Introduction to Illustrator CS5
- Illustrator Exercise Files
- How Illustrator Works
- Changing Views
- Selecting and Resizing Objects
- New File Set Up
- Drawing Basic Shapes
- Pratice Time
- Fill and Stroke (line) Color
- More Pratice Time!
- Color Picker & Swatches
- Saving Colors
- Introducing the Color Guide
- Using the Color Guide
- Colors the Easy Way - Kuler
- Swatches
- Grouping
- Alignment
- Pratice Assignment 1 - Homework!
Photos, Colors, and Curves, Oh Boy!
- Place Photos
- Masking
- Direct Selection Tool
- Pen Tool: Work With Points
- Pen Tool: Draw Curves
- Mask with the Pen Tool
- Setting Workspaces
- Transparency
- Working with Basic Text
- Pratice Assignment 2 - Homework!
Brushes and Transform Effects
- Filters and Effects
- Advanced Stroke (line)
- Using Brushes
- Creating New Brushes
- Expanding Objects to Take them Apart
- Join and Flip Objects
- Cutting Vectors
- Making Patterns
- Pratice Assignment 3 - Homework!
Texts, Graidents, Patterns, and Blends
- Using Layers
- Advanced Fonts
- Choosing the Right Font - Font Comping
- Text on a Path
- Text Wrap
- Create Text Outlines
- Gradient Blend Tool
- Creating Graidents
- Pratice Assignment 4 - Homework!
Advanced Shapes, Lines, and Graidents
- Graidient Mesh Tool
- More Advanced Strokes
- The Pathfinder
- Double Stroke
- Live Trace
- Live Fill
- Using Symbols
- Pratice Assignment 5 - Homework!
Optimize for Print and the Web!
- Slice Illustrator Files for the Web
- Saving Files for the Web
- Prep files for Print
- Save for Print
