Illustrator 2020 One-on-One: Fundamentals
With Deke McClelland
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Duration: 18h 47m
Skill level: Beginner
Released: 2/19/2020
Course details
Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator 2020 in the first of three comprehensive training courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Deke demonstrates how to work with artboards; how to draw with the Pencil, Curvature, and Pen tools; and how to organize color with swatches. Deke also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text with variable fonts, painting freeform artwork with or without a tablet, and more.
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Hamid Fidel
Hamid Fidel
Graphic Designer at AHRDO
Contents
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A first look at Illustrator1m 9s
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Opening from the Windows desktop7m 35s
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Opening from the Macintosh Finder8m 6s
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Introducing the Home screen6m 23s
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Creating a new document7m 8s
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The units of design: Points and picas7m 32s
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The advanced document settings6m 43s
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Activate missing fonts3m 7s
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Modifying your new document8m 52s
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Saving Illustrator artwork7m 17s
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Closing open documents on the PC4m 36s
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Closing open documents on the Mac6m 28s
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Pages of any size, at any angle1m 10s
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Using the artboard tool11m 10s
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Undo, Redo, and Revert3m 21s
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Selecting multiple artboards8m 14s
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Creating and duplicating artboards8m 17s
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Five ways to resize artboards8m 11s
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Introducing the Artboards panel6m 6s
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Navigating between artboards5m 43s
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Aligning and distributing artboards7m 12s
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Automatically tidying up your artboards7m 50s
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Artboards and rulers7m 26s
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Getting around your artwork59s
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Zooming in and out8m 9s
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Using the more precise Zoom tool6m 22s
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Zooming on a selection2m 23s
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GPU Performance and Animated Zoom8m 11s
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Scrolling or panning a document4m 5s
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Specifying a custom zoom level4m 18s
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Working with multiple open documents5m 49s
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Customizing your panels—important9m 36s
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Saving your custom panels as a workspace2m 26s
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Cycling between screen modes6m 32s
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Trim View and Presentation Mode4m 7s
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It’s time to draw1m 10s
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Guidelines and center guides7m 38s
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Positioning guides numerically4m 51s
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Using the Line Segment tool6m 5s
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Working with and without the bounding box6m 21s
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Moving and duplicating objects7m 44s
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Select Similar and Global Edit3m 15s
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Introducing the Scissors tool4m 4s
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Joining your line segments6m 41s
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Introducing the Eyedropper tool3m 11s
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Using the Arc tool8m 28s
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Using the Spiral tool7m 11s
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Using the Polar Grid tool8m 11s
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Duplicating and scaling spirals7m 5s
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Using the Rectangular Grid tool4m 56s
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Auto-blending fill colors6m 12s
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A preview of shape building5m 34s
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And now, we draw better1m 40s
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Creating a time-saving template5m 18s
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Using the Ellipse tool7m 43s
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Live ellipses and pies4m 44s
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Drawing two perfectly aligned circles8m 22s
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Creating compound paths7m 1s
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Using the Rectangle tool5m 40s
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The dynamic round corner controls7m 39s
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Adding some simple reflections7m 50s
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Rotating your artwork into position6m 19s
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Using the Polygon and Star tools6m 8s
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Working with live polygons7m 1s
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Creating the perfect five-pointed star6m 10s
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Repeating stars in alternating rows6m 23s
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Introducing the group Isolation mode7m 12s
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Adding a drop shadow to a layer2m 54s
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Using the crazy Flare tool6m 19s
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The top-secret tilde key trick3m 53s
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How color works2m 27s
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The color modes: RGB versus CMYK8m 7s
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Hue, saturation, and brightness4m 56s
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Selecting a color from the spectrum5m
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Creating and applying swatches7m 57s
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Working with global swatches7m 9s
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Searching swatches by name5m 1s
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Auto-deleting and adding swatches4m 43s
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Using the Eyedropper tool5m 8s
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Loading swatches from another document4m 18s
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The rich world of strokes1m 3s
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Adjusting the line weight4m 55s
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How strokes align to path outlines6m 45s
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Caps, joins, and miter limit6m 25s
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Making practical use of caps and joins6m 7s
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Dashes and arrowheads7m 24s
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Variable-width strokes5m 58s
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Numerically adjusting width points5m 25s
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Custom aligning strokes to paths3m 21s
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Creating a custom width profile7m
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Creating a classic round-dotted outline3m 25s
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Drawing a quick-and-dirty gear7m 6s
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Combining multiple strokes4m 18s
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Offsetting strokes to simulate depth6m 8s
