Join Illustrator master Deke McClelland for the fourth and final installment of his signature One-on-One series on the vector drawing powerhouse, Adobe Illustrator. In this course, Deke shares step-by-step tutorials and expert-level insights on the most robust features, helping you achieve Illustrator mastery for yourself.

Topics include:

• Using symbols to streamline changes or simulate master pages
  
• Creating shadows, depth, and volume with gradient meshes
  
• Controlling transparency and visibility with opacity masks
  
• Warping and distorting artwork with Liquify and Envelope Distort
  
• Assembling a seamless pattern brush for repeated elements
  
• Making charts and graphs from imported data
  
• Creating dynamic 3D effects

The smartest of guides (1m 36s)
Setting up angular construction guides (4m 59s)
Shaving off miter joins and projecting caps (4m 53s)
Precisely aligning angled logo artwork (5m 52s)
Covering up gaps and seams in your logo (7m 9s)
Creating ornaments based on miter joins (5m 9s)
Hand-drawing letters as stroked paths (9m 34s)
Kerning and clipping hand-drawn type (5m 59s)

The benefits of using symbols (1m 3s)
How symbols and instances work (4m 54s)
Creating and naming symbols (6m 42s)
Introducing 9-slice scaling (4m 31s)
Customizing the effects of 9-slice scaling (7m 5s)
Acquiring, trading, and previewing symbols (6m 5s)
Duplicating and replacing symbol instances (5m 45s)
Using symbols to simulate master pages (6m 54s)
Advanced symbol modifications (6m 34s)

Shading objects with Gradient Mesh (1m 18s)
Creating a gradient mesh (4m 23s)
Adding and deleting lines with the Mesh tool (4m 27s)
Assigning colors to mesh points (6m 36s)
Finessing colors to add depth and shading (6m 10s)
Creating a gradient with the Mesh tool (8m 27s)
Wrapping gradients around circles (4m 15s)
Working with slender, bending shapes (8m 48s)
Creating soft and sharp transitions (6m 17s)
Converting a linear gradient to a mesh (7m 44s)
Converting a radial gradient to a mesh (9m 16s)
Using gradients to cast shadows (5m 10s)

Black conceals, white reveals (1m 8s)
Introducing opacity masks (6m 24s)
Assigning an empty opacity mask to a layer (4m 45s)
Drawing inside an opacity mask (4m 57s)
Fading artwork with a gradient opacity mask (3m 3s)
Nesting one opacity mask inside another (4m 6s)

Two ways to apply free-form distortions (1m 6s)
Introducing the Warp tool (7m 50s)
Brush size, Detail, and Simplify (8m 20s)
Liquifying an isolated portion of a path (9m 49s)
The Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat tools (8m 37s)
The Scallop, Crystallize, and Wrinkle tools (7m 6s)
Simplifying a path; creating a custom starburst (6m 26s)
Applying an envelope-style distortion (4m 34s)
Editing the contents of an envelope (7m 40s)
Masking the contents of an entire layer (5m 0s)

Transforming live and on the fly (1m 44s)
Using the Free Transform tool (4m 49s)
Transforming with respect to the center (2m 24s)
Applying free-form and perspective distortions (4m 16s)
Resetting the bounding box (4m 37s)
Free transforming tile patterns (3m 53s)
Using the Touch Type tool (5m 12s)
Tweaking transformations numerically (3m 20s)

Up to five tiles per pattern brush (1m 12s)
Creating a basic pattern brush (6m 29s)
Correcting a repeating pattern brush (4m 6s)
Adjusting a pattern brush to match its path (3m 21s)
Automating and designing a corner tile (8m 52s)
Adding an angled loop to a corner design (3m 44s)
Creating end tiles and tile perimeters (6m 28s)
Cropping your designs inside your tiles (4m 22s)
Assembling a seamless pattern brush (5m 35s)
Adding a white buffer zone to a pattern brush (6m 35s)
Reconciling very acute corners in a path (8m 25s)
Creating a pixel-based-image pattern brush (6m 20s)
Spacing and orienting pattern brushes (8m 47s)

The pleasures and pitfalls of graphs (1m 44s)
Importing and graphing numerical data (7m 48s)
Modifying data to create a category axis (4m 6s)
Reformatting text and values in a graph (5m 40s)
Changing the Graph Type settings (5m 27s)
Creating and applying a graph design (8m 14s)
Repairing a broken pictograph (2m 53s)
Re-creating a graph at the proper size (7m 45s)

The five advantages of Illustrator in 3D (1m 39s)
Introducing Illustrator's three kinds of 3D (5m 6s)
Working in 3D space: Pitch, yaw, and roll (5m 13s)
Lighting and shading a 3D object (4m 13s)
Beveling the edges of a 3D extrusion (4m 23s)
Creating live, editable 3D type (4m 30s)
Adding cast shadows to 3D type (3m 59s)
Assigning and editing a 3D Revolve effect (4m 58s)
Mapping artwork onto a 3D object (3m 44s)

See ya (1m 10s)

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.

1. Lynda.com - Illustrator CC One-on-One: Fundamentals
2. Lynda.com - Illustrator CC One-on-One: Intermediate
3. Lynda.com - Illustrator CC One-on-One: Advanced
4. Lynda.com - Illustrator CC One-on-One: Mastery

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