Easy Adobe Illustrator CC Basic Course

Open Illustrator, close the welcome window, and create a new document from file > new. Set width and height in pixels, choose units, review bleed and trim line for print.

Resize your artboard by dragging with the mouse or entering width and height, then apply presets like letter, iPhone X, landscape, or portrait to fit your project.

Learn how to add more artboards to your Illustrator project, copy and place outputs with the output tool, resize by typing numbers, and align them for precise layouts.

Explore the five object tools in Illustrator, including the rectangle, ellipse, polygon, style, and line segment tools, and learn how to access and use them.

Create your first object with the rectangle tool, drawing a rectangle and watching the outline. Press V to switch to the selection tool and move it.

Create a perfect square in Adobe Illustrator CC using two methods: set equal width and height in the properties box, or hold shift while drawing to constrain to a square.

Use the ellipse tool from the shapes panel to draw a perfect circle by holding shift, then type 600 for width and height and press enter.

use the polygon tool to draw shapes, create triangles by pressing the tool three times and holding shift, then open the properties box to set radius and sides.

Use the star tool to draw and angle a star. Press shift for a shape, then add or remove points with the up or down keys, and shell out edges.

Set a 10-point stroke, draw a line from point a to point b, and lock 45 degrees with shift; use canvas options to create a 200-pixel line at 45 degrees.

Learn to add fills and strokes in Illustrator, swap fill and stroke, apply stroke to fills, use transparent colors, and set stroke width to 10 for a filtered stroke.

Use the selection tool to move, scale, and rotate objects while the direct selection tool selects anchor points to reshape shapes and modify paths.

Learn how to use the pen tool in Illustrator to create and edit shapes by placing anchor points, adjusting handles for curves, and closing paths with shift and 45-degree constraints.

Explore the Illustrator Pathfinder tool to combine, subtract, intersect, exclude, divide, trim, and merge shapes, then crop, outline, or minus back to refine intersections.

Master the type tool in Illustrator CC, open the character window with t. Turn off placeholder text, then place text on shapes or paths and wrap around objects.

Learn two export methods in Adobe Illustrator CC: export for web as PNG-24 with transparency and clipping to the artboard, and export selection with assets, scale, and format options.