Adobe Illustrator Overview

• What is Adobe Illustrator?
• Vector VS Bitmap Graphics
• RGB and CMYK Color Mode
• Understanding File Formats
• The Illustrator Home Screen

Starting with your Artwork

• Creating a New Document
• New Document Dialog Window
• Creating a New Document Using Presets
• Customizing Document Presets
• Displaying the Printable Area
• Opening an Existing File
• Document Preview
• Artboard Zooming and Panning
• Working with Different Screen Modes
• Displaying and Working Outline View

Saving, Importing, and Exporting Files

• Saving a Document
• Importing Files to Illustrator
• Exporting a File
  • Exporting Assets
  • Asset Export Panel
  • Collect Artwork for Export
  • Collect Artwork for Export as Multiple Assets
  • Collect Artwork for Export as Single Asset
  • Exporting Assets using the Asset Export Panel
  • Output Settings for Exported Assets

Import Artworks from Photoshop

• Photoshop Import Options
• Move part of an image to Illustrator
• Move Paths to Illustrator

Saving to PDF

• Create Adobe PDF files
• Create a Multiple-Page Adobe PDF file
• Create a layered Adobe PDF
• Create an Adobe PDF/X-Compliant File
• Create Compact PDF Documents
• Adobe PDF Presets

Managing Assets with Adobe Bridge

Creating and Managing Artboards

• Artboard Option

Touring The Illustrator Workspace

• The Workspace
• Displaying Advanced Toolbars
• Displaying the Control Panel
• Working with Workspace Presets
• Creating and saving a Custom Workspace
• Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts

Configuring Illustrator’s Preferences

Select, Move and Group Objects

• Selection Basics
• Grouping and Ungrouping Objects

Creating Basic Shapes

• Draw Basic Shapes
• Drawing Basic Lines

Manipulate Shapes, Objects and Paths

• Manipulate Nodes/Points
• Deleting a Node/Point
• Displaying the direction handles

Drawing with the Pen Tool

• Pen Tool
• Add and Delete Anchor Points
• Anchor Point Tool
• Curvature Tool

Rescaling and Rotating Objects

• The Bounding Box
• Rescaling an Object
• Rotating an Object

Simple Object Transformation

• Rotation Tool
• Reflect Tool

Guides, Grids, Alignments and Object Stacking

• Rulers
• Guides
• Grids
• Alignment Tools
• Object Stacking

Working with Layers

• The Layers Panel
• Managing Layers
  • Creating a New Layer
  • Renaming a Layer
  • Selecting a Layer
  • Moving a Layer
  • Grouped Objects
  • Creating a Sub Layer
  • Isolate Objects
  • Locking and Hiding Objects
  • Collecting Objects to a New Layer
  • Merge Layers
  • Flatten Artwork
• Pasting Between Layers

Painting Fills and Strokes

• Fill and Stroke Color
• RGB and CMYK Color
• Coloring Objects
• Sampling colors with the Color Picker
• Color Swatches
• Gradient Colors
• The Eyedropper Tool

Applying Transparency

Working with Text

• Point Type Text
• Area Type Text
• Text on a Path
• Character Formatting
• Paragraph Formatting

Type

• Type tool
• Create Type on a Path
• Create Outlined Type
• Apply an Envelope Distort to Type
• Create Type Masks

Styles and Appearances

• Character Styles
• Paragraph Styles
• Open Type
• Glyphs
• Missing Font
• Backward Compatibility (Legacy Files)
• Type Appearance
• Creating Outlines

Applying Effects

• Stylize
• Photoshop Effects

Envelope, Mesh and Blends

• Warping
• Top Object
• Mesh Tool
• Warp Tools
• Blend Tool