Adobe Illustrator Introduction

Goals

Creating vectoral drawings, understanding the composition and modification of existing drawings

Prerequisite

Knowledge of the Windows or Mac working environment

Contents

Basic Shapes

• Rectangle, ellipse, polygon and star shape tools
• Shape options
• Shape transformation
• Creating complex shape out of simple ones

Shape properties

• Moving, copying, grouping of shapes
• Colors
• Strokes
• Superposition

Paths

• Line tool, pen tool…
• Modifying, transforming, moving anchor points
• Modifying Bezier Curves

Creation and saving

• Difference between pint and web documents
• Bleed
• Artboards
• Saving and Exporting

Placing

• Placing a pixel image into the drawing
• Image tracing

Gradients and transparency

• Creating gradients
• Modifying gradients and adapt to shape
• Object and gradient color transparence

Typo

• Creating Text
• Character, Paragraph Formats
• Outlines

Drawing aides

• Guides
• Grid
• Layers and sub-layers