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Adobe Illustrator CC for Beginners

 

Adobe Illustrator CC for Beginners

 

Class Description


This course is part of: Adobe Illustrator Creative Cloud: Essentials for Creating Projects 

Gain the fundamentals necessary to tackle the world’s best vector-based illustration software Adobe® Illustrator®. Brian Wood will take you step-by-step and explain everything a beginner needs to know to get up and running with Illustrator, including:

  • Interface & tools
  • Using the pen tool
  • Applying color
  • Formating Text 

In Adobe Illustrator CC for Beginners Brian will use a series of projects to teach you everything you need to create your first graphic or illustration. 


Software Used: Adobe Illustrator CC 2015

Lessons

  1. What is Adobe Illustrator?
  2. Explore the Adobe Illustrator Interface
  3. Create and Save New Documents
  4. Zoom and Navigate in Adobe Illustrator
  5. Working with Artboards in Adobe Illustrator
  6. Introduction to Layers in Adobe Illustrator
  7. Rulers and Guides in Adobe Illustrator
  8. Shapes and Drawing in Adobe Illustrator
  9. Aligning and Combining Shapes in Adobe Illustrator
  10. Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator
  11. Manipulating Stroke and Fill in Adobe Illustrator
  12. Creating and Editing with Color in Adobe Illustrator
  13. Painting with Gradients in Adobe Illustrator
  14. Getting Started with Patterns in Adobe Illustrator
  15. Adding Text To Your Document in Adobe Illustrator
  16. Formatting Text in Adobe Illustrator
  17. Strokes and Variable Strokes in Adobe Illustrator
  18. Rotating Objects in Adobe Illustrator
  19. Effects and the Appearance Panel in Adobe Illustrator
  20. Adding Photo Images in Adobe Illustrator
  21. Working with Linked Content in Adobe Illustrator
  22. Packaging your Project for Handoff in Adobe Illustrator
  23. Best Formats to Save Your Files

Reviews

Colleen
 

I've been trying to learn Illustrator on and off for years. This is the best instruction I've had! Brian is a great instructor. Finally feeling comfortable with it. It does use an older version but I just adapt.

Bill Neill
 

Great content and a good instructor. Not his fault the world marches on and doesn't stay in 2015. Any reasonably intelligent person will be able to figure out the changes since 2015 and how they relate to this course. It is early 2019, and I'm not having any trouble, but then I am reasonably intelligent and not to lazy to do some thinking.

a Creativelive Student
 

Pretty good so far but he's using a very different version of Illustrator and my currently updated version does not have the tool bars top and bottom for dealing with artboards.