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Welcome to the Illustrator LEARNING HUB 

Don't waste time, just dig in, get started. Over 2 hours of Adobe Illustrator tutorial movies that will consolidate what you've learned from the course book 'Illustrator: Structured Learning a Beginner's Guide' in the kickSTART series, and show you new techniques to further enhance your skill and understanding.

 

 


Practical exercises

Use these practical exercises in conjunction with the book – 'Illustrator Structured Learning a Beginner's Guide' in the kickSTART series, to consolidate and develop your skills and understanding of Adobe Illustrator.

 

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Adobe lllustrator – Get Started

Create your first simple graphic, then add a few finishing touches to make it more interesting.

 

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Aligning and Spacing Objects

To create effective artwork you need to have control over the alignment and spacing of objects.

 

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Creating a logo in Illustrator

Use the Transform Again command to build a grid of water droplets for this logo in Illustrator.

 

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Running Type around a Circle

Use the Type on a Path tool to create type on a circle then adjust the type to create the finished result.

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Anchor Points in Adobe lllustrator

Go beyond basic shapes by adding, deleting and manipulating anchor points.

 

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Converting Points – Smooth to Corner

Edit anchor points and direction points in Adobe Illustrator to understand the power of curves.

 

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Cutting Paths in Illustrator

There are many ways to cut paths in Adobe Illustrator. This exercise shows you how you can use the Scissors tool.

 

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Creating Symmetrical Shapes

The Reflect tool is critical when it comes to creating symmetrical shapes in Adobe Illustrator.

 

 

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Adobe Illustrator video tutorial movies

Use these Adobe Illustrator video tutorial movies to extend and enhance your understanding of this hugely creative software application.

 

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Basic Gradients – Gradient Tool

Use the Gradient tool to create a basic white to black gradient to add a highlight to a graphic.

 

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Gradient Slider Controls

Use the Gradient Slider controls to fine-tune a gradient with precision.

 

 

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Multi-color Gradients

Use the Gradient Annotator controls to create a multi-color gradient effect.

 

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Gradient Panel – Part 1

Use the gradient panel controls to create and fine-tune a gradient with precision

 

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Illustrator – Radial Gradients

Use Illustrator's Gradient panel and Gradient tool to create and edit radial gradients.

 

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Working with Color in Adobe Illustrator

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Global and Non-Global Colors

Understand the difference between Global and Non-Global colors to work effectively in Adobe Illustrator.

 

 

 

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Help – where are Pantone colors in Illustrator?

This tutorial shows you how to load a Pantone color into the Swatches panel in Adobe Illustrator.

 

 

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How to convert multiple non-global colors to global

This tutorial shows you how to quickly convert all non-global colors to global if you want to work with the default colors in Illustrator's Swatches panel.

 

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Get to grips with some Adobe Illustrator fundamentals

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Creating a dotted line

Use Round caps and dash controls in the Stroke panel to set up a dotted line in Adobe Illustrator.

 

 

 

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Adding points to a star

You can add and remove points on a star interactively as you draw using the Star tool.

 

 

 

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Controlling the sharpness of points on a star

You can control the sharpness of points on a star interactively as you draw using the Star tool.

 

 

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Drawing stars using the Star dialog box

You can control the sharpness of points on a star using the Star dialog box. Just click on the artboard with the Star tool.

 

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Also by robert shufflebotham

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Available from:    Amazon.com (USA)   |    Amazon.co.uk (UK)

 

 

 

 


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