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Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator 2021 in the first of three comprehensive training courses.
Expert demonstrates how to work with artboards; how to draw with the Pencil, Curvature, and Pen tools; and how to organize color with swatches, also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text with variable fonts, painting freeform artwork with or without a tablet, and more.
Introduction
Welcome to One-on-One
1. Open
A first look at Illustrator
Opening a document by double-clicking it
Introducing the Home screen
Creating a new document
The units of design: Points and picas
Creating very large artwork
Overriding units of measure
The advanced document settings
Activating missing fonts
Modifying your new document
Saving Illustrator artwork
Saving a cloud document
2. Artboards
Pages of any size, at any angle
Using the Artboard tool
Undo, Redo, and Revert
Selecting multiple artboards
Creating a new artboard
Copying, pasting, and duplicating artboards
Five ways to resize artboards
Introducing the Artboards panel
Navigating between artboards
Aligning and distributing artboards
Automatically tidying up your artboards
Artboards and rulers
3. Navigate
Getting around your artwork
Zooming in and out
Using the more precise Zoom tool
Zooming on a selection (or not)
GPU Performance and Animated Zoom
Scrolling (or panning) a document
Specifying a custom zoom level
Working with multiple open documents
Customizing your panels: Do not skip!
Saving your custom panels as a workspace
Cycling between screen modes
Trim View and Presentation Mode
4. Lines
Now, you draw
Guidelines and center guides
Positioning guides numerically
Using the Line Segment tool
Working with and without the bounding box
Moving and duplicating objects
Select Similar Objects and Global Edit
Introducing the Scissors tool
Joining your line segments
Introducing the Eyedropper tool
Using the Arc tool
Using the Spiral tool
Using the Polar Grid tool
Duplicating and scaling spirals
Using the Rectangular Grid tool
Auto-blending fill colors
A preview of shape building
5. Shapes
And now, you draw better
Creating a time-saving template
Using the Rectangle tool
Creating a rectangle by the numbers
Using the Ellipse tool
Creating a circle by the numbers
Live pies and custom guides
Creating a pie with numerical accuracy
Using the Polygon tool
Using the Star tool
Creating a star of a specific size
Creating a series of evenly spaced rays
Using the crazy Flare tool
The top-secret tilde key trick
6. Color
How color works
The color modes: RGB vs. CMYK
Hue, saturation, and brightness
Selecting a color from the Spectrum Ramp
Creating and applying swatches
Working with global swatches
Searching swatches by name
Auto-deleting and adding swatches
Using the Eyedropper tool
Loading swatches from another document
7. Strokes
The rich world of strokes
Adjusting the line weight
How strokes align to path outlines
Caps, joins, and miter limit
Making practical use of caps and joins
Dashes and arrowheads
Variable-width strokes
Numerically adjusting width points
Custom aligning strokes to paths
Creating a custom width profile
Creating a classic round-dotted outline
Drawing a quick-and-dirty gear
Outline Stroke and Compound Path
Combining multiple strokes
Offsetting strokes to simulate depth
8. Type
Text at its best
Placing and flowing text
Converting between area and point type
Modifying the text frame
Creating custom margins guides
Changing the font and type style
Introducing variable fonts
Paragraph alignment
Type size and leading
Dialing in custom variable styles
Creating your own custom italics
Kerning characters of type
Roman hanging punctuation
Filling and stroking text
Vertical alignment and justification
Snapping objects to characters of type
9. Build
Join and the Shape Builder
Using the Join command
Using the Join tool
Object > Path > Outline Stroke
Using the Shape Builder tool
More ways to use the Shape Builder tool
Creating a real-world project
Creating an inset reflection
Coloring a path with the Shape Builder tool
Sculpting with variable-width strokes
Converting text to path outlines
Gap detection and path splitting
Drawing with the Shaper tool
Combining paths with the Shaper tool
Editing paths inside a Shaper Group
10. Pencil
Freeform drawing at its best
Drawing freeform path outlines
The Smooth tool and Path Eraser tool
Extending and connecting paths
Drawing straight and perpendicular lines
Creating a tracing template
Combining the Pencil tool with a drawing tablet
Coloring your Pencil tool art
11. Paint
The best tools for painting
Painting with the Blob Brush
Fusing path outlines together
Blob Brush size and strategies
Introducing the Eraser tool
Reassigning keyboard shortcuts
Painting background paths
Erasing all kinds of paths
Erasing and smoothing away lumps
The Blob Brush and the opacity value
Painting with a drawing tablet
Using the Simplify command
12. Curvature
Drawing one point at a time
Drawing with the Curvature tool
Working with smooth and corner points
Creating and editing open path outlines
Tracing a photographic detail
Adding a basic textured fill
Shape building a castle wall
A first look at gradients
Editing a shape with the Curvature tool
A first look at object blends
Duplicating and scaling a complex object
Drawing a custom letterform
Creating a rippling line segment
Adding a piece of vector-based clipart
13. Pen
The tool that can draw anything
Creating corner points
Adding and deleting anchor points
How smooth points work
Drawing smooth points
Drawing cusp points
Using the Anchor Point tool
Real-world drawing with the Pen tool
Drawing a very complex path outline
Copying and repurpose path segments
Drawing a lot with very few points
Creating dimension with shadows
Shading the eye, ear, and nose
Drawing smoothly waving path outlines
14. Corners
Making corners smooth
The round corner widget
Rounding off corner points
Changing the corner type
Rounding characters of type
Absolute vs. relative rounding
Drawing with rounded rectangles
Detailing your iPhone
Combining round-corner shapes
Create better, faster with round corners
Turning corner points into organic curves
Reshaping rounded paths
15. Screen
Saving for devices and the web
Aligning objects to the pixel grid
Aligning objects as you draw or modify them
Aligning text to the pixel grid
Introducing the Save for Web command
For devices and presentations, use PNG
Saving an 8-bit graphic
Saving a JPEG image
Saving vector-based SVG files
Assigning a copyright
Using the Export for Screens command
Using the Asset Export panel
Asset Export time-saving tricks
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