Adobe Illustrator WOW! Book for CS6 and CC, The

For decades, Sharon Steuer and her international WOW! team have been showcasing the world's best artists and designers working in Adobe Illustrator. In this 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 illustrators. You'll discover exciting ways to create complex effects, learn fresh ways to use venerable tools to speed up your workflow, and find updated information on features through the 2019 CC release. This edition is loaded with lessons, technical information, and stunning artwork galleries including: Coloring with Freeform Gradients, Gradients, Mesh Transforming with Puppet Warp Painting and generating artwork with raster brushes Harnessing Live Corners/Rectangles, and new reshaping tools Mastering type effects and controls Creating airbrush and neon effects with gradients on strokes Quickly styling with multiple lines, fills, and effects Creating complex repeating patterns Forming 3D and perspective effects

Exploring different ways to globally change artwork  Preparing and saving artwork for print and web Using Adobe Illustrator with Adobe Photoshop and other apps

Register your book at peachpit.com to download artwork that you can manipulate in Adobe Illustrator, see the “How to use this book” section for details.

“This book has the perfect mix of inspiration and instruction–I have yet to find a better motivational tool for using Illustrator to push the envelope and create art that forces people to notice.”

MORDY GOLDING, Senior Director of Content, lynda.com

“Every Illustrator user should have a copy of the WOW! book. Period.”

DAVID BLATNER, co-publisher of CreativePro.com and InDesignSecrets.com