Learn to create elegant, optimized graphics with Adobe Illustrator and industry-pro Deke McClelland's patented One-on-One path to mastery—now updated for Illustrator Creative Cloud. This installment introduces the basic features of Illustrator CC: sizing and arranging artboards; accessing panels, menus, and tools; and creating your first illustrations with line art, shapes, and type. This includes manipulating paths with the Pen tool; painting, grouping, and coloring objects; and placing and adjusting text. Deke shows you how to select fonts, create hanging indents, and tweak the kerning and leading of your text. You'll also learn to trace images you've imported into Illustrator and scale, rotate, and duplicate artwork.

Deke will add new videos as new features for Illustrator CC are revealed, ensuring you'll always be up to date on the latest tools.
Topics include:

• Creating new documents
  
• Moving, modifying, and resizing artboards
  
• Drawing with the line tools
  
• Drawing geometric shapes
  
• Auto-tracing an image
  
• Rotating and duplicating objects
  
• Grouping and stacking
  
• Erasing and painting selected paths
  
• Using the Shape Builder tool
  
• Reflecting across an angled axis
  
• Placing and flowing text
  
• Previewing and assigning fonts
  
• Adjusting type size
  
• Creating and applying paragraph styles
  
• Using the Glyphs panel
  
• Inserting and removing anchor points with the Pen tool

Opening from the Windows desktop (3m 54s)
Opening from the Macintosh Finder (4m 27s)
Creating a new document (5m 35s)
Advanced document controls (4m 43s)
Modifying your document (5m 40s)
Saving changes (5m 27s)
Closing all open documents in Windows (3m 46s)
Closing all open documents on the Mac (4m 47s)

Pages of any size, at any angle (57s)
Moving and modifying artboards (4m 33s)
Changing the size and shape of artboards (3m 54s)
Creating and copying artboards (5m 3s)
Introducing the Artboard panel (7m 10s)
Autoarranging artboards (3m 25s)
Artboards and rulers (4m 35s)

Navigating your artwork (36s)
The basics of the Illustrator interface (4m 6s)
Macintosh interface differences (3m 7s)
Zooming a document and its artboards (5m 23s)
Honing in on a specific detail (4m 40s)
Scrolling (or panning) a document (4m 28s)
Using the Page Up and Page Down keys (2m 26s)
Navigating numerically and from a panel (4m 32s)
Working with multiple open documents (6m 7s)
Panels and workspaces (8m 38s)
Cycling between screen modes (6m 2s)

Now, we draw (39s)
Meet the line tools (2m 8s)
Creating basic ruler guides (7m 44s)
Creating custom guidelines (4m 15s)
Drawing a heart with the Arc tool (4m 6s)
Adjusting control handles (4m 35s)
Reflecting and completing a shape (3m 13s)
Drawing a target with the Polar Grid tool (4m 44s)
Pasting one shape inside another (3m 57s)
Drawing an arrow with the Line tool (6m 18s)
Rotating, filling, and stacking (3m 37s)
Using the Spiral tool (3m 29s)
Try your hand at tracing existing spirals (5m 2s)

And now, we draw better (53s)
Meet the shape tools (2m 9s)
Using the Ellipse tool (6m 33s)
Creating compound paths (7m 5s)
Drawing a multipoint star (7m 28s)
Adding and aligning a center point (6m 58s)
Drawing rounded rectangles (7m 35s)
Aligning to a "split location" (5m 27s)
Reflecting across an axis (5m 30s)
Modifying the constraint axes (6m 34s)
Turning a triangle into an arrowhead (8m 28s)
Using the Flare tool (6m 25s)
The top-secret tilde key trick (4m 11s)

Autotracing in Illustrator (47s)
Open an image to embed it (3m 49s)
Place an image to create a dynamic link (3m 45s)
Autotracing and resolution (5m 44s)
Adjusting layer previews (3m 3s)
Cleaning up with the Threshold option (6m 43s)
More cleanup with the Noise option (3m 34s)
Expanding and simplifying traced paths (7m 51s)
Flipping and fusing shapes (5m 54s)
Scaling resolution-independent vectors (5m 9s)

The realm of transformations (1m 24s)
Creating a tracing template (4m 50s)
Drawing a diamond with the Polygon tool (3m 51s)
Dragging and duplicating (2m 55s)
Using the Scale tool (6m 50s)
Scaling along a constraint axis (6m 11s)
Using the Rotate tool (5m 6s)
Rotating and duplicating (5m 52s)
Group, stack, and organize (4m 6s)

The best tools for painting (1m 12s)
Painting closed path outlines (5m 49s)
Erasing and painting selected paths (7m 8s)
Reassigning keyboard shortcuts (4m 24s)
Painting in the Outline mode (6m 5s)
Using the Shape Builder tool (6m 16s)
Subtracting with the Shape Builder (7m 7s)
Assigning colors with the Shape Builder (7m 29s)
Reflecting across an angled axis (6m 22s)
Cleaning up Shape Builder leftovers (8m 35s)
Working in the Group Isolation mode (9m 29s)
Establishing hierarchy with groups (4m 44s)
Simulating beveled edges (7m 34s)
Creating a network of interlocking paths (6m 24s)

Text formatting at its best (47s)
Creating page margins (6m 1s)
Placing and flowing text (5m 39s)
Selecting words and lines of type (5m 46s)
Working with point text (4m 53s)
Previewing and assigning fonts (6m 2s)
Incrementally adjusting type size (4m 8s)
Leading and paragraph indent (6m 3s)
Pair kerning and tracking (8m 1s)
Hanging indents and paragraph spacing (4m 42s)
Creating and applying paragraph styles (5m 11s)
Redefining paragraph styles (6m 11s)
Using the Glyphs panel (8m 34s)
Spell-checking your text (4m 41s)
Converting point type to area and back (5m 39s)

The tool that can draw anything (1m 26s)
Drawing straight-sided paths (5m 5s)
Activating and connecting open paths (5m 7s)
Editing a path as you draw it (4m 8s)
Inserting and removing anchor points (5m 8s)
Adding curvature with Round Corners (7m 23s)
Faking simple spline curves (6m 49s)
Introducing control handles (6m 5s)
Drawing a perfectly smooth outline (8m 41s)
Tracing a free-form, curving path (8m 18s)
Three ways to make a cusp point (8m 40s)
Converting an existing anchor point (5m 24s)
Drawing inside and behind other paths (8m 2s)
Copying and repurposing segments (8m 15s)
Copying and transforming entire layers (7m 35s)

Until next time (45s)

Дик МакКлелланд (Deke McClelland) - один из наиболее уважаемых экспертов отрасли по продуктам Adobe. Он пишет книги, статьи и создает обучающие видео по программам Photoshop, Illustrator и InDesign с момента их появления на рынке. Диком написано более 80 книг, переведенных на 24 языка, записано около 2000 часов обучающих видео. Его книги становятся бестселлерами, а видео набирают миллионы просмотров.

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