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| Getting Started | |
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| Platform | |
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| Naming Conventions | |
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| Key Commands | |
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| The CD-ROM and Initial Setup Considerations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Illustrator Environment | |
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| The Environment | |
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| Creating and Opening Documents | |
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| Creating New Documents | |
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| Opening Documents | |
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| Saving Your Work | |
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| Adobe PDF (PDF) | |
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| Illustrator EPS (EPS) | |
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| Page Tiling and the Artboard | |
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| Margins | |
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| Document Orientation and Size | |
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| The Toolbox | |
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| Palettes | |
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| Menus | |
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| Contextual Menus | |
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| Preferences | |
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| General Preferences | |
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| Grids and Guides | |
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| Grids | |
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| Controlling the Grid | |
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| Rulers | |
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| Zero Point | |
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| Ruler Measurement Units | |
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| Guides | |
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| Managing Guides | |
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| Using Guides | |
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| Viewing Modes | |
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| Outline and Preview Viewing Modes | |
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| Outline | |
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| Preview | |
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| Using Views to Maximize Efficiency | |
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| Pixel Preview | |
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| Overprint Preview | |
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| New Views | |
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| Edit Views | |
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| New Windows | |
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| Creating New Windows | |
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| Navigator Palette | |
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| Navigator Features | |
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| Creating Primitive Shapes | |
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| Ellipse Tool | |
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| Using the Dialog Box | |
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| Circles | |
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| Starting Point of an Ellipse | |
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| Rectangle Tool | |
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| Drawing with the Mouse | |
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| Using the Dialog Box | |
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| Starting Point of a Rectangle | |
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| Rounding Square Edges | |
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| Changing the Corner Radius | |
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| Other Drawing Tools | |
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| Twirl Tool | |
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| Spiral Tool | |
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| Star Tool | |
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| Polygon Tool | |
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| Creating Paths | |
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| Anchor Points and Segments | |
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| Pen Tool | |
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| Open and Closed Paths | |
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| Pen Tool Symbols | |
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| Drawing Curves | |
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| Control Handle | |
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| Smooth Point | |
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| Corner Point | |
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| More Corner Point Techniques | |
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| Strategies for Making Curves | |
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| Modifying Paths | |
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| Anchor Points and Segments | |
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| Selecting Single Anchor Points | |
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| Moving Segments | |
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| Deleting Single Segments | |
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| Duplicating Paths and Objects | |
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| Path Editing Tools | |
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| Connecting Anchor Points | |
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| Avoiding Mishaps | |
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| Creating and Editing Type | |
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| Getting Type on the Page | |
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| Creating Point Text with the Type Tool | |
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| Creating Area Text with the Type Tool | |
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| Selecting Text | |
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| Resizing a Text Container | |
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| Typographic Basics | |
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| Fonts | |
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| Font Styles | |
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| Size | |
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| Leading | |
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| Tracking | |
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| Kerning | |
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| Scaling Type | |
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| Baseline Shift | |
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| Paragraph | |
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| Alignment | |
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| Overset Text Blocks | |
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| Text Effects | |
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| Fit Headline | |
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| Working with Type Outlines | |
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| Painting Objects | |
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| Fill and Stroke | |
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| Open and Closed Paths | |
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| Strokes | |
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| Getting Creative with Dashes and Gaps | |
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| Stroke Palette | |
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| Fill | |
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| Applying Fills and Strokes from the Toolbox | |
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| Swatches Palette | |
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| Painting Objects | |
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| Painting Selected and Unselected Objects | |
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| Painting Selected Objects | |
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| Painting Unselected Objects | |
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| Color Modes | |
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| Using the Proper Color Mode | |
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| Color Palette | |
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| Spot Colors | |
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| The Color Palette Menu | |
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| Using the Swatches Palette | |
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| Creating New Color Swatches | |
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| Color Icons | |
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| Spot Colors and Tints | |
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| Importing from Swatch Libraries and Custom Colors | |
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| Swatch Libraries | |
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| Customized Colors | |
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| Styles, Effects, and Appearances | |
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| Styles Palette and Style Libraries | |
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| Styles Unlimited | |
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| Creating a Style | |
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| Editing Styles | |
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| Tips on Styles | |
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| Effect Menu | |
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| Appearance Palette | |
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| Tips on the Appearance Palette | |
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| Manipulating Objects | |
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| Object Menu | |
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| Arrange | |
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| Group/Ungroup | |
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| Lock/Unlock All | |
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| Hide Selection/Show All | |
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| Arranging with Front/Back | |
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| Precision Alignment Techniques | |
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| Manual Alignment | |
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| Aligning Anchor Points | |
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| Aligning Segments | |
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| Transform Palette | |
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| Paste in Front and Paste in Back | |
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| Duplicating Objects | |
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| Aligning and Distributing Objects | |
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| Align Palette | |
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| Project Assignment #1 | |
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| Review #1 | |
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| Organizing Your Art with Layers | |
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| Layer Basics | |
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| Organizing the Elements | |
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| Layers Palette | |
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| Layers Palette Menu | |
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| Layer Options | |
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| Layer Levels | |
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| Changing Layer Levels | |
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| Reassigning Objects on Layers | |
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| Tips on Layers | |
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| Keyboard Shortcuts | |
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| Sublayers | |
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| Nesting Sublayers | |
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| Guides and Layers. | |