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One-on-One Illustrator CS4 Training DVD

Learn how to take your skills to the next level. This One-on-One Illustrator CS4 training DVD
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1. Making a Document
- Welcome to One-on-One
- The Welcome screen
- Creating a new document
- Advanced document controls
- Saving a custom New Document Profile
- Changing the document setup
- Special artboard controls
- Accepting artboard changes
- Saving a document
- Closing a document
2. Opening and Organizing
- Adobe Bridge
- Opening an illustration
- Modifying an illustration
- Saving changes
- Introducing Adobe Bridge
- The all-important file type associations
- Navigating inside Bridge
- Previewing and collecting
- Using workspaces
- Customizing a workspace
- Cool Bridge tricks
3. Setup and Navigation
- Preferences, color settings, and workspaces
- Keyboard increments
- Scratch disks
- Changing the user interface and setting Appearance of Black
- Best workflow color settings
- Synchronizing settings across CS4
- Working inside tabbed windows
- Organizing palettes
- Saving a custom workspace
- Zooming and panning
- Using the Zoom tool
- Navigating the artboards
- Nudging the screen image
- Scroll-wheel tricks
- Cycling between screen modes
4. Basic Line Art
- The Wedjat (or Eye of Horus)
- The line tools
- Introducing layers
- Creating ruler guides
- Creating custom guides
- Snap-to points
- Organizing guides
- Making a tracing template
- Drawing a line segment
- Drawing a continuous arc
- Drawing a looping spiral
- Cutting lines with the Scissors tool
- Joining open paths
- Aligning and joining points
- Drawing concentric circles
- Cleaning up overlapping segments
5. Geometric Shapes
- The anatomy of a shape
- Meet the shape tools
- The traceable Tonalpohualli
- Drawing circles
- Enhanced Smart Guides
- Aligning to a key object
- Creating polygons and stars
- Using the Measure tool
- The Select Similar and Arrange commands
- Rectangles and rounded rectangles
- The amazing constraint axes
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Flipping and duplicating
- Combining simple shapes into complex ones
- Cutting and connecting with Scissors and Join
- Tilde-key goofiness
6. Fill, Stroke, and Color
- The ingredients of life
- Fill and Stroke settings
- Transparency grid and paper color
- The None attribute
- Color libraries and sliders
- Industry-standard colors
- Using CMYK for commercial output
- Using RGB for the web
- Color palette tips and tricks
- Creating and saving color swatches
- Trapping gaps with rich blacks
- Filling and stacking shapes
- Dragging and dropping swatches
- Paste in Front, Paste in Back
- Filling shapes inside groups
- Pasting between layers
- Joins, caps, and dashes
- Fixing strokes and isolating edits
- Creating a pattern fill
7. Editing and Transforming
- The power of transformations
- From primitive to polished art
- Using the Blob brush
- Resizing the brush and erasing
- Selection limits and methods of merging
- Cloning and auto-duplicating
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
- Moving by the numbers
- Using the Reshape tool
- Modifying, aligning, and uniting paths
- Using the Offset Path command
- Styling and eyedropping
- Making a black-and-white template
- Scale and clone
- Enlarge and stack
- Positioning the origin point
- Using the Rotate tool
- Using the Reflect tool
- Series rotation (aka power duplication)
- Rotating by the numbers
- Transforming the tile patterns
8. Working with Type
- Next-generation text wrangling
- Placing a text document
- Creating a new text block
- Working with point text
- Selecting the perfect typeface
- Scaling and positioning type
- Leading, tracking, and lots of shortcuts
- Adjusting pair kerning
- Eyedropping formatting attributes
- Flowing text from one block to another
- Creating and applying a paragraph style
- Rendering the text in graphite
- Creating a scribbly drop shadow
- Advanced formatting and bullets
- Setting Area Type options
- Justification and the Every-line Composer
- OpenType and ligatures
- Fractions, numerals, and ordinals
- Swashes and small caps
- The amazing Glyphs palette
9. Using the Pen Tool
- Points are boys, handles are girls
- Placing an image as a tracing template
- Drawing a straight-sided path
- Moving, adding, and deleting points
- Drawing spline curves with Round Corners
- Smooth points and Bézier curves
- Defining a cusp between two curves
- Replicating and reshaping segments
- Converting anchor points
- Deleting stray anchor points
- Separating and closing paths
- Eyedropping template colors
10. Selecting and Enhancing
- Paths never rest
- Exploring the Appearance palette
- Snip and Spin
- Adding a center point
- Keeping shape intersections
- Lifting fills and selecting through shapes
- Saving and recalling selections
- Rotating is a circular operation
- Lassoing and scaling points
- Using the Transform Each command
- Using the Magic Wand tool
- Eyedropping live effects
- Merging strokes with a compound path
- Selecting and scaling independent segments
- Scalloped edges with Pucker & Bloat
- Expand before you merge
11. Printing a Document
- The new pleasures of printing
- Outlines and artboards in CS4
- Setting trim size and bleed
- Creating custom dynamic crop marks
- Working with the Separations Preview palette
- Trapping an object with an overprint stroke
- Placing multiple artboards into InDesign
- Working with the Print Tiling tool
- Setting the General Print options
- Setting printer marks
- PostScript-only output and graphics
- The Color Management options
- Adjusting the Flattener settings
- Setting the Raster Effects resolution
12. Exporting to the Web and Elsewhere
- Illustrator does pixels
- Illustrator, PDF, and Save As formats
- Saving an illustration for the web
- Saving a continuous-tone JPEG image
- Saving a high-contrast GIF graphic
- The versatile PNG format
- Saving a scaleable Flash (SWF) graphic
- Opening and placing an Illustrator file in Photoshop
- Exporting a layered PSD from Illustrator
- Exporting to Microsoft Office and PowerPoint
- Sharing with InDesign, Flash, and Photoshop
Conclusion
- Until next time
Advanced Illustrator CS4 Training DVD Info
Title Information.
Adobe Illustrator has long been a popular vector-based drawing program, but for many the learning curve is steep. In Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Fundamentals, author and leading industry expert Deke McClelland shows users how to get in to the Illustrator mindset and overcome this learning curve. He covers the application's key features in a new way, making it simple and easy to master Illustrator. Deke teaches viewers how to use the core drawing and shape tools, the transformation and reshaping features, text, and the Pen tool. He also explains how to export and print. Even if learning Illustrator has been a struggle in the past, this training can help make sense of it. Exercise files accompany the course.
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| Duration: | 16.75 hours - 182 lessons |
| Platform: | PC or Mac |
| Fomat : | Video CD |
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