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3/23/2018As Creative Cloud evolves, this course gets updated. Check back for new videos, new feature reviews, and new ways to work.
- Opening, creating, saving, and closing documents
- Working with artboards
- Zooming and panning
- Drawing lines, arcs, grids, and spirals
- Drawing shapes
- Creating compound paths
- Working in RGB vs. CMYK color modes
- Creating and applying swatches
- Adjusting the line weight of strokes
- Formatting text
- Building custom paths with the Shape Builder and Join tools
- Freeform drawing with the Pencil
- Painting and erasing artwork
- Drawing with the Curvature tool
- Reshaping rounded paths
- Making screen graphics
Skill Level Beginner
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- Hello, I'm Deke McClelland. Welcome to Illustrator One-on-One Fundamentals, Part One in a series of three video courses devoted to your ultimate mastery of the world's most powerful vector-based drawing software, by which I mean the one, the only, Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator is the number one drawing program on the planet. Look at any logo, any product packaging, any marketplace signage, any web button, any line graphic on any screen, anywhere in the world, and you're likely seeing Illustrator at work...
smooth, crisp, pristine vector-based art. Learn how to use Illustrator and you become a master of the visual world. And this, what you're watching right now, this is Illustrator One-on-One, the most comprehensive video training on the topic. If Illustrator is a magical sword of graphic art, and it is, then I'm the guy who's going to show you how to wield it. I started using Illustrator in 1987, the year it came out. In fact, this is it, actually, right here, the first Adobe program I ever bought, which means I've been using the program for more of my life than I haven't.
I wrote my first book on Illustrator the very next year, when I was 26, and I did so out of love. There we were, listening to The Bangles, and suddenly... Wang chung! Illustrator comes out of nowhere. And it was so streamlined back then, the whole thing fit on a single floppy disc, so it's no surprise that I've been writing books and recording videos about this program ever since. Year in, year out, I've never missed an update. I like to think that I'm that guy who's going to teach you both from the mind and the heart.
I get excited about some features. I get disappointed by others. Regardless, we're going to take what Illustrator gives us and make great artwork. As you watch these movies, I'll show you some amazing things. But my real purpose is to infuse you with every bit of knowledge that I have, so that you can go out and make amazing works of art and design on your own. I promise you, I'm going to turn you into the best Illustrator user you know, but I'm going to need your help. Give me your time and attention, and I'll show you everything you need to know, in the order you need to know it.
No crowded classroom, no scheduling conflicts, it's just you and me, one on one, anytime that it's convenient for you to learn. If this is your first time using Illustrator, welcome to the club. If you're an old-timer, forget everything you knew before. Trust me, Illustrator has changed a lot in the last few years, and very much for the better. It's a whole new ball game. This course, One-on-One, is project-based learning. You learn by doing. In the following movies, you'll create professional quality artwork, often from scratch, using nothing more than Illustrator's most basic line and shape tools.
You'll learn how to create multi-page documents using device-independent artboards, and you'll learn how to draw anything you could possibly want, using the pencil tool, the curvature tool, and the classic pen. One-on-One is also contextualized learning. Regardless of your background, Illustrator's features are about to make crystal-clear sense, because you'll apply them to a series of clearly defined tasks. If I've done my job, you'll leave each chapter with a sense of accomplishment. I sincerely hope that there are moments when you feel, "I rule! "I can do this, and I can do more." One last but very important item...
Now that Illustrator is part of Adobe's ever-expanding creative cloud, the old self-contained version number updates of the past have been supplanted by a continuous stream of frequent and nimble enhancements. And, just as Illustrator is a fluid application, One-on-One is a fluid course. The entire One-on-One trilogy, Fundamentals Advanced in Mastery, every last movie is altogether new, complete with new projects and brand new exercise files. As time goes on, I'll sprinkle in new movies to address new features, as well as new ways to work.
So, be sure to come back and check for new movies the next time you see your copy of Illustrator update. So, please join me one-on-one. Let me show you Illustrator as I truly hope you've never seen it before.
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Introduction
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Welcome to One-on-One4m 21s
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1. Working with Documents
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Introducing the Start screen5m 27s
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Creating a new document6m 16s
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Modifying your new document7m 57s
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Saving your changes7m 52s
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2. Working with Artboards
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Using the Artboard tool10m 51s
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Undo, Redo, and Revert3m 21s
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Selecting multiple artboards8m 14s
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Navigating between artboards5m 43s
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Artboards and rulers7m 26s
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3. Getting Around
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Zooming in and out5m 59s
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Cycling between screen modes6m 38s
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4. Drawing Lines
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Now, we draw44s
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Creating center guides8m 3s
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Using the Line Segment tool6m 55s
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Drawing straight lines5m 24s
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Duplicating and extending6m 21s
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Using the Move command5m 19s
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Joining your line segments5m 23s
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Using the Arc tool6m 45s
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Using the Polar Grid tool3m 29s
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Using the Spiral tool7m 31s
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5. Drawing Shapes
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Using the Ellipse tool7m 45s
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Live ellipses and pies4m 44s
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Creating compound paths7m 1s
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Using the Rectangle tool5m 40s
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Using the crazy Flare tool6m 19s
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6. Color and Swatches
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How color works1m 7s
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7. Strokes, Dashes, and Arrows
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Adjusting the line weight4m 42s
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Caps, joins, and miter limit6m 25s
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Dashes and arrowheads7m 24s
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Variable-width strokes5m 58s
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Combining multiple strokes4m 18s
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8. Creating and Formatting Type
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Text at its best1m 2s
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Setting up page margins7m 54s
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Placing and flowing text6m 43s
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Working with point type7m 2s
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Formatting display text8m 39s
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Formatting body copy8m 14s
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Creating a drop cap3m 39s
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Resolving widows and orphans4m 49s
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Redefining a paragraph style6m 48s
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Creating type on a path7m 47s
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9. Building Custom Paths
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Join and the Shape Builder1m 12s
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Using the Join command6m 26s
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Using the Join tool4m 16s
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Creating an inset reflection6m 32s
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Drawing with the Shaper tool5m 31s
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10. Using the Pencil Tool
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Creating a tracing template3m 28s
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11. Painting and Erasing
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The best tools for painting1m 27s
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Merging selected paths4m 58s
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Releasing compound paths6m 6s
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Erasing and smoothing lumps6m 13s
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12. Using the Curvature Tool
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Drawing one point at a time1m 46s
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Curvature tool curiosities4m 32s
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Creating quick smooth shapes6m 29s
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13. Using the Pen Tool
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Creating corner points6m 55s
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How smooth points work6m 51s
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Drawing smooth points7m 55s
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Creating cusp points6m 34s
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Using the Anchor Point tool5m 32s
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Drawing perspective edges5m 48s
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Drawing a few distress marks10m 1s
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A preview of round corners9m 26s
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14. Drawing with Round Corners
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Making corners smooth1m 7s
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The round corner widget3m 44s
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Rounding off corner points4m 54s
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Changing the corner type3m 37s
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Rounding characters of type6m 15s
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Decorating an iPhone screen6m 37s
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Reshaping rounded paths9m 40s
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15. Making Screen Graphics
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Saving an 8-bit graphic6m 32s
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Saving a JPEG image5m 10s
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Assigning a copyright3m 7s
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Using the Asset Export panel4m 42s
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Conclusion
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Until next time1m 30s
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