Lynda - Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Intermediate with Deke McClelland

Join author and industry expert Deke McClelland as he teaches you how

to take advantage of the next level of dynamic features in Adobe

Illustrator CS6. This installment of his Illustrator CS6 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