The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P5

The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P5: Sharon Steuer is the originator of The Illustrator Wow! Books. Whennot working on Wow! books, Sharon is a painter, illustrator, columnistfor creativepro.com, and the author of Creative Thinking in Photoshop:A New Approach to Digital Art. She lives in Connecticut with her cats,Puma and Bear, and radio star husband, Jeff Jacoby. She is extremelygrateful to her co-authors, editors, testers, Wow! team members (pastand present), Adobe, and Peachpit for making this book possible....
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The Adobe Illustrator CS Wow- P5Jared SchneidmanJared Schneidman illustrated this building for Constrain Angle (Preferences >General) to 30°,a capabilities brochure for Structure Tone, an so he could edit objects by dragging selectedinterior construction company. Schneidman points or lines along the same angles as thetraced a scan of an architectural drawing of isometric view (he held down the Shift keythe building, rendered originally in an isomet- while dragging to constrain movement to theric view. While drawing, Schneidman set the set angles). Chapter 3 Drawing & Coloring 95 Objective Colors Custom Labels for Making Quick Changes Overview: Define custom spot or global colors, naming colors by the type of object; repeat the procedure for each type of object; use Select commands to select types of objects by spot or global color name to edit colors or objects. Option-clicking on the New Swatch icon to di- rectly access Swatch Options; naming the color, then setting the color to be a Spot Color or When you need to frequently adjust the colors of an choosing the Global option, which allows global changes and tinting illustration, its essential to find a way of organizing your colors. This illustration by Rick Henkel demonstrates how his firm, Agnew Moyer Smith (AMS), uses colors to label different categories of objects, making it simple to isolate and update colors. This method also makes it easy to find all objects in a category in order to apply any other global changes, such as changing the stroke weight or scaling, or adding transparency or effects. 1 Creating custom spot or global colors. AMS uses spot colors, even for process color jobs, to allow easy access to tints. (You can also use Process colors by checking the Global option in the Swatches palette.) In the Swatches A spot color swatch with its custom label palette, Option-click/Alt-click on the New Swatch icon.96 Chapter 3 Drawing & Coloring If you have premixed a color in the Color palette, this color will be loaded in the color mixer. You can then edit it using the color sliders. Now give your color a name that conveys the kind of object you plan to fill with the color and either choose Spot Color from the Color Type pop- up, or choose Process, and enable the Global option. Rick Henkel used labels such as CamRight and DriveLeft to label the colors he would use in his illustration of the Duquesne Incline. To help his selection of reliably repro- ducible colors, Henkel used the Agfa PostScript Process Color Guide to look up the color he actually wanted and then entered the CMYK percentages.2 Repeating the procedure for all colors and labels, and changing color definitions as necessary. Create Creating custom spot color swatches for each colors for each type of object to be styled differently, nam- category of object to be styled differently ing each color for the objects it will fill (to speed creation of swatches, see the Tip below right). Henkel created spot colors, properly labeled, for each type of object included in this incline railroad illustration. The spot and global color systems makes it easy to With a color swatch label selected, choosing change definitions of colors. From the Swatches palette, Select>Same>Fill Color to find the objects filled with that color double-click on the color you want to change in order to open Swatch Options, where you can change the color recipe. Click OK to apply the changes to all objects con- taining that color. After selecting the next color swatch, using the Select >Reselect command to select all objects colored with that swatch3 ...