Adobe Illustrator is the industry-leading vector drawing program used by professional designers around the globe for digital graphics, illustrations, and typography.
• Explore the different types of documents you can create in Illustrator for print or web. • Understand the fundamentals of CMYK and RGB colors and when to use each. • Create, scale and manipulate shapes. • Add color with fill and stroke, and apply linear and radial gradients. • How to use the Pen tool and Curvature tools to create shapes. • Work with preset brushes and create your own custom brushes. • Create basic paths which can be used to trace an image. • Add text and adjust its size, style and formatting. • Distort shapes and type, and add perspective with the Free Transform tool. • Blend lines or shapes gradually with the Blend tool. • Merge shapes with the Pathfinder and Shape Builder tools. • How to use masks on shapes or text, and opacity masks for gradients and highlights.