This edition is fully updated for Illustrator CS5 include Illustrator essential skills for artists, such as geometric and freehand drawing objects, color management, using some artboards; apply colors, patterns, and gradients, create and use a brush, transformation, reshaping, and combines the object; creating and styling type; apply the graphic style and transparency; using the Pen tool, using vivid color, paint, trace, and feature effects, symbol use, and output. The new and updated Illustrator CS5 features are clearly marked with bright red star in both the table of contents and the main text. Among the new CS5 features discussed in this book is a bristle brush, drawing mode, arrows, tool width, Shape Builder tool, and Mini Bridge.