Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
Release date:2020
Author:Tony Harmer
Skill level:Beginner
Language:English
Exercise files:Yes
Illustrator can be used to accomplish many different design tasks. For this reason, Illustrator 2021 Essential Training teaches core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflow for print, the web, or assets that will find their way into other applications. Instructor Tony Harmer covers the essentials of Illustrator 2021, including artboards, workspaces, layers, and shapes. Tony discusses vector graphics—paths, strokes, and fills—and shows how to use each of the drawing tools in Illustrator. He demonstrates how to combine and clean up paths, and organize them into groups and layers. Tony also covers text editing, working with color, expressive brush drawing, effects, and much more.
01 Welcome to Adobe Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
02 Installing Illustrator
03 Walk-through setup
04 Walk-through
05 The Illustrator workspace
06 Panels
07 Panning and zooming
08 Using the Navigator panel
09 The Selection tool
10 The Direct Selection tool
11 The Lasso tool
12 Automatic selections
13 Saving selections
14 Drawing basic shapes
15 Drawing polygons and stars
16 Drawing with the Line tools
17 Drawing with the Grid tools
18 Color models in Illustrator
19 The Swatches panel
20 Global swatches
21 Spot colors
22 Using tints
23 Color groups
24 The Color Guide panel
25 Stroke attributes
26 Creating dashed and dotted lines
27 Creating arrowheads
28 Variable-width strokes
29 Aligning objects
30 Distributing objects
31 Aligning points
32 Changing the stacking order
33 Using the drawing modes
34 Using layers
35 Targeting objects using layers
36 Working with groups
37 The Group Selection tool
38 Using Isolation Mode
39 Using the specific Transform tools
40 Using the Free Transform tool
41 Using Transform Again
42 The Transform Each command
43 Transforms as an effect
44 Compound paths and shapes
45 The Pathfinder panel
46 The Shape Builder
47 Live Paint
48 Clipping masks
49 The Pen tool
50 The Curvature Pen tool
51 The Pencil tool
52 Drawing with the Eraser tool
53 Improving paths
54 Using grids and guides
55 Making guides from objects
56 Linear gradients
57 Radial gradients
58 Freeform gradients
59 Gradients on strokes
60 Creating a pattern
61 Pattern strokes
62 Transforming patterns
63 Static symbols
64 Dynamic symbols
65 Using blends
66 Using blending modes
67 Using opacity masks
68 The power of appearances
69 The Appearance panel
70 Illustrator and Photoshop effects
71 Editing or removing effects
72 Graphic styles
73 The Brush tool
74 The Eyedropper tool
75 Using point type
76 Character options
77 The Touch Type tool
78 Paragraph options
79 Using Type On A Path tool
80 Outlining type
81 Placing images
82 Embedding images
83 Cropping images
84 Using Image Trace
85 Using Photoshop with Image Trace
86 Recolor artwork
87 The Puppet Warp tool
88 Working with artboards
89 Arranging artboards
90 Packaging Illustrator files
91 Export as other file types
92 Asset Export
93 Next steps
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