Course Title: Adobe Illustrator 9



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, Rachel Caplan guides you through the basics of Illustrator 9, then leads you into the more technical territory by showing you how to modify objects, the use of gradients, scribbling and tweaking, and more. By clicking one of the subjects below, you can start the learning process right away.


Course Author/Expert: Rachel Caplan

Language: english

Full Online Training Available: Yes

Number of Course Movies: 107

Course Duration: 3 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


Introduction

Raster vs. Vector

Basic Interface

The Toolbox

Palettes

Hand & Zoom tool

Custom Views

Navigator Palette

Document Set Up

Saving/Exporting Files

Preferences

Rulers & Guides/Grids

Selection Tools

Grouping Objects

Locking & Hiding

Arranging Objects


New Features


Flash & SVG Output/Release to Layers

Pixel Preview

Instant Drop Shadows; Glows & Live Shapes

Convert to Shape


Drawing Objects


Drawing Rectangles

Drawing Ellipses

Polygons

Stars

Spirals

Masks

Opacity Masks


Drawing Paths


Bezier Paths

Anchor Points

Pencil Tool


Editing Paths


Adding & Deleting Anchor Points

Reshape Tool

Smooth & Erase Tool

Scissors Tool & Knife Tool

Joining Paths


Color


Color Palette/Liaries

Swatches Palette

Transparency Palette

Eyedropper Tool

Paint Bucket Tool


Fills & Strokes


Applying a Fill

Gradient Fills

Gradient Mesh Tool

Pattern Fills

Stroke Palette

Offset; Outline & Path


Painting


Brushes Palette

Paintush Tool

Calligraphic Brush

Scatter Brush

Art Brush

Pattern Brush


Transformations


Scaling & Rotating

Reflect

Shear

Free Transform Tool

Transform Each

Align Palette

Blend Tool

Pathfinder Palette

Duplicate; Transform & Again

Transform Palette


Text


Point Text

Area Text

Linking Text Blocks

Text on a Path

Vertical Text

Character Palette

Paragraph Palette

Tab Palette

MM Palette

Converting Text to Outlines

Text as Mask

Change Case & Find Font

Punctuation and Spelling


Filters


Free Distort

Punk & Bloat

Roughen

Scribble and Tweak

Twirl

Zig Zag

Rasterize

Arrows

Feather

Round Corners

Trim Marks


Vector Filters


Adjust Colors

Object Mosaic

Pen & Ink

Photo Crosshatch

Blending Objects

Overprint Black

Saturate


Placing Images


Placing Raster Images

Linking and Embedding

Links Palette

Auto Trace Tool


Actions


Actions Window

Creating Actions


Web Graphics


Web Palette

Assigning URLs to Objects

Web File Formats

Saving Images for the Web

Working with Animation









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