Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

Now you can learn Illustrator with the proven One-on-One method, including six hours of video training.

Master the fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator CS5 and draw pictures you've always wanted to create. With Deke McClelland's unique and effective learning system, you get step-by-step tutorials, hands-on project files, and six hours of online video demonstrations -- all designed to help you improve your knowledge and hone your skills. With Adobe Illustrator CS5 One-on-One, you’ll use Illustrator faster, more creatively, and more efficiently than you thought possible.

 

Product Details:

List price: $49.99USD
Length: 512 pages
ISBN 13: 9780596808013

Table of Contents:

PREFACE.  How One-on-One Works

LESSON 1. STARTING A DOCUMENT

  • What Is Illustrator?
  • Illustration versus Image
  • Opening an Illustration
  • Organizing Your Artwork
  • Setting Up a New Document
  • Changing the Document Setup and Modifying Artboards
  • Introducing Guides, Smart Guides, and Layers
  • Creating Custom Workspaces
  • Saving Your Artwork

LESSON 2. LINES, SHAPES, AND COLOR

  • Endpoints and Closed Paths
  • Drawing Lines, Arcs, and Spirals
  • Splitting, Joining, and Aligning
  • Drawing Primitive Shapes
  • Combining Simple Shapes into Complex Ones
  • Coloring Your Artwork
  • Filling, Stroking, and Stacking

LESSON 3. USING THE PEN TOOL

  • What Makes the Straight Line Bend
  • Establishing a Bitmapped Tracing Template
  • Making Free-Form Polygons and Spline Curves
  • Drawing Fluid Bézier Curves
  • Cutting, Separating, and Closing Paths

LESSON 4. CREATING AND FORMATTING TEXT

  • The Mechanics of Type
  • Placing, Entering, and Editing Text
  • Applying Formatting and Effects
  • Editing Area Type
  • Placing Type on a Path
  • Advanced Formatting, OpenType Fonts,
  • and Special Characters

LESSON 5. TRANSFORM AND RESHAPE

  • The Fine Art of Reshaping
  • Moving and Cloning Path Elements
  • Offsetting Paths to Simulate Depth
  • Working with the Scale Tool
  • Rotate, Reflect, and Series Duplication
  • Transforming with Respect to Independent Origins
  • Scaling Partially Selected Paths

LESSON 6. PATHFINDER OPERATIONS

  • Compound Paths versus Compound Shapes
  • Meet the Pathfinder Panel
  • Adding and Subtracting Shapes
  • Using the Divide Operation
  • Crop, Exclude, and Intersect

LESSON 7. BLENDS, MASKS, AND GRADIENT MESH

  • Designing Custom Gradients
  • Blending Between Paths
  • Editing and Masking a Blend
  • Creating Specialty Blends
  • Making the Most of Clipping Masks
  • Creating and Editing a Gradient Mesh

LESSON 8. WORKING WITH TRANSPARENCY

  • Yeah, But Will It Print?
  • Opacity and Knockout Group
  • Working with Opacity Masks
  • Applying Blend Modes
  • Cropping Entire Layers

LESSON 9.  BRUSHES AND SYMBOLS

  • Dynamic Brushstrokes
  • Symbols and Instances
  • Enhancing Line Art with Art Brushes
  • Expressing Text as an Art Brush
  • Replicating, Updating,
  • and Replacing Symbols
  • Using the Symbolism Tools

LESSON 10. THE AMAZING WORLD OF DYNAMIC EFFECTS

  • The Best (and Worst) Effects
  • Applying and Editing Graphic Styles
  • Exploiting the Transform Effect
  • Building Up a Complex Transformation Series
  • Creating 3D Text and Graphics

LESSON 11. LIVE TRACE, PAINT, AND COLOR

  • Similar Names, Different Features
  • Creating a Black-and-White Trace
  • Tracing Full-Color Artwork
  • Filling and Stroking Path Intersections Dynamically
  • Recoloring Artwork with Live Color

LESSON 12. PRINTING AND EXPORTING

  • General Printing Considerations
  • Printing Artwork to a Local Printer
  • Exporting Artwork for the Web
  • Web Optimizing a Low-Color Graphic
  • Exporting a Layered Photoshop Image
     

 

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Thanks For ... :)

Submitted by kevingibbs163 on 9 May 2012 - 10:14am.

some cartoonish stuff with Illustrator that I never use because I had no need until now.

Layer Comp details

Submitted by KateW on 17 April 2012 - 6:05pm.

hi Deke and members,

Deke, in your section on "What Layer Comps Can and Can't Save," you state that with "Additions: If you add a layer, all existing layer comps treat it as OFF unless otherwise instructed."

my question is: how does one "otherwise instruct" PS to NOT treat the additional layer(s) as 'off'.. ?

I am in a shop that depends on the layer comp panel to apply different colors to the one image, using additional layer folders (usually about 50 layer folders, each containing several color curves). The problem is, if an odd color needs to be added to the color group later, the rest of the layer comps are updated with all the layers invisible, and because of the volume of layers that are now turned off, updating every comp with new visibility is very tedious and not cost effective. Is there a way to retain the visibility of these layers in all layer comps as it is dragged into the document?

Hope this makes sense, and my apologies if this is not the appropriate section of your site for questions of this nature...

If any other Deke-followers have the answer, please do share! and thanks for reading,

KateW

Vis-a-vis layer comps

Submitted by deke on 10 May 2012 - 12:15pm.

The unfortunate answer is no.

Photoshop's much-used but-in-need-of-help features fall into two categories: those that get occasional attention (content-aware & healing stuff) and those that don't (Radial Blur). Layer Comps fall in the latter camp and have not seen any advance in many years. When they were initially released, I advocated for layer mask states to be saved and won. Since then, I've advocated on behalf of smart objects, smart filters, and a handful of other things. But without success.

