Illustrator CC 2019 One-on-One: Mastery
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
About the Author
Deke McClelland is an award-winning author, an educator, and a titan of image editing and graphic design.
Deke is the author of more than 50 video courses on creative imaging, graphics, 3D, and design for the industry-leading lynda.com. One of the most award-winning writers in the business, Deke has written over 80 books translated into 24 languages, with more than 4 million copies in print. These have included The Photoshop Bible, several For Dummies books, and his own One-on-One series published under Deke Press.
Product Details
- Full Video Tutorials
- Video File Format: MP4
- Skill Level: Advanced
- Video Duration: 14h 59m
- Instructor: Deke McClelland