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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.

Course Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Fundamentals Author Deke McClelland SKU ISBN Release Date 2009-02-06 Duration 16.48 hrs / 173 tutorials Work files Yes Price $ 49.95 Retail price $ 99.95 Language Tags Illustrator, CS4 Required software Adobe Illustrator CS4

1. Making a Document Welcome to One-on-One 01:58 The Welcome screen 03:02 Creating a new document 05:06 Advanced document controls 04:43 Saving a custom New Document Profile 08:46 Changing the document setup 04:21 Special artboard controls 04:58 Accepting artboard changes 02:19 Saving a document 04:33 Closing a document 02:21 2. Opening and Organizing Adobe Bridge 00:56 Opening an illustration 04:45 Modifying an illustration 06:27 Saving changes 04:58 Introducing Adobe Bridge 08:41 The all-important file type associations 03:20 Navigating inside Bridge 04:23 Previewing and collecting 05:55 Using workspaces 06:41 Customizing a workspace 06:14 Cool Bridge tricks 08:17 3. Setup and Navigation Preferences, color settings, and workspaces 00:35 Keyboard increments 05:12 Scratch disks 03:48 Changing the user interface and setting Appearance of Black 04:14 Best workflow color settings 09:17 Synchronizing settings across CS4 03:02 Working inside tabbed windows 07:14 Organizing palettes 05:04 Saving a custom workspace 04:12 Zooming and panning 04:19 Using the Zoom tool 03:03 Navigating the artboards 05:05 Nudging the screen image 03:03 Scroll-wheel tricks 02:08 Cycling between screen modes 04:39 4. Basic Line Art The Wedjat (or Eye of Horus) 00:55 The line tools 02:57 Introducing layers 05:10 Creating ruler guides 06:18 Creating custom guides 05:16 Snap-to points 05:25 Organizing guides 05:43 Making a tracing template 03:42 Drawing a line segment 04:29 Drawing a continuous arc 05:28 Drawing a looping spiral 06:05 Cutting lines with the Scissors tool 06:20 Joining open paths 07:31 Aligning and joining points 06:34 Drawing concentric circles 04:41 Cleaning up overlapping segments 05:34 5. Geometric Shapes The anatomy of a shape 01:01 Meet the shape tools 03:05 The traceable Tonalpohualli 02:52 Drawing circles 04:38 Enhanced Smart Guides 04:01 Aligning to a key object 04:29 Creating polygons and stars 05:04 Using the Measure tool 03:47 The Select Similar and Arrange commands 03:56 Rectangles and rounded rectangles 06:08 The amazing constraint axes 05:26 Grouping and ungrouping 03:35 Flipping and duplicating 04:12 Combining simple shapes into complex ones 05:24 Cutting and connecting with Scissors and Join 03:31 Tilde-key goofiness 02:53 6. Fill, Stroke, and Color The ingredients of life 00:54 Fill and Stroke settings 04:22 Transparency grid and paper color 05:47 The None attribute 05:04 Color libraries and sliders 03:39 Industry-standard colors 04:38 Using CMYK for commercial output 06:39 Using RGB for the web 07:23 Color palette tips and tricks 07:18 Creating and saving color swatches 04:35 Trapping gaps with rich blacks 06:46 Filling and stacking shapes 05:38 Dragging and dropping swatches 05:00 Paste in Front, Paste in Back 04:54 Filling shapes inside groups 05:28 Pasting between layers 04:41 Joins, caps, and dashes 06:50 Fixing strokes and isolating edits 07:12 Creating a pattern fill 04:57 7. Editing and Transforming The power of transformations 01:20 From primitive to polished art 02:42 Using the Blob brush 05:46 Resizing the brush and erasing 04:15 Selection limits and methods of merging 06:39

Cloning and auto-duplicating 06:45 Customizing keyboard shortcuts 03:07 Moving by the numbers 05:15 Using the Reshape tool 07:47 Modifying, aligning, and uniting paths 07:14 Using the Offset Path command 04:43 Styling and eyedropping 05:28 Making a black-and-white template 02:27 Scale and clone 04:57 Enlarge and stack 05:46 Positioning the origin point 06:59 Using the Rotate tool 03:55 Using the Reflect tool 04:15 Series rotation (aka power duplication) 06:48 Rotating by the numbers 06:12 Transforming the tile patterns 07:52 8. Working with Type Next-generation text wrangling 00:55 Placing a text document 05:38 Creating a new text block 06:01 Working with point text 03:57 Selecting the perfect typeface 05:48 Scaling and positioning type 08:57 Leading, tracking, and lots of shortcuts 05:54 Adjusting pair kerning 06:55 Eyedropping formatting attributes 03:54 Flowing text from one block to another 08:28 Creating and applying a paragraph style 07:39 Rendering the text in graphite 05:55 Creating a scribbly drop shadow 05:17 Advanced formatting and bullets 07:43 Setting Area Type options 04:57 Justification and the Every-line Composer 05:52 OpenType and ligatures 07:19 Fractions, numerals, and ordinals 09:07 Swashes and small caps 05:40 The amazing Glyphs palette 08:12 9. Using the Pen Tool Points are boys, handles are girls 01:20 Placing an image as a tracing template 06:56 Drawing a straight-sided path 06:08 Moving, adding, and deleting points 06:50 Drawing spline curves with Round Corners 09:07 Smooth points and BГ©zier curves 08:29 Defining a cusp between two curves 06:59 Replicating and reshaping segments 08:30 Converting anchor points 07:55 Deleting stray anchor points 05:01 Separating and closing paths 05:43 Eyedropping template colors 05:55 10. Selecting and Enhancing Paths never rest 01:34 Exploring the Appearance palette 09:54 Snip and Spin 08:03 Adding a center point 04:12 Keeping shape intersections 03:42 Lifting fills and selecting through shapes 05:54 Saving and recalling selections 06:20 Rotating is a circular operation 08:32 Lassoing and scaling points 05:28 Using the Transform Each command 04:11 Using the Magic Wand tool 08:01 Eyedropping live effects 09:58 Merging strokes with a compound path 06:50 Selecting and scaling independent segments 07:59 Scalloped edges with Pucker & Bloat 05:16 Expand before you merge 04:17 11. Printing a Document The new pleasures of printing 00:44 Outlines and artboards in CS4 07:35 Setting trim size and bleed 07:17 Creating custom dynamic crop marks 03:41 Working with the Separations Preview palette 07:42 Trapping an object with an overprint stroke 08:20 Placing multiple artboards into InDesign 05:17 Working with the Print Tiling tool 04:55 Setting the General Print options 06:09 Setting printer marks 05:16 PostScript-only output and graphics 09:10 The Color Management options 06:56 Adjusting the Flattener settings 07:32 Setting the Raster Effects resolution 05:32 12. Exporting to the Web and Elsewhere Illustrator does pixels 00:51 Illustrator, PDF, and Save As formats 08:15 Saving an illustration for the web 06:13 Saving a continuous-tone JPEG image 10:01 Saving a high-contrast GIF graphic 06:26 The versatile PNG format 04:45 Saving a scaleable Flash (SWF) graphic 11:00 Opening and placing an Illustrator file in Photoshop 12:44 Exporting a layered PSD from Illustrator 12:57 Exporting to Microsoft Office and PowerPoint 07:24 Sharing with InDesign, Flash, and Photoshop 12:12 Conclusion Until next time 01:04