Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Intermediate

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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.

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

11. Layers and Groups40m 44s

Welcome to One-on-One 1m 52s

Creating and moving objects onto layers 5m 5s

Creating and using sublayers 5m 48s

Creating 3D type as a group 3m 4s

Selecting and working inside groups 6m 45s

Creating clipping groups 6m 40s

Working in an isolation mode 5m 29s

Applying effects to groups and layers 6m 1s

12. Swatches and Stacking Order1h 8m

How swatches and stacking work 1m 19s

Multiple views and power duplication 9m 6s

Lifting a color and creating a swatch 6m 52s

Creating and using global swatches 5m 2s

Deleting, adding, and managing swatches 5m 20s

Assigning and eyedropping colors 5m 12s

Assigning colors to paths inside groups 5m 11s

Adjusting the stacking order 6m 30s

Selecting down a stack of paths 3m 35s

Pasting in front and in back 6m 13s

Combining multiple fills 7m 32s

Trapping your art with rich blacks 6m 16s

13. Strokes, Dashes, and Arrows1h 8m

The rich world of strokes 52s

Introducing the Stroke panel 4m 49s

Caps, joins, and miter limits 5m 36s

Dashes and arrowheads 4m 12s

Using the Width tool to vary the line weight 9m 1s

Adjusting the width of closed path outlines 7m 47s

Making a coupon border with scissors 4m 38s

Combining dashes with round caps 7m 50s

Making an official money-like type effect 7m 59s

Creating a wavy, engraving-line background 5m 39s

Masking a pattern inside a background 5m 0s

Creating tapering rules (with inset strokes) 4m 39s

14. Gradients and the Gradient Tool1h 2m

How gradients work 59s

Assigning and modifying a gradient fill 5m 4s

Using the Gradient tool and annotator 7m 18s

Editing multiple gradients at a time 4m 14s

Establishing symmetrical gradients 5m 48s

Creating a radial gradient 5m 26s

Adjusting the midpoint skew 3m 31s

Mixing gradients with blend modes 4m 34s

Adding transparency to a gradient 7m 9s

Applying and editing dynamic effects 5m 45s

Assigning a gradient to editable text 5m 29s

Editing text that includes dynamic effects 2m 19s

The new gradient stroke options 5m 0s

15. Seamlessly Repeating Patterns44m 28s

The reinvention of tile patterns 50s

Drawing a linear spiral with the Polar Grid tool 5m 44s

Assembling the raw ingredients for a pattern 4m 53s

Using the new Pattern Generator 6m 51s

The new tile types: Brick and Hex 4m 11s

The Size Tile to Art and Overlap options 5m 43s

Creating a new pattern based on an existing one 3m 0s

Applying patterns to strokes and text 6m 15s

Moving and transforming patterns 4m 5s

Fixing problem legacy patterns 2m 56s

16. Align and Distribute41m 34s

How alignment and distribution work 1m 0s

Snapping one anchor point to another 2m 35s

Aligning a group to the artboard 1m 54s

Distributing objects across the artboard 2m 49s

Aligning to a fixed "key" object 4m 0s

Distributing by a specified amount of space 5m 10s

Using the Align options to move objects 5m 49s

Adding an extruded edge effect 5m 45s

Optically aligning objects 3m 2s

Adding a credible 3D cast shadow 9m 30s

17. Pathfinder Operations1h 12m

Combining simple shapes to make complex ones 1m 22s

Understanding all ten Pathfinder options 8m 27s

Unite closed paths, join open ones 3m 25s

Creating a dynamic compound shape 4m 40s

Adding to a compound shape 3m 20s

Variable width, Outline Stroke, and Unite 5m 18s

Painting rough leaves with the Blob Brush 4m 56s

Creating credible leaves with dynamic effects 4m 15s

Contouring with the Blob Brush and Eraser 9m 14s

Filling in branches with the Blob Brush 6m 7s

Merging layers and uniting paths 9m 5s

Using Divide and Minus Back 4m 28s

Nesting one compound shape inside another 7m 25s

18. Live Paint and Interlocking Paths1h 17m

Filling and stroking overlapping areas 52s

Introducing Live Paint 5m 39s

Stroking with the Live Paint Bucket 5m 36s

Using the Live Paint Selection tool 4m 52s

Adding paths to a Live Paint object 8m 36s

Building a classic, interwoven Celtic knot 6m 21s

Weaving one path outline into another 5m 34s

Creating a path that overlaps itself 7m 6s

Painting a path that overlaps itself 5m 47s

Combining gradients and depth with Live Paint 7m 2s

Swapping out Live Paint fills and strokes 8m 2s

Casting shadows inside a Live Paint object 12m 29s

19. Placing Photoshop Images1h 2m

Illustrator and the photographic image 1m 3s

Placing a photograph into your artwork 3m 5s

Dragging and dropping photos into Illustrator 3m 59s

Working with linked images 8m 19s

Scaling and cropping inside a bounding box 5m 8s

Cropping an image inside a clipping mask 5m 52s

Adding a border to an image, and colorizing 5m 12s

Creating a trendy gradient page curl 5m 45s

Placing a Photoshop image, with transparency 7m 13s

Linking vs. embedding images 10m 29s

Unembed and Package (Creative Cloud only) 6m 43s

20. Printing a Document1h 19m

Local and commercial printing 1m 1s

Convert all text to path outlines 7m 17s

Setting the trim size and bleed 6m 50s

Creating automatic and custom crop marks 9m 13s

Introducing and applying Pantone spot colors 8m 7s

Using the Separations Preview panel 4m 43s

Troubleshoot, overprint, and trapping 9m 33s

Printing: The General options 5m 35s

Placement, scale, and tiling 5m 59s

Adding trim and printer's marks 7m 35s

PostScript and color separations 8m 20s

The esoteric advanced printing options 5m 25s

21. Saving for the Web (and PowerPoint)49m 51s

Making art for the Internet 58s

Aligning your artwork to the pixel grid 6m 55s

Optimizing editable text for the web 7m 1s

Increasing the resolution of your web art 3m 30s

Saving a continuous-tone JPEG image 7m 16s

Optimizing your art to a specific file size 5m 19s

Saving high-contrast, low-color art to GIF 8m 17s

The more flexible PNG format 5m 6s

Saving PNG-24 for the web or PowerPoint 5m 29s

Conclusion55s

Until next time 55s