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Learn
Arts & Letters Express with this video!
Don't learn Arts & Letters Express by trial
and error! This video training course will help you get everything under
control the first day you use the program!
may be the finest vector - drawing
program ever to come to your computer screen. In the hands of the trained user, Arts &
Letters Express can create fantastic art for almost any purpose, from color separations
for the professional printer to full color art for creating posters. If you want to learn
how to use Arts & Letters Express like a pro, then this video training course is for
you!
"Mastering Arts & Letters Express" is a complete video course covering
everything from opening the program to creating spot-color separations for screen
printing. You'll be guided step-by-step through virtually every facet of Arts &
Letters Express by world-renowned graphics expert, Scott M. Ritter. 30 full-screen video
lessons on your computer screen show you step-by-step how to create the effects you want.
Pause the playback at any time to try what you have just learned in your actual copy of
the program, (Arts & Letters Express program not included, purchase separately) and
instantly jump to any lesson at any time.
"Mastering Arts & Letters Express" gives you over 4 hours of full-screen
video on one CD-ROM. You'll learn many little-known tips and tricks for manipulating
objects in Arts & Letters Express, as well as how to create special effects such as
3-dimensional illusions and textures such as the "chrome effect." In as little
as one day, you can be creating professional-looking art with Arts & Letters Express.
Only $79.95
Disk Contents
Beginning Lessons:
Lesson 1:
Getting Around
8 Min, 1 Sec. |
Basic introduction to the different areas of the Arts & Letters Express screen, how to
access tools from the menu bar and tool buttons, Keyboard shortcuts, explanation of
Fly-outs and multiple page drawing layout.
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Lesson 2:
Getting Ready to Draw
8 Min, 15 Sec. |
Setting up the drawing area, page setup requirements for art which will be color
separated, Printer requirements for art which will be color separated, Margin requirements
for crop marks and labels, customizing the drawing board with grid and/or rulers. |
Lesson 3:
Getting and Placing Objects
8
Min, 41 Sec. |
Objects defined, watching the objects pane, getting shapes from the shapes flyout,
canceling a shape tool, placing shapes at default size, placing shapes the size you want -
where you want them in one step, selecting multiple objects, using the “undo”
feature. |
Lesson 4:
Viewing Your Drawing
8 Min, 12 Sec. |
Different methods of changing the viewpoint on your drawings using menu commands, toolbar,
and keyboard shortcuts, also covers screen redrawing tools and Accel-O-Draw. |
Lesson 5:
Changing the properties of an object
8 Min, 41 Sec |
How to change the fill and Line colors of an object, Setting the default colors of
subsequent objects, gradient patterns and raster fills, line thickness, saving your work. |
Lesson 6:
Opening files and Printing
10 Min, 18 Sec. |
Opening a file, Print range, print quality, printing, printing spot color separations,
printing process color separations, workaround for printers that ignore print
specifications. |
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Beginning Lessons
(cont.):
Lesson 7: Arranging Objects, Part 1
11 Min, 10 Sec. |
Aligning objects, the difference between true center and optical center, creating object
groups, Rotating objects, re-sizing objects to an exact size, moving an object to an exact
position on the page, adding comments when saving files. |
Lesson 8:
Arranging Objects, Part 2
10 Min, 9 Sec. |
Duplicating objects, Flipping objects, More grouping methods and information about group
properties, Moving objects to the back or front.
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Lesson 9:
Text
13 Min, 41 Sec |
Adding text to your drawings, using the spell checker, setting text attributes, choosing
fonts, text alignment, spacing, Setting font attributes, using the character map to add
text symbols.
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Lesson 10:
The Clip Art Manger
10 Min, 10 Sec. |
Opening the Clip-Art Manager, Retrieving art from the Clip-Art Manager, Creating new
clip-art collections, adding art to the clip-art manager, Using the “Find”
feature. |
Lesson 11:
Vector Editing
10 Min, 59 Sec. |
Starting a new file, converting an object to freeform, nodes, constraining nodes, adding
control points, converting lines to curves.
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Lesson 12:
Drawing
10 Min, 9 Sec. |
Using the draw tools flyout, drawing curves and lines, making vertical or horizontal
lines, creating segments as you draw, draw preferences, manipulating nodes in the middle
of a curve, locked and unlocked handlebars, cutting and restoring lines. |
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Advanced Lessons:
| Lesson Number |
Title |
Time |
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Lesson 13: |
Motion Effects Using Blends.
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8 Min, 53 Sec. |
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Lesson 14: |
Illumination Effects Using Blends |
5 Min, 50 Sec |
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Lesson 15:
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Arcing Letters / Bind to shape |
9 Min, 41 Sec. |
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Lesson 16: |
Merging Objects |
5 Min, 8 Sec. |
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Lesson 17: |
Creating Perspective |
9 Min, 32 Sec |
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Lesson 18: |
Warp effects |
8 Min, 22 Sec. |
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Lesson 19: |
Extrusions |
9 Min, 38 Sec. |
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Lesson 20: |
Importing & Exporting Graphics |
11 Min, 47 Sec. |
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Lesson 21: |
Tracing Bitmaps Vs. Recreating Art
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12 Min, 55 Sec. |
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Advanced Lessons (cont.):
| Lesson Number |
Title |
Time |
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Lesson 22: |
Advanced Type Editing |
11 Min, 8 Sec. |
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Lesson 23: |
Trapping Colors |
9 Min, 53 Sec. |
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Lesson 24: |
Introducing Color Filters |
9 Min. 37 Sec. |
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Lesson 25: |
Help – Spot Color Separation Tips
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10 Min. 54 Sec. |
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Lesson 26.
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Help – Performing Spot Color separations without Postscript |
9 Min. 11 Sec. |
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Lesson 27: |
Help – Can’t find Clip-art Collection |
4 Min. 28 Sec. |
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Lesson 28: |
Effect – Tri-Color Letters |
4 Min. 29 Sec. |
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Lesson 29: |
Effect – Imitating Chrome
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8 Min. 34 Sec. |
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Lesson 30: |
Effect – Objects which pass through other objects
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7 Min. 16 Sec. |
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System Requirements: Computer Running Windows 95, 98, Me, XP, 32Mb Memory, 4x or
greater CD-ROM drive
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