Adobe Illustrator CS4 1st Edition

I've read many books in the Classroom in a Book series for Adobe Creative Suite 4. And I must say that this book was well worth the money. It provides enough detail and good examples to get you started with Illustrator. You will not be disappointed.It guides you step by step from selecting, aligning, transforming and editing objects to drawing with the pen and pencil tools. Then you begin working with color, type and layers, all very good chapters. Then you start the more advanced topics, blending colors and shapes, working with brushes, and applying effects, which was my favorite topic. Moving on you will apply appearance attributes, work with symbols, learn to integrate with other Adobe products and finally consider output to printers.Once you've finished this book, I recommend you build your knowledge with a more detailed book called "Real World Adobe Illustrator CS4" by Mordy Golding.

This is a good book if you are a learn by doing type person. I like the layout of the book,easy to follow. The pictures are in color. You get an introduction at the beginning of each lesson. In the introduction, you are given a time estimate of how long it will take to complete each lesson. At the end of each lesson is a review of what was taught in the lesson. I am nearing the halfway point of the book, and I am stilling enjoying it. My money was well spent.

Ever since I got my hands on Adobe products, I find that Adobe's Classroom in a Book (CIAB) series always delivery quality instruction that would bring me from any level to at least intermediate level. The latest Illustrator CS4 is no exception.I bought this book for a user who has never had any experience with Adobe products, within hours, the user was able to finish the tutorials without breaking a sweat. I further assigned the user some tasks, and the results were quite to my satisfaction.Before CIAB, I borrowed "Illustrator CS4 for Dummies", honestly, the book has made both the user and I dumber. The author has spent lengthy time discussing various different concepts in chapter 1, the information has nothing to do with getting hands on with the software. In fact, the information is way too technical to be suitable for its "Dummies" title.I would recommend this book to those who wish to get hands on with Illustrator, which is an excellent piece of software to learn after you have reasonable skill with Photoshop.

I love this series of books - they are so helpful and easy to use. However, I bought this on kindle and although the content is great, there's no accompanying CD so the exercises aren't easy to do. Recommend the book, but get the real thing in print. Shame as kindle books are so easy to have with you..Would be nice if the publishers made the digital material available on a web site - you could have a code or something to prove we bought the book.

I downloaded the trial version of AI CS4 and ordered this book to see if I (a non-artist with no experience with this software) could learn to use it well enough to create decent looking covers for work projects.The book is well laid out and got me up and working right away. The directions are clear and easy to follow. It is also lots of fun to see what I can do with this program.As a complete novice, I cannot assess how helpful this book would be to an experienced user, but it does a first-class job of making an extremely complicated program usable by a beginner.

OMG!!! I was taking an online class and I was struggling and not doing well. Now that I have this book and DVD, I can start from the beginning and take my time! Secondly, it's like a book for(dummies)LOL!!! It really is a classroom in a book! Great Product!!!

I'd give this product 5 stars, except I can't seem to find the lesson files as mentioned. Are all the kindle editions entitled to the lesson files? Are they all peachpit books? I wrote peachpit and asked if they can send me a link to the files. No word yet (only a few days). I finished the Adobe Photoshop CS4 and their lessons, so I know that I love the format and the lessons were excellent. I'm not a "digital native", meaning I didn't grow up with this stuff (hint, older)so I need the hand holding of the lesson files. I could buy the book, I guess. Do you ship to Malaysia?

I tend to learn better with an instructor, so I was a little apprehensive about the classroom in a book series. But I was very impressed. Lesson are planed and mapped out very well and it's easy to fallow along with the lessons on the disc. I have some other books that are more like user manuals. They're great, but they couldn't help me figure out how to get started. I would highly recommend this book for someone who has no experience with the software and is ready to learn.

This is the best source for information if you are learning to use Adobe Illustrator CS4It will also be a great source to use a reference book for details on features that you don't use on a regular basis.

I work in marketing and had dabbled with most of the CS4 suite, however i never felt that i was utilising much of the potential and was considering working towards becoming a professional designer.this work books have opend my eyes to some of the possibilities of the software and have increased my confidence and ability to the point where i am now teaching others in the office.i throughly recomend these books as a stepping stone into design or as a way of improving your understanding and utilisiation of the software.from these you can then progress to the 'Real world' books from Adobe.

good book and quick shipping

Well, what can I say? This just does what it says on the box and it helped me to do everything I needed to. You can become a competent user of this software through the tutorials but more importantly you can resolve individual issues using the help system. This will help many users to achieve their own results instead of resorting to paying for expensive outsourced providers. Thank you Adobe. I bought 3 products Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Photoshop Classroom in a Book. They all deliver what you need.

It's hard to keep things simple, this book along with others in the seriesdoes that. The mac and windows O S snapshots include both platforms, and it's a step by stepwalkthrough. Unless you need instructions on how to put on a hat, you should find it easy goingfrom one chapter to the next, increasing the depth of your grasp as you progress.Amazon provides the best prices, remember 90% effort 10% talent.