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Fundamentals
Abobe Illustrator 9 Tutorial Overview
Raster Versus Vector
The Interface Explained
The Toolbox Explored
Palettes Explored
Hand and Zoom tool in Illustrator
Custom Views
The Navigator Palette
Setting Up Your Document
Save and Export Your Files
Preferences
Rulers, Guides and Grids
Selection Tools in Illustrator
Grouping Objects
Lock & Hide
How to Arrange Objects
New Features
Flash & SVG Output or Release to Layers
Pixel Preview Explained
Instant Drop Shadows; Glows and Live Shapes
Converting to Shape
Drawing Objects
Drawing Rectangles
Drawing Ellipses
Drawing Polygons
Drawing Stars
Drawing Spirals
Drawing Masks
Opacity Masks
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Drawing
Paths
Chapter Overview
Bezier Paths Described
Anchor Points
The Pencil Tool
Editing Paths
Add & Delete Anchor Points in illustrator 9
Tools:
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Reshape
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Smooth & Erase
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Scissors Tool & Knife
How to Join Paths
Colour
Colour Palette / Liaries
Swatches & Transparency Palette
Eyedropper & Paint Bucket Tool
Fills & Strokes
How to Apply a Fill
Gradient & Pattern Fills
Gradient Mesh Tool
Stroke Palette
Offset; Outline & Path
Painting
The Brushes Palette Described
Paintbrush Tool
Calligraphic Brush
Scatter and Art Brush
Pattern Brush
Transformations
Scaling & Rotating
Reflect and Shear
Free Transform Tool
Transform Each
Aligning Palette
The Blend Tool
Pathfinder and Transform Palette
Duplicate; Transform & Again
Text
Point and Area Text Described
How to Link Text Blocks
Text on a Path
Vertical Text
Character and Paragraph Palette
Tab and MM Palette
hOW TO Convert Text to Outlines
Text as Mask
Changing Case & Find Font
Checking your Punctuation and Spelling
Filters
Free Distort Explained
Punk & Bloat
Roughen
Scribble & Tweak
Twirl
Zig Zag
Rasterize
Arrows
Feather
Round Corners
Trimming Marks
Vector Filters
How to Adjust Colours
Object Mosaic
Pen and Ink
Photo Crosshatch
How to Blend Objects
Overprint Black
Saturate
Placing Images
Placing Raster Images and Surrounding Issues
Linking and Embedding
The Links Palette
Auto Trace Tool
Actions
Actions Window
How to Create Actions
Web Graphics
The Web Palette
How to Assign URLs to Objects
Web File Formats Described
Saving Illustrator Images for the Web
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