Join industry expert Deke McClelland as he shares advanced techniques and shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CC 2017.
- Hello, this is Deke McClelland. Welcome to Illustrator CC One-on-One: Mastery. The final installment in a series of three video courses devoted to your absolute command of the world's most powerful vector based drawing software. By which I mean, the one, the only Adobe Illustrator. As you know by now, the One-on-One promise is to turn you into the best Illustrator user you know. 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 is convenient for you to learn. Now here's how things are going to go down. We'll begin with a look at a few ways you can upgrade Illustrator to better suit your needs. Starting with some time saving shortcuts. Next, we'll explore the world of blend modes and opacity masks which allow you to creatively combine big things like entire layers or little things like individual fills and strokes.
We'll lose ourselves in the vast and flexible realms of custom art brushes, seamlessly repeating tile patterns, and multi-color organic even photo realistic gradient mesh. I'll show you how to store commonly used elements as symbols so that you can replicate them as many times as you like. As well as set up specialty elements like arrow heads. For those of you who need to graph the occasional data, I'll show you how to do it in sweet pictographic style.
I'd devote an entire chapter to logos and specialty type effects, and we'll wrap things up with a look at libraries, actions, and 3D. The result is a contextualized training program in which you learn by doing. Illustrator's features makes sense because you apply them to clearly defined tasks. If I've done my job, you'll leave each chapter with a sense of tangible accomplishment, armed with techniques that you can apply to your own marketable, eye-popping projects.
Learn how to do this and you'll be able to do so much more. Now as you know, Illustrator CC is a fluid application that may update to any extent at any time and the same goes for this course. What you're about to watch is all together new. As of today, I have rerecorded the entire One-on-One trilogy. Fundamentals, advanced, and mastery. Complete with new projects and brand new exercise files. As time goes on, I'll sprinkle in new movies to address new features and 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. With that, I release you to experience Illustrator's most powerful features as I truly hope you've never experienced them before. Welcome to Illustrator CC One-on-One: Mastery.
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11/9/2017As Creative Cloud evolves, this course gets updated. Check back for new videos, new feature reviews, and new ways to work.
- Top-secret tricks for shortcut enthusiasts
- Customizing the Illustrator toolbox
- Adjusting opacity with shortcuts
- Using advanced blend mode tricks
- Working with the Brushes panel
- Seamlessly repeating patterns
- Blending multiple mesh objects
- Reformatting text and numerical values
- Using the logo-making features in Illustrator
- Using the Libraries panel
- Working in 3D space
Skill Level Advanced
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Introduction
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31. Shortcuts and Customization
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32. Blend Modes and Opacity Masks
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Introducing the opacity mask8m 17s
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Putting an opacity mask into use10m 17s
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33. The Brushes Panel
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Painting with path outlines1m 11s
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34. Seamlessly Repeating Patterns
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Patterns are for everyone2m 25s
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35. Gradient Mesh
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Introducing gradient mesh6m 43s
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Creating a basic gradient mesh12m 25s
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Isolating a mesh object7m 49s
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Releasing a gradient mesh3m 57s
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36. Symbols and Custom Arrowheads
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Creating and naming symbols9m 22s
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Working with dynamic symbols9m 43s
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Introducing 9-slice scaling5m 16s
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Designing custom arrowheads11m 16s
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Designing tinted arrowheads16m 55s
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Editing an existing arrowhead10m 42s
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37. Charts and Pictographs
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Graphing numerical data6m 52s
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Customizing your legend7m 11s
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38. Logos and Specialty Text
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Using the Touch Type tool6m 17s
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Two ways to warp type7m 2s
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39. Libraries and Actions
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40. Applying 3D Effects
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Conclusion
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Next steps1m 27s
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