Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

The Scope of This Book

No one book can teach you everything there is to know about Illus-

trator. Here’s a quick list of the topics discussed in each lesson and

its accompanying video, as well as a visual preview (in Figure 12)

of what you’ll encounter in the videos that accompany each lesson.

• Lesson 1: Opening, creating, and organizing your artwork; es-

tablishing artboards, guides, and layers, setting up your work-

space, and navigating inside Illustrator.

• Lesson 2: Drawing lines, arcs, and basic and complex shapes;

choosing, mixing, and applying color to your art; adjusting fill,

stroke, and object order.

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Lesson 3: Drawing with the pen tool, creating fluid Bézier

curves, anchor points, combining paths.

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Lesson 4: Working with text, placing type on a path, advanced

text formatting, ligatures, glyphs, and other special characters.

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Lesson 5: Moving, cloning, and scaling elements; offsetting

paths; selecting, transforming, and aligning objects.

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Lesson 6: Using Pathfinder operations, employing the Crop,

Exclude, and Intersect functions to create complex shapes

using Shape Builder.

Video Lesson 1: Navigation

Video Lesson 7: Introducing Filters Video Lesson 8: Liquify in Motion Video Lesson 9: Exploring Camera Raw

Video Lesson 2: The Basic Shape Tools Video Lesson 3: The Pen Tool

Video Lesson 7: Gradients Video Lesson 8: Blend Modes Video Lesson 9: Freehand Painting

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Lesson 7: Working with gradients, designing custom gradients,

blending between paths, editing and masking blends, using

clipping masks, gradient meshes.

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Lesson 8: Opacity and knockout groups, working with opacity

masks, applying blend modes, cropping entire layers.

• Lesson 9: Dynamic brushstrokes, symbols, and instances; art

brushes; replicating symbols; using the symbolism tools; free-

hand painting.

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Lesson 10: Dynamic effects, applying and editing graphic styles,

exploiting the transform effect, creating 3D text and graphics.

• Lesson 11: Using Live Trace to turn raster images into paths,

filling in shapes with Live Paint, changing all the colors in an

illustration into different colors automatically, drawing with

the Perspective Grid tool.

• Lesson 12: Prepping your file for commercial printing, using

local printers, optimizing your artwork for posting on the Web,

rasterizing in Photoshop.

Figure 12.

Video Lesson 10: Masking Video Lesson 11: Creating Vector Art Video Lesson 12: Exporting for the Web

Video Lesson 4: Working with Type Video Lesson 5: Selecting & Aligning Video Lesson 6: Shape Builder & Pathfinder

Video Lesson 10: Dynamic Effects

Video Lesson 11: Perspective Grid Tool

Video Lesson 12: Commercial Printing

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How One-on-One Works

Now that you have everything set up so that you and I are in sync, I

invite you to turn to Lesson 1, “Starting a Document.” I hope you’ll

agree with me that Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One’s combina-

tion of step-by-step lessons and video introductions provides the

best learning experience of any Illustrator training resource on the

market.

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