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Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Fundamentals (9h 19m)

This course is the first in a four-part series by industry-pro Deke McClelland on creating elegant, optimized graphics with the tools in Adobe Illustrator CS6.

This installment covers subjects such as working with shapes and closed paths, including painting, grouping, and coloring, and placing and adjusting type. Deke shows you how to select fonts, create hanging indents, and tweak the kerning and leading of your text. Additional chapters cover drawing and editing paths (and their points) and moving and transforming objects in your artwork.

Introduction (2m 16s)
1. Making a Document (29m 56s)
2. Working with Artboards (29m 37s)
3. Getting Around (31m 12s)
4. Making Line Art (46m 1s)
5. Drawing Geometric Shapes (1h 15m)
6. Tracing an Image (46m 24s)
7. Scaling and Rotating (41m 5s)
8. Painting Freeform Shapes (1h 28m)
9. Working with Type (1h 16m)
10. Using the Pen Tool (1h 32m)
Conclusion (46s)

Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Intermediate (11h 8m)

Join author and industry expert Deke McClelland as he teaches you how to take advantage of the next level of dynamic features in Adobe Illustrator CS6. This installment of his Illustrator CS6 One-on-One series starts by showing you how to effectively manage layers, clipping groups, and swatches, so that you can easily swap out colors and content. Deke then explains how to create customized strokes and patterns and build complex gradients with transparency and dynamic effects, and then apply these features to paths, groups, and editable text to create professional-quality artwork. He also highlights some of the most popular features in Illustrator: Live Paint and all ten of its Pathfinder operations. The final chapters show how to prepare your projects for print and save them for distribution on the web.

11. Layers and Groups (40m 43s)
12. Swatches and Stacking Order (1h 8m)
13. Strokes, Dashes, and Arrows (1h 8m)
14. Gradients and the Gradient Tool (1h 2m)
15. Seamlessly Repeating Patterns (44m 28s)
16. Align and Distribute (41m 34s)
17. Pathfinder Operations (1h 12m)
18. Live Paint and Interlocking Paths (1h 17m)
19. Placing Photoshop Images (1h 2m)
20. Printing a Document (1h 19m)
21. Saving for the Web (and PowerPoint) (49m 51s)
Conclusion (55s)

Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Advanced (1h 2m)

This course is the third in a four-part series devoted to mastering the premiere graphics creation application, Adobe Illustrator, version CS6. Industry pro Deke McClelland takes a project-based learning approach to the key features in Illustrator, including Recolor Artwork, transparency, masks, blend modes, strokes and fills, and dynamic effects. The course also covers techniques for creating custom gradients, designing logos, generating photorealistic neon text, and wrapping type around objects. Plus, Deke shows how to call up the most essential features by organizing your workspace and employing time-saving keyboard shortcuts, how to manage the color settings, and how to adjust a few settings to make the program work even better.

22. Shortcuts and Settings (43m 9s)
23. Blends and Masks (1h 11m)
24. Logos and Specialty Text (1h 0m)
25. The Color Guide Panel (46m 19s)
26. Recoloring Artwork (32m 44s)
27. Calligraphic, Scatter, and Art Brushes (1h 15m)
28. Transparency and Blend Modes (58m 24s)
29. The Appearance Panel (1h 39m)
30. Dynamic Effects (1h 12m)
31. Graphic Styles (27m 40s)
32. Combining the Powers of Illustrator and Photoshop (1h 13m)
Conclusion (1m 5s)


Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Mastery (6h 38m)

The fourth in a series by industry-pro Deke McClelland on the premiere graphics creation application, Adobe Illustrator, this course shows you how to become a more efficient, exact, and creative designer with the advanced tools in Illustrator. Maximize your productivity with tools such as Smart Guides to precisely align your artwork, symbols that help you reuse it, and pattern brushes that allow you to tile it across the screen. Plus, learn how to add special creative touches to designs with the Gradient Mesh feature, great for creating photorealistic airbrushing effects; the Liquify and Envelope tools; the layered transparency you can achieve with opacity masks; and 3D effects like live, editable 3D type.

33. Using Smart Guides (45m 41s)
34. Working with Symbols (49m 32s)
35. Gradient Mesh (1h 12m)
36. Opacity Masks (24m 19s)
37. Liquify and Envelope (1h 6m)
38. Pattern Brushes (58m 45s)
39. Charts and Pictographs (42m 33s)
40. 3D Effects (37m 47s)
Conclusion (52s)