Illustrator 2021 Essential Training

Introduction

• Welcome to Adobe Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
• Installing Illustrator

1. Quick-Start Exercise

• Walk-through setup
• Walk-through

2. The Illustrator Environment

• The Illustrator workspace
• Panels
• Panning and zooming
• Using the Navigator panel

3. Selection

• The Selection tool
• The Direct Selection tool
• The Lasso tool
• Automatic selections
• Saving selections

4. Shape and Line Drawing Tools

• Drawing basic shapes
• Drawing polygons and stars
• Drawing with the Line tools
• Drawing with the Grid tools

5. Color

• Color models in Illustrator
• The Swatches panel
• Global swatches
• Spot colors
• Using tints
• Color groups
• The Color Guide panel

6. Strokes

• Stroke attributes
• Creating dashed and dotted lines
• Creating arrowheads
• Variable-width strokes

7. Arranging and Ordering

• Aligning objects
• Distributing objects
• Aligning points
• Changing the stacking order
• Using the drawing modes
• Using layers
• Targeting objects using layers

8. Groups

• Working with groups
• The Group Selection tool
• Using Isolation Mode

9. Transforms

• Using the specific Transform tools
• Using the Free Transform tool
• Using Transform Again
• The Transform Each command
• Transforms as an effect

10. Drawing by Construction

• Compound paths and shapes
• The Pathfinder panel
• The Shape Builder
• Live Paint
• Clipping masks

11. Drawing Tools

• The Pen tool
• The Curvature Pen tool
• The Pencil tool
• Drawing with the Eraser tool
• Improving paths

12. Using Guides and Grids

• Using grids and guides
• Making guides from objects

13. Gradients

• Linear gradients
• Radial gradients
• Freeform gradients
• Gradients on strokes

14. Patterns

• Creating a pattern
• Pattern strokes
• Transforming patterns

15. Symbols

• Static symbols
• Dynamic symbols

16. Blends, Blending, and Transparency

• Using blends
• Using blending modes
• Using opacity masks

17. Appearances

• The power of appearances
• The Appearance panel
• Illustrator and Photoshop effects
• Editing or removing effects
• Graphic styles
• The Brush tool
• The Eyedropper tool

18. Type

• Using point type
• Character options
• Paragraph options
• The Touch Type tool
• Using Type On A Path tool
• Outlining type

19. Images in Illustrator

• Placing images
• Embedding images
• Cropping images

20. Pixels to Vectors

• Using Image Trace
• Using Photoshop with Image Trace

21. Modifying Artwork

• Recolor artwork
• The Puppet Warp tool

22. Artboards

• Working with artboards
• Arranging artboards

23. Output

• Packaging Illustrator files
• Export as other file types
• Asset Export

Conclusion

• Next steps