Adobe Illustrator for Cartographers
Udemy
Course Summary
Learn to Use Adobe Illustrator to Create High-Quality Publication-Ready Maps
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Course Description
This course teaches the basics of Adobe Illustrator for specifically for people who are interested in producing incredible-looking maps that will be suitable for publication in books, magazines, academic journals, or on the web. It assumes no prior knowledge of Illustrator. The lessons begin with the very basics of setting up the project and then advances through all the tools necessary to create maps while sharing cartography-specific tips and tricks and pointing out how to avoid potential cartography-related pitfalls.
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Course Syllabus
- Introduction
- Course Introduction
- Getting Started
- Creating an Illustrator Project
- Overview of the Interface
- Resizing the Artboard
- Beginning the Map
- Drawing the Neat Line and Establishing the Margins
- The Basic Manipulation of Layers and Objects
- Drawing the Main Landmass
- Attention to Detail: Cleaning Up the Map Frame
- Organizing Colors with Color Swatches
- Lines and Line Symbology
- Creating Lines
- Creating Basic Line Symbology
- Setting Up Brushes for Line Symbols
- Bonus: The Imus Geographic Time Zone Brush
- Attention to Detail: Fixing the Railway Brush
- Attention to Detail: Road Intersections
- Point Symbology
- Basic Point Symbology
- Complex Point Symbology
- Quick Tip: Drawing Triangles
- Complex Point Symbols and 3D Shading
- Organizing and Managing Point Symbology with Symbols
- Area Symbology
- Basic Area Symbology
- Pitfalls with Transparent Area Symbols
- More Pitfalls with Transparent Area Symbols
- Hatching
- Dot Pattern Fills
- Complex Area Symbols
- Gradient Transition for Shallow to Deep Water
- Using the Blur Tool
- Techniques for Flow Mapping
- Creating Arrows for Flow Maps
- Bezier Curves for Flow Maps
- Creating Arrows with Pattern Brushes
- Text
- Text Basics
- Techniques for Political Boundaries
- Basic Political Boundaries
- Advanced Political Boundaries
- Scale
- Creating a Scale Bar
- Special Technique: Haloing
- Haloing Symbols and Text
- The Legend
- Creating the Legend
- Working with Scans and Pictures
- Importing Scans and Pictures
- Automating Vectorization
- Finishing Up the Map
- Drawing a North Arrow
- Title and Finishing Touches
- Exporting and Printing
- Exporting from ArcGIS to Adobe Illustrator
- Exporting from ArcMap
- Course Conclusion
- Wrapping Up the Course
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