Illustrator CC 2018 One-on-One Mastery

Join industry expert Deke McClelland as he shares advanced techniques and shortcuts for Adobe Illustrator CC 2018.

Introduction

• Welcome to One-on-One
• Previously on Illustrator CC 2018 One-on-One
• Oh, and one more thing: Puppet Warp!

31. Shortcuts and Customization

• Becoming a lean, mean illustration machine
• Installing my dekeKeys shortcuts on the PC
• Installing my dekeKeys shortcuts on the Mac
• Welcome to the dekeKeys PDF docs
• Touring your new keyboard shortcuts
• Restoring or customizing shortcuts
• Tool, transparency, and panel shortcuts

32. Blend Modes and Opacity Masks

• The many forms of transparency
• Adjusting opacity (now with shortcuts!)
• The A-list blend modes: Multiply and Screen
• The other modes: Overlay through Luminosity
• My dekeKeys blend mode shortcuts
• The effect of color space on blend modes
• A few advanced blend mode tricks
• Applying blend modes in the Appearance panel
• Creating auto-inverting type with Difference
• Carving dynamic holes with Knockout Group
• Knockout Group and dynamic attributes
• Using the Isolate Blending option
• Introducing the opacity mask
• Putting an opacity mask into use
• Applying blend modes to entire layers
• Adding Photoshop pixels to an opacity mask
• Finishing up the tattooed face
• Exporting transparency to Photoshop

33. The Brushes Panel

• Painting with path outlines
• Introducing the Brushes panel
• Applying and editing a calligraphic brush
• Scaling and colorizing art brushes
• Applying and customizing scatter brushes
• Formatting and editing brushed type
• Designing your own custom art brushes
• Creating and testing your art brushes
• Refining a brush to fit ends and corners
• Expanding, filling, and stroking a brush
• Type on a path vs. text as an art brush
• Distorting art type with the Width tool
• Infusing your artwork with a pattern
• Painting with bristle brushes

34. Seamlessly Repeating Patterns

• Patterns are for everyone
• Introducing the automated Pattern Editor
• The three tile types: Grid, Brick, and Hex
• Undoing and canceling unwanted edits
• Creating a new pattern from an existing one
• The better way to duplicate a pattern
• Planning out a more complex pattern
• Creating a single perfectly waving line
• Duplicating and blending your waves
• Cropping a tile inside a clipping mask
• Riffing off a complex pattern
• Constructing a seamless denim pattern
• Making your denim pattern look like denim
• Creating a pattern brush with Auto Corners
• Creating custom start and end tiles
• Putting a hex pattern to good use

35. Gradient Mesh

• If only Photoshop had this feature
• Introducing gradient mesh
• Using the dedicated Mesh tool
• Creating a basic gradient mesh
• Isolating a mesh object
• Deleting unwanted, invisible mesh points
• Releasing a gradient mesh
• Converting mesh points from cusp to smooth
• Sharpening or smoothing color transitions
• Assigning a mesh to a bendy shape
• Converting a linear gradient to a mesh
• Converting a radial gradient to a mesh
• Painting soft objects with a gradient mesh
• Combining a mesh with a compound path
• Expressing surface contours with a mesh
• Painting contoured highlights
• Blending multiple mesh objects
• Using a gradient mesh to cast shadows

36. Symbols and Custom Arrowheads

• The benefits of using symbols
• Introducing symbols and instances
• Creating and naming symbols
• Creating and replacing instances
• Working with dynamic symbols
• Dynamic symbols and backward compatibility
• Dynamic symbols and dynamic effects
• Introducing 9-slice scaling
• Adjusting the guides for 9-slice scaling
• Acquiring, trading, and previewing symbols
• Using symbols as stand-ins for master pages
• Advanced symbol modifications
• Editing the top-secret Arrowheads.ai file
• Designing custom arrowheads
• Saving your arrowhead designs as symbols
• Designing tinted arrowheads
• Saving tinted arrowheads as symbols
• Editing an existing arrowhead

37. Charts and Pictographs

• The pleasures and pitfalls of graphs
• Graphing numerical data
• Importing a tab-limited spreadsheet
• Modifying data to create a category axis
• Reformatting text and numerical values
• Adjusting the Graph Type settings
• Creating and applying a graph design
• Setting the column type to repeating
• Recreating a graph at the proper size
• Customizing your legend

38. Logos and Specialty Text

• Illustrator logo-making features
• Making a logo from one character of type
• Creating a logo of interwoven rings
• Weaving your rings into a larger ring
• Whittling your paths with the Scissors tool
• Gradient type and dynamic strokes
• Using the Touch Type tool
• Two ways to warp type
• Creating letter-shaped gradients
• Painting reflections onto letterforms
• Multicolor fonts: Trajan Color Concept
• Using stylistic sets

39. Libraries and Actions

• Save more time, be more creative
• Introducing the Libraries panel
• Managing, restoring, and sharing libraries
• Sharing character and paragraph styles
• Placing and editing library assets
• Updating a logo across multiple documents
• Sharing an asset with InDesign or Photoshop
• Creating and using color themes
• Introducing the Actions panel
• Recording a custom multistep action
• Four ways to play back an action

40. Applying 3D Effects

• The five advantages to 3D in Illustrator
• Introducing the three kinds of 3D in Illustrator
• Working in 3D space: Pitch, yaw, and roll
• Lighting and shading a 3D object
• Beveling the edges of a 3D extrusion
• Creating live, editable 3D type
• Adding cast shadows to 3D type
• Understanding the 3D Revolve effect
• Using 3D Revolve to create a soda can
• Mapping a logo or other art onto a 3D object
• Enhancing 3D artwork with faux 3D effects
• Combining a stroke with 3D Revolve

Conclusion

• See ya!