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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. | |