Overview
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Join industry expert Deke McClelland as he shares advanced techniques and shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CC 2018.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome to One-on-One
- Previously on Illustrator CC 2018 One-on-One
- Oh, and one more thing: Puppet Warp!
- Becoming a lean, mean illustration machine
- Installing my dekeKeys shortcuts on the PC
- Installing my dekeKeys shortcuts on the Mac
- Welcome to the dekeKeys PDF docs
- Touring your new keyboard shortcuts
- Restoring or customizing shortcuts
- Tool, transparency, and panel shortcuts
- The many forms of transparency
- Adjusting opacity (now with shortcuts!)
- The A-list blend modes: Multiply and Screen
- The other modes: Overlay through Luminosity
- My dekeKeys blend mode shortcuts
- The effect of color space on blend modes
- A few advanced blend mode tricks
- Applying blend modes in the Appearance panel
- Creating auto-inverting type with Difference
- Carving dynamic holes with Knockout Group
- Knockout Group and dynamic attributes
- Using the Isolate Blending option
- Introducing the opacity mask
- Putting an opacity mask into use
- Applying blend modes to entire layers
- Adding Photoshop pixels to an opacity mask
- Finishing up the tattooed face
- Exporting transparency to Photoshop
- Painting with path outlines
- Introducing the Brushes panel
- Applying and editing a calligraphic brush
- Scaling and colorizing art brushes
- Applying and customizing scatter brushes
- Formatting and editing brushed type
- Designing your own custom art brushes
- Creating and testing your art brushes
- Refining a brush to fit ends and corners
- Expanding, filling, and stroking a brush
- Type on a path vs. text as an art brush
- Distorting art type with the Width tool
- Infusing your artwork with a pattern
- Painting with bristle brushes
- Patterns are for everyone
- Introducing the automated Pattern Editor
- The three tile types: Grid, Brick, and Hex
- Undoing and canceling unwanted edits
- Creating a new pattern from an existing one
- The better way to duplicate a pattern
- Planning out a more complex pattern
- Creating a single perfectly waving line
- Duplicating and blending your waves
- Cropping a tile inside a clipping mask
- Riffing off a complex pattern
- Constructing a seamless denim pattern
- Making your denim pattern look like denim
- Creating a pattern brush with Auto Corners
- Creating custom start and end tiles
- Putting a hex pattern to good use
- If only Photoshop had this feature
- Introducing gradient mesh
- Using the dedicated Mesh tool
- Creating a basic gradient mesh
- Isolating a mesh object
- Deleting unwanted, invisible mesh points
- Releasing a gradient mesh
- Converting mesh points from cusp to smooth
- Sharpening or smoothing color transitions
- Assigning a mesh to a bendy shape
- Converting a linear gradient to a mesh
- Converting a radial gradient to a mesh
- Painting soft objects with a gradient mesh
- Combining a mesh with a compound path
- Expressing surface contours with a mesh
- Painting contoured highlights
- Blending multiple mesh objects
- Using a gradient mesh to cast shadows
- The benefits of using symbols
- Introducing symbols and instances
- Creating and naming symbols
- Creating and replacing instances
- Working with dynamic symbols
- Dynamic symbols and backward compatibility
- Dynamic symbols and dynamic effects
- Introducing 9-slice scaling
- Adjusting the guides for 9-slice scaling
- Acquiring, trading, and previewing symbols
- Using symbols as stand-ins for master pages
- Advanced symbol modifications
- Editing the top-secret Arrowheads.ai file
- Designing custom arrowheads
- Saving your arrowhead designs as symbols
- Designing tinted arrowheads
- Saving tinted arrowheads as symbols
- Editing an existing arrowhead
- The pleasures and pitfalls of graphs
- Graphing numerical data
- Importing a tab-limited spreadsheet
- Modifying data to create a category axis
- Reformatting text and numerical values
- Adjusting the Graph Type settings
- Creating and applying a graph design
- Setting the column type to repeating
- Recreating a graph at the proper size
- Customizing your legend
- Illustrator logo-making features
- Making a logo from one character of type
- Creating a logo of interwoven rings
- Weaving your rings into a larger ring
- Whittling your paths with the Scissors tool
- Gradient type and dynamic strokes
- Using the Touch Type tool
- Two ways to warp type
- Creating letter-shaped gradients
- Painting reflections onto letterforms
- Multicolor fonts: Trajan Color Concept
- Using stylistic sets
- Save more time, be more creative
- Introducing the Libraries panel
- Managing, restoring, and sharing libraries
- Sharing character and paragraph styles
- Placing and editing library assets
- Updating a logo across multiple documents
- Sharing an asset with InDesign or Photoshop
- Creating and using color themes
- Introducing the Actions panel
- Recording a custom multistep action
- Four ways to play back an action
- The five advantages to 3D in Illustrator
- Introducing the three kinds of 3D in Illustrator
- Working in 3D space: Pitch, yaw, and roll
- Lighting and shading a 3D object
- Beveling the edges of a 3D extrusion
- Creating live, editable 3D type
- Adding cast shadows to 3D type
- Understanding the 3D Revolve effect
- Using 3D Revolve to create a soda can
- Mapping a logo or other art onto a 3D object
- Enhancing 3D artwork with faux 3D effects
- Combining a stroke with 3D Revolve
- See ya!
