What's new in Illustrator CS3? -- Understanding Illustrator's desktop -- Working with Illustrator documents -- Understanding drawing and painting techniques -- Creating objects, graphs, and symbols -- Learning how to select and edit -- Understanding color, gradients, and mesh -- Using Illustrator to organize objects -- Working with type -- Using creative strokes and fills with patterns -- Applying transformations and distortions -- Using path blends, compound paths, and masks -- Using Live Trace -- Using Live Paint -- Working with graphic styles, filters, and effects -- Creating 3-D in Illustrator -- Customizing and automating Illustrator -- Understanding PostScript and printing -- Creating web graphics.

Introduces Adobe's Illustrator graphics program, providing the basics plus drawing and painting tips, and offers information on working with files and customization.