With Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS4: Advanced, you'll learn all the secrets that illustrators use everyday to create vector artwork faster and more accurately. You'll discover all the new and exciting features inside of Illustrator CS4 as well as techniques to help you master things such as patterns, clipping paths, and 3D objects. You'll even learn how to build a Flash ® animation inside of Illustrator. This series is just want you need to take your Illustrator skills one step further and help you to stay competitive in today's job market!

Manufacturer: Total Training
Release date: 2009.
Lecturer: Robert Underwood
Duration: 6 hours
Level of difficulty: from primary to secondary
Language: English
Video codec: QuickTime
Video: QuickTime 960 * 540 10 fps
Audio: AAC 4 LC, 44.1 KHz 48 kb / s, mono

Course Content:

Chapter 1: NAVIGATING ILLUSTRATOR (33 min)
1. Using Adobe Bridge
2. Exploring Built-in Templates & Libraries
3. Locating Existing New Document Profiles & Creating Your Own
4. Advanced Guide Features
5. Using Artboards
6. Setting Up Workspaces & Panels
Chapter 2: ADVANCED PATH TECHNIQUES (34 min)
1. Drawing Paths with the Pen Tool
2. Using the Refect Tool
3. Making Joins
4. Outlining a Stroke
5. Using the Transform Again Command
6. Using the Arrange Commands & Clipping Masks
Chapter 3: DRAWING & REDRAWING (27 min)
1. Using Layers & Guides to Redraw a Logo
2. Using Outline Mode to Redraw a Hand-Drawn Image
Chapter 4: BLENDS & MESHES (33 min)
1. Blending Paths with the Specified Steps Option
2. Blending Paths with the Smooth Color Option
3. Designing Web Buttons with the Blend Tool & Gradients
4. Colorizing with Gradients
5. Working with Gradient Meshes
Chapter 5: TRANSPARENCY (20 min)
1. Colorize an Image with the Color Blend Mode
2. Using the Color Guide, Transform & Transparency Panels
3. Creating an Opacity Mask with a Radial Gradient
4. Using the Multiply Blend Mode
Chapter 6: CREATING PATTERNS (15 min)
1. Defining a Pattern
2. Scaling & Replacing a Pattern
3. Redefining an Existing Illustrator Pattern
4. Making a Pattern from an Illustration
Chapter 7: WORKING WITH TYPE (22 min)
1. Adding Point & Area Type
2. Placing Type from Other Documents
3. Using the Glyphs Panel
4. Setting Tabs
5. Creating Paragraph & Character Styles
6. Converting Text to Outlines
7. Putting an Image inside of Text
Chapter 8: WORKING WITH IMAGES (12 min)
1. Linking vs. Embedding Images
2. Using a Clipping Mask to Make a Cutout
3. Creating a Clipping Mask between Two Layers
4. Importing an Adobe Photoshop ® Path
Chapter 9: COLOR MANAGEMENT (15 min)
1. The Swatches Panel vs. the Color Panel
2. Adding & Deleting Colors from the Swatches Panel
3. Making Selections Based on Same Attributes
4. Creating a Global Color
5. Making & Saving a Gradient
6. Creating, Applying & Modifying a Gradient Graphic Style
Chapter 10: USING THE LIQUIFY & ENVELOPE TOOLS (12 min)
1. Using the Liquify Tools to Distort Vectors
2. Warping Text Using the Envelope Distort Command
3. Conforming Text to the Shape of an Object Using Envelope Distort
Chapter 11: CREATING SYMBOLS (11 min)
1. Defining & Redefining a Symbol
2. Using the Symbol Tools
3. Saving Symbol Sets
Chapter 12: CREATING & USING BRUSHES (28 min)
1. Defining a Custom Scatter Brush
2. Defining an Art Brush
3. Using the Transform Panel & Defining a Pattern Brush
4. Defining a Pattern Brush to Make a Border
5. Using the Blob Brush Tool
Chapter 13: 3D EFFECTS (23 min)
1. Using 3D Revolve
2. Making & Editing 3D Type
3. Mapping a Symbol to a Sphere Using 3D Revolve
4. Mapping Objects to a Cube Using 3D Extrude & Bevel
Chapter 14: USING LIVE TRACE (10 min)
1. Adjusting Tracing Options
2. Exploring Live Trace Presets
Chapter 15: USING LIVE PAINT (10 min)
1. Painting a Traced Object
2. Using Gap Detection
3. Using Live Paint Instead of Pathnder
Chapter 16: LIVE EFFECTS & GRAPHIC STYLES (7 min)
1. Using Transform Eects
2. Saving & Applying a Graphic Style
Chapter 17: LIVE COLOR (8 min)
1. Using Adobe Kuler to Colorize an Object
2. Recoloring Artwork
Chapter 18: CREATING & FORMATTING GRAPHS (9 min)
1. Creating a 3D Pie Chart
2. Defining a Column Graph
3. Placing Designs into the Columns
Chapter 19: ILLUSTRATOR ACTIONS (5 min)
1. Defining a New Illustrator Action
2. Running an Action Using the Batch Command
Chapter 20: EXPLORING EXPORT OPTIONS (26 min)
1. Exporting to QuarkXPress ®
2. Smart Objects & Photoshop
3. Exporting to Adobe InDesign ®
4. Exporting a Layered PDF File
5. Using the Flattener Preview
6. Color Blindness Preview Modes
7. Using Separations Preview
8. Using the Document Bleed
Chapter 21: CREATING FLASH ANIMATIONS (11 min)
1. Animating with Layers
2. Animating with Blends
3. Credits









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