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Text at its best2m 9s
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Placing and flowing text5m 48s
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Converting between area and point type3m 46s
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Modifying the text frame4m 57s
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Creating custom margins guides3m 55s
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Changing the font and type style5m 6s
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Introducing variable fonts4m 7s
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Paragraph alignment3m 26s
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Type size and leading8m
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Dialing in custom variable styles6m 28s
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Creating your own custom italics2m 28s
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Kerning characters of type5m 53s
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Roman Hanging Punctuation3m 24s
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Filling and stroking text2m 18s
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Join and the Shape Builder tool1m 23s
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Using the Join command6m 27s
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Using the Join tool4m 43s
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Object > Path > Outline Stroke3m 43s
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Using the Shape Builder tool5m 4s
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More ways to use the Shape Builder6m 20s
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Creating a real-world project6m 23s
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Creating an inset reflection6m 32s
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Coloring a path with the Shape Builder5m 31s
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Sculpting with variable-width strokes4m 42s
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Converting text to path outlines7m 29s
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Gap detection and path splitting6m 24s
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Drawing with the Shaper tool5m 31s
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Combining paths with the Shaper tool8m 20s
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Editing paths inside a Shaper group6m 50s
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Freeform drawing at its best1m 24s
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Drawing freeform path outlines5m 12s
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The Smooth tool and Path Eraser tool4m 4s
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Extending and connecting paths3m 23s
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Drawing straight and perpendicular lines3m 26s
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Creating a tracing template3m 28s
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Combining the Pencil with a drawing tablet7m 21s
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Coloring your Pencil tool art6m 28s
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The best tools for painting1m 27s
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Painting with the Blob Brush tool6m 57s
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Fusing path outlines together6m 5s
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Blob Brush size and strategies5m 54s
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Introducing the Eraser tool8m 31s
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Reassigning keyboard shortcuts3m 51s
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Painting background paths5m 53s
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Erasing all kinds of paths6m 49s
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Erasing and smoothing lumps6m 15s
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The Blob Brush and the opacity value5m 50s
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Painting with a drawing tablet6m 42s
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Using the Simplify command6m 7s
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Drawing a path one point at a time1m 41s
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Drawing with the Curvature tool3m 49s
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Working with smooth and corner points4m 41s
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Creating and editing open path outlines6m 15s
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Tracing a photographic detail6m 35s
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Adding a basic textured fill3m 4s
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Shape-building a castle wall8m 21s
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A first look at gradients7m 1s
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Editing a shape with the Curvature tool5m 16s
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A first look at object blends7m 31s
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Duplicating and scaling a complex object4m 2s
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Drawing a custom letterform4m 32s
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Creating a rippling line segment6m 9s
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Adding a piece of vector-based clipart3m 23s
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The tool that can drawing anything2m 15s
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Creating corner points4m 16s
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Adding and deleting anchor points5m 28s
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How smooth points work7m 8s
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Drawing smooth points8m 14s
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Drawing cusp points9m 17s
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Using the Anchor point tools5m 43s
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Real-world drawing with the Pen tool11m 53s
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Drawing a very complex path outline7m 3s
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Copying and repurpose path segments5m 28s
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Drawing a lot with very few points10m
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Creating dimension with shadows8m 54s
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Shading the eye, ear, and nose8m 47s
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Drawing smoothly waving path outlines7m 40s
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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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Absolute versus relative rounding7m 27s
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Drawing with rounded rectangles6m 2s
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Drawing an iPhone9m
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Decorating an iPhone screen7m 14s
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Drawing a leather smartphone case7m 7s
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Colorizing a line art template3m 52s
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Turning corners into organic curves6m 50s
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Reshaping rounded paths9m 40s
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Saving for devices and the web1m 49s
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Aligning objects to the pixel grid4m 58s
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Aligning objects as you draw or modify them7m 51s
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Aligning text to the pixel grid5m 12s
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Introducing the Save for Web command6m 36s
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Scaling your art to suit its destination6m 21s
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For devices and presentations, use PNG5m 6s
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Saving an 8-bit graphic6m 33s
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Saving a JPEG image5m 10s
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Saving vector-based SVG files3m 48s
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Assigning a copyright3m 7s
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Using the Export for Screens command5m 57s
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Using the Asset Export panel5m 27s
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Asset export time-saving tricks2m 39s
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What’s included
- Practice while you learn 1 exercise file
- Learn on the go Access on tablet and phone