Design

Adobe Illustrator

Create stunning vector graphics and illustrations with Adobe Illustrator.

Course Syllabus

1

Workspace

  • Workspace basics
  • Customizing the workspace
  • Artboard overview
  • Files and templates
  • Recovery, undo, and automation
  • Rulers, grids and guides
  • Using multiple artboards
  • Viewing artwork
2

Drawing

  • Drawing basics
  • Drawing simple lines and shapes
  • Drawing with the Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool
  • Editing paths
  • Adjust path segments
  • Using Live Trace
  • About Perspective Grid
  • Perspective drawing
  • Symbolism tools and symbol sets
  • Symbols
3

Color

  • About color
  • Selecting colors
  • Using and creating swatches
  • Create color themes with Kuler
  • Adjusting colors
4

Painting

  • About painting
  • Painting with fills and strokes
  • Live Paint groups
  • Brushes
  • Transparency and blending modes
  • Gradients
  • Gradient panel and Gradient tool overview
  • Apply or edit a gradient
  • Stroke an object
  • Meshes
  • Patterns
5

Selecting and arranging objects

  • Selecting objects
  • Grouping and expanding objects
  • Moving, aligning, and distributing objects
  • Rotating and reflecting objects
  • Layers
  • Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
  • Duplicating objects
  • Stacking objects
6

Reshaping objects

  • Transforming objects
  • Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects
  • Reshape using envelopes
  • Combining objects
  • Cutting and dividing objects
  • Clipping masks
  • Creating shapes using Shape BuilderTool
  • Blending objects
  • Building new shapes using the Shape Builder tool
  • Creating 3D objects
  • Reshaping objects with effects
7

Type

  • Importing and exporting text
  • Creating text
  • Creating type on a path
  • Scaling and rotating type
  • Fonts
  • Character and paragraph styles
  • Formatting paragraphs
  • Formatting type
  • Hyphenation and line breaks
  • Line and character spacing
  • Special characters
8

Creating special effects

  • Appearance attributes
  • Working with effects
  • Summary of effects
  • Create a drop shadow
  • Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
  • Graphic styles
9

Importing, exporting, and saving

  • Adobe PDF options
  • Creating Adobe PDF files
  • Exporting artwork
  • File information and metadata
  • Importing Adobe PDF files
  • Importing artwork files
  • Importing artwork from Photoshop
  • Importing bitmap images
  • Saving artwork

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