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| Introduction | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Getting to Know Illustrator | |
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| Raster Versus Vector | |
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| Raster Images | |
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| Vector Images: An Objective Approach | |
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| The Illustrator Workplace | |
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| The Illustrator Window | |
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| The Toolbox | |
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| The Many Palettes of Illustrator | |
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| Views in Illustrator | |
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| Things That Make You Go Zoom! | |
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| Moving Around Your Page | |
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| The Navigator Palette | |
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| Custom Views | |
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| New Window | |
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| Context-Sensitive Menus | |
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| Customizing Illustrator | |
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| Creating a New Document | |
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| Document Setup | |
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| Artboard | |
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| Printing and Export | |
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| Transparency | |
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| Setting Preferences | |
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| General Preferences | |
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| Type and Auto Tracing | |
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| Units and Undo | |
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| Guides and Grid | |
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| Smart Guides | |
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| Hyphenation | |
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| Plug-ins and Scratch Disk | |
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| Files and Clipboard | |
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| Working with Guides, Smart Guides, and Illustrator's Grid | |
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| Rulers | |
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| Illustrator's Grid | |
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| Snap To Grid | |
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| Creating an Illustrator Startup File | |
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| Drawing Basic Objects | |
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| Working with Rectangles | |
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| Working with Ellipses | |
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| Drawing Other Shapes | |
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| The Spiral Tool | |
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| Saving Your Work | |
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| Getting the Basics | |
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| Working with Selections | |
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| The Selection Tools | |
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| The Selection Tool | |
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| The Direct Selection Tool | |
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| Grouping Objects | |
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| The Group Selection Tool | |
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| The Lasso Tool | |
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| The Direct Select Lasso Tool | |
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| Working with Selections | |
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| Area Select | |
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| Locking Objects | |
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| Hiding Selections | |
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| Hiding Edges | |
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| Arranging Items | |
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| Drawing Bezier Paths | |
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| The Bezier Path | |
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| The Pen Tool | |
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| The Anchor Points | |
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| Open and Closed Paths | |
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| The Pencil Tool | |
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| Editing Bezier Paths | |
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| Manipulating Existing Points | |
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| The Direct Selection Tool | |
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| The Add Anchor Point Tool | |
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| The Delete Anchor Point Tool | |
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| The Convert Anchor Point Tool | |
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| Editing Paths | |
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| The Smooth Tool | |
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| The Simplify Command | |
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| The Erase Tool | |
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| The Reshape Tool | |
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| The Scissors Tool | |
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| The Knife Tool | |
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| The Join and Average Commands | |
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| Getting Colorful | |
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| Coloring Objects | |
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| Fill and Stroke | |
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| The Color Palette | |
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| Selecting a Color | |
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| Color Models | |
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| Custom Colors | |
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| The Swatches Palette | |
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| Viewing the Swatches Palette | |
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| The Transparency Palette | |
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| Opacity and Blending Modes | |
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| Transparency Options | |
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| The Eyedropper Tool | |
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| The Paint Bucket Tool | |
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| Fills and Strokes | |
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| Solid Color Fills | |
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| Gradients | |
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| The Gradient Palette | |
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| Using the Gradient Tool | |
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| The Gradient Mesh Tool | |
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| Patterns | |
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| Defining a Pattern | |
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| Using the Expand Command | |
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| Strokes | |
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| The Stroke Palette | |
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| Offset Path and Outline Path | |
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| The Paintbrush Tool | |
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| The Brushes Palette | |
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| Drawing with the Paintbrush Tool | |
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| The Calligraphic Brush | |
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| The Scatter Brush | |
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| The Art Brush | |
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| The Pattern Brush | |
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| Getting Powerful | |
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| Object Styles | |
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| Anatomy of a Style | |
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| The Appearance Palette | |
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| The Styles Palette | |
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| Creating Complex Object Styles | |
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| Working with Appearances | |
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| Editing a Style | |
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| Expanding an Appearance | |
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| Working with Layers | |
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| The Layers Palette | |
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| Editing Layers | |
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| Layer Options | |
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| Layer Colors | |
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| Arranging Layers and Sublayers | |
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| Moving or Copying Items Between Layers and Sublayers | |
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| Locking and Hiding Layers | |
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| Merging Layers and Sublayers | |
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| Extra Room Anyone? | |
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| Applying an Appearance to Layers | |
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| Layer Clipping Masks | |
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| Compound Paths and Masks | |
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| Compound Paths | |
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| It's All in the Direction | |
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| Masks | |
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| Layer Clipping Masks | |
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| Opacity Masks | |
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| Transformations | |
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| The Transformation Tools | |
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| Moving Objects | |
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| Rotate, Scale, Reflect, and Shear | |
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| The Free Transform Tool | |
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| Transform Each | |
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| Makin' Copies! | |
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| Do It Again! | |
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| The Transform Palette | |
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| The Align Palette | |
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| The Pathfinder Palette | |
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| Unite, Intersect, Exclude, Minus Front, Minus Back | |
