Best Adobe Illustrator Guides Books
Adobe Illustrator is a popular vector illustration application that one can use to capture their creative ideas.
1. Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book (2021 release)
Author: by Brian Wood
Published at: Adobe Press; 1st edition (December 22, 2020)
ISBN: 978-0136805533
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does – an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book (2021 release) contains lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.
Purchase of this book includes valuable online features. Follow the instructions in the book’s Getting Started section to unlock access to: Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step What you need to use this book: Adobe Illustrator (2021 release) software, for either Windows or macOS.
2. Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book (2020 release)
Author: by Brian Wood
Published at: Adobe Press; 1st edition (December 28, 2019)
ISBN: 978-0136412670
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn. The best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program doesan official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Contains 16 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program.
You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Build a strong foundation by following hands-on projects for creating logos, illustrations, and posters. Learn how to use the Shaper tool and Live Shapes along with dynamic symbols to streamline graphics creation.
Create website assets and export them in multiple formats to support modern responsive web designs. From exacting illustration to more free-form painting, you’ll gain vital skills as you progress through the lessons. The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter.
3. Adobe Illustrator: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features
Author: by Jason Hoppe
Published at: Rocky Nook; Illustrated edition (June 23, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1681985312
Adobe Illustrator: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to building vector graphics, whether you’re creating logos, icons, drawings, typography, or other illustrationsand regardless of their destination: print, web, video, or mobile. First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from Adobe Certified Instructor Jason Hoppe, you will learn the procedures needed to use Illustrator effectively and professionally.
Dozens of lessons are included that can be applied to any graphics you have in mind. Through these step-by-step lessons, you’ll be exposed to all of Illustrator’s features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows. To complete the Course, we’ll supply lesson documents and their assets to download.
These can even serve as starting points for your own projects. Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you’ll use the Compendium to uncover more of the how and why of Illustrator. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Illustrator’s key features and concepts in depth.
4. Adobe Illustrator CC For Dummies
Author: by David Karlins
Published at: For Dummies; 1st edition (January 10, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1119641537
Get to know your digital drawing board Adobe Illustrator CC offers a vibrant tool for creating drawings and illustrations in a digital environment. It takes some practice to get a feel for the digital pens, pencils, paintbrushes, and erasers, though.
Adobe Illustrator CC For Dummies offers the guidance you need to turn your ideas into real drawings. Written by an Illustrator trainer and expert, this book walks those new to the tool through the basics of drawing, editing, and applying the unique tools found in this popular program.
Create illustrations using simple shapes Touch up images using pen, pencil, and brush tools Import your illustrations into other graphic apps Apply special effects and add type This book is essential reading for new and beginning illustrators who are either adopting a digital tool for the first time, switching from an existing tool to Illustrator, or adding Illustrator know-how to existing Adobe knowledge.
5. Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals (The MIT Press)
Author: by Katie Salen Tekinbas
Published at: The MIT Press (September 25, 2003)
ISBN: 978-0262240451
An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date. As pop culture, games are as important as film or televisionbut game design has yet to develop a theoretical framework or critical vocabulary.
In Rules of Play Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman present a much-needed primer for this emerging field. They offer a unified model for looking at all kinds of games, from board games and sports to computer and video games. As active participants in game culture, the authors have written Rules of Play as a catalyst for innovation, filled with new concepts, strategies, and methodologies for creating and understanding games.
Building an aesthetics of interactive systems, Salen and Zimmerman define core concepts like “play,” “design,” and “interactivity.” They look at games through a series of eighteen “game design schemas,” or conceptual frameworks, including games as systems of emergence and information, as contexts for social play, as a storytelling medium, and as sites of cultural resistance.
6. Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
Author: by Jennifer Smith
Published at: For Dummies; 2nd edition (December 4, 2017)
ISBN: 978-1119420408
Get ready to jump into the Creative Cloud Adobe Creative Cloud is the most popular suite of tools among creative professionals, and a valuable resource you can use to fulfill all of your design goals. Ready to get started? The only book on the market of its kind, Adobe Creative Cloud All-in-One For Dummies is written by designers for designers.
