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For professional illustrators, and anyone who wants to achieve professional results, The Illustrator WOW! Book is quite simply the best resource that money can buy, aside from Illustrator itself, of course. Sharon Steuer and her coauthors have managed to produce a book that is both an authoritative practical guide to Illustrator 9.0's tools and features, and a showcase and guide to techniques, as demonstrated by nearly a hundred commercial illustrators. To bring new users and upgraders up to speed, there are two introductory chapters. Even seasoned users will pick up something from skimming these chapters, thanks to the clear layout which places illustrations and innumerable tip boxes in the outside columns. The remaining chapters are organized into techniques and galleries. Using commercially created work, the techniques each focus on one aspect of how a complex illustration was created. These tutorials pack a lot into a short space because they don't go into specific detail about every single stage in the process--if you need to know the basics, go back to the front of the book! The galleries further demonstrate the techniques by showcasing an illustration and discussing the process by which it was created--why one approach was chosen over another, which tools where used, how a particular type of effect was produced, what where the special printing considerations, and so on. As a practical guide to Illustrator techniques, a source of creative ideas, a repository of hints and tips, or a quiet lunchtime browse, you'll need to look hard to find a better, more useful book on Illustrator. --Ken McMahon, Amazon.co.uk
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