Illustrator CC 2018 Essential Training
with Tony Harmer
Illustratorùthe world's leading vector illustration softwareùcan
be used to accomplish many different design tasks. This course
teaches core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any
workflow: for print, for the web, or for assets that will find
their way into other applications. Instructor Tony Harmer shows
you how to get around the interface, and explains elements of
Adobe Illustrator, such as artboards, workspaces, layers, and
shapes. He discusses vector graphicsùwhich are composed of paths,
strokes, and fillsùand shows how to create and edit them using
the Illustrator drawing tools. He demonstrates how to combine
and clean up paths, and organize artwork into groups and layers.
Tony also covers typography and text editing, color, expressive
brush drawing, effects, leveraging CC Libraries, printing and
export, and much more.
Topics include:
- What is Illustrator?
- Navigating documents
- Saving a custom workspace
- Working with multiple artboards
- Creating and deleting layers
- Drawing shapes
- Transforming objects
- Adding fills and strokes
- Working with color
- Creating complex shapes, such as compound shapes
- Working with type
- Editing graphics
- Adding content to CC Libraries
- Printing and exporting artwork