Illustrator Type Magic

You can't learn how to create spectacular effects in Adobe Illustrator without a good book or a guru by your side. If you don't have an expert at your immediate disposal, your best bet is Illustrator Type Magic. This attractive guide shows you in full color exactly how to create a wide range of fun and odd type effects in Adobe Illustrator 7.0 for Windows and Macintosh.

The effects, arranged alphabetically, have names that reflect their appearance--Accordion, Gradients, Jumbled, Splattered, and so on. Author Greg Simsic shows you how to create every effect and provides helpful illustrations, screen shots, and an introductory guide to Illustrator. Several of the effects are more complicated than others and involve the use of Illustrator's masking tools; a few others require the use of third-party effects filters, which are on the included hybrid CD. The CD also contains fonts, images, and demo versions of Illustrator and other Adobe software packages.