Saturday, March 21, 2009

T0490 - Total Training Adobe Illustrator CS2 FULL_DVD1



Expand your creative vision by learning how to express your ideas in print and on the web with Total Training for Adobe® Illustrator CS2. The comprehensive videos provide you with valuable tips on essential design techniques and ways to improve workflow with other Adobe products.

Program 1: Discovering Illustrator

Chapter 1: Introducing Illustrator (37 min)
1. Using the Welcome Screen
2. Introducing Vector Based Paths
3. Working with Layers in Illustrator
4. Introducing Anchor Points
5. Creating a New Document
6. Repositioning and Adjusting View
7. Saving the Document
8. Utilizing Illustrator Startup Documents

Chapter 2: The Bridge (29 min)
1. Intro to Bridge and The Bridge Center in CS
2. Finding Folders and The Thunbnail View
3. Opening, Moving and Previewing Bridge Files
4. Preview, Filtering and Rating Options
5. Orgainizing Files using Preferences
6. Deleting, Duplicating, Moving files in Bridge
7. Renaming Sorting and Batch Renaming files
8. Presenting a slide show from the Bridge

Chapter 3: Workspace & Navigation (36 min)
1. Setting Up Preferences
2. Using Color Settings
3. Configuring Pallettes & Workspaces
4. Using Navigation

Chapter 4: Symetrical Shapes (40 min)
1. Setting Palette Options and Using Transparacy
2. A Look at the Shape Tools. Creating a Circle
3. Aligning Circle Shapes
4. Creating Star Shapes
5. Creating Rectangle Shapes
6. Using the Flip Tool to Mirror Shapes
7. Combining Shapes
8. Tilde Key Function

Chapter 5: Fill, Stroke and Color (55 min)
1. Introduction to Fill and Stroke
2. An Overview of the Color Pallette
3. The Color Spectrum Bar and Dialing in colors
4. Black vs. Rich Black in the Color Palette
5. CMYK vs. RGB
6. Creating and Saving new Color Swatches
7. Filling and Arranging Objects in a document
8. Modifying and Arranging the Stroke of an Object
9. Display Artifacts and Stroke Pallete options
10. Creating a fill Pattern

Chapter 6: Transforming Paths (60 min)
1. Introducing Path Transformations
2. Duplicating Objects
3. Moving Objects in Increments
4. Using the Reshape Tool
5. Moving Paths
6. Using the Offset Path Dialogue Box
7. Working with Swatches
8. Grouping Paths
9. Using the Scale Tool
10. Using the Rotate Tool
11. Rotating Multiple Objects
12. Advanced Rotate Options

Chapter 7: Using the Powerful Pen Tool (48 min)
1. Using Bridge
2. Creating a Tracing Template
3. Drawing with the Pen Tool
4. Modifying a Path
5. Using and Editing Spline Curves
6. Using Bezier Curves
7. Creating a Cusp Point
8. Modifying and Converting Bezier Curves
9. Cutting, Extending, and Closing Paths
10. Filling Paths

Chapter 8: Selecting Points and Paths (59 min)
1. Strokes and Fills
2. Appearance Palate - Transform And Tweak
3. Working With Layers - Uzz Character
4. Making Use of the Join Command
5. Locked Layers
6. Making Center Points
7. Intro To Pathfinder - Intersect Shape Areas
8. Precision Filling Selection
9. Various Selection Commands & Methods
10. Various Scaling Methods
11. Lacemaking Using Shape Tool - Rotate & Fill
12. Merging Strokes & Fills With Compound Path
13. Lacemaking Using Direction Handles & Anchor Points
14. Pucker & Bloat

Chapter 9: Pathfinder Operations (40 min)
1. Touring the Project
2. An Introduction to the Pathfinder Operations
3. Working with the Pathfinder Palete
4. Comparing Pathfinder Behaviors
5. Joining Paths and the Miter Limit
6. Croping, Uniting and Arranging
7. Selectiing and Deselecting Paths
8. Fill Options and other pathfinder operations

Chapter 10: Liquify & Envelope (33 min)
1. Preparing an Image for Liquify & Envelope
2. Using the Warp Tool to Liquify
3. Using the Envelope Functions
4. Editing Enveloped Content
5. Liquify with Live Trace

Chapter 11: Creating and Formatting Type (50 min)
1. Importing Text into Illustrator
2. Selecting Text for Reformatting
3. Moving Text to a New Text Container
4. Reformatting Text with the Paragraphs Pallet
5. Altering Text Font and Size
6. Moving Text and Altering Line Spacing
7. Copying Text Formats

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