008 - Restoring or customizing shortcuts || Deke McClelland || Adobe Illustrator

Discover how to be the best Adobe Illustrator user you know with industry expert Deke McClelland. In this final installment of his comprehensive three-part One-on-One series, Deke explains how Illustrator works in meticulous detail. Better still, he makes sense of even the most complex topics by linking them to clearly defined tasks. Get around Illustrator more quickly by loading more than 100 new or revised keyboard shortcuts. Experience the power of blend modes, seamlessly repeating patterns, gradient mesh, and the Puppet Warp tool. Deke also covers pictographs, logos, the Libraries and Actions panels, and 3D effects. Each chapter leaves you with a sense of real accomplishment that you can apply to your own marketable, eye-popping artwork.

Note: This course was revised for 2019. As Creative Cloud evolves, the training will be updated. Check back often for new videos, new feature reviews, and new ways to work.

Topics include:

Loading dekeKeys, Deke’s custom keyboard shortcuts
Customizing the Illustrator toolbox
Using Multiply, Screen, and other blend modes
How opacity masks work
Painting with Art, Scatter, and Bristle brushes
Creating seamlessly repeating hex patterns
Creating a Pattern Brush with custom corners and caps
Creating photo-realistic artwork with gradient mesh
Applying custom distortions with the Puppet Warp tool
Designing charts, infographics, and pictographs
Creating logos and other specialty type
Working with multicolor fonts and stylistic sets
Using libraries to share assets with Photoshop and InDesign
Recording a custom, multistep action
Working with dynamic 3D effects
Creating live, editable 3D type