palette.

The Align palette contains buttons for aligning and distributing objects. First, we clicked the Horizontal Align Center. Then we clicked the Vertical Align Center button.

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7. Experiment with design variations.

Now that you have a basic design, experiment with different variations. For example, if you want to apply a different ﬁll and stroke to the symbol instance, select the instance in the document window and click the Break Link to Symbol button in the Symbols palette. Once the link to the symbol is broken the object is no longer a symbol, so you can apply different ﬁlls and strokes to it.

We went one step further by applying a variety of gradients to our design. First, we drew another circle, chose Object > Arrange > Send Backward, and realigned all three objects using the Align palette. Then we ﬁlled the objects with a default gradient from the Swatches palette. Then, we selected just the outer circle and used the Gradient tool to reverse the direction of the gradient. (See “U ﬁnal design will make a great Web button, so we used the Save For Web command to save it in GIF format. (See “

Optimizing images” on page 407.)

sing the Gradient palette” on page 248.) Our

Discover the power of compound shapes

Using compound shapes is one of the easiest ways to create illustrations in Adobe Illustrator. You start by drawing basic shapes and then use the Pathﬁnder palette to combine them in different ways. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to add and subtract shapes, as well as how to use the Layers palette.

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1. Draw a series of overlapping ellipses.

First, click the Default Fill and Stroke button in the toolbox. This sets the ﬁll to white and the stroke to black. Then select the Ellipse tool, and drag to draw a series of overlapping ellipses.

To move an ellipse, select it with the Selection tool and drag it to a different location. When you’re satisﬁed with the placement of all the shapes, drag around all the ellipses to select them.

2. Add the ellipses together.

If the Pathﬁnder palette isn’t showing, choose Window > Pathﬁnder. Then click the Add to Shape Area button in the Pathﬁnder palette.

You just created a compound shape (a shape that consists of two or more objects). You can verify this by looking in the Layers palette. If the Layers palette isn’t showing, choose Window > Layers. Then click the triangle to the left of Layer 1 to see the listing for the compound shape.

3. Subtract a rectangle.

Select the Rectangle tool and draw a rectangle that overlaps the bottom of the compound shape. When you’re ﬁnished drawing, use the Selection tool to select all the shapes. Then click the Subtract from Shape Area button in the Pathﬁnder palette.

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It may be difﬁcult to tell what changed while all the shapes are selected, so click anywhere on the artboard to deselect them. Now you can see that the rectangle has been subtracted from the ellipses. If you look in the Layer palette, you’ll see that Illustrator created a new compound shape containing the rectangle and the ﬁrst compound shape.

4. Rename the compound shape in the Layers palette.

Double-click the words Compound Shape in the Layers palette. Enter a more meaningful name for the shape, and click OK. We named our shape Cloud.

The Layers palette is very useful for keeping track of the objects in a document. In addition, you can use it to select objects by clicking in the selection column between the circle and the scroll bar. (See “

Selecting objects using the Layers palette” on page 117.)

5. Draw three nested circles.

You’ll use the circles to create a sun, so draw them in proportion to the cloud. Start by selecting the Ellipse tool, and Shift+dragging to draw the outer circle. Then position the pointer over the center of the circle, and Shift+Alt+drag (Windows) or Shift+Option+drag (Mac OS) to draw the middle circle. (Holding down the Alt or Option key lets you draw the circle from the center outward.) Repeat again to draw the inner circle.

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We named the circles Outer Circle, Middle Circle, and Inner Circle in the Layers palette.

6. Create the sun’s rays.

Select the outer circle and choose Effect > Distort & Transform > Zig Zag. Select Preview, and adjust the values for Size and Ridges per segment. When you’re satisﬁed with the results, click OK.

7. Make the sun a compound shape.

Select the outer circle, then hold down Shift and select the middle circle. (Holding down Shift lets you select multiple objects.) Click the Subtract from Shape Area in the Pathﬁnder palette to combine the two shapes. Hold down Shift, select the inner circle, and click the Add to Shape Area button in the Pathﬁnder palette.

We named the compound shape Sun in the Layers palette.

8. Move the sun behind the cloud

Select the sun, and choose Object > Arrange > Send Backward. Then use the Selection tool to drag the sun behind the cloud.

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Notice how the sun is now listed below the cloud in the Layers palette. This is because the Layers palette reﬂects the stacking order of your artwork. You can change the stacking order by dragging objects up or down in the Layers palette. (See “

page 141.)

Stacking objects” on

Paint illustrations with graphic styles

In the previous tutorial, you learned how to create the outlines, or paths, of an illustration. Now you’ll use graphic styles to paint your illustration with colors and effects. Adobe Illustrator comes with hundreds of professionally-designed graphic styles that let you change the appearance of artwork with a single click. And graphic styles are fully reversible, so you can always go back to your original illustration if you don’t like the results.

