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What will you learn:
- Navigating documents
- Creating your own Illustrator workspace
- Working with artboards
- Using layers
- Drawing shapes
- Transforming objects
- Adding fills and strokes
- Working with color and type
- Drawing in Illustrator
- Adding content to CC Libraries
- Printing and exporting artwork
Syllabus:
- Introduction
- Welcome
- How to send feedback
1. Getting Started
- What is Adobe Illustrator?
- Installing Illustrator via Creative Cloud
- Touring the Illustrator interface
- Scaling the Illustrator interface
- 2. Navigating
- Navigating a single document
- Working with Illustrator panels
- The Properties panel
- The new Illustrator toolbox
- Creating your own Illustrator workspace
- Creating and using custom views
3. Working with Artboards
- What are Illustrator artboards?
- Working with multi-artboard documents
- Arranging Illustrator artboards
4. Artwork Basics
- Using the Selection and Direct Selection tools
- Drawing basic shapes
- Drawing with the line tools
5. Working with Layers
- Layers in Illustrator files
- Working with layers
- Using layers to target objects
6. Working with Objects
- Arranging and grouping Illustrator objects
- Working with groups in layers
- The Group Selection tool
- Using Isolation mode
- Transforming objects
- Repeating transformations
- Using Transform Each
- Aligning objects
- Distributing objects
7. Working with Fills and Strokes
- Solid, gradient, and pattern fills
- Creating and using gradient fills
- The Gradient Annotator
- Adding strokes to your objects
- Adding endpoints and dashed lines to your strokes
- Creating variable-width strokes
- Gradient strokes
8. Working with Color
- Understanding CMYK vs. RGB color
- Understanding spot and global swatches
- Using tints
- Working with color groups
- Color libraries and ASE files
9. The Illustrator Appearance Panel
- What are appearances?
- Exploring the Appearance panel
- Applying multiple fills and strokes
- Working with effects
- Creating and using graphic styles
10. Drawing in Illustrator
- Creating compound paths and shapes
- The Pathfinder panel
- Creating artwork with the Shape Builder tool
- Using the Shaper tool
- The Pencil and Brush tools
- Smoothing paths
11. Working with the Pen Tool
- Know your Pen tool
- Mastering the Pen tool
- The Curvature tool
12. Using Images in Illustrator
- Placing images in Illustrator
- Embedding images in your Illustrator documents
- Cropping images
- Using clipping masks
- Using the Image Trace panel
- Converting pixels into paths
13. Working with Type
- Creating point type
- Creating area type
- Exploring character options
- The Touch Type tool
- Converting type to paths
- Exploring paragraph options
- Adding Adobe fonts
- Type on a path
- SVG fonts
14. Creative Cloud and Illustrator
- CC Libraries
- Using CC Libraries
- Mobile tools and Illustrator
15. Printing and Exporting Artwork
- Printing your artwork
- Packaging files for print production
- Save for Web (Legacy)
- Using the Asset Export panel
- Exporting image files
- Opening PDF files in Illustrator