Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful drawing software program offered by Adobe. Anyone, regardless of artistic or computer ability, can use Illustrator to draw shapes and lines, create text, or import graphics and pictures. You can use Illustrator to do a layout for a book, create a web page, and the list goes on. The best thing about it is, however, that you can do all these things easily using Illustrator once you learn the program and what different functions and features it provides. 

This course was designed to teach you everything you need to know to make full use of Adobe Illustrator. However, you should be forewarned that Illustrator is a large program because there is so much you can do with it. If you've used Illustrator before, then the first half of this course may serve as a review to you. That's because we start at the beginning, showing you around the program and teaching you how to do the most basic functions. These are the building blocks that will make Illustrator's advanced features easy to learn and use when we start to cover them later in the course. 

Navigate Illustrator and where to find all the tools and features you'll need

Draw basic shapes

Draw objects

Create vector images, then edit those vector images quickly and easily

Add color to your work

Use blends, gradients, and patterns

Create symbols to place into your work to save time

Create layers and masks

Draw landscapes such as buildings and houses with ease using perspective

Add graphs to your documents

Add text to your documents – and even to your objects and shapes

Create drawings, business cards, brochures, or anything you want using Adobe Illustrator