Adobe Illustrator CS6 Digital Classroom

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The AGI Creative Team develops and delivers training programs through the American Graphics Institute. They have created official training guides for Adobe Systems and Microsoft, and deliver professional development training workshops to clients internationally.

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The AGI Creative Team develops and delivers training programs through the American Graphics Institute. They have created official training guides for Adobe Systems and Microsoft, and deliver professional development training workshops to clients internationally.

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A Complete Training Package!

• Full-color, step-by-step instructional book
• Video training from expert instructors
  Tutorials and lesson files on companion DVD

You have a personal tutor in the Digital Classroom

If you want expert instruction that fits into your schedule, the Digital Classroom series delivers. Expert instructors guide you through 13 lessons, helping you learn essential Illustrator CS6 skills at your own speed. Full-color, step-by-step instructions in the book are enhanced with video tutorials on the DVD. With this Digital Classroom training package, you have your own private instructor showing you the easiest way to learn Illustrator CS6.

• Find tools and options in the Illustrator CS6 workspace using helpful exercises
• Create exciting illustrations and logos using Illustrator's vector tools
• Design dynamic artwork for print, web, and mobile
• Enhance your artwork with colors, gradients, and patterns
• Develop special effects and styles for your artwork and text

Zusammenfassung
This textbook provides a fresh, comprehensive and accessible introduction to the rapidly expanding field of molecular pharmacology. Adopting a drug target-based, rather than the traditional organ/system based, approach this innovative guide reflects the current advances and research trend towards molecular based drug design, derived from a detailed understanding of chemical responses in the body. Drugs are then tailored to fit a treatment profile, rather than the traditional method of ‘trial and error’ drug discovery which focuses on testing chemicals on animals or cell cultures and matching their effects to treatments. Providing an invaluable resource for advanced under-graduate and MSc/PhD students, new researchers to the field and practitioners for continuing professional development, Molecular Pharmacology explores; recent advances and developments in the four major human drug target families (G-protein coupled receptors, ion channels, nuclear receptors and transporters), cloning of drug targets, transgenic animal technology, gene therapy, pharmacogenomics and looks at the role of calcium in the cell. Current - focuses on cutting edge techniques and approaches, including new methods to quantify biological activities in different systems and ways to interpret and understand pharmacological data. Cutting Edge - highlights advances in pharmacogenomics and explores how an individual’s genetic makeup influences their response to therapeutic drugs and the potential for harmful side effects. Applied - includes numerous, real-world examples and a detailed case-study based chapter which looks at current and possible future treatment strategies for cystic fibrosis. This case study considers the relative merits of both drug therapy for specific classes of mutation and gene therapy to correct the underlying defect. Accessible - contains a comprehensive glossary, suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter and an associated website that provides a complete set of figures from within the book.

Inhalt

Starting up

About Digital Classroom 1

Prerequisites 1

System requirements 1

Starting Adobe Illustrator CS6 2

Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS6 preferences 3

Loading lesson files 4

Working with the video tutorials 5

Setting up for viewing the video tutorials 6

Viewing the video tutorials with the Adobe Flash Player 6

Additional resources 7

Lesson 1: Adobe Illustrator CS6 Jumpstart

Starting up 9

The project 10

Setting up the artboard 12

Creating the background shape 13

Combining shapes 14

Sampling a color 15

Applying a fill and stroke 16

Creating the smaller combined shape 17

Applying color and effects 18

Cloning the small shape 19

Aligning and distributing the shapes 21

Adding Text 22

Applying the Warp effect 24

Adding text to the small shape areas 25

Distorting a shape 28

Importing an image 29

Adding lines of text 30

Self study 35

Review 35

Lesson 2: Getting to Know the Workspace

Starting up 37

Opening Illustrator 38

Exploring the new interface 39

Choosing a workspace 40

Opening a file 41

The document window 42

Using Artboards 43

Navigating multiple artboards 43

Using the Artboards panel 44

Creating New Artboards 46

Switching screen modes 47

Changing your view 48

Preview versus Outlines 48

Zooming and scrolling 49

Scrolling with the Hand tool 53

Changing views with the Navigator panel 54

The Tools panel 55

Using tools and panels 56

The Control panel 60

Moving the Control panel 61

Panel groups and the dock 62

Custom workspaces 65

Saving workspaces 65

Using the Manage Workspaces dialog box 66

Customizing keyboard shortcuts 67

Default shortcuts 67

Custom shortcuts 68

Saving shortcut sets 70

Deleting shortcut sets 71

Self study 71

Review 72

Lesson 3: Illustrator CS6 Essentials

Starting up 73

Using the shape tools 74

Repositioning and visually resizing the rectangle 76

Finding or changing the shape's dimensions using the Transform panel 77

Rotating and shearing using the Transform panel 78

Constraining a shape 79

Entering exact dimensions 80

Selecting artwork 82

Helpful keyboard shortcuts for selections 82

The selection tools 82

Using shape and transform tools to create artwork 87

Using the transform tools 87

Adding a fill color 89

Entering a shape size in the Transform panel 90

Viewing in Outline view 91

Rotating the shape 91

Changing the color of the triangles 93

Using layers when building an illustration 94

Creating a new blank layer 95

Cutting and pasting objects 95

Creating bubbles 97

Cloning the bubble group 98

Repeating a resize transform 99

Moving objects from one layer to another 101

Self study 102

Review 102

Lesson 4: Adding Color

Starting up 103

Basics of the Appearance panel 104

Changing colors 105

Adding Effects 106

Creating a colorful illustration 108

Using Live Paint 108

Converting the artwork to a Live Paint group 111

Applying Live Paint to the group 112

Adding a symbol to your artwork 113

Expanding the symbol 115

Saving swatches 115

What is a Global Color? 117

Selecting the Same color 117

Saving a set of colors as a group 119

Creating a color group from selected colors 119

Using the Color panel 120

Adding Pantone (Spot) Colors 122

Adding Pantone colors 123

Self study 125

Review 125

Lesson 5: Working with the Drawing Tools

Starting up 127

Working with the Pen tool 128

Drawing straight lines 129

Drawing curved lines 131

Drawing hinged curves 133

Drawing curved lines to straight lines 134

Drawing straight lines to curved lines 135

Tracing images 136

Placing an image as a template 137

Placing an image using Image Trace 140

Working with the new Image trace option 144

Other drawing tools 146

Using the Line Segment and Arc tools 146

Using the Pencil, Smooth, and Path Eraser tools 148

Using the Eraser tool 150

Editing existing paths 150

Adding and removing points 150

Refining a curve 152

Cutting and joining paths 153

Combining shapes using the Shape Builder tool 155

Combining the shapes 158 …