Takes a visual approach to a popular graphic design program, offering step-by-step instructions, concise commentary, and b&w and color illustrations. Covers new and improved features of Illustrator 8, and discusses Web issues, with chapters on the Illustrator interface, startup, views, object basics, and tools for selecting, reshaping, transforming, filling, drawing, and painting. Also covers type, gradients, filters, masks, and separations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.