The Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC

For decades, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world’s best artists and designers working in Illustrator. In this expanded edition of the best-selling and award-winning Illustrator WOW! Book, you’ll find hundreds of tips, tricks, and techniques derived from actual projects from top Illustrator artists. You’ll learn to use new features, discover exciting ways to create complex effects, and find fresh ways to use venerable old tools and¿speed up your workflow. This edition includes coverage of the 2014 release and is loaded with and lessons with stunning new artwork that feature:

Painting and generating objects with raster brushes
Harnessing Live Corners, Live Rectangles, and new ways to reshape paths
Manipulating live type characters with the Touch Type tool
Creating airbrush and neon effects with gradients on strokes
Building complex styles with multiple lines, fills, and effects
Composing complex repeating patterns
Auto-generating corners for pattern brushes
Incorporating transparency into mesh and gradients
Building and modifying scenes in perspective and 3D
Transforming raster art to Illustrator vectors
Preparing artwork for animation and the web
Integrating Illustrator with Photoshop and other apps
Creating photorealism in Illustrator