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The "Adobe Illustrator Mastery" video tutorial series is a step-by-step video tutorials towards learning and mastering Adobe Illustrator CS4 - even if you're a complete beginner! It is composed of 10 entertaining learning video tutorials.

This video will introduce you the different things available in the Illustrator program, covering the latest upgrades and how this differs from previous versions of the software. The video includes an outline of 'what’s new', details of the enriched workspace tools, the new drawing and color tools and system requirements for the latest version of this software.

Video 2 - Customizing the Workspace

Video 2 covers the ways you can manage the windows and panels you use and how you can customize a number of other functions and tools, including the following:

- Managing document windows
- Docking and undocking panels
- Moving, adding and removing panels
- Manipulate panel groups, stacking floating panels and resizing panels
- Manipulating panels collapsed to icons
- Renaming or duplicating a workspace and saving and switching workspaces

Video 3 - Selecting and Arranging Objects

During video 3, you'll be guided through the process of selecting and arranging objects that you with to work with in Illustrator. This includes entering and exiting isolation mode, isolating a path, object, or group, isolating a path inside a group, selecting objects using the Layers panel, the Selection tool, the Lasso tool and the Magic Wand tool. You'll also cover group selection, customizing the Magic Wand tool and selecting individual objects within a group.

Video 4 - Drawing

Once you get to video four, you'll be ready to cover the different ways you can draw using Illustrator and the tools available to help you with that process. You'll learn about drawing simple lines and shapes including the following:

- Straight lines
- Rectangles and squares
- Ellipses
- Polygons
- Stars
- Arcs
- Spirals
- Rectangular grids
- Circular (polar) grids

Video 5 - Pencil and Tool Path

Video five covers the ins and outs of drawing with the pencil tool and how to successfully utilize this tool to draw freeform paths and closed paths with the Pencil tool, how to edit paths with the Pencil tool, how to add and connect paths with the Pencil tool and how to reshape paths with the Pencil tool.

Video 6 - Masks and Colors

If you want to enhance color in your illustrations and you want to create different effects using masks, then this is a must see video! You'll uncover a wealth of information on opacity, using opacity masks, creating transparency, editing a masking object, unlink or re-link an opacity mask, how to deactivate, reactivate or remove an opacity mask and how to clip or invert an opacity mask. You'll also go into great detail on how to utilize color and the options available. This includes:

- Selecting colors

- Swatches panel and swatch library panels

- Using the Color Picker

- Using the Eyedropper tool

- The Color panel and Color Guide panel

- Displaying the Color Picker

- Changing the color spectrum displayed in the Color Picker

- Displaying only web-safe colors

- Viewing color swatches instead of the color spectrum

- Selecting colors using the Color Picker

- An overview of the Color panel

- Changing the color model

- Selecting colors using the Color panel

Video 7 - Brushes

In video 7 you can view my demonstration on using brushes in your imagery. You'll learn about brushes and the four types of brushes found in Illustrator - calligraphic, scatter, art, and pattern. You'll have an understanding of the Brushes panel and adjusting the panel to fit your needs, how to create or modify a brush, work with brush libraries, apply brush strokes, draw paths and apply brush strokes simultaneously, how to remove brush strokes and how to convert brush strokes to outlines.

Video 8 - Type features

Video 8 guides you through the use of various type features, helping you to import text into a new or existing file, creating text, entering text at a point, entering text in an area, resizing a text area, changing the margin around a text area, raising or lowering the first baseline in a text area and creating rows and columns of text.

Video 9 - Filters and Effects

Video 9 looks at creating new effects and applying filters to your illustration and design. I'll guide you through the steps you need to understand all about effects, working with effects, applying effects, applying effects to bitmap images, improving performance for effects, modifying or deleting effects and going through the many different effectsh, such as 3D, Artistic, Blur, Pixelate and many more.

Video 10 - Importing, Exporting and Saving

When you reach video 10 you'll be guided through the process of importing, exporting and saving. This tutorial is useful for when you have completed work and you are ready to use the illustrations you've been creating. By the end of this video you'll understand how to place files, view and save metadata via the Links panel, restore a single missing link or replace link with a different source file, embed a linked file and how to un-embed or re-link an embedded file. You'll also have a solid understanding of how you can move part of an image from Photoshop to Illustrator, move paths from Photoshop to Illustrator, save your work in Illustrator format and finally export your artwork.

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