Illustrator CC Advanced

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Illustrator CC.

• Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows skills.
• Illustrator Fundamentals: An Introduction to Illustrator class or equivalent experience.
• Photoshop Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop class or equivalent experience is recommended.

 

Lesson 1: What is New CC & CC 2014

• Creative Cloud Libraries
• Curvature tool
• Join tool
• Area-type auto-sizing
• Integration with the Illustrator family of mobile apps
• Live Shapes: Rectangles and Rounded Rectangles
• Pen tool preview
• Anchor point enhancements
• Typekit integration
• Custom Tools panels
• Perspective drawing enhancements
• Touch Type tool
• Images in brushes
• CSS extraction
• Auto corners for pattern brushes
• Unembedded images
• File packaging
• And More

Lesson 2: The Basis of Illustrator Objects

• Advanced understanding of Illustrator Objects
• What Object can become what Object? More confusing than you think
• Advanced uses of the Blend Object
• Gradient or Mesh: Changing one object to another
• Advanced use of the Symbol Sprayer
• Advanced use of the Variable Width
• Expanding: When and How
• Compound Shape vs. Compound Path: Who is better
• Breaking it all apart
• Just know your object: Look to the Layers Panel

Lesson 3: Mesh and Other Tools

• Mesh tool
• Mesh as opacity mask
• Lasso tool
• Warp tool
• Twirl tool
• Pucker tool
• Bloat tool
• Scallop tool
• Crystallize tool
• Wrinkle tool
• Width tool
• Polar grid tool
• Rectangular grid tool
• Flare tool
• Free transform tool
• Graph tools
• Scissor tool
• Knife tool

Lesson 4: Working with Perspective Drawing

• Understanding the perspective grid
• Working with the perspective grid
• Using a preset grid
• Editing the perspective grid
• Drawing objects in perspective
• Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
• Attaching content to perspective
• Editing planes and objects together
• Adding and editing text in perspective
• Working with symbols in perspective
• Adding symbols to the perspective grid
• Transforming symbols in perspective
• Releasing content from perspective
• Working with the horizontal plane

Lesson 5: Applying Effects

• Using live effects
• Applying Photoshop effects
• Working with 3D effects
• Creating a revolved object
• Changing the lighting of a 3D object
• Mapping a symbol to the 3D artwork
• Where to put the Effect

Lesson 6: Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles

• Using the Appearance panel
• Using graphic styles
• Saving content for the web
• Creating CSS code

Lesson 7: Working with Symbols

• Working with symbols
• Working with the Symbolism tools
• Replacing symbols
• Breaking a link to a symbol
• Editing symbol options
• Editing with the Symbolism tools
• Copying and editing symbol sets
• Storing and retrieving artwork in the Symbols panel
• Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork
• Working with symbols and Adobe Flash® integration

Lesson 8: Graph

• Creating a Graph
• Types of Graphs
• Making a Design for Columns and Markers
• Updating the Data
• Graphics for the Column and Marker

Lesson 9: Advanced Masks

• Masking an image
• Applying a simple clipping mask to an image
• Editing a mask
• Masking an object with a shape
• Masking an object with multiple shapes
• Creating an opacity mask
• Editing an opacity mask

Lesson 10: Combining Illustrator CC Graphics with Other Adobe Applications

• Combining artwork
• Placing image files
• Masking an image
• Sampling colors in placed images
• Working with image links
• Replacing a linked image
• Packaging a file
• Exploring Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Muse™, Adobe Fireworks®, and Adobe Flash