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Getting Started

A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator

Lesson 1. Getting to Know the Work Area

Lesson 2. Creating Basic Shapes

Lesson 3. Painting

Lesson 4. Drawing with the Pen Tool

Lesson 5. Working with Brushes

Lesson 6. Transforming Objects

Lesson 7. Working with Type

Lesson 8. Blending Shapes and Colors

Lesson 9. Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects

Lesson 10. Working with Layers

Lesson 11. Creating Airbrush Effects

Lesson 12. Drawing Cylinders and Boxes

Lesson 13. Printing Artwork and Producing Color Separations

Lesson 14. Combining Illustrator Graphics and Photoshop Images

Lesson 15. Preparing Graphics for Web Publication

Optimizing images for the Web

Getting started

Exporting flat-color artwork

Exporting continuous-tone and gradient artwork

Linking objects in an image map to URLs

Creating a Flash animation

Exploring on your own

Review questions

Index

Lesson 15. Preparing Graphics for Web Publication

The style of your artwork determines thefile format you use to export the file for publication on the World Wide Web. For example, flat-color artwork is typically exported to GIF or PNG-8 format, and continuous-tone artwork containing photos or gradients is typically exported to JPEG or PNG-24 format. When preparing images for Web distribution, the goal is to create the smallest possible file while maintaining the integrity of the artwork.

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