Illustrator CS3 One-On-One: Advanced Techniques is the third part of a three part review that encompasses the total Illustrator CS3 One-On-One. training series. If you purchase it on line, it is broken down in to three segments. If you get the DVD, you get all three segments on one disk.

Your trainer for this library is Deke McClelland. Deke McClelland is a well-known expert and lecturer on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and the broader realm of computer graphics and design. To date, he has written 85 books that have been translated into 24 languages, with more than 4 million copies in print. The total running length is 29 hours and to give a fair treatment, I will divide them up as they appear online. This third segment is 8.5 hours in length and is contained in eight lessons (lessons 17- 24).

Lesson 17, "Dynamic Type Treatment" shows you how to combine Live Effects with Live Type to create multi-layer text effect that can be modified easily. In this lesson you will work with applying live effects to groups and layers, blending letterforms, warping text without an envelope, adding dynamic attributes to type objects, as well as learning where Live Type breaks down.

Lesson 18, "Live Trace" is the feature that Adobe finally created after years of dealing with their original trace program and a subsequently licensed trace program called Streamline. Live Trace provides a truly dynamic tracing feature. Here you will learn four ways to trace, tracing full color artwork, tracing portrait photography, and preparing a Live Trace color palette.

Lesson 19, "Live Paint" gives Illustrator the ability to detect and color intersecting area in an illustration. Live Paint sees your illustration as a coloring book that is just waiting to be filled with color. Now you can select two overlapping objects and click on them with a paint bucket. You can also convert a Live Trace object to Live Paint and this allows you to color your traced artwork as you would in the non computer world.

Lesson 20, "Live Color" covers one of the big new features for CS3. It started as a web application called KULER that allows you to collect colors. Live Color takes this a bit further in that you can trade them between illustrations and re-purpose the relationship between those colors as a harmony rule for future collections plus a lot more. This is considered by many to be the single best new feature to Illustrator in years.

Lesson 21, "Using Symbols" allows you to reduce the size of your image by replacing the use of an object multiple times in a document, with a predefined symbol instead. Now that Illustrator is tied in much tighter with Flash than before, symbols are more useful than ever before. By converting your object to a symbol, you can keep your web objects as small as possible. Another benefit of symbols is that you can edit a symbol in the symbols palette and all occurrences of that object are updated in the document.