Over the course of this chapter, we're going to take the rough assemblage of paths that you see before you now and we're going to apply a variety of Fill and Stroke attributes. We'll also adjust the stacking order of the paths, that is how the paths are arranged on top of each other in order to convert this illustration into this final version of the document here and both of these files are found inside of the 07_fill_stroke folder. The beginning point for our project goes by the name Tonalpohualli paths.ai, named for the 260 day Aztec sacred calendar, in which 20 day signs are arranged in the 13 day periods, which has nothing whatsoever to do with my version of the calendar.
If you count the number of ellipses inside of rectangles, you'll find that they're 16 of those and then if you add the squares, you'll see that there is a total of 24 increments around the perimeter of my calendar. So it doesn't work out at all. It's a Tonalpohualli in name only, but of course it does draw its inspiration from the Aztec design and then the final version of the calendar is called Final calendar.ai. Now, I want you to notice that these two documents are aligned with each other, that is I've made sure that when I press Ctrl+Tab here on the PC or Cmd+Tilde on the Mac, that you see each one of the path outlines in exactly the same place.
I want to maintain that arrangement so that we can easily track our progress as we move through the exercises. So I'm not going to zoom or pan directly around inside of this window, rather I'm going to take this Tonalpohualli paths.ai file and I'm going to create a new window into it by going up to the Window menu and choosing New Window. Notice that creates what appears to be a second version of the file that's called Tonalpohualli paths.ai:2 as if somehow Illustrator has duplicated the document, but it hasn't.
This is merely a new window into the same document. I'll go ahead and press Ctrl+[Plus] a few times or Cmd+[Plus] a few times on the Mac to zoom into the central god's face right there and then I'll go up to the View menu and choose Outline or press Ctrl+Y, Cmd+Y on the Mac. Now I'm seeing a tight outline version of my document while at the same time, over here inside of the other window, I have a wide Preview version of that exact same file. So what good is that? Well, let me show you.
I'll go ahead and switch over to the second window onto the document and I'm going to drag this tab down like so, so that it creates a floating window. I'll go ahead and move it up so that I can scale the window to a better size, I'll make it a little smaller and I'll move it underneath here like so, drag the top of the window down, and then Spacebar+Drag in order to scroll my god's face into the center of that window. Next, what I'm going to do is I'll click on this circle around the god's face. So tie it around the god's face like so and you can see my Black Arrow tool tracing around this path.
Then I'll go up to the Color panel and if you can't see the Color panel, then go to the Window menu and choose the Color command or you can press the F6 key as well. Now my Fill attribute is active as you can see here in the Color panel. If yours isn't, you can press the X key to switch back and forth between the Stroke and the Fill. With the Fill active, I'm going to change my CMYK values as follows and incidentally you need to see the CMYK sliders. If you don't see those, then click on the flyout menu Icon and choose CMYK.
So I'll start with Cyan active and I'll go ahead and change the Cyan value to 10 and as soon as I press the Tab key, notice that the other values become populated as well and they may all appear as 0, you may get a 100 here or there, you never know exactly what values are going to show up when you're switching from no Fill whatsoever to some Fill. Notice that I'm not seeing the results of my new Fill Color here inside the Outline mode. Of course, I'm just seeing the primitive paths, but I am seeing the results of the modification here inside of the preview window.
So both windows are doing their best to track my changes. Now I'll go ahead and change the Magenta value to 15. I'll change the Yellow value to 20 and I will change the Black value to 0 in order to achieve this sort of sandy color right there. Notice that the circle is selected inside of both windows into the document and both windows are monitoring my changes to the degree that they can. Of course, the Outline mode can't show me the results of my Fill and Stroke modifications. However, if I were to move this path to a different location like so, then I would see the path move here inside the Outline mode and I would see it move inside the Preview mode as well.
Alright, I'm going to press Ctrl+Z or Cmd+Z on a Mac, because I don't want to move that path outline. So tuck that away in the back of your mind. At any given moment in time you can create multiple windows into a single document inside Illustrator.
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5/28/2010- Creating great art using basic tools
- Brushing and building organic artwork
- Scaling and rotating path outlines
- Creating and formatting text
- Drawing articulated paths with the Pen tool
- Combining paths with Pathfinder operations
- Printing and exporting to the web
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Q: I was not able to locate my saved shortcuts and cannot locate the folder I created to place the preferences into. The Illustrator steps are clear and using the search function I should be able to find the folder, but it cannot be located. How can I find the shortcuts file on a Mac?
