Course Outline
- The Illustrator Workspace
- Illustrator help and resources
- Using tools, controls and panels
- Setting up the workspace
- Working with an Adobe Illustrator File
- What is the difference between a picture (pixels) and an illustration (vectors)?
- Creating a new Illustrator document
- Working with artboards (pages)
- Adding, deleting and changing your pages
- Zooming in and out on your artwork
- Working with rulers, grids and guidelines to aid illustration
- Preview and outline views
- Working with the basic appearances, fills and strokes (borders)
- The difference between the various selection tools
- Working with groups of objects
- Working with the Layers panel to manage objects
- Drawing in Adobe Illustrator
- Drawing basic shapes
- Drawing line segments and grids
- Working with live corners and shapes
- Drawing custom shapes with the Pen tool
- Tracing an image
- Drawing with the Pencil tools
- Using the various eraser tools
- Creative strokes and brush presets
- Auto tracing and working with images
- Importing an image to trace
- Importing an image to include in your artwork
- Working with the auto trace tools
- Expanding a traced image
- Working with the Live paint tool
- Expanding a Live paint group
- Transforming and Combining Shapes
- Moving, scaling and rotating objects
- Other common transformations
- Using effects to change the shape of objects
- Merging shapes together and cutting shapes apart
- Combining shapes with the shape builder tool
- Working with Type
- Incorporating formatted text into your artwork
- Using type on a path and other text effects
- Using text as artwork
- Working with Colour
- An overview of colour theory Illustrator’s colour tools
- Saving and using colour swatches and swatch libraries
- Saving and using gradients (colour blends) on fills and strokes
- Saving and Exporting Illustrator Files
- Saving in the Adobe Illustrator format and compatibility options
- Saving copies of the artwork in other common formats (EPS, PDF and Flash files)
- Exporting the artwork in common digital image formats (PhotoShop, JPG and TIFF)