Your problem is an obvious one that I bet I could have made work (if I had known a couple of months ago). What we should do is create a new thread about what needs to be fixed about layer comps. I'm willing to bet, it's a long list.

You are Truly "THE KING OF PHOTOSHOP"

Submitted by stevop7777 on 5 October 2011 - 12:45am.

Yo Deke
I have your tuts from CS3 Extended & just got CS5 Production Premium and am also on Lynda and have been working with your PS EX 3D tuts that you instruct. I must say to you that you are brilliant and in my opinion the most knowledgeable trainer in Photoshop PERIOD.

I am over 60 and have worked in TV & film in LA in the 80's & 90's and one thing that I was taught as an actor was in a CU NO BLINKING. My evaluation of you Sir is that you have a great on screen presents and you are very natural & comfortable on camera & your blinking is very minimal (if none at all).

I am retired & live in Mendocino County, Northern California and have been on the web trying to find out how I can draw (terrible at it ) some cartoonish stuff with Illustrator that I never use because I had no need until now. I am in the process of taking your Illustrator one-on-one course and am going to start in a few days.

With that I will wish you & your family nothing but the best.

Steve

Photo shop CS5 one on one

Submitted by fkbelle on 28 April 2011 - 4:10pm.

Having trouble with Chapter seven smart objects. Opened Glistenex as smart object fine but when trying to open germ it will not open as smart object. I have tried several times and no luck.

Thanks

Kent carter

using CS5 book with CS4

Submitted by szawoluk on 21 April 2011 - 11:13am.

hey Deke,
want to buy a book?

Miss the DVD for the latest one-on-one books

Submitted by Schriftleiter on 6 April 2011 - 10:21am.

I purchased Adobe InDesign CS2 one-on-one book about five years ago. The videos that accompanied the book made learning easy.
I had tried to learn InDesign using the "Help" and found it to be very frustrating. The one-on-one book made me a believer in Deke McClelland.
Now, the books come without a DVD. I live in a rural part of the country and cannot view these videos on line comfortably. Sometimes, the video stops for several minutes.
If I purchase the Lynda.com DVD, how close does it follow the book?
Schriftleiter

Illustrator CS5 One-on-One

Submitted by chyna_girl on 5 April 2011 - 7:29pm.

I am buying your book tomorrow and looking forward to learning Illustrator. I have Photoshop CS4 one-on-one and I love your techniques. AWESOME

I'm in college and shortly after I got through that course, I bought the creative suite 5 master collection and there is still so much more I want to learn. You have the best tutorials I have seen.

Thanks for sharing your expertise.

Double Cheers

Chyna girl

CS4

Submitted by szawoluk on 11 March 2011 - 11:21am.

Hi Deke,
As per your suggestion to open lesson 7 with CS4, everything works well.
Is there any way you could help us with the other lessons?
Thank You
Sue

solution?

Submitted by szawoluk on 25 February 2011 - 12:09pm.

Hi
Any solution for the huge problem of following this book with CS4 yet?

E-Book Format?

Submitted by TerryDickinson3 on 23 February 2011 - 6:07am.

I have just started your Illustrator One-on-One with Lynda.com. I would like to see your books in E-book format preferably available through iBooks so I could have a reference on my iPad.
Terry Dickinson

Any Help? - Opening CS5 illustrator file with CS4

Submitted by ZosoOfZep on 19 February 2011 - 8:12am.

Hi,

Can anyone help with this as it is hindering my progress through the book.

Cheers

Gary Coutts

Sorry you're having problems, Gary

Submitted by deke on 20 February 2011 - 12:01am.

Can you try something for me? Try opening one of the files from Lesson 7, all of which I saved specifically in the CS3 format.

Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of control over how Adobe organizes its format structures. And all of our CS4 serial numbers have expired (another Adobe convention). So there may not be a lot I can do on my end.

But if you find that the Lesson 7 files work okay, I'll look into a solution.

Opening Lesson 7

Submitted by ZosoOfZep on 20 February 2011 - 8:04am.

Thanks for the reply.

As per your suggestion I opened the file 'Blended shapes.ai', from Lesson 7. It seems to work as I get 8 seperate Layers. I also don't get the warning that the file was created with a new version.

Kind Regards

Gary

Layers

Submitted by szawoluk on 17 February 2011 - 10:01pm.

I am trying to get started with your book,working in CS4. When I open the zip file,there is no Extract All option when I right click. The layers are not as described in the book. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Submitted by ZosoOfZep on 5 February 2011 - 9:52am.

Thanks for the reply.

I am going to order it now.

Cheers

Using this book with CS4

Submitted by ZosoOfZep on 4 February 2011 - 7:03am.

Hi,

Loved the Photoshop CS4 one-on-one.

As you don't have an Illustrator CS4 one-to-one could I use this book.

Cheers

Yeah, totally

Submitted by deke on 5 February 2011 - 1:05am.

Nearly all of the info in the book works exactly the same in Illustrator CS4.

I cover most of the new CS5 features in the videos. (Specifically for reasons of backward compatibility.)

Opening CS5 illustrator file with CS4

Submitted by ZosoOfZep on 15 February 2011 - 11:15am.

Hi,

I got my copy of the book and I am currently working my way through it.

I have a slight problem in that when I open the example files it only show 1 layer. For instance, Lesson2: ' Drawing Primative Shapes' file name: Tonalpohualli.ai only opens the calendar layer.

Is there any way to open the files, with CS4, to show all the layer.

Cheers

Gary Coutts