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
- What is Adobe Illustrator?
- Explore the Adobe Illustrator Interface
- Create and Save New Documents
- Zoom and Navigate in Adobe Illustrator
- Working with Artboards in Adobe Illustrator
- Introduction to Layers in Adobe Illustrator
- Rulers and Guides in Adobe Illustrator
- Shapes and Drawing in Adobe Illustrator
- Aligning and Combining Shapes in Adobe Illustrator
- Pen Tool in Adobe Illustrator
- Manipulating Stroke and Fill in Adobe Illustrator
- Creating and Editing with Color in Adobe Illustrator
- Painting with Gradients in Adobe Illustrator
- Getting Started with Patterns in Adobe Illustrator
- Adding Text To Your Document in Adobe Illustrator
- Formatting Text in Adobe Illustrator
- Strokes and Variable Strokes in Adobe Illustrator
- Rotating Objects in Adobe Illustrator
- Effects and the Appearance Panel in Adobe Illustrator
- Adding Photo Images in Adobe Illustrator
- Working with Linked Content in Adobe Illustrator
- Packaging your Project for Handoff in Adobe Illustrator
- 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.