Adobe Illustrator For Beginners

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Illustrator CC: Getting the Most From This Course

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: What Can You Do With Illustrator?

Lecture 3: How To Get Illustrator

Lecture 4: What To Expect From This Course

Chapter 2: Adobe Illustrator CC: the Layers

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Adobe Illustrator Layers 101

Lecture 3: Illustrator Layer Panel Options

Chapter 3: Adobe Illustrator CC: the Basics + Getting Started

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Illustrator vs. Photoshop

Lecture 3: Illustrator Preferences

Lecture 4: Illustrator Interface

Lecture 5: Options Are Nifty

Lecture 6: Illustrator Workspaces

Chapter 4: Adobe Illustrator CC: Be More Productive!

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: You Must Do This First!

Lecture 3: Work With Multiple Documents

Lecture 4: View & Navigation

Lecture 5: Illustrator Grids & Guides

Lecture 6: Bonus Tips for Guides & Rulers

Lecture 7: Illustrator Artboards

Lecture 8: Warning, Do Not Skip! HINT; this lesson alone is worth the price of the course.

Chapter 5: Adobe Color Management in Illustrator

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Another Question

Lecture 3: Colorsync Settings

Lecture 4: Illustrator Swatches Panel

Lecture 5: Global Colors

Lecture 6: Color Theme Inspiration

Chapter 6: Adobe Illustrator CC: Image + Masks

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Link & Embed Placed Images

Lecture 3: Illustrator Links Panel

Lecture 4: Non Destructive Editing in Illustrator

Lecture 5: Illustrator Basic Clipping Masks

Chapter 7: Adobe Illustrator CC: Selections

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Selecting With Preferences

Lecture 3: Group & Direct Selection Tips

Lecture 4: Illustrator Lasso Tools

Lecture 5: Selecting With the Magic Wand Tool

Lecture 6: Illustrator Isolation Mode

Chapter 8: Adobe Illustrator CC: Create & Manipulate Objects

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Illustrator Basic Shapes

Lecture 3: Illustrator Math

Lecture 4: Illustrator Re-size, Scale + Rotate

Lecture 5: Illustrator Distort Tools

Lecture 6: Illustrator Object + Stroke Fills

Lecture 7: Create + Modify Patterns

Lecture 8: Illustrator Live Corners

Chapter 9: Adobe Illustrator CC: Anchors + Paths

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Illustrator Paths vs. Strokes

Lecture 3: Illustrator Open vs. Closed Paths

Lecture 4: Illustrator Join & Average

Lecture 5: Illustrator Scissors & Knife Tools

Chapter 10: Adobe Illustrator CC: Creating Vector Shapes

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Drawing Modes

Lecture 3: Pathfinder Tools

Lecture 4: Shape Builder Tools

Lecture 5: Symbol Sprayer

Lecture 6: Blob, Paintbrush & Pencil Tools

Chapter 11: Adobe Illustrator CC: the Pen Tool

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Pen Tool 101

Lecture 3: Create Simple Paths

Lecture 4: Anchor Points

Lecture 5: Gaining Control

Chapter 12: Adobe Illustrator CC: Effects & Appearance

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Control Effects

Lecture 3: Appearance Panel

Chapter 13: Adobe Illustrator CC: Image Trace

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Image Trace 101

Lecture 3: Image Trace Options

Lecture 4: Live Paint

Lecture 5: Gap Detection

Chapter 14: Adobe Illustrator CC: Typography

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Container & Point Type

Lecture 3: Custom Type Containers

Lecture 4: Straight & Curved Text

Lecture 5: Character & Paragraph Panels

Lecture 6: Character & Paragraph Styles

Lecture 7: Text Threading

Chapter 15: Adobe Illustrator CC: Output

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Save an Illustrator Documents

Lecture 3: Save for the Web & More

Lecture 4: Direct Output to Print

Chapter 16: Bonus

Lecture 1: Bonus