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| Divide, Trim, Merge, Crop, Outline | |
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| Hard and Soft | |
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| The Blend Tool | |
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| Getting Stylized | |
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| Adding Text | |
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| Using the Type Tool | |
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| Point Text | |
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| Creating Area Text | |
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| Linking Text Blocks | |
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| Setting Up Rows and Columns | |
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| Placing Type on a Path | |
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| Vertical Text | |
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| Advanced Typography | |
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| The Character Palette | |
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| Font | |
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| Size | |
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| Leading | |
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| Kerning and Tracking | |
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| Horizontal and Vertical Scale | |
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| Baseline Shift | |
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| The Paragraph Palette | |
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| Justification | |
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| Indents | |
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| Word and Letter Spacing | |
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| The Tab Palette | |
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| The MM Design Palette | |
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| Converting Text to Outlines | |
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| Change Case | |
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| Find Font and Find/Change | |
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| Smart Punctuation | |
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| Check Spelling | |
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| Live Effects | |
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| Convert to Shape | |
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| Distort and Transform Filters | |
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| Free Distort | |
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| Punk and Bloat | |
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| Roughen | |
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| Scribble and Tweak | |
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| Transform | |
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| Twirl | |
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| Zig Zag | |
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| Path | |
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| Pathfinder | |
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| Rasterize | |
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| Stylize Effects | |
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| Add Arrowheads | |
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| Drop Shadow | |
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| Feather | |
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| Inner Glow and Outer Glow | |
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| Round Corners | |
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| Photoshop-Compatible Effects | |
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| Live Effects and the Appearance Palette | |
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| Working with Raster Images | |
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| A Pixel for Your Thoughts | |
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| Placing an Image | |
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| The Rasterize Command | |
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| Opening an Image | |
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| Linked and Embedded Images | |
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| The Links Palette | |
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| File Formats | |
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| Using Raster Art in Illustrator | |
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| Colorize 1-Bit TIFFs | |
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| Use the Autotrace Tool | |
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| Use Photoshop-Compatible Filters | |
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| Vector Filters | |
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| The Filter Menu | |
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| Colors Filters | |
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| Adjust Colors | |
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| Blending Objects | |
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| Switching Between Color Models | |
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| Inverting Colors | |
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| Overprint Black | |
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| Saturate | |
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| Create Filters | |
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| Object Mosaic | |
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| Trim Marks | |
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| Pen and Ink | |
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| The Photo Crosshatch Filter | |
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| Charts and Graphs | |
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| Creating a Graph | |
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| Importing Graph Data | |
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| Editing Graph Data | |
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| Graph Options | |
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| Graph Design | |
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| Ungrouping Your Graph | |
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| Getting the Most Out of Illustrator | |
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| Saving/Exporting Files | |
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| Saving in Illustrator Formats | |
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| Native Illustrator | |
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| Illustrator EPS | |
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| Acrobat PDF | |
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| Exporting to Other File Formats | |
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| TIFF | |
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| Photoshop 5 | |
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| GIF89a, JPEG, PNG, Flash, and SVG | |
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| PCX | |
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| BMP | |
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| Amiga IFF, Targa, and Pixar | |
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| AutoCAD | |
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| Metafile | |
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| Working Smart in Illustrator | |
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| Using Actions | |
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| User-Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts | |
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| Saving Your Documents | |
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| Using Intelligent Filenames | |
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| Working with Selections | |
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| Hiding and Locking | |
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| Keeping Your Documents Clean | |
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| Cleaning Up Individual Paths | |
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| Scanning and Tracing Art | |
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| Preparing a File for Output | |
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| Including Typefaces and Linked Images | |
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| Outlining Paths | |
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| Blends and the Pen and Ink Filter | |
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| Using Third-Party Plug-ins | |
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| HotDoor CADtools | |
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| MAPublisher | |
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| Plug-ins by Rick Johnson (Graffix) | |
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| FILTERiT3 (Mac OS only) | |
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| Vertigo 3D Words | |
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| ILLOM Toolbox 1 (Mac OS only) | |
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| Printing | |
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| Printing Files | |
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| Document Setup/Page Setup | |
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| Tiling with the Page Tool | |
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| Color Separations | |
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| Specifying Colors to Be Separated | |
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| Positioning the Plate | |
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| Setting Cropmarks | |
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| Troubleshooting | |
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| Web Graphics | |
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| Designing for the Web | |
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| Color on the Web | |
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| Dithered Colors | |
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| Using the Web Palette | |
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| Assigning URLs to Objects | |
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| Web File Formats | |
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| The GIF89a Format | |
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| The JPEG Format | |
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| The PNG Format | |
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| Saving Images for the Web | |
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| Setting GIF Format Options | |
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| Setting JPEG Format Options | |
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| Setting PNG Format Options | |
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| Making Animations | |
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| Creating a Flash Animation | |
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| Cross-Platform Issues | |
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| Naming and Saving Files | |
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| Patterns and Gradients | |
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| Drag and Drop | |
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| Font Issues | |
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| Compatibility | |