Course Title: Adobe Illustrator 8



Offering an unparalleled combination of creative freedom and productivity, Adobe Illustrator is preferred by designers, graphic artists, technical illustrators, and business professionals. In this Virtual Training Company tutorial, Diane Presler will take you smoothly from the basics of Illustrator 8, such as the interface and layers, to the complicated aspects, like masking images, modifying gradients, and using the zigzag filter. To get started, simply click one of the topics below


Course Author/Expert: Diane Presler

Language: english

Full Online Training Available: Yes

Number of Course Movies: 103

Course Duration: 10 hours



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Course Outline:



Straight away, you can go through the first three chapters of this tutorial. If you need all the lessons, then join the Online University - complete access to over five hundred and fifty courses right now for as long as you need them and even get an online university certificate. See below for details.




Basics


Vector vs. Bitmap

Basic Interface

Help

Objects & Paths

Hand & Zoom Tool

Viewing Modes

Selecting Objects

Group & Ungroup

Scaling & Moving

Duplicating Objects

Layers

Rulers & Guides

Saving & Undo

Save as File Formats

Document Setup


New Features


Navigator Palette

Smooth & Erase Tool

New Brushes

Gradient Mesh Tool

Bounding Box

Thin Layers

Eyedropper/Text

Layers to Photoshop

Links Palette


Drawing Paths


Pen Tool

Pencil Tool

Editing Paths

Convert Direction Tool

Compound Paths

Cap Ends

Reshape Tool

Offset Paths


Drawing Objects


Circles & Rectangles

Polygon Tool

Spiral Tool

Star Tool

Autotrace Tool

Masks


Color


Color Palette

Swatches

Color Liaries

Importing Swatches

Eyedropper & Paintbucket

Global Color Changes

Color Filters

Hard Mix & Soft Mix


Modifying Objects


Free Transform Tool

Shear Tool

Reflect Tool

Scale Tool

Rotate Tool

Transform Each

Transform Again

Twirl Tool/Filter


Brushes


Paintush Tool

Pattern Brush

Scatter Brush

Scatter Brush Liaries

Art Brush


Moving Objects


Stacking Order

Group Selection Tool

Move Command

Align & Distribute

Measure Tool


Guides & Measuring


Guides

Guide Objects

Grids

Measuring


Text


Character Attributes

Text Commands

More Character Attributes

Text Box

Paragraph Attributes

Import & Export Text

Create Outlines

Transforming Text

Linking Text Blocks

Text Wraps

Text on a Path

Vertical Text

Tab Ruler


Placing Images


Placing Images

Linking vs. Embedding

Tracing Images

Colorize Bitmap Images

Masking Images

Filters

Links Palette


Blends & Gradients


Gradient Tool & Palette

Modifying Gradients

Blend Colors

Blend Shapes

Mesh Gradient Tool


Patterns


Pattern Overview

Fill Pattern

Path Pattern

Geometric Patterns

Irregular Patterns


Filters


Mix Hard and Mix Soft

Adjust Colors

Color Filters

Free Distort Filter

Drop Shadows & Arrows

Round Corners

Object Mosaic

Rasterize

Zig Zag Filter

Scribbling & Tweaking

Punk & Bloat

Roughen

Twirl


Working Efficiently


Make Crop Marks

Registration Color

Ram Allocation

Easter Egg









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