Illustrator type magic

• Provides step-by-step instructions for achieving special effects using filters, techniques and tools
• Follows the same format as the highly successful Photoshop Type Magic
• Offers a visual feast of creative inspiration for typographers, designers and Illustrator users

Table of contents :

Introduction                                       1 
 Before You Start                                   3 
 Illustrator Basics                               7 
 Accordion                                      20
 Antiquing                                      24
 Background                                     26
 Beveled                                        30
 Crumbling                                      34
 Curved Baselines                               38
 Dashed Outlines                                42
 Dispersed                                      48
 Distortions                                    54
 Fake 3D                                        58
 Filters                                        64
 Glowing                                        70
 Gradients                                      76
 Ink Pen                                        84
 Interlocked                                    90
 Jumbled                                        94
 Knockouts                                      98
 Lip                                            102
 Masked                                         104
 Offset                                         110
 Outlines                                       114
 Overlapped                                     120
 In Paths                                       124
 On Paths                                       128
 Path Patterns                                  134
 Patterns                                       142
 Petals                                         152
 Photoshop                                      156
 Rasterized                                     162
 Ribbon                                         168
 Rounded                                        172
 Scale                                          176
 Scribble                                       182
 Blended Shadows                                186
 Gradient Shadows                               194
 Quick Shadows                                  198
 Shaggy                                         204
 Shaken                                         208
 Shaping                                        214
 Shattered                                      220
 Sign                                           224
 Spattered                                      226
 Cut Stripes                                    232
 Masked Stripes                                 238
 Transparent                                    246
 Appendix A:  Contributors Listing                  249
 Appendix B:  What's on the CD-ROM                  255
 Gallery                                            257