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Chapter 1

Illustrator Basics

1/1 - What is Adobe Illustrator

1/2 - Opening Illustrator

1/3 - The Illustrator Workspace

1/4 - Opening artwork

1/5 - Creating a new document

1/6 - Importing a PDF file

1/7 - Opening an Image file

1/8 - Opening a recent file

1/9 - Saving artwork

1/10 - Saving As...

1/11 - Exiting Illustrator

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Chapter 2

What's inside Illustrator menus

2/1 - On the File menu...

2/2 - On the Edit menu...

2/3 - On the Object Menu.

2/4 - On the Type Menu..

2/5 - On the Select menu...

2/6 - On the Filter menu...

2/7 - On the Effect Menu

2/8 - On the View Menu.

2/9 -On the Windows Menu

2/10 - On the Help Menu..

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Chapter 3

Dressing Up Text

3/1 - Using the Type tool

3/2 - Character and Paragraph palettes

3/3 - Changing the Text Orientation

3/4 - Selecting Text

3/5 - Applying a Drop Shadow effect

3/6 - Applying a Style Pattern to Text

3/7 - Applying Effect to Text

3/8 - Changing Text Color

3/9 - Using Creative Text Style

3/10 - Creating Outline Text

3/11 - Using Text Format Tools

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Chapter 4

Working with Layers

4/1 - Creating a Layer

4/2 - Working on a Layer

4/3 - Managing an Image on a Layer

4/4 - Reordering Layers

4/5 - Deleting an Element on a Layer

4/6 - Modifying Layer Visibility

4/7 - Deleting a Layer

4/8 - Duplicating a Layer

4/9 - Filling a Portion of a Layer

4/10 - Adding Text on a Layer

4/11 - Adjusting Layer Transparency

4/12 - Fusing Several Layers

4/13 - Flattening Layers

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Chapter 5

How to use the creative tools

5/1 - Place Bitmap image in Illustrator

5/2 - The Secret Gradient

5/3 - Creating Brushstrokes

5/4 - The Transform palette

5/5 - Moving Art up and down

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Chapter 6

Full court filtering and effects

6/1 - Free distort effect

6/2 - Pucker & Bloat effect

6/3 - Roughen effect

6/4 - Scribble & Tweak effect

6/5 - Transform effect

6/6 - Twist effect

6/7 - Zig Zag effect

6/8 - Offset Patch effect

6/9 - Intersect effect

6/10 - Soft Mix effect

6/11 - Add Arrowhead effect

6/12 - Drop Shadow effect

6/13 - Feather effect

6/14 - Inner Glow effect

6/15 - Round corners effect

6/16 - Arc effect

6/17 - Shell upper effect

6/18 - Flag effect

6/19 - Wave effect

6/20 - Fish effect

6/21 - Fish Eye effect

6/22 - Inflate effect

6/23 - Gaussian Blur effect

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Chapter 7

Customizing Illustrator

7/1 - 7/1 - The Start up document

7/2 - Using Master document

7/3 - Palette Box memory

7/4 - Document Setup

7/5 - Document Color mode

7/6 - Changing Color setting

7/7 - Assigning Color profile

7/8 - Changing Menu shortcut

7/9 - Changing Tools shortcut

7/10 - Changing Illustrator preferences

7/11 - Dialog Box memory

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Chapter 8

Touring Illustrator tools

8/1 - The Selection tool

8/2 - The Direct Selection tool

8/3 - The Group Selection tool

8/4 - The Magic Wand tool

8/5 - The Direct Lasso tool

8/6 - The Lasso tool

8/7 - The Pen tool

8/8 - The Type tool

8/9 - The Line Segment tool

8/10 - The Arc tool

8/11 - The Spiral Tool

8/12 - The Rectangular Grid tool

8/13 - The Polar Grid tool

8/14 - The Ellipse tool

8/15 - The Rectangle tool

8/16 - The Rounded Rectangle tool

8/17 - The Polygon tool

8/18 - The Star tool

