Adobe Illustrator Training

USING SHAPES TO CREATE ARTWORK FOR A POSTCARD

• Starting the lesson
  
• Creating a new document
  
• Working with basic shapes
  
• Creating and editing rectangles
  
• Rounding corners
  
• Working with the Rounded Rectangle tool
  
• Creating and editing an ellipse
  
• Creating and editing a circle
  
• Creating a polygon
  
• Editing a polygon
  
• Changing stroke width and alignment
  
• Drawing lines
  
• Creating a star
  
• Working with the Shaper tool
  
• Drawing shapes with the Shaper tool
  
• Editing shapes with the Shaper tool
  
• Punching shapes with the Shaper tool
  
• Combining shapes with the Shaper tool
  
• Working with drawing modes
  
• Working with Draw Behind mode
  
• Using the Draw Inside mode
  
• Using Image Trace

EDITING AND COMBINING SHAPES AND PATHS

• Starting the lesson
  
• Editing paths and shapes
  
• Cutting with the Scissors tool
  
• Joining paths
  
• Cutting with the Knife tool
  
• Using the Eraser tool
  
• Combining shapes
  
• Working with the Shape Builder tool
  
• Working with the Pathfinder panel
  
• Creating a compound path
  
• Using the Width tool
  
• Outlining strokes
  
• Finishing up the illustration
  
• Starting the lesson
  
• Working with artboards
  
• Adding artboards to the document
  
• Editing artboards
  
• Renaming artboards
  
• Reordering artboards
  
• Working with rulers and guides
  
• Creating guides
  
• Editing the ruler origin
  
• Transforming content
  
• Positioning artwork using the Transform panel
  
• Positioning artwork using Smart Guides
  
• Scaling objects
  
• Reflecting objects
  
• Rotating objects
  
• Distorting objects with effects
  
• Shearing objects
  
• Transforming with the Free Transform tool
  
• Creating a PDF

TRANSFORMING ARTWORK

CREATING AN ILLUSTRATION WITH THE DRAWING TOOLS

• Starting the lesson
  
• An intro to drawing with the Pen tool
  
• Selecting paths
  
• Drawing straight lines with the Pen tool
  
• Introducing curved paths
  
• Drawing a curve with the Pen tool 
  
• Drawing a series of curves with the Pen tool
  
• Converting smooth points to corner points
  
• Combining curves and straight lines
  
• Creating artwork with the Pen tool
  
• Drawing a coffee cup
  
• Drawing with the Curvature tool
  
• Editing curves
  
• Reflecting the spoon shape
  
• Rounding corner points
  
• Editing paths and points
  
• Deleting and adding anchor points
  
• Converting between smooth points and corner points
  
• Working with the Anchor Point tool
  
• Creating a dashed line
  
• Adding arrowheads to a path
  
• Working with the Pencil tool
  
• Drawing freeform paths with the Pencil tool
  
• Drawing straight segments with the Pencil tool
  
• Joining with the Join tool

USING COLOR TO ENHANCE SIGNAGE

• Starting the lesson
  
• Exploring colour modes
  
• Working with colour
  
• Applying an existing colour 
  
• Creating a custom colour using the Color panel
  
• Saving a colour as a swatch
  
• Creating a copy of a swatch
  
• Editing a swatch
  
• Creating and editing a global swatch
  
• Using the Color Picker to create colour 
  
• Using Illustrator swatch libraries
  
• Adding a spot colour 
  
• Creating and saving a tint of a colour 
  
• Converting colours
  
• Copying appearance attributes
  
• Creating a colour group
  
• Creative inspiration with the Color
• Guide panel
  
• Editing a colour group in the Edit Colors dialogue box 
  
• Editing colours in the artwork
  
• Assigning colours to your artwork
  
• Working with Live Paint
  
• Creating a Live Paint group
  
• Painting with the Live Paint Bucket tool
  
• Modifying a Live Paint group

ADDING TYPE TO A POSTER

• Starting the lesson
  
• Adding type to the poster
  
• Adding text at a point
  
• Adding area type
  
• Working with Auto Sizing
  
• Converting between area and point type
  
• Importing a plain-text file
  
• Threading text
  
• Formatting type
  
• Changing font family and font style
  
• Fixing missing fonts
  
• Changing font size
  
• Changing font colour
  
• Changing additional character formatting
  
• Working with Glyphs
  
• Changing paragraph formatting
  
• Modifying text with the Touch Type tool
  
• Resizing and reshaping type objects
  
• Creating columns of text
  
• Creating and applying text styles
  
• Creating and applying a paragraph style
  
• Editing a paragraph style
  
• Creating and applying a character style
  
• Editing a character style
  
• Sampling text formatting
  
• Wrapping text
  
• Reshaping text with a preset envelope warp
  
• Editing the envelope warp
  
• Working with type on a path
  
• Creating type on a path
  
• Creating type on a closed path
  
• Creating text outlines

ORGANIZING YOUR ARTWORK WITH LAYERS

• Starting the lesson
  
• Understanding layers
  
