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Using and "reading" the Layers panel - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Illustrator CS5 Essential Training
Using and "reading" the Layers panel
One of the most helpful things about the Layers panel is not that you can actually define layers, but that you can really reverse-engineer, or better yet, read your document. See normally, you look at Illustrator and you try to identify objects by seeing what they are and maybe selecting them. However, you don't always get the full story. For example, maybe you're looking at this document right now, and someone else created this file, and they've given it to you to work on. And your job right now is to take a look at the sun, kind of looks interesting, but you see those like zigzag rays that are coming out of the sun. Your job is to make the zigzags a little bit different. You kind of click on the object over here, but you really don't see any path here that exists for these zigzag areas. In fact, if you go to Outline mode, Command+Y, to view the actual path themselves, you don't see the zigzags at all. So how were those zigzags created? On top of that, we have some Drop Shadow…
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The importance of modifier keys1m 52s
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Drawing closed path primitives11m 38s
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Drawing open path primitives5m 47s
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Understanding anchor points3m 43s
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Drawing straight paths with the Pen tool7m 37s
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Drawing curved paths with the Pen tool9m 47s
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Drawing freeform paths with the Pencil tool5m 33s
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Smoothing and erasing paths3m 8s
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Editing anchor points7m 21s
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Joining and averaging paths10m 9s
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Simplifying paths4m 55s
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Using Offset Path2m 16s
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Cleaning up errant paths2m 32s
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Applying color to artwork5m 57s
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Creating process and global process swatches8m 54s
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Creating spot color swatches3m 19s
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Loading PANTONE and other custom color libraries4m 49s
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Organizing colors with Swatch Groups3m 31s
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Finding color suggestions with the Color Guide panel4m 24s
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Loading the Color Guide with user-defined colors3m 6s
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Creating gradients with the Gradient panel8m 12s
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Modifying gradients with the Gradient Annotator4m 37s
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Applying and manipulating pattern fills5m 33s
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Defining your own custom pattern fills9m 13s
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Applying basic stroke settings5m 22s
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Creating strokes with dashed lines3m 41s
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Adding arrowheads to strokes2m 45s
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Creating variable-width strokes4m 35s
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Working with width profiles2m 36s
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Turning strokes into filled paths3m 49s
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Moving and copying artwork3m 55s
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Scaling or resizing artwork6m 47s
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Rotating artwork2m 44s
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Reflecting and skewing artwork2m 34s
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Using the Free Transform tool2m 15s
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Repeating transformations3m 39s
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Performing individual transforms across multiple objects2m 10s
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Aligning objects and groups precisely4m 27s
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Distributing objects and spaces between objects2m 39s
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Printing your Illustrator document3m 26s
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Saving your Illustrator document6m 39s
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Creating PDF files for clients and printers7m 30s
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Exporting Illustrator files for use in Microsoft Office1m 4s
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Exporting Illustrator files for use in Photoshop2m 31s
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Exporting artwork for use on the web3m 3s
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Exporting high-resolution raster files54s
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