ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR FOR BEGINNERS 2021: LEARN GRAPHIC DESIGN WITH ILLUSTRATOR PDF
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ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR FOR BEGINNERS 2021 LEARN GRAPHIC DESIGN WITH ILLUSTRATOR Hector Grant COPYRIGHT All rights reserved. No part of this publication ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR FOR BEGINNERS 2021 may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning without permission in writing by the author. Printed in the United States of America © 2021 by Hector Grant RS Publishing House USA | UK | CANADA TABLE OF CONTENTS COPYRIGHT INTRODUCTION PART 1 – GETTING STARTED THE INTERFACE CREATING A NEW DOCUMENT CONVERTING YOUR COLOR MODE SAVING YOUR DOCUMENT MANAGING ARTBOARDS TO ADD OR REMOVE AN ARTBOARD MOVING AROUND YOUR WORKSPACE THE LAYERS PANEL PART 2 – WORKING WITH SHAPES ADDING SHAPES TRANSFORMING YOUR SHAPE ADDING A COLOR OBJECT ARRANGEMENT SEPARATING YOUR OBJECTS INTO DIFFERENT LAYERS CHANGING YOUR STROKE’S COLOR AND MAKING IT THICKER SOME TIPS AND TRICKS EXERCISE PART 3 – DRAWING AND COMBINING SHAPES THE PEN TOOL COMBINING SHAPES LOCKING YOUR OBJECTS SELECTING ELEMENTS OF THE SAME COLOR PICKING A COLOR ANYWHERE THE GRADIENT FILL TRANSPARENCY AND BLENDING MODES EXERCISE PART 4 – WORKING WITH TEXT TYPING TEXT SIZE TEXT FONT ADJUSTING TEXT SPACING COMPARING FONTS FORMATTING MODIFYING YOUR TEXT UNGROUPING TEXT WARPING TEXT CHANGING THE COLOR OF YOUR TEXT MAKING YOUR STROKE THICKER PART 5 – THE ART TOOLS TRACING A PHOTOGRAPH USING BRUSHES CREATING YOUR BRUSH MODIFYING YOUR PAINT INSTALLING BRUSHES OTHER ART TOOLS THE ARC TOOL THE SPIRAL TOOL THE RECTANGULAR GRID TOOL THE POLAR GRID TOOL THE PENCIL AND SMOOTH TOOLS THE BLOB BRUSH, ERASER, SCISSORS, AND KNIFE TOOLS EXERCISE PART 6 – TRANSFORMING OBJECTS THE BLEND AND ENVELOPE DISTORT TOOLS THE BLEND TOOL THE ENVELOPE DISTORT TOOL CREATING PATTERNS 3D THE MESH TOOL 3D TEXT WHAT NEXT? INTRODUCTION Adobe Illustrator is an application for creating beautiful and unique artworks. It is a vector graphics maker designed and developed by Adobe Inc in 1985. It is included as a part of the Adobe package, i.e., Adobe Creative cloud which includes Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe XD and more. This software is user friendly and supported by both WindowsOS and MacOS. Furthermore, it is widely used by graphic designers for visual designs that combine shapes, text, and images. However, you can create different digital and printed artworks that include logos, icons, book covers, media post images, cartoons, business cards, and many more. Illustrator's most important use is its ability to create solid and quality artworks that are widely supported and used. As a guide, this will walk you through the basics, which will ignite your ability to think creatively using Adobe Illustrator. You will get a simplified breakdown of utilizing this application by showing the various areas and tools on this platform. Hence, you understand how to use this software, creating colorful shapes and texts, sketching, shortcuts, tips and tricks, and many more… As you read through, it is advised that you practice along for easy and fast assimilation. So if you are ready, let us begin. 1. GETTING STARTED To everything, there is always somewhere it begins. In this part, we will go through the fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator. We will discuss the interface, things you need to know when creating a new document, saving your document, and in general, how to navigate within Illustrator.
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