Adobe Illustrator CS5 Revealed

Adobe Illustrator CS5 Revealed offers comprehensive coverage of Adobe® Illustrator.® Beginning with fundamental concepts and progressing to in-depth exploration of the software's full set of features, these step-by-step lessons offer a guided tour of all the program's great features - including an illustrated tutorial on how to draw with the Pen tool that you won't find in any other book. This new edition features extensive coverage of important and exciting new features, including the debut of the Perspective Grid, the Bristle Brush, two new Drawing Modes, the brand-new Shape Builder tool, and the "Beautiful Strokes."

Chris Botello began his career as print production manager for Premiere magazine, designed movie posters for Miramax Films and served as the art director for Microsoft's launch of sidewalk.com/boston. He is the author of Revealed Series books on Advanced Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign and is the co-author of YouTube for Dummies. Chris commutes between Los Angeles, where he works as a designer and retoucher on movie campaigns, and Marion, MA, where he teaches computer graphics at Tabor Academy. Chris uses his own books---including this one---as the text for his classes.