Adobe Illustrator CS
by Nathan Dickson
Start the free chapterAdobe® Illustrator® CS is the essential tool for designers, graphic artists, technical illustrators, business professionals, or anyone who wants to express their ideas visually in print, on the Web, or other medium. Powerful new features allow users to quickly take control of their designs and page layouts. New features include: optical kerning, global paragraph composition, and revolutionary new 3-D Effects. VTC Author Nathan Dickson begins with an introduction of basic menus, windows and drawing tools, and then moves on to cover all essential elements of Illustrator CS, making you an expert in no time at all. Take your graphic designs to a whole new level by clicking on one of the movie links below.
Course content
Introduction3 lessons
Getting Started6 lessons
Drawing Fundamentals5 lessons
Environment8 lessons
- Using the Keyboard pt. 15:501 credit or ad
- Using the Keyboard pt. 25:551 credit or ad
- The Workspace5:411 credit or ad
- The Toolbox5:081 credit or ad
- Managing Palettes pt. 15:141 credit or ad
- Managing Palettes pt. 23:171 credit or ad
- Entering Values pt. 14:541 credit or ad
- Entering Values pt. 24:091 credit or ad
Paths8 lessons
Selecting6 lessons
Primitives8 lessons
Transforming17 lessons
- Grouping4:111 credit or ad
- Hiding and Locking3:511 credit or ad
- Moving pt. 14:351 credit or ad
- Moving pt. 25:351 credit or ad
- Rotating5:221 credit or ad
- Scaling4:051 credit or ad
- Shearing and Reflecting5:311 credit or ad
- Transform Palette7:021 credit or ad
- Using Transform Each6:341 credit or ad
- Free Transform Tool5:451 credit or ad
- Reshape Tool5:591 credit or ad
- Liquification Tools pt. 14:341 credit or ad
- Liquification Tools pt. 24:061 credit or ad
- Align Palette Pt. 14:141 credit or ad
- Align Palette Pt. 26:071 credit or ad
- Transform Shortcuts4:161 credit or ad
- Cloning2:371 credit or ad
Type Fundamentals10 lessons
- Point Type Tool3:531 credit or ad
- Character Palette pt. 15:141 credit or ad
- Character Palette pt. 25:581 credit or ad
- Typography Shortcuts5:381 credit or ad
- Area Type5:121 credit or ad
- Every-Line Composer2:501 credit or ad
- Justification Settings6:501 credit or ad
- Tabs and Leaders6:421 credit or ad
- No Break and Open Type5:021 credit or ad
- Color and Outline Type3:351 credit or ad
Productivity10 lessons
- Navigator Palette2:581 credit or ad
- Document Info Palette / Hiding the Artboard2:341 credit or ad
- Rulers4:511 credit or ad
- Guides4:311 credit or ad
- Smart Guides4:491 credit or ad
- Snapping To and Saving Views4:571 credit or ad
- Application Preferences pt. 15:241 credit or ad
- Application Preferences pt. 26:141 credit or ad
- Application Preferences pt. 36:231 credit or ad
- Info Palette and Measure Tool3:301 credit or ad
Layers10 lessons
- Clipping Masks6:071 credit or ad
- Layers Palette5:441 credit or ad
- Palette Options2:481 credit or ad
- Layer Options5:451 credit or ad
- Rearranging pt. 14:411 credit or ad
- Rearranging pt. 22:361 credit or ad
- New Object Targeting4:181 credit or ad
- Dupe / Merge / Flatten4:251 credit or ad
- Collect and Release3:021 credit or ad
- Better Mask Management4:101 credit or ad
Advanced Type8 lessons
Visual Attributes8 lessons
Brushes5 lessons
Special Tools10 lessons
- Paintbucket and Eyedropper Tools6:151 credit or ad
- Graph Tool4:091 credit or ad
- Gradient Meshes pt. 15:051 credit or ad
- Gradient Meshes pt. 23:311 credit or ad
- Blends6:471 credit or ad
- Auto-Tracing4:321 credit or ad
- Pathfinder Palette5:491 credit or ad
- Envelope Distort4:051 credit or ad
- Path Menu6:511 credit or ad
- Scissor and Knife Tools2:541 credit or ad