1. Target the cloud in the Layers palette.

In the Layers palette, click the circle (called the target icon) at the right edge of the cloud’s listing. When the target icon displays a double ring, the item is targeted.

Targeting may seem simple, but it’s a commonly forgotten step when applying graphic styles and effects. Targeting is especially important when you want to apply a style or effect to everything in a layer. (See “

page 268.)

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2. Apply a graphic style to the cloud.

If the Graphic Styles palette isn’t showing, choose Window > Graphic Styles. The Graphic Styles palette displays a variety of default graphic styles; however many additional graphic styles are available to you through graphic style libraries. To open a graphic style library, click the triangle icon at the top right corner of the Graphic Styles palette, and choose an option from the Open Graphic Styles Library submenu.

Once you locate the graphic style you want to use, click it. We used the Raised Edges graphic style from the Image Effects library.

3. View appearance attributes of the graphic style.

Choose Select > Deselect to deselect the clouds, and if the Appearance palette isn’t showing, choose Window > Appearance. The Appearance palette lists appearance attributes—properties that affect the look of an object without altering its underlying structure. These include ﬁlls, strokes, transparency settings, and effects.

In our case, no artwork is targeted, so the top listing should read No Selection: followed by the name of the current graphic style. The speciﬁc appearance attributes depend on the graphic style you selected in Step 2. Some attributes may have triangles to the left of them. This means that the attribute includes effects or transparency settings. You can expand or collapse the attribute by clicking the triangle. (See “U

sing the Appearance

palette” on page 266.)

4. Edit the graphic style.

Click each color swatch in the Appearance palette and choose different colors using the Swatches palette or Color palette. You probably want to choose colors in the yellow to red range because you’ll apply the new graphic style to the sun.

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You can also use the Appearance palette to edit other aspects of a graphic style. For example, you can change the order in which Illustrator applies attributes by dragging any attribute to a different position in the palette. If the graphic style includes effects, doubleclick an effect name to change the effect’s settings.

5. Create a new style.

Click the New Graphic Style button in the Graphic Styles palette. The new style appears as the last item in the palette, so you may need to scroll down to see it. Double-click the style, enter a descriptive name, and click OK.

We named our new graphic style Orange Raised Edge.

5. Apply the new graphic style to the sun.

Target the sun in the Layers palette, and click the graphic style you just created in the Graphic Styles palette.

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6. Experiment with design variations.

Now that you know how to apply and edit graphic styles, experiment with design variations. Start by creating a duplicate of the sun and cloud by dragging Layer 1 in the Layers palette onto the Create New Layer button. Then click in the selection column for the copied layer, and press the arrow keys on your keyboard to reposition the duplicate sun and cloud. (Hold down the Shift key to move the selection in bigger increments.)

If you want to remove the existing graphic styles before applying new ones, click the Clear Appearance button in the Appearance palette. (See “

attributes” on page 269.) This removes all appearance attributes (including the ﬁll and

stroke) so the sun and cloud won’t be visible in the document window until you target them and apply new graphic styles.

Modifying and removing appearance

Create headline type with a twist

Adobe Illustrator provides powerful, ﬂexible features for creating and modifying type. You can add type anywhere in your artwork—horizontally, vertically, along paths, inside shapes, around shapes, in rows and in columns. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a headline that you can reuse for a variety of purposes.

1. Draw a curved path.

Select the Pen tool, and position the pointer where you want to start your path. Click and drag in the direction you want the curve to go. Release the mouse button and move the pointer; then click and drag again in the direction you want the curve to go. You can repeat this as many times as you want. When you are ﬁnished drawing, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) away from the line.

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If this is your ﬁrst time using the Pen tool, it may take some practice to get the hang of it; however, it will be time well spent. When you’re comfortable using the Pen tool, you can draw any line or shape with precision. (See “D

rawing precise paths with the Pen tool” on

page 98.)

2. Add type along the path.

Select the Type on a Path tool. Click the path to set the insertion point, and type the desired text. Don’t worry about the position of the type on the path—you’ll learn how to adjust it later on.

3. Format the type.

Click the Selection tool to select the type, and choose Window > Type > Character to display the Character palette. Set the font family, font style, and font size. (See “F

ormatting characters” on page 350.) You can also change the color of the type by selecting a color in

the Color palette, Swatches palette, or Color Picker. (See “

Selecting colors” on page 200.)

Illustrator comes with a variety of fonts that you can use in your artwork. To view a catalog of fonts, choose Help > Welcome Screen and click Cool Extras.

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