Adobe Illustrator Part 2

About This Course:

Once you know the basics of Illustrator, the next step is creating richer, more complex artwork and working more efficiently. This course builds on the skills from Part 1 and introduces the advanced techniques professional designers use to produce polished, production-ready vector graphics.

You’ll start by turning raster images into editable vector art with Image Trace and cleaning up the results. You’ll then learn more powerful ways to build and reshape artwork, including compound paths, the Shape Builder tool, Pathfinder effects, shape modes, path reshaping, and the Width tool for creating variable-width strokes.

Course Objectives:

• Convert raster images into editable vector artwork with Image Trace and clean up traced art

• Create compound paths and combine shapes with the Shape Builder tool and Pathfinder effects

• Reshape paths and create variable-width strokes with the Width tool

• Create tints and color groups, and use the Color Guide panel and Edit Colors dialog box to recolor artwork

• Create and modify Live Paint groups with the Live Paint Bucket tool

• Create, apply, and edit paragraph and character styles

• Collect, duplicate, and paste layers, apply appearance attributes to layers, and create clipping masks

• Apply, edit, and save linear and radial gradients on fills and strokes, and add transparency to gradients

• Create and modify blends, including blends with specified steps and smooth color blends

• Apply existing patterns and create and edit custom patterns

• Create, edit, duplicate, and replace symbols, and work with dynamic symbols

• Add, use, and update assets in Creative Cloud libraries, and use global editing

• Place, transform, and crop images, including Photoshop documents

• Mask images with shapes and text, and create and edit opacity masks

• Manage image links, and embed, unembed, and replace images

• Create PDFs and export artboards and assets

Audience:

• Illustrator users who have completed Adobe Illustrator Part 1 or have equivalent experience

• Graphic designers and illustrators

• Marketing and communications professionals who create logos, icons, and visual content

• Web, UI, and digital designers who need scalable graphics

• Apparel, packaging, and product designers

Prerequisites:

You should have some experience with Illustrator and a working knowledge of the topics covered in Adobe Illustrator Part 1, including:

• Navigating the Illustrator workspace and working with artboards

• Selecting, aligning, and transforming artwork

• Creating shapes and drawing with the Pen tool

• Applying color, adding type, and organizing artwork with layers