Overview
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Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to create artwork for print, the web, or use in other applications.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome to the essentials of Illustrator
- Installing Illustrator
- What are vector graphics?
- Walkthrough setup
- Walkthrough
- The Illustrator workspace
- Panels
- Panning and zooming
- Using the navigator
- Canvas rotation
- Selecting objects
- Selecting anchor points
- Selecting by attributes
- Saving selections
- Challenge: Practice selections
- Specific Transform tools
- Transform Again
- Transform Each
- The Free Transform tool
- The Puppet Warp tool
- The Pen tool
- The Curvature Pen tool
- The Pencil tool
- Eraser drawing
- Improving paths
- Challenge: Drawing dino
- Stroke attributes
- Making dashed and dotted lines
- Using brushes
- Making brushes
- Arrowheads
- Variable width strokes
- Drawing basic shapes
- Drawing polygons and stars
- Drawing with the Line tools
- Drawing with the Grid tools
- Aligning objects
- Distributing objects
- Aligning points
- Changing the stack order
- Using Draw modes
- Using layers
- Working with groups
- Using Isolation mode
- The Group Selection tool
- Using symbols
- Compound shapes and paths
- Pathfinders
- The Shape Builder
- Live Paint
- Challenge: Live Paint
- Clipping masks
- Using blends
- Using repeats
- Color models in Illustrator
- The Swatches panel
- Global swatches
- Spot colors
- Using tints
- Color groups
- The Color Guide panel
- Recoloring artwork
- Linear gradients
- Radial gradients
- Freeform gradients
- Stroke gradients
- Creating a pattern
- Transforming patterns
- Making a pattern brush
- Using grids and guides
- Making guides from objects
- Blend modes
- Opacity masks
- The power of appearances
- The Appearance panel
- Illustrator vs. Photoshop effects
- Editing or removing effects
- Graphic styles
- The Eyedropper tool
- New 3D effects
- Using point type
- Using area type
- Character options
- Paragraph options
- The Touch Type tool
- Type on a path
- Outlining type
- Placing images
- Embedding images
- Mask or crop images
- Vectors from pixels
- Packaging Illustrator files
- Export files
- Asset Export
- Illustrator on iPad
- Next steps
