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Illustrator How-To: Masks, Meatballs, and Robots
This how-to is not an April Fools joke, even though it does contain such an unlikely trio. Deke McClelland combines practical advice and his oddball sense of humor to make masking items in Illustrator CS mere child's play.
Written by Deke McClelland on April 1, 2005
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This video tutorial is excerpted from "Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS with Deke McClelland."
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"It's out there getting radio signals from lands far away." When you hear that, you know you're not watching an average training video. Using a robot wearing a ball and chain as an example file, Illustrator expert Deke McClelland explains how to create clipping masks in Illustrator.
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In this video clip (3 minutes 8 seconds as a 4.6 MB download), Deke McClelland shows you the following:
- Mask only some objects within a Layer
- Make a Clipping mask with Selected objects
- Create a new Fill & Stroke for Masked objects
In the full "Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS®" training series, you will learn the fundamentals of drawing, how to use the pen tool, 3D effects, type on a path, Flash animation, and more.
This video tutorial is a QuickTime movie. Click this link "Masks, Meatballs, and Robots" to play the movie. Or you can download the file by option- or right clicking on the link and saving the ".mov" file to your hard disk.
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Excerpted from "Total Training for Adobe Illustrator CS® with Deke McClelland" © 2004 Total Training ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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