Illustrator CC 2018 Essential Training
Overview
Learn to use the world's leading illustration and vector drawing application—Adobe Illustrator—to create artwork for print, for the web, or for use in other applications.
Illustratorâthe world's leading vector illustration softwareâcan be used to accomplish many different design tasks. This course teaches core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflow: for print, for the web, or for assets that will find their way into other applications. Instructor Tony Harmer shows you how to get around the interface, and explains elements of Adobe Illustrator, such as artboards, workspaces, layers, and shapes. He discusses vector graphicsâwhich are composed of paths, strokes, and fillsâand shows how to create and edit them using the Illustrator drawing tools. He demonstrates how to combine and clean up paths, and organize artwork into groups and layers. Tony also covers typography and text editing, color, expressive brush drawing, effects, leveraging CC Libraries, printing and export, and much more.
Illustratorâthe world's leading vector illustration softwareâcan be used to accomplish many different design tasks. This course teaches core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflow: for print, for the web, or for assets that will find their way into other applications. Instructor Tony Harmer shows you how to get around the interface, and explains elements of Adobe Illustrator, such as artboards, workspaces, layers, and shapes. He discusses vector graphicsâwhich are composed of paths, strokes, and fillsâand shows how to create and edit them using the Illustrator drawing tools. He demonstrates how to combine and clean up paths, and organize artwork into groups and layers. Tony also covers typography and text editing, color, expressive brush drawing, effects, leveraging CC Libraries, printing and export, and much more.
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- How to use the exercise files
- How to send feedback
- What is Adobe Illustrator?
- Installing Illustrator via Creative Cloud
- Touring the Illustrator interface
- Navigating a single document
- Working with panels in Illustrator
- Building and saving your own workspace
- Creating and using custom views
- The 2018 Properties panel
- What are Illustrator artboards?
- Working with multi-artboard documents
- Changing and rearranging artboards
- Layers in Illustrator files
- Creating, arranging, and deleting layers
- Targeting objects inside the Layers panel
- Using the Selection and Direct Selection tools
- Drawing basic shapes
- Drawing with the line tools
- The Pencil tool and Brush tool
- Modifying Anchor Display
- Grouping and ungrouping objects
- Using Isolation mode to edit grouped artwork
- Transforming objects
- Repeating transformations
- Using Transform Each
- 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
- Understanding CMYK vs. RGB color
- Understanding process, spot, and global swatches
- Working with color groups
- Loading ASE files into Illustrator
- What are appearances?
- Exploring the Appearance panel
- Applying multiple fills and strokes
- Working with effects
- Saving appearances as graphic styles
- Creating compound paths and shapes
- Working with the Pathfinder panel and Shape modes
- Creating artwork with the Shape Builder tool
- Using the Shaper tool
- Smoothing and erasing paths
- Mastering the Pen tool
- The Curvature tool
- Creating point and area type objects
- Exploring the type panels
- Adding Typekit desktop fonts to Illustrator
- Setting type onto a path
- SVG fonts
- Converting text into paths
- The Touch-Type tool
- Placing linked images into Illustrator
- Embedding images into your Illustrator documents
- Cropping images
- Using clipping masks
- Using the image trace panel
- Converting pixels into paths
- What are CC Libraries?
- Adding content to CC Libraries
- Mobile tools and Illustrator
- Opening PDF files in Illustrator
- Printing your artwork
- Packaging files for print production
- Legacy Save for Web
- Using the Asset Export panel
- Exporting image files
- Deciding which courses to watch next
Taught by
Tony Harmer