It will provide you with expert instruction that spans seven mini-books, with helpful information that can grant insight regardless of your current level of knowledge. Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud is a marketable skill, and this all-in-one reference guide will help you add InDesign CC, Illustrator CC, Photoshop CC, Acrobat Pro, Adobe Bridge, and Adobe Experience Design to your resume.
With more than 800 pages of content, this detailed guide will give you confidence you need to use Adobe photography and graphic design tools to edit photos, make original designs and layouts, and let your creativity shine with Adobe Creative Cloud.
7. Composition Notebook: Wide Ruled Lined Paper Notebook Journal: Watercolor Pink Roses Workbook for Boys Girls Kids Teens Students for Back to School and Home College Writing Notes
Author: by Latte Notebooks
Published at: Independently published (July 19, 2019)
ISBN: 978-1081582777
Composition Notebook Features:110 blank wide lined white pagesPrinted on both sides Perfect size 7.5″ x 9. 25″ inches (between A4 and A5) for tote bag, desk, backpack, school, home or workHigh quality sturdy matte coverPerfect gift for School Notebook, Notebook For Kids, Notebook For Girls, Notebook For Boys, School Supplies, Back to school supplies, journal, taking notes, writing, organizing, lists, journaling and brainstormingFor more unique journals and notebooks visit Latte Notebooks Author page (amazon.
Com/author/lattenotebooks)
8. The Graphic Designer's Digital Toolkit: A Project-Based Introduction to Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud, Illustrator Creative Cloud & InDesign Creative Cloud (Stay Current with Adobe Creative Cloud)
Author: by Allan Wood
Published at: Cengage Learning; 7th edition (July 9, 2014)
ISBN: 978-1305263659
THE GRAPHIC DESIGNERS DIGITAL TOOLKIT, 7th Edition not only introduces students to the essential features of industry-standard software applications, but also gives them an understanding of how to integrate these programs into a seamless whole. Using a highly visual and project-based approach, this fully revised new edition examines Macintosh OS X Maverick, Windows 7 and Windows 8 operating systems, as well the most up to date Creative Cloud features of the Big 3 digital design programs used in the graphics industry today: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe InDesign .
After thoroughly examining the features of each application from the designers perspective, the author then reveals in practical detail the traditional skills and technology necessary for effective design for print and Web media. Using online project files, students are encouraged to practice what they have learned by tackling design projects throughout the text from concept to completion.
Effectively merging theory with practice, THE GRAPHIC DESIGNER’S DIGITAL TOOLKIT, 7th Edition stresses the critical importance of integration in design while meeting design parameters and client expectations. Contact your Learning Consultant to learn more about how CourseMate can enhance the way you teach and your students learn.
9. Resident Evil Revelations: Official Complete Works
Author: by Capcom
Published at: Titan Books; Illustrated edition (July 7, 2015)
ISBN: 978-1783295012
Resident Evil Revelations: Official Complete Works takes readers on a behind-the-scenes look at the art, storyboards, concept and more behind the smash hit game, featuring exclusive looks at characters, locations monsters and more. Published for the first time in the English language.
10. Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book
Author: by Brian Wood
Published at: Adobe Press; 2nd edition (March 22, 2019)
ISBN: 978-0135262160
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn. The best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program doesan official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts. Contains 15 lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program.
You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Build a strong foundation by following hands-on projects for creating logos, illustrations, and posters. Learn how to use the Shaper tool and Live Shapes along with dynamic symbols to streamline graphics creation.
Create website assets and export them in multiple formats to support modern responsive web designs. From exacting illustration to more free-form painting, you’ll gain vital skills as you progress through the lessons.
11. APPLE 2020 iPAD PRO USER GUIDE: The Complete Illustrated, Practical Guide to Maximizing Your New 2020 iPad Pro & iPadOS 13.4
Author: by Daniel Smith
Published at: Independently published (April 1, 2020)
ISBN: 979-8630849700
A Comprehensive User Guide to 2020 iPad ProApple in March 2020 refreshed its iPad Pro lineup, introducing a faster A12Z Bionic processor, dual rear cameras, a new LiDAR scanner for improved augmented reality capabilities, improved audio, and an optional Magic Keyboard accessory that adds a trackpad to the iPad for the first time.
