Adobe Illustrator Advanced

Goals

Increase your illustration productivity, learn advanced techniques, discover new tools

Prerequisite

Having followed an Adobe Illustrator introduction course and having practiced

Contents

Coloring

• Create color swatches
• Use Pantone® colors
• Create a user colors library
• Gradients and transparency
• Gradient meshes
• Use Live Paint

Paths

• Join and cut paths
• Paths width and profile
• Compound paths
• Create and use personalized brushes

Appearance

• Multiple strokes
• Multiple fills
• Opacities
• Blending modes

Effects

• Stylize effects
• Pixelization
• 3D effects
• Photoshop effects in Illustrator

Masks

• Building illustrations with masks
• Create a clipping mask
• Mask opacity

Symbols

• The symbol library
• Modify the instance or the symbol
• Create a symbol
• Symbol options

External images

• Linking vs. embedding
• Rasterization and quality
• Live Trace
• Tracing options
• Manual tracing tips & tricks

Creating Graphs/ Charts

• Use the graph tools
• Change the data
• Graph options
• Format the graph
• Create column designs