Learning Illustrator CS6

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1 - Illustrator CS6 Essential Training

 

Adobe Illustrator can be used to accomplish many different design tasks, from illustration to app development. 
This course demonstrates core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflow—for print, the web, or building assets that will find their way into other applications. 

Expert explains the elements that make up vector graphics (paths, strokes, and fills) while showing how to use each of the drawing tools, and demonstrates how to combine and clean up paths and organize them into groups and layers. 

The course also covers text editing, working with color, effects, and much more.

 

Topics include:

  • Understanding vector graphics
  • Creating and setting up files for print or web destinations
  • Selecting and transforming objects on the page
  • Creating spot colors
  • Applying fills, strokes, and gradients to artwork
  • Adjusting appearances and effects
  • Working with anchor points and paths
  • Drawing with the Pen tool
  • Creating text
  • Managing layers
  • Creating and using symbols
  • Printing, saving, and exporting artwork

 

 

2 - Illustrator CS6 One-on-One - Fundamentals.
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.


Topics include:

  • Rotating and duplicating objects
  • Grouping and stacking
  • Erasing and painting selected paths
  • Using the Shape Builder tool
  • Reflecting across an angled axis
  • Simulating beveled edges
  • Creating a network of interlocking paths
  • Placing and flowing text
  • Creating page margins
  • Adjusting type size
  • Creating and applying paragraph styles
  • Using the Glyphs panel
  • Inserting and removing anchor points

 


3 - Illustrator CS6 One-on-One - Intermediate.
Expert 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, 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, 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.


Topics include:

  • Creating layers, sublayers, and groups
  • Lifting a color and creating a swatch
  • Assigning colors to paths inside groups
  • Adjusting the stacking order
  • Using the Width tool to adjust line weight
  • Masking a pattern inside a background
  • Assigning and modifying a gradient fill
  • Creating a radial gradient
  • Drawing a linear spiral with the Polar Grid tool
  • Adding a credible 3D cast shadow
  • Contouring with the Blob Brush and Eraser
  • Creating and painting an overlapping path
  • Placing Photoshop images in Illustrator files
  • Previewing and printing documents
  • Optimizing documents for the web

 


4 - Illustrator CS6 One-on-One - Advanced.
This course is the third in a four-part series devoted to mastering the premiere graphics creation application, Adobe Illustrator, version CS6. Expert 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, expert 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.


Topics include:

  • Installing dekeKeys, Deke's free custom keyboard shortcuts
  • Understanding the color-managed workflow
  • Creating a multicolor blend
  • Establishing a clipping mask
  • Blending different levels of opacity
  • Combining a letterform with a path outline
  • Warping logo type around a circle
  • Adding neon blur and bokeh in Photoshop
  • Mixing and matching color harmonies
  • Recoloring artwork
  • Working with the Calligraphic, Scatter, and Art Brushes
  • Creating translucency
  • Editing attributes in the Appearance panel
  • Adjusting and updating dynamic effects

 


5 - Illustrator CS6 One-on-One - Mastery.
The fourth in a series by expert 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.


Topics include:

  • Setting up angular construction guides
  • Kerning and clipping hand-drawn type
  • Creating and naming symbols
  • Using symbols to simulate master pages
  • Creating a gradient mesh
  • Using gradients to cast shadows
  • Fading artwork with a gradient opacity mask
  • Warping and distorting artwork with Liquify and Envelope
  • Assembling a seamless pattern brush
  • Creating charts and pictographs
  • Working in 3D space

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