Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator 10 in 24 Hours

by Peter Bauer and Mordy Golding

Book Overview

This step-by-step tutorial uses a friendly, conversational, and non-condescending approach to teach readers the basics of Adobe Illustrator. The book's tone is one of a teacher sitting with you... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672323133
• ISBN13: 9780672323133
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Before launching the program, pick this book up!

This book is very beginnerish... meaning it's extremely clear, understandable, and simple (the end starts to get a little technical but don't worry Mordy makes it easy!). The author's goal seems to be... introduce you to the tools, explain all the options and what they do, sometimes explain breifly how you would apply your skills with these tools, and let you practice fooling around with it. Also the author keeps the ball rolling with an interesting sense of humor (see the quizs at the end of each chapter to see what I mean :) In the end, I highly recommend this book to new users. Even with a few month's worth of practice I'm constantly jumping back to this book "aha!, that's it!"

The Best Entry Book on Illustrator

I've taught Illustrator. I make my living using Illustrator. My artwork has appeared in the digital gallery on the Illustrator 8 CD. And for my money and time, Mordy Golding's book is the best. I have used it as a classroom text at The New School, and recommended it to my students at Parsons and at Syracuse University. The clear writing, logical progression through the features of the program, and the down home quality of the narrative (besides being pretty funny at times) sets this apart from most dry-as-a-bone treatments. If you are a high end user of Illustrator, this may not be the book for you, but I found it useful even as a review of features I was neglecting to utilize. Cheers to Mr. Golding.

A Great Book for Starting Started with Illustrator

The author has made some modifications/additions to his previous book (Teach Yourself Illustrator 8 in 24 Hours). But it is largely similar in content. If you expect this book to be largely different, you will be disappointed. As the content is largely same, it retains it top notch style of providing enough illustrations one gets to know the features and how the tools can be used in different ways to produce the different effects in the illustrations.But this book is aimed at the total beginner and those basic features of Illustrator cannot be taken out and hence the great similiarity in content. A mentioned of SVF format is mentioned at the section of importing/exporting files and also the support for the web animation highlighted. But it does not cover in all the new stuff in Illustrator 9. To do so would go beyond 24 hours.If you do not own his previous book and you have no knowledge of Illustrator 9 and want to know the basic stuff quickly, this book is excellent. Expecting instructions of how to use all the new features? Then this book is not for you.Learning Illustrator 9 in 24 hours at beginner's level? This book deserves 5 stars for it.

Great Book to Start Learning Illustrator 8

I am new Illustrator 8 and do not feel comfortable with the Adobe User Guide... which I think is showing too much in a small book...This book is great. It has useful illustrations that greatly supports the explanation. I guess only with enough illustrations one gets to know the features and how the tools can be used in different ways to produce the different effects in the illustrations.This book is a great help to me in learning Illustrator 8. I think you will also love it if you are also new to the software.

Worth It

Start to finish great lessons of everything Illustartor offers. Detailed but not too slow. Good book.:) Kevin