8/19 - The Flare tool

8/20 - The Paintbrush tool

8/21 - The Pencil tool

8/22 - The Smooth tool

8/23 - The Erase tool

8/24 - The Rotate tool

8/25 - The Reflect tool

8/26 - The Twist tool

8/27 - The Scale tool

8/28 - The Shear tool

8/29 - The Reshape tool

8/30 - The Warp tool

8/31 - The Twirl tool

8/32 - The Pucker tool

8/33 - The Bloat tool

8/34 - The Scallop tool

8/35 - The Crystallize tool

8/36 - The Wrinkle tool

8/37 - The Free Transform tool

8/38 - The Symbol Sprayer tool

8/39 - The Symbol Shifter tool

8/40 - The Symbol Scruncher tool

8/41 - The Symbol Sizer tool

8/42 - The Symbol Spinner tool

8/43 - The Symbol Stainer tool

8/44 - The Symbol Screener tool

8/45 - The Symbol Styler tool

8/46 - The Column Graph tool

8/47 - The Stacked Column Graph tool

8/48 - The Mesh tool

8/49 - The Gradient tool

8/50 - The Eyedropper tool

8/51 - The Paint Bucket tool

8/52 - The Measure tool

8/53 - The Blend tool

8/54 - The Auto trace tool

8/55 - The Slice tool

8/56 - The Slice Selection tool

8/57 - The Scissors tool

8/58 - The Knife tool

8/59 - The Hand tool

8/60 - The Page tool

8/61 - The Zoom tool

8/62 - Swap Fill and Stroke colors

8/63 - Using the default color setting

8/64 - The Color Selector Bar

8/65 - The Screen Mode selector

8/66 - The Zoom selector

8/67 - The Scroll bar

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Chapter 9

Touring Illustrator palettes

9/1 - The Actions palette

9/2 - The Align palette

9/3 - The Appearance palette

9/4 - The Attributes palette

9/5 - The Brushes palette

9/6 - The Color palette

9/7 - The Document Info palette

9/8 - The Gradient palette

9/9 - The Info palette

9/10 - The Layers palette

9/11 - The Links palette

9/12 - The Magic Wand palette

9/13 - The Navigator palette

9/14 - The Pathfinder palette

9/15 - The Stroke palette

9/16 - The Styles palette

9/17 - The SVG Interactivity palette

9/18 - The Swatches palette

9/19 - The Symbols palette

9/20 - The Tools palette

9/21 - The Transform palette

9/22 - The Transparency palette

9/23 - The Type palette

9/24 - The Paragraph palette

9/25 - The Tab Ruler palette

9/26 - The Variables palette

9/27 - The Brush Libraries palette

9/28 - The Style Libraries palette

9/29 - The Swatch Libraries palette

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Chapter 10

Drawing with Illustrator

10/1 - Drawing an artwork (Golf)

10/2 - Drawing an artwork (Egg)

10/3 - Drawing an artwork (Avocado)

10/4 - Drawing an artwork (Logo)

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Chapter 11

On the Web and beyond

11/1 - Using Rulers

11/2 - Using Guides

11/3 - Show the Grid

11/4 - Using Crop Marks

11/5 - Using Web Colors Swatches

11/6 - Working in Pixel Preview mode

11/7 - Saving artwork in GIF format

11/8 - Saving artwork in JPEG format

11/9 - Saving artwork in PNG8 or PNG24 format

11/10 - Saving artwork in Macromedia Flash format

11/11 - Saving artwork in SVG format

11/12 - Creating Slices

11/13 - Cascading Style Sheet Layers

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Chapter 12

Save format and Print

12/1 - Transforming RGB artwork to CMYK artwork

12/2 - Saving artwork in PDF format

12/3 - Saving artwork in Illustrator AI format

12/4 - Saving artwork in Illustrator EPS format

12/5 - Saving artwork in SVG format

12/6 - Saving artwork in SVG compressed format

12/7 - Export Illustrator artwork

12/8 - Illustrator Help

12/9 - Using Print Options

12/10- Printing an artwork

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