Adobe Illustrator CC

Full overview

This course prepares a student to take the Adobe Graphic design & illustration using Adobe Illustrator certification exam.

Students will need to have a copy of the Adobe Illustrator CC software in order to do coursework.

Students will be introduced to Adobe Illustrator, learn how to open an Illustrator file, explore the workspace, work with panels, change the view of artwork, and navigate multiple artboards.

Students will learn how to select objects, align objects, work with groups, and explore object arrangement.

Students will learn how to create a new document, save your document, work with basic shapes, work with drawing modes, and use Image Trace to convert raster images into vector art.

Students will learn how to edit paths and shapes, combine shapes, and use the Width tool.

Students will learn how to work with artboards, rulers and guides, transform content, use repeats, and work with the Puppet Warp tool.

Students will learn how to create with the Curvature tool, create dashed lines, create with the Pencil tool, join with the Join tool, and add arrowheads to paths.

Students will learn why to use the Pen tool, start with the Pen tool, put their learning into practice, and edit paths and points further.

Students will learn about exploring color modes, working with color, and working with Live Paint.

Students will learn about adding text, formatting type, resizing and reshaping type objects, creating and applying text styles, creating text lists, wrapping text, curving text on a path, warping text, and creating text outlines.

Students will learn about layers, creating layers and sublayers, editing layers and objects, and creating a clipping mask.

Students will learn about working with gradients, creating blends, and getting creative with patterns.

Students will learn about working with brushes, using Calligraphic brushes, Art brushes, Pattern brushes, Bristle brushes, and the Blob Brush tool.

Students will learn about using the Appearance panel, live effects, applying a Photoshop effect, applying 3D effects, and using graphic styles.

Students will learn about working with symbols, Creative Cloud libraries, and global editing.

Students will learn about combining artwork, placing image files, masking content, and working with image links.

Students will learn about packaging a file, creating a PDF, creating pixel-perfect drawings, and exporting artboards and assets.

This course prepares a student to take the Adobe Graphic design & illustration using Adobe Illustrator certification exam.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system. This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections. Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.