Overview
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Transition your Illustrator skills to a role as an in-house designer. Learn how to leverage artboards, symbols, libraries, and plugins to save time performing common design tasks.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Illustrator for the in-house designer
- Print color considerations
- Document raster effects
- Using artboards as pages
- Using layers for substitutions
- Using libraries effectively
- File output formats
- Digital color considerations
- Working with artboards
- Layer and object naming
- Working with Asset Export
- Using symbols and libraries
- Image formats
- SVG
- SVG interactivity in Illustrator
- Create a usable image map
- Print production in a nutshell
- About spot colors
- Adding a varnish plate
- Overprint view
- Separations preview
- Creating a multitone single color file
- Many flavors of PDF
- Some useful Illustrator scripts
- DynamicSketch
- VectorScribe
- Phantasm
- MirrorMe
- VectorFirstAid
- Nimbling SSR30
- Next steps
