Illustrator One-on-One: Mastery
With Deke McClelland
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Duration: 14h 7m
Skill level: Advanced
Released: 11/8/2021
Course details
Discover how to be the best Adobe Illustrator user you know with industry expert Deke McClelland. In this final installment of his comprehensive three-part One-on-One series, Deke explains how Illustrator works in meticulous detail. He makes sense of even the most complex topics by linking them to clearly defined tasks. He shows you how to get around Illustrator more quickly with keyboard shortcuts and customizations, then demonstrates the power of blend modes, opacity masks, the Brushes panel, seamlessly repeating patterns, gradient mesh, and the Puppet Warp tool. Deke also covers graphs, pictographs, logos, and 3D effects. Each chapter leaves you with a sense of real accomplishment that you can apply to your own marketable, eye-popping artwork.
Note: This course was revised for 2021. As Creative Cloud evolves, the training will be updated. Check back often for new videos, new feature reviews, and new ways to work.
Note: This course was revised for 2021. As Creative Cloud evolves, the training will be updated. Check back often for new videos, new feature reviews, and new ways to work.
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Contents
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Becoming a lean, mean illustration machine1m 33s
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Installing custom dekeKeys shortcuts6m 56s
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Loading and using dekeKeys4m 14s
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Welcome to the dekeKeys PDF docs8m 7s
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Three out of the hundred custom shortcuts6m 21s
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Still more time-saving shortcuts9m 9s
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Creating your own custom shortcuts8m 32s
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Tool, transparency, and panel shortcuts8m 20s
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Creating your own custom Toolbox8m 45s
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The many ways to blend colors1m 56s
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Adjusting the opacity with shortcuts6m 41s
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Blending modes: Multiply and Screen6m 41s
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The other modes: Overlay thru Luminosity9m 14s
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My dekeKeys blend mode shortcuts6m 24s
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The effect of color space on blending modes8m 14s
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A few advanced blending mode tricks7m 19s
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Applying blending modes in the Appearance panel9m 58s
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Creating auto-inverting type7m 54s
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Carving dynamic holes with Knockout Group8m 36s
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Knockout Group option and dynamic attributes5m 2s
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Using the Isolate Blending option6m 47s
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Introducing the opacity mask8m 17s
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Putting an opacity mask into use10m 22s
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Applying blending modes to entire layers8m 3s
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Adding Photoshop pixels to an opacity mask9m 59s
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Finishing up the tattooed face7m 34s
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Exporting transparency to Photoshop12m 22s
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Painting with path outlines1m 12s
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Introducing the Brushes panel6m 11s
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Applying and editing a calligraphic brush7m 4s
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Scaling and colorizing art brushes7m 4s
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Applying and customizing scatter brushes6m 25s
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Formatting and editing brushed type4m 29s
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Designing your own custom art brushes7m 46s
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Creating and testing your art brushes6m 23s
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Refining a brush to fit ends and corners5m 27s
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Expanding, filling, and stroking a brush7m 54s
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Type On A Path tool vs. text as an art brush7m 43s
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Distorting art type with the Width tool10m 3s
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Infusing your artwork with a pattern5m 30s
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Painting with bristle brushes8m 50s
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Patterns let you be free2m 15s
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Creating a pattern4m 34s
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Introducing the Pattern Editing mode4m 50s
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Saving a copy and undoing a big mistake5m 43s
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The better way to duplicate a pattern6m 27s
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Moving a pattern inside its container3m 33s
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The three tile types: Grid, brick, and hex5m 56s
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Using the Pattern Tile tool6m 33s
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Designing a real-world tessellation10m 14s
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Measuring the exact size of a hex tile4m 59s
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Creating complementary pattern elements8m 14s
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Adding representational pattern elements5m 7s
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Drawing a triangular cartoon eye6m 40s
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Further developing pattern elements8m 46s
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Creating a pattern with a keyboard shortcut4m 55s
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Constructing a seamless denim pattern8m 53s
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Making your denim pattern look like denim7m 52s
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Creating a pattern brush with auto corners9m 59s
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Creating custom start and end tiles14m 3s
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Photorealistic painting at its best1m 40s
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Introduction to gradient meshes6m 43s
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Using the dedicated Mesh tool6m 32s
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Creating a basic gradient mesh12m 25s
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Isolating a mesh object7m 49s
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Deleting unwanted, invisible mesh points5m 28s
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Releasing a gradient mesh3m 57s
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Converting mesh points from cusp to smooth7m 27s
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Sharpening or smoothing color transitions8m 31s
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Assigning a mesh to a bendy shape9m 7s
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Converting a linear gradient to a mesh8m 55s
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Converting a radial gradient to a mesh13m 8s
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Painting soft objects with a gradient mesh7m 43s
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Combining a mesh with a compound path11m 22s
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Expressing surface contours with a mesh7m 14s
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Painting contoured highlights7m 43s
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Blending multiple mesh objects6m 6s
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Using gradient meshes to cast shadows8m 43s
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Why redraw when you can reposition?1m 44s
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Introduction to the Puppet Warp tool4m 5s
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Setting your own custom pins5m 50s
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Hiding pins, path edges, and the mesh2m 20s
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Warning: All changes are final3m 30s
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Disabling content-aware pins7m 7s
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Constraining and twisting pins5m 11s
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Using the Expand Mesh value4m
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Using Puppet Warp for small, complex objects6m 15s
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The pleasures and pitfalls of graphs1m 35s
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Graphing numerical data6m 52s
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Importing a tab-limited spreadsheet5m 26s
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Modifying data to create a category axis3m 46s
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Reformatting text and numerical values5m 39s
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Adjusting the graph type settings7m 41s
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Creating and applying a graph design9m 59s
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Setting the column type to repeating3m 54s
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Recreating a graph at the proper size7m 51s
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Customizing your legend7m 11s
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Illustrator’s logo-making features1m 58s
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Making a logo from one character of type8m 38s
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Creating a logo of interwoven rings11m 48s
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Weaving your rings into a larger ring8m 16s
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Whittling your paths with the Scissors tool9m 25s
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Gradient type and dynamic strokes6m 29s
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Using the Touch Type tool6m 17s
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Two ways to warp type7m 2s
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Creating letter-shaped gradients8m 17s
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Painting reflections onto letterforms6m 31s
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Multicolor fonts: Trajan Color Concept6m 41s
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Using stylistic sets6m 33s
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The five advantages to 3D in Illustrator1m 17s
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Introduction to the three kinds of 3D in Illustrator7m
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Working in 3D space: Pitch, yaw, and roll4m 30s
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Lighting and shading a 3D object5m 43s
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Beveling the edges of a 3D extrusion3m 44s
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Creating live, editable 3D type8m 42s
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Adding cast shadows to 3D type5m 34s
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Understanding the 3D Revolve effect7m 56s
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Using 3D Revolve to create a soda can9m
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Mapping a logo or other art onto a 3D object8m 14s
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Enhancing 3D artwork with faux 3D effects9m 59s
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Combining a stroke with 3D Revolve10m 9s
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