What you will learn
- How to navigate the Illustrator environment
- Methods to create documents and basic shapes
- Working with colors, swatches, and fill and stroke
- Organize a project and work with layers and artboards
- Discover advanced illustration techniques
How you will benefit
- Students will benefit by gaining skills with the Adobe Illustrator program
- Gain confidence in your ability to create stunning graphics
- Open the door for new employment and freelance opportunities
Instructor(s):Self-Study
Requirements:
Hardware Requirements:
- This course can be taken on either a PC or Mac.
Software Requirements:
- PC: Windows 10 or later.
- Mac: macOS 11.0 or later.
- Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
- Adobe Illustrator (not included in enrollment)
- Adobe Acrobat Reader.
- Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.
Other:
- Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.
Instructional Material Requirements:
The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
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Lesson 1
- Getting to Know the Illustrator Environment
- Menus and Navigation
- Panels
- Tools
- Workspace
- Rulers and Guides
- File Management
- Exercise: Illustrator Environment
- Getting Started
- Creating a Project
- Create a New Document
- Exercise: Create New Document
- Creating Basic Shapes
- Selection
- Using Drawing Modes
- Exercise: Draw components of the project
- Working with Colors
- Working with Swatches
- Fill and Stroke Attributes
- Exercise: Format Artwork
- Organizing a Project
- Organizing a Project
- Creating Layers and Sublayers
- Layer options
- Layer Organization
- Exercise: Work with Layers
- Artboards
- Working with Duplication of Artboards
- Exercise: Artboards and Duplication
- Creating Advanced Illustrations
- Using Advanced Techniques
- Using the Pencil Tool
- Exercise: Drawing with the Pencil Tool
- Using the Pen Tool
- Exercise: Drawing with the Pen Tool
- Using the Line Tools
- Exercise: Drawing with the Line Tools
- Transforming Objects
- Align and Distribute Objects
- Liquefy Tools
- Working with Grouped Objects
- Exercise: Manipulate Project Components
- Advanced Management of Shapes
- Management of Shapes
- Working with Appearance
- Exercise: Appearance Panel
- Working with Pathfinder
- Working with Shape Builder Tool
- Exercise: Path and Shape Builder Tools
- Working with Coloring and Painting
- Live Paint
- Creating Patterns
- Exercise: Brushes and Patterns
- Using Gradient Tools
- Exercise: Gradients
- Working with Graphic Styles
- Exercise: Styles
- Working with Type
- Working with Type
- Create Text
- Format Text
- Exercise: Creating Types of Text
- Working with Styles
- Using Tabs
- Exercise: Styles and Tabs
- Working with Glyphs
- Converting Type to Outlines
- Exercise: Type to Outlines
- Managing Project Components
- Project Components
- Reusing Design Elements
- Custom Art Brush
- Sharing Color Themes
- Exercise: Reuse
- Import Text and Thread Text Frames
- Import Styles
- Import Artwork
- Exercise: Import
- Manage Linked and Embedded Project Components
- Exercise: Working with Linked Content
- Sharing Your Project
- Sharing your project
- Proofing Tools
- Preview Project
- Exercise: Proof
- Printing
- Export Options
- Save for Video
- Save for Web
- Generate CSS
- Exercise: Print and Export
- Package a Project
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