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The Illustrator Environment

  • Touring the interface
  • Scaling the interface
  • The Toolbox
  • Panels
  • The Properties panel
  • Panning and zooming
  • Using the Navigator

 Selection

  • The Selection tool
  • The Direct Selection tool
  • Drawing Tools
  • Basic Drawing Tools
  • Drawing Exercise, Coloring
  • Drawing assistance tools
  • Draw Inside, Pen Tool
  • Pen Tool exercise
  • Pen Tool alternatives
  • Curvature Tool
  • Distort and Transform tools
  • Symmetrical drawing
  • Concentric drawing techniques
  • Manual tracing exercise

Color

  • Color models in Illustrator
  • The Swatches panel
  • Global swatches
  • Spot colors
  • Using tints
  • Color groups
  • The Color Guide panel

Strokes

  • Stroke attributes
  • Creating dashed lines
  • Creating dotted lines
  • Creating arrowheads
  • Variable width strokes

More on Selections

  • The Lasso tool
  • The Magic Wand
  • Saving selections

Alignment, Distribution, and Stacking

  • Aligning objects
  • Aligning points
  • Distributing objects
  • Using key objects
  • Changing the stacking order
  • Using the draw modes

Groups

  • Working with groups
  • The Group Selection tool
  • Using Isolation Mode

Layers

  • Using layers
  • Targeting objects using layers

Transforms

  • Using the specific Transform tools
  • Using the Free Transform tool
  • Using Transform Again
  • The Transform Each command
  • Transforms as an effect

Drawing by Construction

  • Compound Paths and Shapes
  • The Pathfinder panel
  • The Shape Builder
  • Clipping masks

Drawing Tools

  • The Pen tool
  • The Curvature Pen tool
  • The Shaper tool
  • The Pencil tool
  • Drawing with the Eraser tool
  • Improving paths

Using Guides and Grids

  • Creating and removing guides
  • Making guides from objects

Gradients

  • Linear gradients
  • Radial gradients
  • Freeform gradients
  • Gradients on strokes

Patterns

  • Creating a pattern
  • Pattern strokes
  • Transforming patterns

Symbols

  • Static symbols
  • Dynamic symbols

Blends, Blending, and Transparency

  • Using blends
  • Replacing a blend spine
  • Using blending modes
  • Using opacity masks

Appearances

  • The power of appearances
  • The Appearance panel
  • Illustrator effects
  • Photoshop effects
  • Editing or removing effects
  • Graphic styles
  • The Eyedropper tool

Brushes

  • Calligraphic Brushes
  • Scatter Brushes
  • Art Brushes
  • Bristle Brushes
  • Pattern Brushes
  • Image Brushes

Type

  • 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

Image

  • Working with Images
  • Preparing simple images for tracing
  • Preparing complex images for tracing
  • Image Trace
  • Improving and Coloring traced images

 Pixels to Vectors

  • Using Image Trace
  • Using Photoshop with Image Trace

Modifying Artwork

  • Recolor artwork
  • The Puppet Warp tool

Artboards

  • Working with artboards
  • Arranging artboards

Export & Integration

  • Packaging Illustrator files
  • Export as other file types
  • Asset Export
  • Legacy Save for Web
  • PDF files and Illustrator
  • Saving work for Print
  • Saving work for Web
  • Export for Screens
  • Integration with Bridge

Efficiency in Illustrator

  • Creating your own workspaces
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Custom views
  • Custom toolboxes

New Features in Adobe Illustrator 2020

  • Simplify Path
  • Delete Anchor Point Tool update
  • Faster Effects
  • Recolor Freeform Gradients
  • Auto Spell Check
  • Background Save
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