According to Apple, the 2020 iPad Pro is its most advanced iPad Pro to date, with a number of “pro” improvements for those who want an iPad that’s able to replace a computer. When it comes to design, the iPad Pro is unchanged, available in 11 and 12.
9-inch sizes with an all-screen design and an edge-to-edge display that does not include a Home button. There are many other factors that make up the overall goodness of the 2020 iPad Pro. We got a chance at handling the device and we are presenting our User Guide to help you maximize your new iPad Pro.
This book is written in simple and clear terms with a step-by-step approach and with tips and tricks that will help you to master your new iPad Pro within the shortest period of time. Here is a preview of what you will learn:How to set up your iPad ProManage Apple ID and iCloud settings on iPad ProMove content manually from your Android device to your iOS deviceChange access to items when iPad is lockedPrevent iPad Pro from automatically filling in passwordsSet up iCloud Keychain on iPadUse VPN on iPad ProHow to Multitask on Your iPadMultitask with Picture in Picture on iPad ProUse AirDrop on iPad Pro to send items to devices near youManage your App Store purchases, subscriptions, and settings on iPadRead books in the Books app on iPad ProSet Reading Goals in Books on iPad ProSet reminders on iPad ProSet up Family Sharing on iPad ProCreate an Apple ID for a childAccept an invitation to Family SharingShare purchases with family members on iPad ProHow to use a shared iCloud storage planHow to Ask Siri on iPad ProSet up Apple PayUse Siri with AirPods on iPadUse Apple Pencil To Take Notes on Lock ScreenMove Multiple Apps Together on Home screenEnable AssistiveTouchRecord Your iPad ScreenHow to Block People From Sending You Mail in iPadOSHow to use Favorites in Apple MapsHow to use Cycle Tracking in HealthDownload Free Books on Your iPadLet Your iPad Read Selected Text to YouAdditional value for this book.
12. Adobe XD Classroom in a Book (2020 release)
Author: by Brian Wood
Published at: Macromedia Press; 1st edition (May 7, 2020)
ISBN: 978-0136583806
Creative professionals, web designers, and UX professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe XD (2020 release) choose Adobe XD Classroom in a Book (2020 release) from the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks from Adobe Press. The 11 project-based lessons in this book guide users step-by-step through key techniques in XD for designing and prototyping cutting edge content for websites, mobile apps, and presentations.
You’ll set up a project, create graphics, add images and text, organize content, and work with components and Libraries. You’ll learn how to add effects and work more efficiently with repeat grid. You’ll also create fully functioning prototypes, and explore how to preview, share, comment, and export production-ready assets.
The online companion files include all the necessary assets for readers to complete the projects featured in each chapter. All buyers of the book get full access to the Web Edition: a Web-based version of the complete ebook enhanced with video and multiple-choice quizzes.
13. Vector Basic Training: A Systematic Creative Process for Building Precision Vector Artwork
Author: by Von Glitschka
Published at: New Riders Pub; 2nd edition (October 8, 2015)
ISBN: 978-0134176734
Attention, designers, it’s time to get serious about your creative process. For too long you’ve allowed yourself to go soft, relying on your software to do all of your creative work at the expense of your craftsmanship. This book will NOT show you how to use every tool and feature in Adobe Illustrator.
This book WILL, however, teach you the importance of drawing out your ideas, analyzing the shapes, and then methodically building them precisely in vector form using the techniques explained in this book. In Vector Basic Training, Second Edition acclaimed illustrative designer Von Glitschka takes you through his systematic process for creating the kind of precise vector graphics that separate the pros from the mere toolers.
Along the way, he’ll whip your drawing skills into shape and show you how to create elegant curves and precise anchor points for your designs. In addition to new illustrative examples throughout the book, this edition includes an all-new chapter on how to apply color and detail to your illustrations using tried-and-true methods that you’ll use over and over again.
