Adobe Illustrator Course

Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Adobe Inc. It is widely used by graphic designers, illustrators, artists, and other professionals to create scalable, high-quality artwork for print, web, multimedia, and mobile devices.

Content:

• Introduction
• Creating a new document/page tool
• Selections:
• Selection tools / direct selection/group selection / selection lassos / magic wand selection
• The pen tools:
• Pen introduction / convert anchor point / additional and sub anchors/cut and joining anchors
• Layers and grouping:
• Layer introduction / organizing layers / selecting layers/grouping layers /duplicating layers /
• sub-layers
• The stroke:
• Stroke basics/caps and joining/dashed line
• Type:
• Type tool/area type tool/path type / vertical type tool / wrap text / creating outlines /
• character palette/formatting paragraphs/type transformation
• Shape objects:
• Rectangle tool/ellipse tool/polygon tool/star tool/flare tool
• Transformations:
• Scale tool/rotation tool / reflect tool/twist tool / sheer tool / reshape tool / re-positioning
• art
• Aligning and
• distributing:
• Object alignment/snap/snap tracking
• Compound path and
• clipping mask:
• Clipping masks/clipping paths
• Applying color:
• Color introduction/color palette swatches palette
• The pencil tools:
• Basic pencil tool / smooth tool/eraser tool
• The brush tool:
• Paintbrush introduction / calligraphic brush/art brush/pattern brush/loading and saving brushes
• Gradients:
• Gradients introduction/editing gradients/gradient libraries
• Transparency and
• masking:
• Object opacity / transparency clipping
• Image maps:
• Creating image maps/saving and previewing
• Symbols and symbol
• Symbol introduction / creating custom symbols/building blocks/symbol sprayer /
• symbol shifter tool/symbol scruncher/symbol sizer/symbol spinner/symbol stainer /
• symbol screener / symbol styler / saving default symbols
• Enveloping &
• meshes
• Envelope introduction / using the warp / using the mesh/text distortions/options
• Smart guides and
• rulers:
• Rulers introduction / creating guides / smart guides / extruding text / smart guide options
• /grids/measure and info tools
• Scissors and knife:
• The scissor tool / the knife tool
• Pathfinder:
• Pathfinder shape modes / using pathfinders
• Liquefy:
• Liquefy tools / more lignifications
• Appearance and styles:
• Styles introduction / multiple strokes and fills/converting effect to shape / group
• appearance /distort and transform / pathfinder effects/rasterizing/document
• rasterization / stylize effects/pixel effects/warp effects/moving and linking styles /
• sticky styles / reducing and clearing styles/making and saving styles / over-riding
• character color
• Filters:
• Filter introduction / creating trim marks/pen and ink / more lignifications
• The blend tool:
• Blending introduction / blending multiple objects
• Charts and graphs:
• Creating graphs / changing the graph type/coloring graphs/styling type/column
• designs/value divisions/design markers / other line graphs
• Rgb and screen graphics:
• RGB introduction/snap to pixel / moving snap pixel / saving for the web/viewing for
• the web / web prep overview / sizing images / saving as jpeg / matting a jpeg / saving as
• gif / making a lossy gif / gradients and gif / saving as swf / swf problems / saving as svg /
• SVG effects