Lynda - Illustrator CC One-on-One: Intermediate

Run Time: 11h 38m

Release Date: August 22, 2013

Author: Deke McClelland

Learn how to take advantage of the next level of dynamic features in Adobe Illustrator CC. This installment of industry expert Deke McClelland?s Illustrator One-on-One series starts by showing you how to effectively manage layers, clipping groups, and swatches, so that you can easily swap out colors and content. Deke then explains how to create customized strokes and patterns and build complex gradients with transparency and dynamic effects, and then apply these features to paths, groups, and editable text to create professional-quality artwork. He also highlights some of the most popular features in Illustrator: Live Paint and all ten of its Pathfinder operations. The final chapters show how to prepare your projects for print and save them for distribution on the web.

Topics include:

Creating layers, sublayers, and groups

Lifting a color and creating a swatch

Assigning colors to paths inside groups

Adjusting the stacking order

Using the Width tool to adjust line weight

Masking a pattern inside a background

Assigning and modifying a gradient fill

Creating a radial gradient

Drawing a linear spiral with the Polar Grid tool

Adding a credible 3D cast shadow

Contouring with the Blob Brush and Eraser

Creating and painting an overlapping path

Placing Photoshop images in Illustrator files

Previewing and printing documents

Optimizing documents for the web