{"id":4522,"date":"2010-11-25T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T14:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4522"},"modified":"2010-11-25T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T14:36:46","slug":"adobe-illustrator-cs5-one-on-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=4522","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Illustrator CS5 one-on-on"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Once again, I’m behind on writing blog posts.\u00a0 However, I do have some new good books that I’d like to share, especially since some may make a great gift.\u00a0 I’ll start with Adobe Illustrator CS5, one-on-one<\/a> by Deke McClelland and published by Deke Press\/O’Reilly.<\/p>\n

Like the CS5 Photoshop one-on-one book<\/a>, this is another winner.\u00a0 It’s a full color, 480 page book printed on glossy paper.\u00a0 The book is physically heavy, and heavy on instruction.\u00a0 It set up in lessons:<\/p>\n

Lesson 1 – Starting a document; Lesson 2 – Lines, Shapes and Color; Lesson 3, Using the Pen Tool (yes, an entire lesson on it); Lesson 4 Creating and Formatting Text; Lesson 6 – Transform and Reshape; Lesson 6 Pathfinder Operations; Lesson 7 – Blends, Masks, and Gradient Mesh; Lesson 8 – Working with Transparency; Lesson 9 – Brushes and Symbols; Lesson 10 – The Amazing World of Dynamic Effects; Lesson 11 – Live Trace, Paint, and Color; Lesson 12 – Printing and Exporting.\u00a0 Whew!<\/p>\n

Going through this book chapter by chapter, or lesson by lesson, is truly like having a class with master teacher Deke McClelland.\u00a0 But be forewarned, the book is intensive, and you will work hard getting through each lesson.\u00a0 However, if your goal is to finally master Illustrator, this is the book to have.\u00a0 Readers of my blog will know that Deke is a long-time author of instructional books and an incredibly knowledgeable and sharing teacher (you can catch him at Photoshop World).\u00a0 If you cannot take a class directly with him, this is the next best thing.\u00a0 While there is no DVD included in the book, there are URLs throughout the book to find additional instructional videos online.<\/p>\n

It’s not an inexpensive book, retailing at $49.99; but you can find it at Amazon for less.\u00a0 Again, if you want to learn Illustrator, this is your book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, I’m behind on writing blog posts.\u00a0 However, I do have some new good books that I’d like to share, especially since some may make a great gift.\u00a0 I’ll start with Adobe Illustrator CS5, one-on-one by Deke McClelland and published by Deke Press\/O’Reilly. Like the CS5 Photoshop one-on-one book, this is another winner.\u00a0 It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4522"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4532,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4522\/revisions\/4532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}