How to Do Everything with Adobe Illustrator CS

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CAD formats, 306

calligraphic brushes, 242243

caps, defining, 6869

cascading windows , 910

case, finding/replacing, 115

Change Case feature, 115

Character command, 122

Character palette, 122126

Character Styles palette, 131132

characters

baselines, 125

formatting, 122125, 131132

hidden, 114, 128129

leading, 123

rotation, 125

selecting, 116117

spacing, 123124, 141

styles, 130132

superscript/subscript, 125

Check Spelling dialog box, 115

circles, drawing, 74

Clean Up command, 96

Clean Up dialog box, 96

clipboard

copying text to, 113114

preferences, 39

clipping masks, 171178, 201. See also cropping

closed paths, 6

CMYK color model

choosing, 32, 34

color separations, 310312

color trapping, 308309

converting colors to RGB, 317

described, 3334

filters/effects and, 263

CMYK palette, 212213

color

applying, 210212

background, 228

bitmaps, 254255

blends. See blends

brightness, 223224

calculating, 224

changing, 211

choosing, 210213

darkening, 223

defining, 3234, 210

fills, 5758, 6970, 81, 210212

filters, 194195

gradients, 215218

grids, 156

HSB, 212213

hue, 224225

layers , 273

lightening, 223

mesh points, 202204

misregistration, 308310

monitors and, 32, 302303

overlapping, 81

overprinting, 305, 308310

Pantone, 213, 313

previewing, 302303

printing and, 302305

process, 310313

proofing, 311

rasterizing and, 186

sampling, 210211

saturation, 213

spot, 307, 313

strokes, 5758, 6970, 210212

transparency and, 81

trapping and, 308309

web-safe, 34, 213, 317, 320

Color blend mode, 224225

Color Burn blend mode, 223224

Color button, 27

Color Dodge blend mode, 223224

color management, 305

color models

CMYK. See CMYK color model

HSB, 212

RGB. See RGB color model

selecting Color palette for, 212213

Web-safe, 34

Color palette

changing colors in, 210

options, 210213

selecting color model, 212213

types of palettes in, 212213

using, 212213

color profiles, 3940

color separations, 304305, 310312

Color Settings dialog box, 303

Column Graph tool, 24

columns

fitting text in, 140

number of, 143

spacing, 143

text blocks, 140

tools for, 24

commercial printers, 303304, 307314, 330

compound shapes , 80

compression, 321, 329

control points, 8990, 185

Convert Anchor Point tool, 15, 92

Convert to RGB command, 317

Convert to Shape effects, 183

copying

to clipboard, 113114

objects, 184

stroke/fill colors, 6970

text, 113114

Corel PHOTO-PAINT, 250

CorelDRAW, 5

corner anchor points, 86, 90

Create from Selection command, 325

Create Outlines command, 133134

crop marks, 178, 304, 313314

Crop tool, 77, 79, 81

cropping. See also clipping masks; trimming

to artboard , 304

bitmaps with masks, 176177

to bounding box, 304

in Illustrator, 172

objects, 81

options, 304

Crystallize tool, 1718, 205206

cursor, crosshair, 87

curves

B zier, 85

changing angle of, 63

closing, 156

deleting sections of, 62

drawing, 6465, 86, 88, 90

editing, 6061, 86, 9294

modifying with control points, 8990

paths and, 85

reshaping, 65

resizing, 63, 65

rotating, 65

smoothing, 5861

symmetrical, 65

customization

brushes, 249250

fills, 215218, 234239, 249250

guides, 41

patterns, 234239

styles, 285289