A: To search for the shortcuts file on a Mac, press Cmd+F. Then change the option that says "Kind" in the top-left corner to System Files by choosing "Other" and selecting "System Files" from the menu.



Q: The instructions for installing the dekeKeys don't work on my computer (which is running Mac OS X Lion). Is there an update to these?
A: The dekeKeys distributed with this course will still work for Lion. You just need to add them to a slightly different folder than in previous versions of OS X.
Open a new Finder window and choose Go > Go to Folder. Type the following file path exactly as written below. Copying and pasting may result in an error.
~/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings/en_US
Move and/or copy/paste the dekeKeys to this folder and follow the rest of the instructions as outlined in the video, "Installing the dekeKeys keyboard shortcuts."
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Introduction
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The Welcome screen3m 49s
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Creating a new document7m 13s
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Advanced document controls6m 52s
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Rulers and artboards6m 40s
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Scroll wheel tricks2m 13s
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The tabbed-window interface6m 17s
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Closing all but one document3m 30s
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Saving a custom workspace4m 57s
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Hiding the bounding box4m 27s
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Keyboard increments7m 15s
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Cycling between screen modes5m 21s
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Introducing Adobe Bridge6m 6s
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File-type associations4m 3s
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Previewing and collecting8m 17s
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4. Basic Line Art
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Everything is anything1m 14s
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Meet the line tools3m 30s
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Saving large layer previews5m 50s
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Creating custom guides5m 31s
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Creating a heart using arcs3m 51s
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Adjusting control handles4m 13s
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Drawing a line segment4m 51s
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Rotate, Fill, and Stack4m 37s
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Drawing a looping spiral4m 41s
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Tracing a template layer5m 1s
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Selecting similar objects3m 32s
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5. Geometric Shapes
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The anatomy of a path1m 41s
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Meet the shape tools3m 32s
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Creating a compound path4m 29s
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Drawing rounded rectangles3m 28s
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Aligning to a key object3m 47s
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The constraint axes4m 11s
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Using the Flare tool5m 32s
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6. Paint, Build, and Transform
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Painting artwork from life1m 21s
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Tracing a photograph2m 41s
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Draw, Move, and Duplicate5m 27s
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Rotating and duplicating6m 1s
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Pressure-sensitive input4m 24s
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Using the Shape Builder tool4m 57s
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Establishing design groups5m 54s
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When to rotate vs. reflect4m 55s
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Simulating beveled edges6m 46s
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7. Swatch, Stroke, and Stacking Order
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The Document Color mode6m 20s
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Introducing the Stroke panel4m 46s
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Cap, Join, and Miter Limit6m 42s
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Managing color swatches4m 55s
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Filling paths inside groups6m 24s
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Adjusting the stacking order7m 44s
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Combining multiple fills5m 29s
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Creating a tile pattern9m 2s
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The new CS5 arrowheads5m 44s
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Creating a callout line7m 1s
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Width tool tips and tricks8m 47s
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Making a margin guide5m 7s
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Offsetting flush-left text4m 47s
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Placing and threading text6m 18s
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Working with point text7m 10s
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Redefining paragraph styles6m 42s
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Using the Glyphs panel6m 41s
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Spell-checking text4m 24s
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Updating a graphic style5m 43s
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Creating type on a path7m 26s
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Adjusting baseline shift4m 18s
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Moving and deleting points7m 46s
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Editing a path as you go7m 5s
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Faking a spline curve5m 54s
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Adding corners to a spline7m 15s
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How control handles work10m 17s
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Aligning open paths5m 38s
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Splitting and joining paths8m 51s
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Cusp points and miter limits6m 45s
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Stacking clipped paths4m 28s
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Adding to a compound shape5m 32s
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Outline Stroke and Unite3m 37s
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Painting in the foliage5m 23s
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Filling in and erasing away6m 31s
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Painting more precise holes5m 17s
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Adding in rough edges7m 53s
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Contouring roots and limbs8m 56s
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Filling in the limbs4m 19s
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Setting trim size and bleed6m 22s
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Stroking a placed image4m 54s
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Filling in your bleeds5m 34s
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Troubleshooting weak blacks6m 36s
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The General Print options5m 20s
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Placement, scale, and tiling6m 39s
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Trim and printer marks6m 23s
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Warnings and document raster5m 21s
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Until next time1m 33s
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