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Summary: Very helpful!
Review: In accord with other books in the SAMS series, this book is very helpful for those who want to learn Illustrator from scratch. Each chapter is well organized and, true to the book's title, can be done in 24 one hour session.There is no mumble jumble here. The book provides very clear (and short) written explanations for each tool, the subjects are to the point, and the review at the end of each chapter really clarifies the more confusing concepts. This book will help you familiarize yourself very quickly with illustrator and what it can do. It will not, however, show you how to do more fancy stuff with illustrator. But we all have to start somewhere, right? This is definitely the first step you should take. It's the most effective and economical step. Good luck!
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Summary: Sam's Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator 9 in 24 Hours
Review: Sorry to say that I was disapointed in this book, Illustrator 9.0 is an upgrade to 8.0 with new features to bring Illustrators vector art to the web. Sam's Teach Yourself Illustrator 9.0 in 24 Hours falls short in offering any new information from this new version. If you are an Illustrator 8.0 user and want to know about 9.0 then this book is not for you. If you have never used Illustrator before then this is a great book to start with but only to start with. Hopefuly "Adobe Illustrator 9.0 Classroom in a Book" will be out soon to answer the question? What does 9.0 have to offer?
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Summary: A Good One
Review: The author followed the original purpose of his book. I've read it easily and with no effort and I think I had at a first glance a good notion about the program. If you never work with Illustrator 9 before this book is a very good reference to start.
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Summary: A Great Book for Starting Started with Illustrator
Review: 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.
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Summary: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator in 24 hours
Review: This book is awesome! I already thoroughly know version 8 and am currently teaching it (as well as working as a freelance illustrator), so I was reading this book for my students and I highly recommend it. I learned many new features of illustrator 9 by reading it, and I found the writing style to be the most enjoyable of all the illustrator texts I've read, and I've read several. The excercises are fun and useful. My criticism is that the author doesn't point out when a feature is new to version 9, so if someone doesn't know that version super well, they may not recognize a new feature. Also, the new features are mixed in, so you have to read the whole chapter to find the new features. So, whether you are a new user or wanting to know new features, this is a book you have to sit down and actually read. It is NOT a reference book, and it is not easy to look up and find a quick answer. I recommend to my students to have a good reference book on hand for when you just need to look up something (Illustrator for windows and macintosh) and have this book as a learning tool to study with. I think it would be especially useful for instruction to those who are not taking a class with a live teacher.
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Summary: Before launching the program, pick this book up!
Review: 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!"
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Summary: Before launching the program, pick this book up!
Review: 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!"
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Summary: Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator 9 in 24 Hours
Review: This book is waste of your money, It dose not clearly explain things. And the examples are less then helpful. than one star rating was pity vote.
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Summary: The Very Best Tutorial Manual!
Review: This is one of the best tutorial manuals I have ever used. It is written in an easy to comprehend and "chatty" style, which makes you feel that "Sam" is right there with you whenever you switch on Illustrator 9.0 and start learning. I sped through the tutorials, which are fun to do and practice later on and whenever I need a refresher on a specific point I still turn to this definitive teaching manual. The only part that could have been better described was the construction of patterns and tiles. It took me a while to figure it out as the section was glossed over somewhat. The Adobe manual for Illustrator 9.0 comes into its worth only after you have grasped the basics and these are provided by working through this marvelous instruction book. In record time I was able to use Illustrator 9.0 for all our book cover artwork and design/publishing needs. Our finished product is "Accused By Facet-Eyes, A Classic Science-Fiction Novel" (C.B.Don) so you can take a look at what can be done once one has graduated from "Sam's Teach Yourself Illustrator 9.0" school! Highly recommended and essential...thank you Mordy Golding "Sam"!
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Summary: The Very Best Tutorial Manual!
Review: This is one of the best tutorial manuals I have ever used. It is written in an easy to comprehend and "chatty" style, which makes you feel that "Sam" is right there with you whenever you switch on Illustrator 9.0 and start learning. I sped through the tutorials, which are fun to do and practice later on and whenever I need a refresher on a specific point I still turn to this definitive teaching manual. The only part that could have been better described was the construction of patterns and tiles. It took me a while to figure it out as the section was glossed over somewhat. The Adobe manual for Illustrator 9.0 comes into its worth only after you have grasped the basics and these are provided by working through this marvelous instruction book. In record time I was able to use Illustrator 9.0 for all our book cover artwork and design/publishing needs. Our finished product is "Accused By Facet-Eyes, A Classic Science-Fiction Novel" (C.B.Don) so you can take a look at what can be done once one has graduated from "Sam's Teach Yourself Illustrator 9.0" school! Highly recommended and essential...thank you Mordy Golding "Sam"!
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