Course Highlights
  • Designing logos
  • Creating vector illustrations
  • Turning photographs into vector artwork
  • Vectorizing and colorizing traced hand drawings
  • Preparing graphics for web and print
  • Designing infographics
  • Working with type in creative ways
  • Mastering advanced Illustrator tools and techniques
  • Learn useful keyboard shortcuts and best practices
  • Practice everything you learn with provided Exercise Files
  • Test your knowledge with quizzes at the end of each chapter
  • Learn Illustrator from the start the way a professional would use it
Curriculum

5 Topics
Why learn Illustrator?
How to Study?
Getting an Adobe Certification
Changes to User Interface in CC 2018
Exercise Files

9 Topics
Illustrator Documents
Artboards
Updated Artboards (New in CC 2018)
Navigation
Working with Vectors
User Interface
Properties panel (New in CC 2018)
Settings
Basics Quiz

9 Topics
Basic Shapes
Transformations
Combining Shapes
Selection Techniques
Organising Objects
Aligning and Distributing Objects
Working Precisely
Exercises
Working with Objects Quiz

7 Topics
Stroke settings
Swatches
Gradients
Appearance panel
Effects
Exercises
Appearance of Objects Quiz

14 Topics
Basic Drawing Tools
Drawing Exercise
Coloring
Drawing assistance tools
Draw Inside
Pen Tool
Pen Tool exercise
Pen Tool alternatives
Curvature Tool (New in CC 2018)
Distort and Transform tools
Symmetrical drawing
Concentric drawing techniques
Manual tracing exercise
Drawing Quiz

7 Topics
Calligraphic Brushes
Scatter Brushes
Art Brushes
Bristle Brushes
Pattern Brushes
Image Brushes
Brushes Quiz

6 Topics
Working with Images
Preparing simple images for tracing
Preparing complex images for tracing
Image Trace
Improving and Colouring traced images
Images Quiz

15 Topics
Character formatting
Paragraph formatting
Using Text styles
Fonts
Variable and SVG Fonts (New in CC 2018)
Touch Type
Type on a Path
Type and Shapes
Warp Text
3D Type
Create Outlines from Text
Image within Text
Text Wrap
Type Exercise
Type Quiz

17 Topics
Introduction to Masking
Clipping Mask
Opacity Mask
Masking exercise
Recolor Artwork
Live Paint Bucket
Envelope Distort
Puppet Warp (New in CC 2018)
Symbols
Symbol Tools
Graphs
Blending Objects
Creating Patterns
Refining Pattern Design
Gradient Mesh
Perspective Drawing
Advanced Techniques Quiz

8 Topics
Saving work for Print
Saving work for Web
Export for Screens
Adobe Apps
Integration with Bridge
CC Libraries
Archiving Projects
Export and Integration Quiz

5 Topics
Freeform Gradients
Global Edit
Enhanced visual font browsing
User Interface Improvements
Viewing Improvements

7 Topics
Simplify Path
Delete Anchor Point Tool update
Faster Effects
Recolor Freeform Gradients
Auto Spell Check
Background Save
Real-time Drawing and Editing and other Improvements (update 24.1)

8 Topics
Mirror Repeat
Grid Repeat
Radial Repeat
Recolor Artwork improvements
Unlock objects from canvas
Snap objects to glyph
Align text vertically
Font Height variations

3 Topics
3D and Materials
Sharing Illustrator Cloud Documents
Rotate View and Other Improvements

9 Topics
Contextual Task Bar
Generative Recolor
3D Inflate
Text to Vector
Mockup
Retype
Dimension Tool
Intertwine
Smooth Tool

3 Topics
Building Your Portfolio
Conclusion
PDF Resources

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