Getting around in Illustrator
- Zoom controls
- The navigator palette
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Creating a ‘startup' file
The toolbox
- Explains the functions of the various tools and how to use them
Key windows
- Colour
- Swatches
- Stroke
- Transparency
- Gradient
- Character
- Paragraph
Basic drawing techniques
- Shapes and line segments
- Open and closed paths
- Working with Bezier drawing tools
- Editing drawn objects
- The Selection tools
- Colouring graphic objects
- Applying and editing gradients
- CMYK, RGB, Pantone libraries
- Scaling, re-shaping and shearing and mirroring objects
- ‘Transform again' command
- ‘Arrange' command
An introduction to the type tools
- Paragraph and character options
- Leading, size and kerning
- Linking and unlinking text blocks
- Using tabs and indents
- Spell check
|
The Brushes palette
- Applying the 4 different brush types
- Modifying brush attributes
- Creating new brushes
- Editing applied brushstrokes
The Symbols palette
- Using the symbol sprayer
- The other symbols tools
More drawing techniques
- Using the pathfinder palette
- Warp, twirl, pucker, bloat...and more
- Creating and using compound paths
- Creating and using patterns
Graphs
- Defining the graph design
- Importing and editing graph data
Special effects
- The Illustrator ‘filter' menu
- Photoshop plug-ins
- Gallery effects More key windows
- Transform
- Align
More about text
- Advanced formatting techniques
Working with layers
- Changing layer hierarchy
- Changing object hierarchy within a layer
|
