Illustrator

A Quick Tour Of Adobe Illustrator 

• Creating a new document 
• Drawing and editing shapes 
• Applying and editing color 
• Editing strokes 
• Working with layers 
• Working with type 
• Transforming artwork 
• Creating and editing gradients 
• Placing an image in Illustrator 
• Using Image Trace 
• Aligning artwork 
• Presenting your document 
• The Shape Builder tool and the Curvature tool 
• Working with symbols 
• Working with brushes 
• Working with effects 

Getting To Know The Work Area 

• Exploring the workspace 
• Getting to know the toolbar 
• Working with the Properties panel 
• Working with, moving, and docking panels 
• Changing the view of the artwork 
• Switching and saving workspaces 
• Using panel and context menus 
• Using view commands 
• Zooming and Panning in a document 
• Navigating and using multiple artboards 

Techniques For Selecting Artwork 

• Selecting objects 
• Selecting and editing with the Selection and Direct Selection tool 
• Selecting with a marquee 
• Hiding and locking objects 
• Selecting similar objects 
• Aligning and distributing objects 
• Working with groups 
• Arranging objects 
• Selecting in Outline mode 
• Editing a group in Isolation mode 
• Creating a nested group 
• Selecting objects behind 

Working with Symbols and Libraries 

• Working with symbols 
• Using default Illustrator symbol libraries 
• Working with Creative Cloud libraries 
• Using library assets 
• Working with dynamic symbols 
• Creating a symbol 
• Breaking a link to a symbol 
• Replacing symbols 
• Adding assets to a Creative Cloud library 
• Updating a library asset 
• Working with Global Edit 

Working with Shapes To Create Artwork 

• Working with basic shapes 
• Creating and editing rectangles 
• Creating and editing ellipses and circles 
• Changing stroke width and alignment 
• Drawing lines 
• Rounding corners 
• Creating and editing a polygon and star 
• Working with drawing modes 
• Using Image Trace 
• Using Draw Inside mode and Draw Behind mode 

Editing And Combining Shapes And Paths 

• Editing paths and shapes 
• Cutting with the Scissors and Knife tools 
• Joining paths 
• Using the Eraser tool 
• Erasing in a straight line 
• Combining objects using the Pathfinder 
• Creating a compound path 
• Combining shapes 
• Working with the Shape Builder tool 
• Understanding shape modes 
• Reshaping a path 
• Using the Width tool 

Transforming Artwork 

• Working with artboards 
• Editing, aligning, renaming, and reordering artboards 
• Working with rulers and guides 
• Editing the ruler origin 
• Transforming content 
• Working with the bounding box 
• Positioning artwork using the Properties panel 
• Scaling, reflecting, sharing and rotating objects 
• Distorting objects with effects 
• Transforming with the Free Transform tool 
• Using Puppet Warp 

Using The Basic Drawing Tools 

• Drawing paths with the Curvature tool 
• Creating dashed lines 
• Adding arrowheads to paths 
• Drawing with the Pencil tool 
• Joining with the Join tool 

Creative Uses Of Effects And Graphic Styles 

• Using the Appearance panel 
• Applying other effects 
• Applying a Photoshop effect 
• Working with 3D effects 
• Scaling strokes and effects 
• Adding multiple strokes and fills to text and objects 
• Reordering appearance attributes 
• Using live effects 
• Styling text with a Warp effect 
• Temporarily disabling effects to make edits 
• Using graphic styles 
• Applying a graphic style to a layer 

Drawing With The Pen Tool 

• Understanding curved paths 
• Drawing with the Pen tool 
• Converting smooth points to corner points 
• Editing paths and points 
• Deleting and adding anchor points 
• Converting between smooth points and corner points 
• Working with the Anchor Point tool 
• Combining curves and straight lines 

Working with Colour 

• Exploring color modes 
• Working with color 
• Creating a custom color 
• Saving a color as a swatch 
• Using the Colour Picker 
• Working with Live Paint 
• Painting with the Live Paint Bucket tool 
• Editing a global and non-global color swatch 
• Using Illustrator swatch libraries 
• Adding a spot color 
• Creating and saving a tint of a color 
• Converting colours 
• Creating a colour group 
• Using the Colour Guide panel for creative inspiration 
• Using Recolour Artwork 
• Modifying a Live Paint group 

Working with Type 

• Adding type 
• Adding text at a point 
• Adding area type 
• Changing font family and font style 
• Applying fonts to text in Illustrator 
• Converting between area type and point type 
• Threading text 
• Formatting type 
• Working with Auto Sizing 
• Activating Adobe Fonts 

Working with Illustrator Brushes 

• Types of brushes 
• Working with brushes 
• Using Calligraphic brushes 
• Drawing with the Paintbrush tool 
• Removing a brush stroke 
• Using Art brushes 
• Using Bristle brushes 
• Using Pattern brushes 
• Editing a brush 
• Working and drawing with the Blob Brush tool 
• Editing with the Eraser tool 

Working with Type 

• Changing font size and color 
• Changing additional character and paragraph formatting 
• Creating columns of text 
• Fixing missing fonts 
• Resizing and reshaping type objects 
• Reshaping type objects 
• Sampling text formatting 
• Creating and applying text styles 
• Creating text outlines 
• Modifying text with the Touch Type tool 
• Working with glyphs

Organizing Your Artwork With Layers 

• Understanding layers 
• Finding content in the Layers panel 
• Reordering layers and content 
• Locking and hiding layers 
• Creating layers and sub-layers 
• Editing layers and objects 
• Moving content between layers 
• Duplicating layer content 
• Pasting layers 
• Applying appearance attributes to a layer 
• Creating a clipping mask 

Gradients, Blends, And Patterns 

• Working with gradients 
• Applying a gradient to a fill 
• Applying a gradient to fill or stroke 
• Applying gradients to multiple objects 
• Working with blended objects 
• Editing a gradient 
• Editing the colours in a gradient 
• Applying colour stops in lines mode 
• Creating a blend with specified steps 
• Modifying a blend 
• Creating patterns 
• Applying an existing pattern 
• Adding transparency to gradients 
• Applying a freeform gradient 
• Creating and editing a smooth color blend 
• Creating your own pattern 
• Applying your pattern 
• Editing your pattern 

Using Illustrator With Other Adobe Applications 

• Placing image files 
• Cropping an image 
• Placing multiple images 
• Transforming a placed image 
• Placing a Photoshop image with Show Import Options 
• Working with image links 
• Embedding and unembedding images 
• Replacing an image 
• Combining artwork 
• Masking images 
• Masking an object with text 
• Creating an opacity mask