Course Content
Getting to Know the Work Area
- Workspace
- Adjusting the user interface brightness
- Tools panel
- Control panel
- Panels
- Resetting and saving your workspace
- Panel menus
- Changing the view of artwork
- Zoom tool
- Scrolling through a document
- Viewing artwork
- Navigating multiple artboards
- Navigator panel
- Rulers
- Arranging multiple documents
- Document groups
Selecting and Aligning
- Selecting objects
- Selection tool
- Direct selection tool
- Creating selections with a marquee
- Creating selections with the Magic Wand tool
- Selecting similar objects
- Aligning objects
- Aligning objects to each other
- Aligning to a key object
- Aligning points
- Distributing objects
- Aligning to the artboard
- Groups
- Grouping items
- Working in isolation mode
- Adding to a group
- Object arrangement
- Arranging objects
- Selecting objects behind
- Hiding objects
- Applying selection techniques
Creating and Editing Shapes
- Creating a new document
- Basic shapes
- Creating rectangles
- Creating rounded rectangles
- Creating ellipses
- Creating polygons
- Drawing modes
- Draw behind mode
- Creating stars
- Changing stroke width and alignment
- Line segments
- Joining paths
- Using the width tool
- Outlining strokes
- Combining and editing shapes
- Shape builder tool
- Pathfinder effects
- Shape modes
- Using draw inside mode
- Editing content drawn inside
- Using the eraser tool
- Using image trace to create shapes
- Cleaning up traced artwork
Transforming Objects
- Artboards
- Adding artboards to the document
- Editing artboards
- Reordering artboards
- Transforming content
- Rulers and guides
- Scaling objects
- Reflecting objects
- Rotating objects
- Distorting objects
- Shearing objects
- Positioning objects precisely
- Changing perspective
- Applying multiple transformations
- Using the free distort effect
Drawing with the Pen and Pencil Tools
- Starting with the pen tool
- Creating straight lines
- Creating curved paths
- Building a curve
- Converting smooth points to corner points
- Creating the violin illustration
- Drawing curves
- Selecting a curved path
- Drawing a curved path
- Drawing a closed path with curves
- Drawing the violin shape
- Creating the strings
- Splitting a path
- Adding arrowheads
- Creating a dashed line
- Editing curves
- Deleting and adding anchor points
- Converting between smooth points and corner points
- Drawing with the Pencil tool
- Editing with the Pencil tool
- Finishing the violin illustrationAssembling the parts
- Assembling the parts
- Painting the artwork
Color and Painting
- Color
- Color modes
- Color controls
- Creating color
- Building and saving a custom color
- Editing a swatch
- Using Illustrator swatch libraries
- Creating a spot color
- Color picker
- Creating and saving a tint of a color
- Copying appearance attributes
- Creating color groups
- Color guide panel
- Editing a color group
- Editing colors in artwork
- Kuler panel
- Assigning colors to your artwork
- Adjusting colors
- Painting with patterns
- Applying existing patterns
- Creating your own pattern
- Applying a pattern
- Editing a pattern
- Live Paint
- Creating a Live Paint group
- Editing Live Paint regions
- Working with gap options
Working with Type
- Type
- Creating point type
- Creating area type
- Importing a plain text file
- Overflow text and text reflow
- Threading text
- Creating columns of text
- Formatting type
- Changing the font size
- Changing the font color
- Changing additional text attributes
- Glyphs
- Resizing type objects
- Changing paragraph attributes
- Creating and applying text styles
- Creating and applying a paragraph style
- Editing a paragraph style
- Sampling text formatting
- Creating and applying a character style
- Editing a character style
- Reshaping text with a preset envelope warp
- Reshaping text with an object
- Creating text on an open path
- Creating text on closed paths
- Creating text outlines
Layers
- Creating layers
- Selecting and moving objects and layers
- Duplicating layer content
- Moving layers
- Locking layers
- Viewing layers
- Pasting layers
- Creating a clipping mask
- Merging layers
- Locating layers
- Applying appearance attributes to layers
- Isolating layers
Blending Colors and Shapes
- Gradients
- Creating and applying a linear gradient to a fill
- Adjusting the direction and angle of a gradient fill
- Applying a gradient to a stroke
- Editing a gradient on a stroke
- Creating and applying a radial gradient
- Editing the radial gradient color
- Adjusting the radial gradient
- Applying gradients to multiple objects
- Exploring other methods for editing gradient colors
- Adding transparency to gradients
- Working with blended objects
- Creating a blend with specific steps
- Modifying a blend
- Creating and editing smooth color blends
Brushes
- Calligraphic brushes
- Editing a brush
- Fill color with brushes
- Removing a brush stroke
- Art brushes
- Drawing with the paintbrush tool
- Editing paths with the paintbrush tool
- Creating an art brush
- 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
- Changing the color attributes of brushes
- Changing a brush color using tints colorization
- Changing the brush color using hue shift colorization
- Blob brush tool
- Drawing with the blob brush tool
- Merging paths with the blob brush tool
- Editing with the eraser tool
