Beginners Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorial

Name: Beginners Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorial
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Learn Adobe Illustrator CS5 at your own pace. Over 10 hours of tutorial videos from a leading Adobe Expert.

Created byInfinite Skills

Last updated 1/2017

English

What you'll learn

The basics of the Illustrator interface, giving you a solid understanding of workspaces, shortcuts, and object alignment before moving into the program's core design tools.
Geometric shapes, fills, strokes and even gradients to incorporate more complexity into your projects.
How to work with text, transform objects, manipulate layers, utilize brush and pen tools, and modify your compositions through warping, meshes, masks and more.

Course content

24 sections • 160 lectures • 9h 52m total length

Working Files - Download These First0:01
Introduction1:43
Illustrator CS5 Seeing Is Believing1:55
The Anatomy Of A Vector Illustration3:23
Vector Versus Raster1:57
Explore the difference between vector and raster graphics, showing how Illustrator creates scalable, non-pixelating images while Photoshop uses pixels that pixelate when resized.

Introduction1:59
Discover how to create an efficient, organized Illustrator workspace by configuring panels, palettes, and workspaces, and adjust preferences to boost speed and creativity for design tasks.
Creating A New Illustrator Document4:35
Setting Up The Illustrator Workspace2:41
Learn to set up the Illustrator workspace by arranging panels, using the tear-off type tool menu, hiding panels with the tab key, and saving a workspace.
Creating Custom Workspaces2:08
Timesaving Shortcuts2:54
Working Smart With Preferences3:40
Learn to customize preferences to boost Illustrator efficiency, including nudge factor, keyboard increments with shift, tooltips, and handling plug-ins, scratch disks, and tabbed documents.

Introduction1:08
Creating Rectangles7:23
Working With Ellipses And Polygons4:10
Tricks With Stars And Flares3:38
Additional Geometric Shapes8:02
Learn to create and modify geometric shapes in Illustrator CS5, using line segments, arcs, spirals, rectangles, grids, and shortcuts to rotate, duplicate, and edit with the direct selection tool.
Illustrator's Hidden Math Feature2:29
QuickTip: Tricks With The Tilde Key1:04
Learn a quick tip: the tilde key in the upper left of your keyboard lets you draw multiple copies of any shape or tool in Illustrator.
QuickTip: Creating Rounded Corners1:00
Discover how to create rounded corners in Adobe Illustrator by selecting the object, choosing effect, stylize, round corners. Turn on preview and adjust the radius for shapes and polygons.

Introduction1:04
Working With The Illustrator Swatches Panel5:48
Learn to use Illustrator's swatches panel to manage document-specific colors, merge colors from other documents, find and organize swatches, and save or share swatch libraries across Adobe apps.
Adding Solid-Color Fills To An Object2:33
Cool Color With Kuler5:31
Working With Illustrator Patterns4:25
Creating Custom Patterns7:23
Modifying Existing Patterns2:07
Learn how to modify existing patterns in Illustrator by dragging swatches to edit, ungrouping objects, adjusting color and size, and redefining patterns for greater design control.
Fun With Illustrator Strokes8:20
Tricks With Illustrator Gradients5:51
Adding Custom Colors To The Swatches Panel4:23
Using Global Colors2:49

Introduction1:45
The Illustrator Layers Panel2:56
Organizing A Complex Project4:23
Create named layers for flowers, leaves, pretties, and background to organize a growing illustrator project. Move grouped objects between layers using color indicators to track the active layer.
Layer Options2:14
Layer Panel Options6:31
Copying Using The Layers Panel2:17
Opacity And Blending Modes2:05
Merging And Flattening Layers1:57
Merge selected layers and flatten artwork in Illustrator to simplify your design, with the option to unmerge later. Compare Illustrator’s non-destructive layer control to Photoshop's limited merging.

Introduction1:30
Creating A Type Container4:43
Working With Point Type3:58
Converting Objects To Type Containers2:57
Convert shapes into type containers with the area type tool, turning ellipses into text boxes, and duplicate for preserving stroke and fill.
Creating Type On A Path4:14
Learn to place and format type on any path in Illustrator, using the ellipse and pen tools, adjust line margins, overflow, and mirror text along a path.
Utilizing The Character Panel6:47
Master the character panel in Adobe Illustrator CS5 to adjust fonts, size, leading, kerning, tracking, baseline, anti-aliasing, and language dictionaries for accurate typography.
Formatting Text With The Paragraph Panel4:24
Explore formatting text in Illustrator using the paragraph panel, learning left, center, right, and justified alignment, indentation, spacing, and hyphenation to shape each paragraph.
Getting Efficient With With Styles5:23
Working With Threaded Text3:50

Introduction1:09
Master the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator CS5 by learning to create anchor points, connect strokes, combine paths, and make shapes and masks.
Pen Tool Fundamentals6:10
Manipulating Pen Objects8:52
Combining Paths To Create Objects6:15
Combine paths to build objects in Illustrator by drawing shapes with the pen tool, cutting, reflecting, and aligning pieces, then apply gradients and shadows to imply depth.
Creating A Mask5:54

Description

A Verifiable Certificate of Completion is presented to all students who undertake this course.

Along with Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator is one of the most important graphic design tools in the world, and absolutely the best choice if you want to create vector graphics that can be endlessly resized without degradation. Andy Anderson's Illustrator CS5 for Beginners video course can help you quickly become proficient with Illustrator's cutting edge tools and functionality.

This Adobe Illustrator video tutorial teaches you to work confidently with vector graphics no matter what your focus. You will get a thorough introduction to the individual tools Illustrator offers and also gain a better understanding of how the program can be used as a go-to choice in virtually any workflow. Andy thoroughly demonstrates vector graphic design techniques that can be used to create logos, business cards and enormous posters, and also covers 3D, animation, file conversion and printing, too. By the completion of this computer software training course, you will be completely competent in the use of Illustrator, creating your own masterpieces of vector art. This course includes working files that allow you to work alongside the author.

Who this course is for:

Anyone wanting to learn to design with vector graphics, whether for logos, business cards or Flash-style animation.
People who are wanting to move from HTML or CSS to full-on programming.
Photoshop users wanting to expand their knowledge to another key component of the Adobe Creative Suite.
Users interested in creating digital art with pen tablet devices.

Beginners Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorial

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Course content

Living In A Resolution-Independent World5 lectures • 9min

Working With Illustrator Workspaces And Preferences6 lectures • 18min

How Illustrator Selects And Aligns Objects5 lectures • 24min

Back To The Basics: Generating Geometric Shapes8 lectures • 29min

Generating Fills, Strokes, Patterns, And Gradients11 lectures • 50min

Transforming An Illustrator Object6 lectures • 31min

Working With The Layers Panel8 lectures • 24min

Working With Adobe Illustrator Text9 lectures • 38min

More On Text5 lectures • 22min

Working With Pen And Point5 lectures • 28min

Description

A Verifiable Certificate of Completion is presented to all students who undertake this course.

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