001 Discovering the workspace..............................................14
002 Customizing the workspace............................................16
003 Creating Documents........................................................18
004 Designing with artboards................................................20
005 Page size and orientation................................................22
006 Using rulers, guides and grid...........................................24
007 Varying the background of a document.........................26
008 Selecting objects with the Selection tool........................28
009 The Lasso and Magic Wand tools.....................................30
010 Moving and rotating objects...........................................32
011 Varying the scale and shearing objects.......................34
012 Copying and duplicating................................................36
013 Expanding, grouping and ungrouping...........................38
014 Locking and unlocking objects.......................................40
015 Distributing and aligning objects....................................42
016 Uniting and combining objects......................................44
017 Stacking objects...............................................................46
018 Creating straight lines.....................................................48
019 Creating rectangles and squares......................................50
020 Creating circles and ellipses............................................52
021 Drawing polygons and stars............................................54
022 Drawing arcs....................................................................56
023 Drawing spirals................................................................58
024 Drawing grids..................................................................60
025 Drawing with the Pencil tool .........................................62
026 Drawing with the Pen tool.................................................. 64
027 Editing anchor points.......................................................... 66
028 Converting lines to curves and vice versa........................... 68
029 Adding a fill to an object..................................................... 70
030 Varying the characteristics of the stroke............................. 72
031 Selecting and deleting fills and strokes............................... 74
032 Inserting and customizing arrowheads................................ 76
033 Dividing, cutting and trimming objects........................... 78
034 Erasing paths with the Eraser tool....................................... 80
035 Creating a Live Paint group................................................. 82
036 Coloring Live paint groups................................................. 84
037 The Shape Builder tool........................................................ 86
038 Creating strokes with calligraphic brushes ........................ 88
039 Using scatter, art and pattern brushes................................ 90
040 Working with the Blob Brush............................................. 92
041 Drawing with the Bristle brush........................................... 94
042 Applying gradients.............................................................. 96
043 Crear degradados sobre trazos............................................. 98
044 Creating radial and elliptical gradients..................... 100
045 Creating a mesh object...................................................... 102
046 Changing gradients to mesh objects................................. 104
047 Filling with patterns.......................................................... 106
048 Creating your own pattern................................................ 108
049 Reflecting objects............................................................... 110
050 Adding and editing text.................................................... 112
051 Formatting text...................................................................114
052 Working with long texts....................................................116
053 Varying formatting paragraphs..........................................118
054 Creating and using paragraph styles..................................120
055 Varying the scale and rotating the text..............................122
056 Converting type to outlines...............................................124
057 Converting type to live paint groups.................................126
058 Applying effects to type......................................................128
059 Wrapping text around an object........................................130
060 Entering text on a path......................................................132
061 Applying effects to text on a path .....................................134
062 Organizing different layers ................................................136
063 Applying revolving and extrusion to give depth...............138
064 Adding bevels to extrusions...............................................140
065 Mapping artwork onto a 3D object ...................................142
066 Creating drawings in perspective.......................................144
067 Blending objects.................................................................146
068 Modifying blended objects.................................................148
069 Distorting objects using an envelope.................................150
070 Editing and removing envelopes........................................152
071 Using clipping masks..........................................................154
072 Varying and editing clipping masks...................................156
073 Adding symbols..................................................................158
074 Searching for symbols in the library..................................160
075 Editing and duplicating symbols.......................................162
076 Expanding a symbol instance............................................164
077 Creating new symbols .......................................................166
078 Creating symbol sets..........................................................168
079 Editing symbol sets (I)........................................................170
080 Editing symbol sets (II).......................................................172
081 Adding and modifying flares..............................................174
082 Importing a bitmap image.................................................176
083 Manipulating linked or embedded files ............................178
084 Importing Photoshop images ............................................180
085 Moving paths from Photoshop to Illustrator.....................182
086 Converting an image to an editable vector........................184
087 Modifying the result of a Live Trace..................................186
088 Tracings and Live Paint groups..........................................188
089 Rasterizing a drawing.........................................................190
090 Applying a raster effect.......................................................192
091 Using artistic effects............................................................194
092 Applying Gaussian Blur and other effects..........................196
093 Adding a brush stroke effect...............................................198
094 Applying pixelate and sketch effects..................................200
095 Adding texture effects.........................................................202
096 Using distort effects............................................................204
097 Applying light to a 3D object.............................................206
098 Exporting artwork to Flash.................................................208
099 Creating Flash animations in Illustrator............................210
100 Creating PDF files...............................................................212
Illustrator CS6, vector drawing application from Adobe, is an excellent tool for computer-aided design. Thanks to its amazing and powerful features, you can create original artwork using drawings and images for it. Do not hesitate to make the 100 exercises in this book to discover the thousand and one possibilities hidden in this great program, as advocated by professionals. With this book: Meet the new applications of pattern creation tool enhanced. Discover also improved image tracing tool that now provides clean lines and perfect fit. Apply gradients on strokes to get interesting and striking results. Leverage the revamped interface with optimized panels and other new features that make it more intuitive, efficient and flexible. Enjoy improvements to some effects, such as Gaussian blur, glare and shadows, which are applied much faster now.
