Illustrator Advanced Techniques
with Mordy Golding DVD-ROM Unleash the artist inside using powerful tools and techniques like Alpha Channels, Bezier Curves, Pen Tool, Distortion, Gradient Mesh, Text on Path, Slices, Antialiasing, Scripts, SVG, Live Effects and Flash Animations! Illustrator Advanced Techniques
with Mordy Golding DVD-ROM Unleash the artist inside using powerful tools and techniques like Alpha Channels, Bezier Curves, Pen Tool, Distortion, Gradient Mesh, Text on Path, Slices, Antialiasing, Scripts, SVG, Live Effects and Flash Animations! Lessons Chapter 1 : Advanced Drawing Concepts
Lesson 1 : Opacity Masks
You have alpha channels in Photoshop, so why can’t you have them in Illustrator? This lesson explores opacity masks and demonstrates how they are similar to alpha channels, allowing you to achieve Photoshop-like results right in Illustrator.
Lesson 2 : Compound Shapes
Using compound paths and pathfinder commands to build vector files can be tedious. Learn to use Illustrator’s Compound Shapes features for building complex vector art out of simple shapes.
Lesson 3 : Advanced Drawing
Master the art of using Illustrator’s Pen tools to draw freeform vector paths. Learn about anchor points, control handles, Bézier curves and more.
Lesson 4 : Envelope Distortion
Learn to twist and manipulate any kind art into customized freeform shapes using Illustrator’s envelope features. Learn how to use mesh points to distort art not only from its edges, but from its center as well.
Lesson 5 : Creating Graphs
Make your data points clear by creating informational graphics and charts using any of Illustrator’s nine types of graphs. Learn to import data from Microsoft Excel and to create customized graph designs.
Lesson 6 : 3D Graphs
Learn how to take normal graphs and charts and make them seem to pop off the page with Illustrator’s 3D effects. This lesson describes how you can create exploded pie charts and still make changes to your graph’s data. Chapter 2 : Advanced Blends and Special Effects
Lesson 7 : Symbolism Tools
Building on Illustrator’s support for Symbols, this lesson demonstrates the power of the Symbolism tools – a collection of tools used to manipulate multiple instances of symbols to create illustrations with an organic feel.
Lesson 8 : Blends
There are many different uses for blends in Illustrator. This lesson reveals how blends work and goes through the different settings while also describing how to put blends on custom-drawn paths.
Lesson 9 : Gradient Mesh
Uncover the mystery behind the powerful gradient mesh feature in Illustrator. This lesson demonstrates how meshes work, and how you can use them to apply soft and painterly effects to vectors in Illustrator.
Lesson 10 : Advanced 3D
If you thought 3D was cool before, wait until you see what else you can do with these spectacular features. Learn how to control lighting and surface settings and how to map two dimensional artwork onto the surfaces of 3D objects.
Lesson 11 : Advanced Live Effects
Learn to combine multiple live effects on single objects to achieve fantastic results. Uncover the hidden uses for the Scribble effect to give vector objects a natural, hand-drawn feel. Chapter 3 : Advanced Text and Integration
Lesson 12 : Text on a Path
If you’re the creative type, you’ll appreciate the ability to place text on any custom-drawn path. Learn how to use baseline shift to position your text perfectly, and how to use Illustrator’s new skew text option.
Lesson 13 : Advanced Text
Learn about Illustrator’s powerful new text engine which includes support for OpenType, Paragraph and Character Style sheets, Optical kerning, hanging punctuation, Optical Margin Alignment and the Every-line composer.
Lesson 14 : Exporting Files
Every workflow demands different file formats. This lesson explores the plethora of export options from Illustrator including legacy formats, Photoshop, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and SWF, among others.
Lesson 15 : Illustrator to Photoshop
Rather than choose to use Illustrator or Photoshop for a task, learn to use both applications together. This lesson demonstrates how to move layers, editable text, slices and vector objects from Illustrator into Photoshop.
Lesson 16 : Photoshop to Illustrator
Stop placing flat Photoshop files into your Illustrator documents and learn to preserve editable text, vectors, slices, masks, and even layers when placing .PSD files into Illustrator.
Lesson 17 : Transparency & Printing
Learn how the transparency features in Illustrator really work and how to successfully create files that will print correctly. This lesson also covers which file formats are best for files with transparency and what Transparency Flattener presets are. Chapter 4 : Advanced Web Graphics Creation
Lesson 18 : Designing for the Web
Turn your vectors into pixels with confidence by using Illustrator’s Pixel Preview feature. Set up grids and get a true understanding of what antialiasing is and how it affects your Web graphics. The lesson also covers Illustrator’s Web-safe color library.
Lesson 19 : Variable Data
If you have to create multiple versions of similar graphics, this lesson is for you. Learn to turn objects, text and graphs into variables that can be automatically swapped out and replaced using scripts.
Lesson 20 : Save for Web
How do you know when to choose between GIF, JPEG, or PNG graphics formats when saving images for the Web? Learn to use the Save for Web feature to preview Web graphics and also export files in the vector-based SWF or SVG format.
Lesson 21 : Flash and SVG
Vectors are becoming more common on the Web these days and the most popular formats are Flash (SWF) and SVG. Get an in-depth understanding of these formats, how they are used, and how they are exported from Illustrator.
Lesson 22 : Flash Animation
Learn to make your art move on the Web by exporting your files from Illustrator as animated Flash (SWF) files. Use Illustrator’s Release to Layers command to easily convert blends to cool animations.
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