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Help and tutorials February 2013 Contents
What’s New ...................................................................................................................................................1
What's new in CS6..................................................................................................................................................................2
Improved User Interface..........................................................................................................................................................5
Using Image Trace | CS6........................................................................................................................................................8
Arabic and Hebrew type........................................................................................................................................................10
What’s new in CS5 ................................................................................................................................................................15 Getting Started tutorials...............................................................................................................................18
Clipping masks......................................................................................................................................................................20
Drawing pixel-aligned paths for web workflows.....................................................................................................................22
Editing paths..........................................................................................................................................................................25
Painting with fills and strokes.................................................................................................................................................31 Workspace...................................................................................................................................................38
Workspace basics..................................................................................................................................................................39
Customizing the workspace...................................................................................................................................................43
Tools......................................................................................................................................................................................49
Tool galleries.........................................................................................................................................................................51
Improved User Interface........................................................................................................................................................57
Slicing and cutting tool gallery...............................................................................................................................................60
Artboard overview..................................................................................................................................................................61
Files and templates................................................................................................................................................................63
Recovery, undo, and automation...........................................................................................................................................67
Rulers, grids, guides, and crop marks...................................................................................................................................68
Setting preferences................................................................................................................................................................72
Using multiple artboards........................................................................................................................................................74
Viewing artwork.....................................................................................................................................................................79
Working with ConnectNow.....................................................................................................................................................82 Drawing........................................................................................................................................................83
Drawing basics......................................................................................................................................................................84
Drawing simple lines and shapes..........................................................................................................................................88
Drawing pixel-aligned paths for web workflows.....................................................................................................................91
Drawing with the Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool............................................................................................................................94
Editing paths........................................................................................................................................................................101
Adjust path segments..........................................................................................................................................................107
Using Live Trace | CS5 and earlier......................................................................................................................................110
Using Image Trace | CS6....................................................................................................................................................114
About Perspective Grid........................................................................................................................................................116
Perspective drawing............................................................................................................................................................118
Symbolism tools and symbol sets........................................................................................................................................130
Symbols...............................................................................................................................................................................134 Color..........................................................................................................................................................140
About color...........................................................................................................................................................................141
Selecting colors...................................................................................................................................................................146
Using and creating swatches...............................................................................................................................................149
Color groups (harmonies)....................................................................................................................................................155
Create color themes with Kuler............................................................................................................................................168
Adjusting colors...................................................................................................................................................................170 Painting......................................................................................................................................................174
About painting......................................................................................................................................................................175
Painting with fills and strokes...............................................................................................................................................176
Live Paint groups.................................................................................................................................................................183
Brushes................................................................................................................................................................................189
Transparency and blending modes.....................................................................................................................................199
Gradients.............................................................................................................................................................................205
Gradient panel and Gradient tool overview.........................................................................................................................206
Apply or edit a gradient........................................................................................................................................................208
Stroke an object...................................................................................................................................................................211
Meshes................................................................................................................................................................................214
Patterns...............................................................................................................................................................................217 Selecting and arranging objects................................................................................................................222
Selecting objects..................................................................................................................................................................223
Grouping and expanding objects.........................................................................................................................................230
Moving, aligning, and distributing objects............................................................................................................................232
Rotating and reflecting objects............................................................................................................................................236
Layers..................................................................................................................................................................................240
Locking, hiding, and deleting objects...................................................................................................................................244
Duplicating objects...............................................................................................................................................................246
Stacking objects...................................................................................................................................................................248 Reshaping objects.....................................................................................................................................250
Transforming objects...........................................................................................................................................................251
Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects.............................................................................................................................253
Reshape using envelopes...................................................................................................................................................257
Combining objects...............................................................................................................................................................259
Cutting and dividing objects.................................................................................................................................................265
Clipping masks....................................................................................................................................................................267
Creating shapes using Shape BuilderTool | CS6, CS5.......................................................................................................269
Blending objects..................................................................................................................................................................271
Building new shapes using the Shape Builder tool..............................................................................................................274
Creating 3D objects.............................................................................................................................................................276
Reshaping objects with effects............................................................................................................................................282 Importing, exporting, and saving................................................................................................................283
Adobe PDF options..............................................................................................................................................................284
Creating Adobe PDF files....................................................................................................................................................289
Exporting artwork.................................................................................................................................................................293
File information and metadata.............................................................................................................................................298
Importing Adobe PDF files...................................................................................................................................................299
Importing EPS, DCS, and AutoCAD files.............................................................................................................................300
Importing artwork files..........................................................................................................................................................302
Importing artwork from Photoshop.......................................................................................................................................306
Importing bitmap images.....................................................................................................................................................308
Saving artwork.....................................................................................................................................................................310 Type...........................................................................................................................................................315
Importing and exporting text................................................................................................................................................316
Creating text........................................................................................................................................................................318
Creating type on a path.......................................................................................................................................................325 Scaling and rotating type.....................................................................................................................................................329
Spelling and language dictionaries......................................................................................................................................330
Fonts....................................................................................................................................................................................332
Arabic and Hebrew type......................................................................................................................................................335
Character and paragraph styles..........................................................................................................................................340
Creating composite fonts.....................................................................................................................................................342
Formatting Asian characters................................................................................................................................................345
Formatting paragraphs........................................................................................................................................................352
Formatting type....................................................................................................................................................................356
Hyphenation and line breaks...............................................................................................................................................363
Line and character spacing..................................................................................................................................................365
Special characters...............................................................................................................................................................368
Tabs.....................................................................................................................................................................................371
Text and type.......................................................................................................................................................................374
Updating text from Illustrator 10...........................................................................................................................................375 Creating special effects.............................................................................................................................376
Appearance attributes..........................................................................................................................................................377
Working with effects.............................................................................................................................................................381
Summary of effects..............................................................................................................................................................384
Create a drop shadow.................................
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