The industry-standard vector graphics software is used by millions of designers and artists to create everything from gorgeous web and mobile graphics to logos, icons, book illustrations, product packaging, and billboards. Adobe Illustrator CC can help you accomplish many different design tasks—from creating minimalistic logos to full-blown illustrations. For this reason, our Adobe Illustrator course teaches core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflow for print, the web, or assets that will find their way into other applications.
GETTING TO KNOW YOUR ILLUSTRATOR
- Installation and Introduction to Adobe illustrator. What all you can do with it!
- Opening and creating Documents in Illustrator
- A tour of Illustrator Interphase, Navigation and working with multiple Documents.
- Scaling Interphase.
- Organizing, Customizing and Switching your workspace.
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Understanding Image formats and document sizes
- Introduction and Working with various panels
- Introduction to the toolset
- Working with the properties panel
- Working with artboards
CREATION IN ILLUSTRATOR
- Selection in Illustrator
- Drawing, merging and editing shapes
- Working with lines
- Creating different fills and strokes
- Working with Brush
- Creating and using graphic styles
- Working with paths, converting pixel into paths
- Rasterizing
- Working with Type
EDITING IN ILLUSTRATOR
- Introduction and working with Layers and Layer Groups
- Working with group and targeting and isolating objects
- Transforming objects
- Alignment and distribution
- Color Basics in Illustrator
- Working with colour, colour groups and libraries
- Working with effects
- Placing, transforming and editing an image in Illustrator
- Exporting and saving files