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Martini Hour 090, In Which We Vent Freely Against Our Beloved Creative Suite
Scaling and Editing Traced Artwork
In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. In this final installment, Deke scales, recolors, and edits a group of paths to create a finished piece of art.
Martini Hour 089, in Which Deke Gets to Legitimately Use the Word Palette Again
Expanding and Separating Artwork
In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke uses Illustrator to expand, separate, and prepare a piece of artwork for output to any medium.
Live Trace and Resolution
In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke prepares the base artwork for tracing in Photoshop and auto-traces it in Illustrator.
All Pirate Flag Files and Art
Adding Contrast and Color
In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke uses Photoshop to distill the base art into three colors: rich black, blood red, and page white.
Editing Scanned Line Art
In this preview of "Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced," Deke shows you how to make an authentic pirate flag. Today, Deke uses Photoshop to adjust, distort, and otherwise refine an ink drawing into a work of perfection.
Sketching the Pirate Flag
In this exclusive preview of his upcoming Illustrator CS5 One-on-One: Advanced video course, Deke shares six phases in the creation of an authentic five-by-three-foot pirate flag.