2015
Lynda
Justin Seeley
6:38
English

Illustrator is an unparalleled tool for digital artists, and Adobe takes it to new heights with Creative Cloud 2015. This course helps put Illustrator's power and flexibility at your disposal, offering a tip-to-tail overview of the program, from installation to exporting final artwork. Staff author Justin Seeley explains how to work with layers and artboards—the dual core of Illustrator's nondestructive workflow—and start drawing and transforming basic objects. He also shows how to create fills and strokes, add color, work with live effects, and integrate typography into your designs. At the end of the course, he'll show you how to print and export artwork, so you can share it with the world. Start here for everything you need to know to design, draw, and illustrate with Illustrator.

Introduction
Welcome
How to use exercise files
How to send feedback
1. Getting Started
What is Adobe Illustrator?
Installing Illustrator via Creative Cloud
Touring the Illustrator interface
Exploring the Illustrator's Tools panel
Creating new documents
Modifying and saving your documents
Setting up your Illustrator preferences
2. Navigating Your Documents
Navigating a single document
Navigating multiple documents
Working with Illustrator's panels
Building and saving your own workspace
Understanding screen modes
Creating and using custom views
Creating and using custom guides
Locking and hiding artwork
3. Working with Artboards
Creating multi-artboard documents
Exploring the Artboards panel
Adding artboards on the fly
Manipulating artboards with the Artboard tool
Exporting your artboards as files
4. Working with Layers
Exploring the Layers panel
Creating and editing layers
Targeting objects inside the Layers panel
Working with sublayers
Hiding, locking, and deleting layers
Tips for organizing your artwork using layers
5. Drawing Basic Shapes
Understanding vector paths
Drawing basic lines and curves
Drawing spirals
Drawing rectangles and ellipses
Drawing polygons and stars
Using the Pencil tool for freehand drawing
Modifying existing shapes and paths
Exploring Illustrator's drawing modes
6. Transforming Objects
Using the Direct Selection tool
Grouping objects together
Using isolation mode to edit grouped artwork
Moving and duplicating objects
Scaling objects
Rotating objects
Distorting and transforming objects
Using the Transform Each command
Reflecting objects
7. Working with Fills and Strokes
Adding color fills to your objects
Creating and using gradient fills
Adding strokes to your objects
Adding endpoints and dashed lines to your strokes
Adding gradient strokes to your objects
Creating variable-width strokes
8. Working with Color
Understanding CMYK vs. RGB color
Adjusting Illustrator's color settings
Understanding process vs. global swatches
Creating and using spot colors
Working with color groups
Importing Adobe Color themes
Loading ASE files into Illustrator
9. Using the Appearance Panel
Exploring the Appearance panel
Attribute stacking order explained
Applying multiple fills and strokes
Working with live effects
Saving appearances as graphic styles
10. Creating Complex Shapes
Creating compound paths and shapes
Working with the Pathfinder panel
Using the Illustrator Brush tools
Using the Eraser tool
Creating artwork with the Shape Builder tool
11. Working with the Pen Tool
Pen tool basics
Drawing curves with the Pen tool
Drawing complete shapes with the Pen tool
Enabling and disabling the rubberband preview
Avoiding the "whips" with the Pen tool
Tracing exercise
12. Working with Type
Creating point and area type objects
Making basic edits with the Control panel
Exploring the type panels
Flowing text around objects
Setting type onto a path
Learning essential type shortcuts
Adding Typekit desktop fonts to Illustrator
Converting text into paths
13. Using Raster Graphics in
Placing linked images into Illustrator
Working with the Links panel
Embedding images into your Illustrator documents
Using clipping masks
Using the Image Trace panel
Converting pixels into paths
14. Printing and Exporting Artwork
Printing your artwork
Saving files for print using PDF
Packaging files for print production
Saving files for the web
Saving in legacy formats
Placing linked Illustrator files into Photoshop
Placing linked Illustrator files into InDesign
15. Conclusion
Next steps

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