Beschrijving
- Getting acquainted with Adobe Illustrator
- What is Illustrator’s place in the world
- The essentials workspace & opening a file
- Tools, panels & rulers
- Zooming in & out
- Managing artboards, rulers, grids & guides
- Outline & preview modes
- Basic documents & shapes
- Creating a new document
- Drawing & modifying a simple shape
- Drawing rounded rectangles & ellipses
- Drawing polygons, stars & lens flares
- Special shapes: lines, arches, spirals & more
- Selecting objects
- Drawing & modifying shapes
- Understanding bezier paths
- Draw & edit with the pencil, smooth & path eraser tools
- Direct selection tool for bezier paths
- Pen tool basics: drawing straight lines
- Drawing curves with the pen tool
- Using the convert anchor point tool
- Splitting, joining & converting paths
- Making sense of the pen tool’s mouse pointers
- Tracing an image using the pen tool
- Painting with the brush & blob brush tools
- The eraser, scissors & knife tools
- Color modes and color spaces
- Color modes: RGB vs. CMYK
- The color panel
- The swatches panel
- Applying gradients
- Creating a style
- Appearance of black
- Stroking paths
- Applying strokes with the control panel
- Applying strokes with the stroke panel
- Variable width tool
- Using the offset path tool
- Applying a gradient to a stroke
- Modifying objects
- Transforming objects
- Creating a cool effect with the transform each command
- The free transform tool
- Grouping objects & creating compound paths
- Editing objects using isolation mode
- Pathfinder panel
- Shape builder tool
- Blending shapes with the blend tool
- Using the blend tool with symbols
- Organizing objects
- Aligning & distributing objects
- Changing the stacking order
- Using the layers panel
- Using type in Illustrator
- Creating, editing & formatting type
- Fitting a paragraph of text into an area or shape
- The area type tool
- The touch type tool
- Placing type on a path
- Using the appearance panel to apply a gradient
- Outputting your work
- Printing
- Saving an adobe pdf
- Saving for web
- Using tiling to print large documents
- Packaging files
- Sharing your work on behance
- Customizing Illustrator
- Customizing panels, workspaces and keyboard shortcuts
- Setting preferences
