Introduction
Welcome to Adobe Illustrator 2021 Essential Training
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Installing Illustrator
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1. Quick-Start Exercise
Walk-through setup
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Walk-through
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2. The Illustrator Environment
The Illustrator workspace
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Panels
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Panning and zooming
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Using the Navigator panel
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3. Selection
The Selection tool
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The Direct Selection tool
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The Lasso tool
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Automatic selections
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Saving selections
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4. Shape and Line Drawing Tools
Drawing basic shapes
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Drawing polygons and stars
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Drawing with the Line tools
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Drawing with the Grid tools
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5. Color
Color models in Illustrator
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The Swatches panel
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Global swatches
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Spot colors
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Using tints
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Color groups
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The Color Guide panel
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6. Strokes
Stroke attributes
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Creating dashed and dotted lines
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Creating arrowheads
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Variable-width strokes
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7. Arranging and Ordering
Aligning objects
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Distributing objects
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Aligning points
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Changing the stacking order
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Using the drawing modes
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Using layers
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Targeting objects using layers
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8. Groups
Working with groups
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The Group Selection tool
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Using Isolation Mode
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9. Transforms
Using the specific Transform tools
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Using the Free Transform tool
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Using Transform Again
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The Transform Each command
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Transforms as an effect
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10. Drawing by Construction
Compound paths and shapes
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The Pathfinder panel
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The Shape Builder
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Live Paint
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Clipping masks
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11. Drawing Tools
The Pen tool
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The Curvature Pen tool
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The Pencil tool
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Drawing with the Eraser tool
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Improving paths
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12. Using Guides and Grids
Using grids and guides
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Making guides from objects
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13. Gradients
Linear gradients
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Radial gradients
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Freeform gradients
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Gradients on strokes
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14. Patterns
Creating a pattern
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Pattern strokes
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Transforming patterns
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15. Symbols
Static symbols
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Dynamic symbols
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16. Blends, Blending, and Transparency
Using blends
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Using blending modes
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Using opacity masks
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17. Appearances
The power of appearances
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The Appearance panel
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Illustrator and Photoshop effects
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Editing or removing effects
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Graphic styles
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The Brush tool
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The Eyedropper tool
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18. Type
Using point type
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Character options
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Paragraph options
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The Touch Type tool
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Using Type On A Path tool
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Outlining type
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19. Images in Illustrator
Placing images
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Embedding images
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Cropping images
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20. Pixels to Vectors
Using Image Trace
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Using Photoshop with Image Trace
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21. Modifying Artwork
Recolor artwork
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The Puppet Warp tool
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22. Artboards
Working with artboards
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Arranging artboards
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23. Output
Packaging Illustrator files
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Export as other file types
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Asset Export
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Ex_Files_Illustrator_2021_EssT.zip
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