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| Starting Up | |
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| About Digital Classroom | |
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| Prerequisites | |
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| System requirements | |
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| Starting Adobe Illustrator CS4 | |
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| Fonts used in this book | |
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| Resetting Adobe Illustrator CS4 preferences | |
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| Loading lesson files | |
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| Working with the video tutorials | |
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| Setting up for viewing the video tutorials | |
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| Viewing the video tutorials | |
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| with the Adobe Flash Player | |
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| Additional resources | |
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| Lesson 1: Adobe Illustrator CS4 Jumpstart | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Creating the background | |
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| Taking advantage of graphic styles | |
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| One object, multiple fi lls and strokes | |
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| Saving a graphic style | |
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| Creating a symbol from the circle art | |
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| Creating the text logo | |
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| Applying the graphic style to the text logo | |
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| Warping the text logo | |
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| Using the Color Guide | |
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| Incorporating an image into your artwork | |
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| Erasing vector paths and shapes | |
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| Creating a 3-D object | |
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| Lesson 2: Getting to Know the Workspace | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Opening Illustrator | |
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| Choosing a workspace | |
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| Opening a file | |
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| The document window | |
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| Switching screen modes | |
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| Changing your view | |
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| Preview versus Outlines | |
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| Zooming and scrolling | |
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| Scrolling with the Hand tool | |
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| Changing views with the Navigator panel | |
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| The Tools panel | |
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| Using tools and panels | |
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| The Control panel | |
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| Moving the Control panel | |
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| Panel groups and the dock | |
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| Custom workspaces | |
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| Saving workspaces | |
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| Using the Manage Workspaces dialog box | |
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| Customizing keyboard shortcuts | |
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| Custom shortcuts | |
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| Saving shortcut sets | |
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| Deleting shortcut sets | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Lesson 3: Illustrator CS4 Essentials | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Using the shape tools | |
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| Repositioning and visually resizing the rectangle | |
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| Finding or changing the shape's dimensions using the Transform panel | |
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| Rotating and shearing using | |
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| the Transform panel | |
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| Constraining a shape | |
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| Entering exact dimensions | |
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| Selecting artwork | |
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| Helpful keyboard shortcuts for selections | |
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| The selection tools | |
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| Using shape and transform tools to create artwork | |
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| Using the transform tools | |
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| Adding a fill color | |
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| Entering a shape size in the Transform panel | |
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| Viewing in Outline view | |
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| Rotating the shape | |
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| Changing the color of the triangles | |
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| Using layers when building an illustration | |
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| Creating a new blank layer | |
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| Cutting and pasting objects | |
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| Creating bubbles | |
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| Cloning the bubble group | |
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| Repeating a resize transform | |
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| Moving objects from one layer to another | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Lesson 4: Adding Color | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Basics of the Appearance panel | |
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| Fills and strokes | |
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| Saving swatches | |
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| Global colors | |
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| Saving a set of colors as a group | |
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| Using the Color Guide panel | |
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| Coloring objects | |
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| Live Paint | |
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| Live Color | |
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| Creating a gradient swatch | |
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| Creating a pattern swatch | |
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| Loading Pantone colors | |
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| Applying spot colors to the logo | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Lesson 5: Working with the Drawing Tools | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Working with the Pen tool | |
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| Drawing straight lines | |
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| Drawing curved lines | |
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| Drawing hinged curves | |
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| Drawing curved lines to straight lines | |
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| Drawing straight lines to curved lines | |
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| Tracing images | |
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| Placing an image as a template | |
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| Other drawing tools | |
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| Using the Line Segment and Arc tools | |
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| Using the Pencil, Smooth, and Path Eraser tools | |
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| Using the Eraser tool | |
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| Editing existing paths | |
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| Adding and removing points | |
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| Refi ning a curve | |
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| Cutting and joining paths | |
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| Working with Live Trace | |
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| Using the tracing presets | |
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| Understanding tracing options | |
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| Expanding Live Traced artwork | |
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| Working with Live Paint | |
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| Creating a Live Paint group | |
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| Setting Gap Detection options | |
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| Using the Live Paint Bucket tool | |
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| Using the Live Paint Selection tool | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Lesson 6: Working with and Formatting Text | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Formatting type | |
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| Paragraph formatting | |
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| Formatting imported type | |
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| Paragraph and character styles | |
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| Text wrap | |
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| Advanced techniques with text | |
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| Text on a path | |
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| Warping text | |
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| Text in a shape | |
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| Creating outlines | |
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| Check spelling | |
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| Find and Replace | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Lesson 7: Organizing your Illustrations with Layers | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Getting to know the Layers panel | |
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| Using layers to organize your illustrations | |
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| Using the Layers panel to make selections | |
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| Creating new layers and moving items between layers | |
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| Paste Remembers Layers | |
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| Template Layers | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Lesson 8: Working with Symbols | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Cleaning out the symbol library | |
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| Creating symbols | |
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| Editing symbols | |
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| Importing a symbol library | |
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| Using the symbolism tools | |
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| Editing nested symbols | |
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| Replacing symbols | |
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| Saving symbol libraries | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Lesson 9: Using Eff ects and Transparency | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Working with the Appearance panel and effects | |
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| Applying effects | |
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| Editing effects | |
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| Using graphic styles | |
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| Creating and saving graphic styles | |
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| Applying and modifying graphic styles | |
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| Working with object transparency | |
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| Working with multiple opacity | |
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| Working with blending modes | |
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| Saving and importing graphic styles | |
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| Applying graphic styles to layers and symbols | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Lesson 10: Exporting and Saving Files | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Saving using the AI file format | |
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| Saving an illustration with layers | |
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| Make a template layer | |
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| Using the Transform Effect | |
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| Duplicating a Stroke | |
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| Saving diff erent versions of the logo onto separate layers | |
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| Expanding appearance | |
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| Save the first version | |
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| Using Live Paint | |
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| Using the Color Guide panel | |
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| Saving the third version | |
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| Using Recolor Artwork | |
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| Saving a layered PDF | |
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| Integration with other applications | |
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| Exporting for Photoshop | |
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| Integrating with InDesign | |
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| Integrating with Flash | |
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| Integrating with Premiere and After Effects | |
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| Saving as EPS | |
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| Save for Web & Devices | |
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| Making a Flash animation | |
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| Exporting a Flash animation | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Lesson 11: Advanced Blending Techniques | |
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| Starting up | |
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| Using the Blend Tool | |
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| Applying a gradient | |
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| Applying Radial Gradients | |
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| Applying gradients using Illustrator's Gradient Mesh options | |
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| Adjusting the Mesh | |
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| Revisiting Blend Options | |
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| More mesh work | |
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| Overlapping images | |
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| Applying a gradient mesh using the Mesh tool | |
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| Finishing up with the Mesh tool and automatically adding a Highlight | |
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| Using the Symbol tools | |
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| Creating a symbol | |
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| Modifying a Symbol's appearance | |
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| Self study | |
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| Review | |
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| Lesson 12: Illustrator CS4 New Features | |
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| Starting up | |
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| The new user interface | |
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| Application bar | |
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| Application Frame | |
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| Document tabs | |
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| Document groups | |
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| Arranging documents | |
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| Screen modes | |
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| Smart Guides | |
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| Multiple artboards | |
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| New Artboard tool | |
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| Printing and PDFs with artboards | |
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| The new Appearance panel | |
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| Enhanced Gradient tool | |