• Creating layers and sublayers
  
• Creating new layers
  
• Creating sublayers
  
• Editing layers and objects
  
• Locating layers
  
• Moving content between layers
  
• Viewing layers
  
• Reordering layers
  
• Collecting into a new layer
  
• Duplicating layer content
  
• Pasting layers
  
• Changing layer order
  
• Applying appearance attributes to
• layers
  
• Creating a clipping mask

GRADIENTS, BLENDS, AND PATTERNS

• Starting the lesson
  
• Working with gradients
  
• Applying a linear gradient to a fill
  
• Editing/Saving a gradient
  
• Adjusting a linear gradient fill
  
• Applying a linear gradient to a stroke
  
• Editing a gradient on a stroke
  
• Applying a radial gradient to artwork
  
• Editing the colors in the radial gradient
  
• Adjusting the radial gradient
  
• Applying gradients to multiple objects
  
• Adding transparency to gradients
  
• Working with blended objects
  
• Creating a blend with specified steps
  
• Modifying a blend
  
• Creating and editing a smooth color blend
  
• Painting with patterns
  
• Applying an existing pattern
  
• Creating your own pattern
  
• Applying your pattern
  
• Editing your pattern

USING BRUSHES TO CREATE A POSTER

• Starting the lesson
  
• Working with brushes
  
• Using Calligraphic brushes
  
• Applying a Calligraphic brush to artwork
  
• Drawing with the Paintbrush tool
  
• Editing paths with the Paintbrush tool
  
• Editing a brush
  
• Removing a brush stroke
  
• Using Art brushes
  
• Applying an existing Art brush
  
• Creating an Art brush using a raster image
  
• Editing an Art brush
  
• Using Bristle brushes
  
• Changing Bristle brush options
  
• Painting with a Bristle brush
  
• Using Pattern brushes.
  
• Creating a Pattern brush
  
• Applying a Pattern brush
  
• Editing the pattern brush
  
• Working with the Blob Brush tool
  
• Drawing with the Blob Brush
  tool
  
• Merging paths with the Blob Brush tool
  
• Editing with the Eraser tool

EXPLORING CREATIVE USES OF EFFECTS AND GRAPHIC STYLES

• Starting the lesson
  
• Using the Appearance panel
  
• Editing appearance attributes
  
• Adding another stroke and fill to artwork
  
• Adding another stroke and fill to text
  
• Reordering appearance attributes
  
• Using live effects
  
• Applying an effect
  
• Editing an effect
  
• Styling text with a Warp effect
  
• Editing text with a Warp effect
  
• Applying the Offset Path effect
  
• Applying a Photoshop Effect 
  
• Working with 3D effects
  
• Using graphic styles
  
• Applying an existing graphic style
  
• Creating and applying a graphic style
  
• Updating a graphic style
  
• Applying a graphic style to a layer
  
• Scaling strokes and effects

CREATING ARTWORK FOR A T-SHIRT

• Starting the lesson
  
• Working with symbols
  
• Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
  
• Editing a symbol
  
• Working with dynamic symbols
  
• Creating a symbol
  
• Duplicating symbols
  
• Replacing symbols
  
• Breaking a link to a symbol
  
• Working with Creative Cloud Libraries
  
• Adding assets to CC Libraries
  
• Using Library assets
  
• Updating a Library asset
  
• Working with the perspective grid
  
• Using a preset grid
  
• Adjusting the perspective grid
  
• Drawing artwork in perspective
  
• Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
  
• Moving planes and objects
• together
  
• Drawing artwork with no active grid
  
• Adding and editing text in
  perspective
  
• Moving objects in a perpendicular direction
  
• Moving a plane to match an object
  
• Bringing content into perspective
  
• Editing symbols in perspective
  
• Releasing objects with perspective
  
• Finishing up

USING ILLUSTRATOR CC WITH OTHER ADOBE APPLICATIONS

• Starting the lesson
  
• Combining artwork 
  
• Placing image files
  
• Placing an image
  
• Scaling a placed image
  
• Placing a Photoshop image with Show Import Options
  
• Placing multiple images
  
• Applying colour edits to an image
  
• Masking images
  
• Applying a simple mask to an image
  
• Editing a clipping path (mask)
  
• Masking an object with text
  
• Creating an opacity mask
  
• Editing an opacity mask
  
• Sampling colors in placed images
  
• Working with image links
  
• Finding link information
  
• Embedding and unembedding images
  
• Replacing a linked image
  
• Packaging a file

EXPORTING ASSETS

• Starting the lesson
  
• Creating Pixel-Perfect Drawings
  
• Aligning new artwork to the pixel grid
  
• Aligning existing artwork to the pixel grid
  
• Exporting artboards and assets
  
• Exporting artboards
  
• Exporting individual assets
  
• Creating CSS from your design
  
• Setting up your design for generating CSS
  
• Working with character styles and CSS code
  
• Working with graphic styles and CSS code
  
• Copying CSS
  
• Exporting CSS