Book description
Master the fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator and watch your designs come to life. With Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system, you get step-by-step tutorials, hours of DVD-video demonstrations, and lots of hands-on projects to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills.
Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
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Lesson 1
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Starting a Document
- What Is Illustrator?
- Illustration versus Image
- Opening an Illustration
- Organizing Your Artwork
- Setting Up a New Document
- Changing the Document Setup and Modifying Artboards (1/2)
- Changing the Document Setup and Modifying Artboards (2/2)
- Introducing Guides, Smart Guides, and Layers
- Creating Custom Workspaces (1/2)
- Creating Custom Workspaces (2/2)
- Saving Your Artwork
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Starting a Document
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Lesson 2
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Lines, Shapes, and Color
- Endpoints and Closed Paths
- Drawing Lines, Arcs, and Spirals
- Splitting, Joining, and Aligning (1/2)
- Splitting, Joining, and Aligning (2/2)
- Drawing Primitive Shapes (1/3)
- Drawing Primitive Shapes (2/3)
- Drawing Primitive Shapes (3/3)
- Combining Simple Shapes into Complex Ones
- Coloring Your Artwork (1/2)
- Coloring Your Artwork (2/2)
- Filling, Stroking, and Stacking (1/2)
- Filling, Stroking, and Stacking (2/2)
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Lines, Shapes, and Color
- Lesson 3
- Lesson 4
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Lesson 5
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Transform and Reshape
- The Fine Art of Reshaping
- Moving and Cloning Path Elements (1/2)
- Moving and Cloning Path Elements (2/2)
- Offsetting Paths to Simulate Depth
- Working with the Scale Tool (1/2)
- Working with the Scale Tool (2/2)
- Rotate, Reflect, and Series Duplication (1/2)
- Rotate, Reflect, and Series Duplication (2/2)
- Transforming with Respect to Independent Origins (1/2)
- Transforming with Respect to Independent Origins (2/2)
- Scaling Partially Selected Paths (1/2)
- Scaling Partially Selected Paths (2/2)
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Transform and Reshape
- Lesson 6
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Lesson 7
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Blends, Masks, and Gradient Mesh
- Designing Custom Gradients
- Blending Between Paths
- Editing and Masking a Blend
- Creating Specialty Blends (1/2)
- Creating Specialty Blends (2/2)
- Making the Most of Clipping Masks (1/2)
- Making the Most of Clipping Masks (2/2)
- Creating and Editing a Gradient Mesh (1/4)
- Creating and Editing a Gradient Mesh (2/4)
- Creating and Editing a Gradient Mesh (3/4)
- Creating and Editing a Gradient Mesh (4/4)
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Blends, Masks, and Gradient Mesh
- Lesson 8
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Lesson 9
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Brushes and Symbols
- Dynamic Brushstrokes
- Symbols and Instances
- Enhancing Line Art with Art Brushes (1/4)
- Enhancing Line Art with Art Brushes (2/4)
- Enhancing Line Art with Art Brushes (3/4)
- Enhancing Line Art with Art Brushes (4/4)
- Expressing Text as an Art Brush (1/3)
- Expressing Text as an Art Brush (2/3)
- Expressing Text as an Art Brush (3/3)
- Replicating, Updating, and Replacing Symbols (1/3)
- Replicating, Updating, and Replacing Symbols (2/3)
- Replicating, Updating, and Replacing Symbols (3/3)
- Using the Symbolism Tools (1/3)
- Using the Symbolism Tools (2/3)
- Using the Symbolism Tools (3/3)
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Brushes and Symbols
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Lesson 10
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The Amazing World of Dynamic Effects
- The Best (and Worst) Effects
- Applying and Editing Graphic Styles (1/4)
- Applying and Editing Graphic Styles (2/4)
- Applying and Editing Graphic Styles (3/4)
- Applying and Editing Graphic Styles (4/4)
- Exploiting the Transform Effect (1/2)
- Exploiting the Transform Effect (2/2)
- Building Up a Complex Transformation Series (1/3)
- Building Up a Complex Transformation Series (2/3)
- Building Up a Complex Transformation Series (3/3)
- Creating 3D Text and Graphics (1/3)
- Creating 3D Text and Graphics (2/3)
- Creating 3D Text and Graphics (3/3)
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The Amazing World of Dynamic Effects
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Lesson 11
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Live Trace, Paint, and Color
- Similar Names, Different Features
- Creating a Black-and-White Trace (1/3)
- Creating a Black-and-White Trace (2/3)
- Creating a Black-and-White Trace (3/3)
- Tracing Full-Color Artwork (1/2)
- Tracing Full-Color Artwork (2/2)
- Filling and Stroking Path Intersections Dynamically (1/2)
- Filling and Stroking Path Intersections Dynamically (2/2)
- Recoloring Artwork with Live Color (1/3)
- Recoloring Artwork with Live Color (2/3)
- Recoloring Artwork with Live Color (3/3)
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Live Trace, Paint, and Color
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Lesson 12
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Printing and Exporting
- General Printing Considerations
- Printing Artwork to a Local Printer (1/3)
- Printing Artwork to a Local Printer (2/3)
- Printing Artwork to a Local Printer (3/3)
- Exporting Artwork for the Web
- Web Optimizing a Low-Color Graphic
- Exporting a Layered Photoshop Image (1/2)
- Exporting a Layered Photoshop Image (2/2)
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Printing and Exporting
- Index
Product information
- Title: Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2010
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596808013
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