Adobe Illustrator: beginner Adobe Illustrator 2024
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- 8 Courses | 4h 56m 42s
- 5 Books | 32h 14m
- 5 Courses | 7h 51m 29s
Explore Adobe Illustrator, a powerful vector-based graphic design application.
COURSES INCLUDED
Introduction to Adobe Illustrator CC 2015
Illustrator can be used to create stunning original artwork. Explore basic tasks, such as working with toolbars, tabs, and palettes. Discover new features like Creative Cloud Charts, Illustrator Libraries, stock art, and linked assets.
11 videos |
34m
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Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 Fundamentals
Adobe Illustrator sets the standard for design and illustration. Explore basic tasks in Adobe Illustrator CC 2015, such as creating new documents, working with files, using templates, and navigating and configuring workspaces.
11 videos |
38m
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Drawing in Adobe Illustrator CC 2015
Illustrator is very flexible, and you can create designs that range from simple illustrations to complex designs. Discover essential tools like the paintbrush, pencil, magic wand, and pen, as well as drawing, fill, and color techniques.
13 videos |
40m
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Working with Text in Adobe Illustrator CC 2015
Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 preserves the finesse and ease of its predecessors while adding some powerful new features. Explore how to work with text, including text placement, typesetting, threading, and curving.
10 videos |
32m
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Illustrator Tools in Adobe Illustrator CC 2015
Illustrator provides a large assortment of tools to help with your design needs. Discover how to use these tools to manipulate design, including how to erase, cut, slice, and select shapes in Adobe Illustrator CC 2015.
13 videos |
37m
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Pen Tools & Objects in Adobe Illustrator CC 2015
Discover how to work with pen tools and objects, including free transform, compound paths, transparency, and curvature. Also, explore other object manipulation techniques, such as how to scale, shear, reshape, rotate, and reflect objects.
13 videos |
35m
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Gradients & Bitmap Images in Adobe Illustrator CC 2015
Add a little extra something to your illustrations using the built-in features and tools of Adobe Illustrator. Discover how to work with Bitmap images to create unique effects, such as drop shadows, gradients, and blending objects.
10 videos |
32m
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Advanced Tools & Effects in Adobe Illustrator CC 2015
Explore advanced tools and effects in Illustrator, including the crystallize and wrinkle tools, artboards, the blob brush, line art, symbol tools, the mesh tool, the perspective grid, and clipping masks.
13 videos |
46m
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COURSES INCLUDED
Getting Started with Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is older than the World Wide Web, having been first released in 1987. Since its inception, it has become the de facto standard for computer generated illustration using a variety of methods for designing everything from logos to brochures to breathtaking works of vector art. In this course, you'll begin with a discussion of Adobe Illustrator, its key new features, and how to create a new document. Then you'll delve into artboards and canvases, the Illustrator interface, the properties panel and preferences, using workspaces, and the discover panel. Finally, you'll explore rulers, grids, and guides, key features of the toolbar, how to view your artwork, and how to work with undo, redo, and design history.
14 videos |
1h 51m
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Adobe Illustrator Tools
Adobe Illustrator is one of the pillars in Adobe's Creative Cloud suite of products and works hand-in-glove with Adobe Photoshop to make these applications the tools of choice for graphic designers and publishers. Among Adobe's many strengths are the powerful tools provided in their products, and Illustrator is no exception. In this course, you will explore Adobe Illustrator tools, beginning with the select tools, navigate tools, and draw tools, including working with lines, curves, and shapes. Then you will discover how to edit paths and use the paintbrush and blob tools. Next, you will focus on how to work with type and Illustrator's text tools. Finally, you will learn how to transform, select, and distort shapes with the modify tools.
14 videos |
1h 29m
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Drawing with Adobe Illustrator
The basic metaphor surrounding Adobe Illustrator's drawing platform is vector art, meaning lines and curves that can mathematically scale up or down without the common problems associated with bitmap image scaling. It also has sophisticated, professional level color capabilities, making it the drawing tool of choice for professional designers. In this course, you'll learn about drawing with Adobe Illustrator, beginning with working with color, selecting colors and swatches, advanced color techniques, and alignment, distribution, and grid creation tools. Then you'll delve into working with paths, drawing with Illustrator, creating flares, creating graphs, and working with symbols. Finally, you'll explore how to draw with perspective and how to slice Illustrator projects and save them as web-ready images.
14 videos |
1h
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Working with Images & Printing in Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator encompasses everything a graphic designer needs to create brilliant works of art and visually appealing documents, and while the drawing metaphor of Illustrator is vector-based, it also includes sophisticated image handling, as well as advanced printing capabilities. In this course, you'll explore how to work with images and printing in Adobe Illustrator, beginning with placing, cropping, and applying effects to images, wrapping text around images, and image tracing. Then you'll learn about layers and clipping masks, how to manipulate objects using the appearance panel, and the importance of bleeds. Finally, you'll delve into preparing your documents for color printing, important printing considerations, and how to create a logo in Adobe Illustrator.
14 videos |
1h 25m
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Advanced Techniques in Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a powerful art creation program and one of the key pillars of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of products; and although beginners and non-graphic designers can leverage its power with amazing results, a large part of Illustrator's power lies in its many advanced features. In this course, you'll delve into advanced techniques in Adobe Illustrator, beginning with 3D effects, material and lighting effects, overprinting and trapping, and supported file formats. Next, you'll learn about linked and embedded file management, packaging project files, and creating PDF files. Finally, you'll explore Creative Cloud libraries, how to troubleshoot typical Illustrator issues, and how to use generative AI in Adobe Illustrator.
14 videos |
1h 28m
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Adobe Illustrator: A Complete Course and Compendium of FeaturesAdobe Illustrator: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to building vector graphics, whether you're creating logos, icons, drawings, typography, or other illustrations-and regardless of their destination: print, web, video, or mobile.
4h 3m
By Jason Hoppe
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Illustrator CS4 BibleFrom drawing basics to advanced techniques, this comprehensive guide reveals Illustrator CS4's new features, explains how to integrate Illustrator with the rest of the Creative Suite, and teaches you how to create designs that work beautifully.
10h 29m
By Ted Alspach
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Illustrator CS4 For DummiesWhether you're stepping up to Illustrator CS4 or tackling Illustrator for the first time, this full-color guide gives you the scoop on the newest tools; tips on color control and path editing; ways to organize graphics, and so much more.
5h 53m
By Ted Alspach
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Mastering IllustratorGetting to know all of its tools and features of Adobe Illustrator can be time-consuming. This book helps to ease the learning process and shows you how to create graphics, transform a sketch into a vector, combine analog and digital techniques, prepare artwork for screen printing, and more.
1h 9m
By Smashing Magazine
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Illustrator CS5 BibleBeginning with the basics, then quickly ramping up to more advanced topics, this authoritative resource breaks down the powerful program of Illustrator and explores the new features and functions included in the latest version.
10h 40m
By Ted Alspach
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Adobe Illustrator 2024
This benchmark evaluates your proficiency in key areas of Adobe Illustrator 2024. Being aware of your proficiency level allows you to better understand your current skills and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path.
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