Lynda - Illustrator CS6 One-on-One: Mastery [repost]

The fourth in a series by industry-pro Deke McClelland on the premiere graphics creation application, Adobe Illustrator, this course shows you how to become a more efficient, exact, and creative designer with the advanced tools in Illustrator. Maximize your productivity with tools such as Smart Guides to precisely align your artwork, symbols that help you reuse it, and pattern brushes that allow you to tile it across the screen. Plus, learn how to add special creative touches to designs with the Gradient Mesh feature, great for creating photorealistic airbrushing effects; the Liquify and Envelope tools; the layered transparency you can achieve with opacity masks; and 3D effects like live, editable 3D type.

Topics include:
- Setting up angular construction guides
- Kerning and clipping hand-drawn type
- Creating and naming symbols
- Using symbols to simulate master pages
- Creating a gradient mesh
- Using gradients to cast shadows
- Fading artwork with a gradient opacity mask
- Warping and distorting artwork with Liquify and Envelope
- Assembling a seamless pattern brush
- Creating charts and pictographs
- Working in 3D space

33. Using Smart Guides 45m 41s

Welcome to One-on-One 2m 6s
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

34. Working with Symbols 49m 32s

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 53s
Advanced symbol modifications 6m 34s

35. Gradient Mesh 1h 12m

Shading objects with Gradient Mesh 51s
Creating a gradient mesh 4m 23s
Adding and deleting lines with the Mesh tool 4m 27s
Assigning colors to mesh points 6m 35s
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

36. Opacity Masks 24m 19s

Black conceals, white reveals 1m 4s
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

37. Liquify and Envelope 1h 6m

Two ways to apply free-form distortions 59s
Introducing the Warp tool 7m 50s
Brush size, Detail, and Simplify 8m 20s
Liquifying an isolated portion of a path 9m 48s
The Twirl, Pucker, and Bloat tools 8m 37s
The Scallop, Crystallize, and Wrinkle tools 7m 5s
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

38. Pattern Brushes 58m 45s

Up to five tiles per pattern brush 1m 8s
Creating a basic pattern brush 6m 31s
Correcting and adjusting a pattern brush 4m 54s
Designing a matching corner tile 8m 21s
Adding an angled loop to a corner design 4m 16s
Creating end tiles and tile perimeters 6m 27s
Cropping your designs inside your tiles 4m 22s
Assembling a seamless pattern brush 5m 24s
Adding a white buffer zone to a pattern brush 8m 24s
Reconciling very acute corners in a path 8m 58s

39. Charts and Pictographs 42m 33s

The pleasures and pitfalls of graphs 1m 27s
Importing and graphing numerical data 7m 2s
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
Recreating a graph at the proper size 7m 44s

40. 3D Effects 37m 47s

The five advantages to 3D in Illustrator 1m 41s
Introducing the three kinds of 3D in Illustrator 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

Conclusion 52s

See ya 52s