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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 is the ultimate in comprehensive learning for the discerning professional.

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Introduction

Welcome Demo
Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts Demo
Resetting the function keys on a Mac Demo
Installing the CS4 color settings Demo
Loading the CS4 color settings in Illustrator Demo
Loading the CS4 color settings in Bridge Demo

22. Live Trace

Converting pixels to vectors Demo
Tracing an imported image Demo
Three other ways to trace Demo
Repeating a Pathfinder operation Demo
Raster and vector previews Demo
Adjusting Threshold and Min Area Demo
Tracing options: The raster functions Demo
Using the Ignore White option Demo
Tracing options: The vector functions Demo
Expanding and editing traced artwork Demo
Converting color to black-and-white
Tracing full-color artwork Demo
Editing Live Trace-captured color swatches
Recoloring traced details in Live Paint
Tracing portrait photography
Preparing a Live Trace color palette
Saving a palette for use with Live Trace

23. Live Paint

Another way to fill, stroke, and color Demo
Creating interactions with blend modes Demo
Creating interactions with Live Paint Demo
Stroking with the Live Paint bucket
Using the Live Paint selection tool
Adding a path to a Live Paint group
Drawing inside a Live Paint group
The occasional advantage of conventional editing
Combining Live Paint with a dynamic effect
Fun with dynamic effects
Simulating interlocking objects
The jaw-dropping flexibility of Live Paint
Addressing differently colored strokes
Repairing improperly overlapping strokes

24. Liquify and Envelope

Bending and otherwise distorting
Tracing a translucent image
Live Type and dynamic effects
Using the Warp tool
Changing the Liquify Brush settings
Liquify tool overview
Creating a crystallized starburst
Liquifying outlined type
Applying an envelope-style distortion
Editing enveloped text
Customizing an envelope mesh
Distorting a traced object
Releasing and applying a mesh
Stretching an embedded photo

25. Dynamic Effects

Commands to inspire pandemonium
Introducing dynamic effects
Applying and editing dynamic effects
Applying and previewing a graphic style
Merging graphic styles
Riffing on predefined styles
Saving your own graphic style
Redefining a graphic style
The transformative power of dynamic effects
Pixel-based Photoshop effects
Adjusting an effect's resolution
Attributes of the Dynamic Appearance palette
Introducing the Transform effect
Wrapping one effect inside another
Importing a custom shape from Photoshop
Establishing reflective symmetry
Exploiting the power of reflective symmetry
Making spatial modifications
Troubleshooting problem effects
Creating a beveled stroke effect
Adding the Pucker & Bloat effect
Taking on a complex project
Employing a Transform "guide" object

26. Live Color

The best new feature since transparency
Introducing Adobe kuler
Using kuler inside Illustrator
Importing color groups from libraries
Creating color groups from libraries
Using the Color Guide palette
Creating a custom harmony rule
Adding and deleting swatches in a group
The Color Guide Variations options
Introducing the weighted Lab color wheel
Using the Edit Colors dialog box
Limiting a color group to spot colors
Transferring groups from one illustration to another
Recoloring selected artwork
Using groups as color swapping tools
Reassigning colors in an illustration
Distilling the perfect two-color print job

27. Symbols

Repeat, amend, amass
The power of symbols
Acquiring and previewing symbols
Replicating a symbol and breaking the link
Warping, recoloring, and updating a symbol
Replacing instances with a different symbol
Exporting custom shapes from Photoshop
Mass-producing symbols
Loading an illustration as a symbol library
Selecting all instances of a symbol
Laying down a symbol set
Symbolism tool overview
Painting with the symbolism tools
Editing selected instances

28. Graphs and Pictographs

The king of charting programs
Illustrator's nine types of graphs
Importing and graphing data
Correcting and editing data
Changing the Graph Type settings
Changing font and color in a graph
Applying dynamic effects
The downside of manual adjustments
Defining a graph design
Creating a pictograph
Removing an irremovable element
Creating a symbol-based pictograph
Mixing and matching graph types

29. 3D Effects

Probing the depths of 3D
Introducing 3D in Illustrator
Creating 3D type
Customizing 3D type
Bending 3D type with a dynamic Warp effect
Adjusting angle and light
Editing words of 3D type
Extrude, perspective, depth, and bevel
Adjusting lighting and shading
Creating symbols for mapped art
Mapping symbols onto a 3D object
Editing symbols and nested symbols
Establishing base objects for 3D Revolve
Applying the 3D Revolve effect
Roughing up your 3D art in Photoshop

30. Actions

Take action today, save effort tomorrow
Introducing actions in Illustrator
Creating a new action
Recording a practical action
The many ways to play an action
Turning off dialog boxes
Tweaking an action in a text editor
Inserting an unresponsive menu item
Recording a creative action
Testing that your action works
Fixing a broken action
Inserting stops in a complex action

Conclusion

See ya

Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Mastery Info

Title Information.

In Illustrator CS4 One-on-One: Mastery, the third and final part of the comprehensive One-on-One series, author and industry expert Deke McClelland teaches how to take advantage of the wide array of dynamic effects in Illustrator CS4. Deke explores Live Trace, which converts imported images into vectors, and Live Paint, which defines interlocking shapes. Deke also covers the liquify tools, envelope-style distortions, kuler and Live Color, symbols, and 3D effects. And for the first time, Deke addresses two of Illustrator's least-known features, pictographs and actions. Exercise files accompany the course.. Close »

Instructor : Deke McClelland

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lynda.com, Inc.

Duration:

13.25 hours - 146 lessons

Platform:

PC or Mac

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$149.95

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