Customize the Illustrator Workspace
Understand Vector vs Bitmap images, Illustrator file types
Learn and master drawing tools including: Shapes, Pen tool, Pencil, Direct Selection, anchor points
Learn about Color, gradients, swatches, strokes, fills, creating and editing Patterns
Learn about selection tools including Magic Wand, Eyedropper, Selection, Direct Selection,
Learn Transformation tools including Scale, Rotate, Transformation – beginning to advanced
Learn the Shape Builder tool, Pathfinder to create more advanced, complex drawings
Learn Brush Strokes options, settings and applications
Learn about typography, type settings, including Leading, Tracking, Kerning, Paragraph and Character Styles
Learn Type on a Path, 3D Type, Touch Type, Strokes on Type
Learn about Creative Cloud (CC) Libraries and Adobe Stock and organization of assets
Learn Image Tracing, Live Paint tool
Learn all about Illustrator Symbols, creating Symbols and Advanced Symbols tools
Learn about the Blending Tool
How to use Illustrator and Photoshop Effects in Illustrator
How to use Graphic Styles in Illustrator
Exporting and Packaging your Illustrator files and assets
Are you slightly intimidated by Adobe Illustrator? The dreaded Pen tool? Direct Selection vs Selection? All of the fancy color options and effects? Then this course is for you!
This course breaks things down in simple, bite-sized lessons that make each part of Illustrator easy to understand and apply.
Just a few topics that we cover are (see landing page and outline for full topic list):
· Customizing and editing the Illustrator Workspace
· The Pen tool
· Adding and editing Anchor points
· Placing bitmap objects
· Layer management
· Drawing and customizing shapes
· The Direct Selection tool for editing shapes
· Colors, swatches, gradients
· Strokes and fills
· Corner radius options
· Guides and grids
· Brushes and brush strokes
· Magic wand tool
· Keyboard shortcuts
· Eyedropper tool
· Appearance panel
· Creating and editing patterns
· Using the Width Tool
· Using the Pencil tool
· Using the Smooth tool
· Using the Shape builder tool
· Using the Pathfinder panel
· Using the Live Paint tool
· Creative projects and assignments
· Type and typography including Tracking, Kerning, Leading
· Paragraph and Character Tyles
· Working with Artboards
· Using the Blending tool
· Image Trace
· Creative Cloud CC Libraries, how to share assets and organize content
· Graphic Styles
· Illustrator and Photoshop Effects
· Creatin g3D text and objects
· Exporting objects
· And more!
