Beginners Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorial

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Living In A Resolution-Independent World

Lecture 1: Working Files – Download These First

Lecture 2: Introduction

Lecture 3: Illustrator CS5 Seeing Is Believing

Lecture 4: The Anatomy Of A Vector Illustration

Lecture 5: Vector Versus Raster

Chapter 2: Working With Illustrator Workspaces And Preferences

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating A New Illustrator Document

Lecture 3: Setting Up The Illustrator Workspace

Lecture 4: Creating Custom Workspaces

Lecture 5: Timesaving Shortcuts

Lecture 6: Working Smart With Preferences

Chapter 3: How Illustrator Selects And Aligns Objects

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Three Ways To Select – It's Black And White

Lecture 3: Working With The Wand And Lasso Tools

Lecture 4: Aligning Manually And With The Align Panel

Lecture 5: Using Smart Guides

Chapter 4: Back To The Basics: Generating Geometric Shapes

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating Rectangles

Lecture 3: Working With Ellipses And Polygons

Lecture 4: Tricks With Stars And Flares

Lecture 5: Additional Geometric Shapes

Lecture 6: Illustrator's Hidden Math Feature

Lecture 7: QuickTip: Tricks With The Tilde Key

Lecture 8: QuickTip: Creating Rounded Corners

Chapter 5: Generating Fills, Strokes, Patterns, And Gradients

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Working With The Illustrator Swatches Panel

Lecture 3: Adding Solid-Color Fills To An Object

Lecture 4: Cool Color With Kuler

Lecture 5: Working With Illustrator Patterns

Lecture 6: Creating Custom Patterns

Lecture 7: Modifying Existing Patterns

Lecture 8: Fun With Illustrator Strokes

Lecture 9: Tricks With Illustrator Gradients

Lecture 10: Adding Custom Colors To The Swatches Panel

Lecture 11: Using Global Colors

Chapter 6: Transforming An Illustrator Object

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Transform With Rotate And Scale

Lecture 3: Working With The Transform Panel

Lecture 4: Understanding The Transform Each Command

Lecture 5: Creating A Reflection

Lecture 6: Using The Free Transform Tool

Chapter 7: Working With The Layers Panel

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: The Illustrator Layers Panel

Lecture 3: Organizing A Complex Project

Lecture 4: Layer Options

Lecture 5: Layer Panel Options

Lecture 6: Copying Using The Layers Panel

Lecture 7: Opacity And Blending Modes

Lecture 8: Merging And Flattening Layers

Chapter 8: Working With Adobe Illustrator Text

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Creating A Type Container

Lecture 3: Working With Point Type

Lecture 4: Converting Objects To Type Containers

Lecture 5: Creating Type On A Path

Lecture 6: Utilizing The Character Panel

Lecture 7: Formatting Text With The Paragraph Panel

Lecture 8: Getting Efficient With With Styles

Lecture 9: Working With Threaded Text

Chapter 9: More On Text

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: The Magical Eyedropper Tool And Type

Lecture 3: Placing Text On A Circle

Lecture 4: Working With Tabs And Glyphs

Lecture 5: Converting Type To Outlines

Chapter 10: Working With Pen And Point

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Pen Tool Fundamentals

Lecture 3: Manipulating Pen Objects

Lecture 4: Combining Paths To Create Objects

Lecture 5: Creating A Mask

Chapter 11: Working With Illustrators Pencil And Brush Tools

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: The Illustrator Pencil Tool

Lecture 3: Using A Calligraphic Brush

Lecture 4: Creating A Calligraphic Brush

Lecture 5: The Amazing Symbol Sprayer Tool

Lecture 6: Illustrator's Scatter Brush

Lecture 7: Tricks With Illustrator Brushes

Chapter 12: Find Your Own Path With Pathfinder

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Unite And Minus Front

Lecture 3: Intersect And Exclude

Lecture 4: Divide And Trim

Lecture 5: Merge And Crop

Lecture 6: Outline And Minus Back

Chapter 13: Getting Creative With Masks

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Basics Of Clipping Masks

Lecture 3: Clipping Masks And Text

Lecture 4: Clipping Masks And Compound Paths

Lecture 5: Opacity Masks And Gradients

Lecture 6: More On Opacity Masks