Creative Cloud Libraries in Adobe Illustrator App

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Creative Cloud Libraries in Adobe Illustrator App

I'm gonna get my list open here. So let me get my list going. It's hard when you go through a lot of different phases of Illustrator and you work with a lot of different versions, to keep track of what's new. There's just, there's so much going on it seems like, all the time. So let me, I've got a little list here I just wanna make sure that we do. Okay, we talked a little bit about working with libraries in the course itself. Libraries are phenomenal just because, as you can see, with the Libraries panel that we see in InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, we can go and take this content and you can either pull from the apps, pull it right in here if you want to, or we can go and pull and create content from all the different applications, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and it's all right there. So we can use it as much as we need, as many times as we need. And like I said before, to be able to take these libraries and actually share them with people, is awesome. To me this the best...

part. If I take a library, and let's say I just created this and I wanna give this all to you, 'cause I'm a very nice person. I could come right here and click on Share Link. It's gonna take me out to the browser and it's gonna tell me, right now, you don't have this set up for sharing. We're actually gonna be able to see every one of our assets up here that we have available. I can say, let's create a public link. You can then come down here and you can either put in a bunch of email addresses if you want to send to people, or you can just copy the public link here and send that separately. However you want to do it. But what's gonna happen is, somebody's gonna click on that link, once they get this email, and it's gonna say, "Do you wanna add it to your Creative Cloud?" You can download it to your Creative Cloud. You're gonna get this library to work with then. There's been a lot of designers, a lot of artists that are creating artwork for Illustrator and for Adobe in general, that are sharing their libraries. And you can find that on the Adobe blogs. Sometimes they'll say that. They'll be like, "Hey, so-and-so just did a project for us. "Why don't you grab the library they used?" I love that. With the advanced options you get, say you can also just look at it or download it and look at it. So you've gotta, kind of pick what you want people to do. So, kinda' neat. And up here, once you get up here, if you try this, you can see that we can see all the different libraries that we have, let me go back, all the different libraries available. And you're gonna be able to see all the assets in each one and kind of do different things with them up here. So, alright, that is that. I forgot to mention this during the class, somebody had told me about a way to learn the pen tool. I think you had mentioned it, I forgot. There were a couple websites that I wanted to show you real quick and just mention. Adobe actually has a website called Play the Pen Tool Game. And, just search for Play the Pen Tool Game, and it's really, I just, I've done it. I did it for the first time today. I was looking at it and I'm like, "What is this?" It's really cool. You actually go through and you just say, let's start it out. It give you a little run through of what it is, and says, alright, press escape, and your path, play. You actually have to save the spaceship as it goes through the maze and not have it crash. So it does all these little things to make it so you have to kind of work with it, right? I'll let it crash anyway, that's fine, okay. There's another one called The Bezier Game. And it's a game, you just search for The Bezier Game if you wanna do that. And the idea here, this is the coolest thing in the world. That's SVG, by the way, anyway. And then tap on "get started". You're going in and you're like, let's skip. You have to create this path in so many nodes. It says you only have, like 10 nodes or something, and if you don't do it in 10, you fail. So it's trying to get your skill, up your game a little bit, to be able to work. It's kinda cool. It's a clever way to be able to get people in to the pen tool. Okay, let me get back over to Illustrator. I just wanted to mention that. I forgot about it. I'm gonna reset my workspace, just quickly. We also have, what's new in Illustrator, we have something called, and I should mention this, a Recent Files workspace. I haven't used it yet. I'm still kind of on the fence on whether I will, but I might. If I click on Recent Files, there's actually a panel in here called Recent Files. It's pretty much like the start screen. So you could have this off on the side and I can make it a little bit smaller, put other panels out here too. But you could use this to jump to the projects you've already opened, recent files, different things like that. You can create new files. There's a couple things that you can do in here to work with this. That's called the Recent Files workspace, so kinda cool.

Class Description

Lessons

1. Class Introduction
2. What is Adobe Illustrator?
3. Explore the Interface
4. Create and Save New Documents
5. Zoom and Navigate
6. Working with Artboards
7. Introduction to Layers
8. Rulers and Guides
9. Shapes and Drawing
10. Aligning and Combining Shapes
11. Pen Tool
12. Manipulating Stroke and Fill
13. Creating and Editing with Color
14. Painting with Gradients
15. Getting Started with Patterns
16. Adding Text To Your Document
17. Formatting Text
18. Strokes and Variable Strokes in Adobe Illustrator
19. Rotating Objects in Adobe Illustrator
20. Effects and the Appearance Panel in Adobe Illustrator
21. Adding Photo Images in Adobe Illustrator
22. Working with Linked Content in Adobe Illustrator
23. Packaging your Project for Handoff in Adobe Illustrator
24. Best Formats to Save Your Files
25. Select Like a Pro: Layers, Groups, & Other Unique Tools
26. Edit Paths Like a Pro in Adobe Illustrator
27. Editing Paths: Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator
28. Creating & Applying Brushes to Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
29. Editing Paths: Knife & Scissor Tool in Adobe Illustrator
30. Editing Paths: Join Tool in Adobe Illustrator
31. Editing Paths: Isolation Mode in Adobe® Illustrator®
32. Pen Tool Shortcuts in Adobe Illustrator
33. Other Drawing Tools & Methods in Adobe Illustrator
34. Transforming Techniques in Adobe Illustrator
35. Shortcut to Reflecting Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
36. Get to Know Your Appearance Panel in Adobe Illustrator
37. Exploring Effects in Adobe Illustrator
38. Work Smarter with Graphic Styles in Adobe Illustrator
39. Color Inspiration in Adobe Illustrator
40. Type Effects in Adobe Illustrator
41. Masking Your Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
42. Using Creative® Cloud® Libraries in Adobe® Illustrator®
43. Capture Artwork with Creative Cloud Apps & Adobe Illustrator
44. Tracing Raster Images in Adobe Illustrator
45. Blending Artwork in Adobe Illustrator
46. Using Symbols in Adobe Illustrator
47. Using a Perspective Grid in Adobe Illustrator
48. Crash Recovery in Adobe Illustrator
49. GPU Performance in Adobe Illustrator
50. Curvature Tool in Adobe Illustrator
51. App Integration in Adobe Illustrator
52. Creative Cloud Libraries in Adobe Illustrator App
53. Shaper Tool in Adobe Illustrator
54. Smart Guides in Adobe Illustrator
55. Text Enhancements in Adobe Illustrator
56. SVG Export in Adobe Illustrator