Your First Day with Illustrator CC
Pluralsight
Course Summary
If you are opening Illustrator for the very first time, the application can be quite intimidating. Where do you start? What do you learn first? This course was specifically designed to answer just those questions for you. Software required: Illustrator CC v17.0.
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Course Description
If you are opening Illustrator for the very first time, the application can be quite intimidating. Where do you start? What do you learn first? This course was specifically designed to answer just those questions for you. We will be focused here on getting you up and running in the application quickly, teaching you about tools and workflows that you will need to understand from day one. To begin this course, we will start out slow, introducing you to the various pieces of the user interface and some important terminology. From here we'll learn about various tools and techniques for selecting and creating our own vector shapes. Next, we will spend some time focusing on object attributes and learn how and where we can customize the strokes and fills for our objects. Moving on, we will learn about a variety of topics to help make you successful including color, effects, rulers and guides, layers and object organization as well as methods for building complex shapes. By the end of this tutorial, you will have accumulated a solid foundation of knowledge and be ready to move deeper into the powerful application. Software required: Illustrator CC v17.0.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 23s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 23sYour First Day with Illustrator CC- 5h 8m
—Creating, Opening, and Saving Files 11m 29s
—User Interface Overview 9m 36s
—Zooming, Panning, and Document Navigation 7m 38s
—Creating and Managing a File with Multiple Artboards 10m 2s
—Vector Graphics 101 9m 30s
—Selecting and Stacking Objects in Illustrator 12m 54s
—Creating Objects Using Shape Tools 9m 36s
—Mastering the Pen Tool 11m 36s
—Drawing Freeform Paths with the Pencil Tool 9m 21s
—Using Brushes and Brush Strokes 10m 26s
—Painting with the Blob Brush 10m 4s
—Erasing Objects 6m 51s
—Customizing an Object's Stroke 10m 21s
—Choosing Colors with the Color Picker and Color Panel 11m 51s
—Working with Swatches and Swatch Libraries 10m 9s
—Creating and Customizing Gradients 11m 19s
—Managing Appearance Attributes in the Appearance Panel 7m 54s
—Adding and Managing Object Effects 8m 31s
—Rulers and Smart Guides 11m 2s
—Managing Objects with Layers 11m 26s
—Managing Objects Within Groups 8m 32s
—Transforming Artwork and Objects 10m 51s
—Building Complex Shapes with the Shape Builder Tool 8m 51s
—Building Complex Shapes with the Pathfinder Panel 10m 21s
—Understanding and Building Compound Paths 4m 37s
—Understanding and Building Compound Shapes 5m 42s
—Masking Artwork with an Opacity Mask 9m 4s
—Creating Text in Illustrator 13m 8s
—Creating and Managing Type on a Path 8m 45s
—Wrapping Text Around an Object 6m 38s
—Understanding and Applying Illustrators Image Trace Feature 9m 40s
—Linking to Files and Packaging Projects 10m 17s