Welcome to Illustrator
About vectors and bitmaps
When to use Illustrator
Getting started in Illustrator
Creating new illustrations
Opening illustrations
Artboard components
The Illustrator interface
Navigationg your illustrations
Saving illustrations
Illustrator artwork components
Outline vs Preview mode
Rulers, guides and grids
Paths, point and handles
Grouping objects
Introduction to layers
Creating shapes
Creating primitive shapes
Creating polygons, stars and spirals
Drawing lines, grids and arcs
Working with colour
Colour models
Applying colour to objects
Spot vs process colour
Process and global process colours
Adding, duplicating, deleting and editing swatches
Introduction to gradients
Using the Eyedropper tool
Loading swatches
Sharing colour swatches across applications
Drawing in Illustrator
Working with paths, points and direction handles
About Bezier curves
Using the Pen tool
Creating simple Bezier shapes
Drawing curves with the Pen tool
Drawing mixed paths
Tips for drawing curves
Editing, manipulating and modifying paths
Adding and deleting anchor points
Converting anchor points
Using the cutting tools
Using the Average and Join command
Questions and answers
Using LiveTrace
Automatically tracing artwork
Adjusting LiveTrace results
Controlling LiveTrace colours
Setting LiveTrace options
Creating LiveTrace presets
Converting LiveTrace objects
Painting in Illustrator
Manipulating stroke options
Stroke placement options
Painting with the Paintbrush
Introducing blends
Introducing the Gradient Mesh
Creating multiple fills and strokes on a single object
Creating LivePaint groups
Painting LivePaint objects
Introducing symbols
Organising your artwork
Editing the artboard size
Using guides and smart guides
Positioning elements using the Control and Transform palette
Using the Align palette
Using layers
Creating complex shapes
Creating compound shapes
Creating compound paths
Expanding compound shapes
Transforming objects
Using the Transform tool
The Reshape tool
Control and Transform palette
Introducing the Liquify tools
Envelope distortions
Placing imported graphics
Photoshop import options
Displaying layer comps
Applying Spots to Greyscales
Working with type
The type tools
Using the Character palette
Using the Paragraph palette
Creating outlines from text
Type on a path
Saving and exporting
Saving vs exporting
Saving Illustrator files
Creating Adobe PDF files
Exporting files from Illustrator
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