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Instructor: Deke McClelland

Discover how to be the best Adobe Illustrator user you know with industry expert Deke McClelland. In this final installment of his comprehensive three-part One-on-One series, Deke explains how Illustrator works in meticulous detail. Better still, he makes sense of even the most complex topics by linking them to clearly defined tasks. Get around Illustrator more quickly by loading more than 100 new or revised keyboard shortcuts. Experience the power of blend modes, seamlessly repeating patterns, gradient mesh, and the Puppet Warp tool. Deke also covers pictographs, logos, the Libraries and Actions panels, and 3D effects. Each chapter leaves you with a sense of real accomplishment that you can apply to your own marketable, eye-popping artwork.

Topics include:

Loading dekeKeys, Deke’s custom keyboard shortcuts

Customizing the Illustrator toolbox

Using Multiply, Screen, and other blend modes

How opacity masks work

Painting with Art, Scatter, and Bristle brushes

Creating seamlessly repeating hex patterns

Creating a Pattern Brush with custom corners and caps

Creating photo-realistic artwork with gradient mesh

Applying custom distortions with the Puppet Warp tool

Designing charts, infographics, and pictographs

Creating logos and other specialty type

Working with multicolor fonts and stylistic sets

Using libraries to share assets with Photoshop and InDesign

Recording a custom, multistep action

Working with dynamic 3D effects

Creating live, editable 3D type