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7/12/2019Note: This course was revised for 2019. As Creative Cloud evolves, the training will be updated. Check back often for new videos, new feature reviews, and new ways to work.
- Loading dekeKeys, Deke’s custom keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing the Illustrator toolbox
- Using Multiply, Screen, and other blend modes
- How opacity masks work
- Painting with Art, Scatter, and Bristle brushes
- Creating seamlessly repeating hex patterns
- Creating a Pattern Brush with custom corners and caps
- Creating photo-realistic artwork with gradient mesh
- Applying custom distortions with the Puppet Warp tool
- Designing charts, infographics, and pictographs
- Creating logos and other specialty type
- Working with multicolor fonts and stylistic sets
- Using libraries to share assets with Photoshop and InDesign
- Recording a custom, multistep action
- Working with dynamic 3D effects
- Creating live, editable 3D type
Skill Level Advanced
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- 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 and unflinching 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 it's convenient for you to learn. Now by now, you're a pretty advanced user, so you're ready for the big guns. We'll begin by installing D keys, which are a regimen of customized keyboard shortcuts that'll turn you into a lean, mean, illustrating machine. Next, we'll explore the world of blend modes and opacity masks, which allow you to blend the colors of 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 multicolor, organic, even photo-realistic gradient mesh. I'll show you how to use the Puppet Warp tool, which lets you take a piece of artwork and instead of having to redraw it, you can recompose it like it's some kind of fluid model. For those of you who need to graph the occasional data, I'll show you how to do it in eye-popping pictographic style. I 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 learning program in which you learn by doing. Illustrator's features make sense because you apply them to clearly defined tasks. If I've done my job, you'll leave each chapter with a sense of real, satisfying, tangible accomplishment that you can apply to your own highly marketable projects. Learn how to do this and you'll be able to do so much more. And with that, I release you to experience Illustrator's most powerful and rarefied features as I truly hope you've never experienced them before. Welcome to Illustrator CC One-on-One Mastery.
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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 22s
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33. The Brushes Panel
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Painting with path outlines1m 12s
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34. Seamlessly Repeating Patterns
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Patterns let you be free2m 15s
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Creating a pattern4m 34s
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Using the Pattern Tile tool6m 33s
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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. The Puppet Warp Tool
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Setting your own custom pins5m 50s
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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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Using stylistic sets6m 33s
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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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See ya!1m 28s
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