Adobe Illustrator CS6 Essential

This course, you will get familiar with the concept of vector, illustrator workspace, basic tools & menus. It also shows you how to effectively manage layers, clipping groups, and swatches, basic vectoring and more

Chapter 1

Adobe Illustrator & difference between Pixel and Vector

• Is adobe illustrator is for you
• What is the difference between Pixel and Vector? (Free Preview)

Chapter 2

Adobe Illustrator CS6 workspace

• Create a new document
• Adobe Illustrator Cs6 preferences (Free Preview)
• Getting familiar with new Workspace
• Adding & Managing Multiple Artboards

Chapter 3

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Tools Box

• Working with Selection Tools
• Working with Shape and Basic Drawing Tools
• The Drawing Tools
• Working with Eraser, scissor, knife tools (Free Preview)
• Scaling and Transforming
• Working with the shape builder tool

Chapter 4

Appearance Attributes & Graphic Styles

• Appearance Attributes & Graphic Styles Part 1
• Appearance Attributes & Graphic Styles Part 2
• Graphic Styles

Chapter 5

Understanding the Colors

• Introduction to color
• Working with color-panel Part 1
• Working with color-panel Part 2
• Working with Spot Colors

Chapter 6

Working with Color Swatches

• Introduction to Color Swatches
• Introduction to Swatches Options
• Swatches Color Types
• Creating, Selecting, & Saving Swatches
• Process & Global Colors

Chapter 7

Creating, Editing, & Applying Gradients

• Getting familiar With Gradients
• More get into Gradients

Chapter 8

Vectoring an Image

• Importing & Placing Photos
• Introduction to Vectoring
• Part 1 - Vectoring the Hair using the pencil tool (Free Preview)
• Part 2 - Vectoring the Face with the Pen Tool
• Part 3 - Vectoring the Dress using Shapes
• Part 4 - Vectoring the facial features with the brush tool
• Part 5 - Vectoring the hands, legs, & stand with various drawing tools
• Part 6 - Creating & custom creating stars

Chapter 9

Typography & Working with Text

• Understanding Type Anatomy
• The Type Tools
• Type Panel Fundamentals
• Saving Character & Paragraph Styles
• Introduction to Font Formats
• The Open Type Panel
• Glyphs & Tabs Panel
• Creating Outlines for Text (Free Preview)
• Applying Masks to Text

Chapter 10

Saving, Printing & Exporting

• Saving your Illustrator file
• Exporting your File
• Printing your work