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ADOBE

ILLUSTRATOR

FOR BEGINNERS 2021

LEARN GRAPHIC DESIGN WITH ILLUSTRATOR

Hector

Grant

COPYRIGHT

All rights reserved. No part of this publication ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR FOR BEGINNERS 2021 may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning without permission in writing by the author.

Printed in the United States of America

2021 by Hector Grant

RS Publishing House

USA | UK | CANADA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Adobe Illustrator is an application for creating beautiful and unique artworks. It is a vector graphics maker designed and developed by Adobe Inc in 1985. It is included as a part of the Adobe package, i.e., Adobe Creative cloud which includes Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe XD and more. This software is user friendly and supported by both WindowsOS and MacOS.

Furthermore, it is widely used by graphic designers for visual designs that combine shapes, text, and images. However, you can create different digital and printed artworks that include logos, icons, book covers, media post images, cartoons, business cards, and many more. Illustrator's most important use is its ability to create solid and quality artworks that are widely supported and used.

As a guide, this will walk you through the basics, which will ignite your ability to think creatively using Adobe Illustrator. You will get a simplified breakdown of utilizing this application by showing the various areas and tools on this platform. Hence, you understand how to use this software, creating colorful shapes and texts, sketching, shortcuts, tips and tricks, and many more As you read through, it is advised that you practice along for easy and fast assimilation. So if you are ready, let us begin.

GETTING STARTED

To everything, there is always somewhere it begins. In this part, we will go through the fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator. We will discuss the interface, things you need to know when creating a new document, saving your document, and in general, how to navigate within Illustrator.

GETTING STARTED THE INTERFACE

When you open Adobe Illustrator (of course, you must have installed it), what you see is called its interface. This is what you give commands and interact with to get your desired result. The interface contains three major segments; the top, the left-hand side, and the right-hand side.

1. At the top is the Menus (File, Edit, Object, Type, Select, Effect, View, Window, and Help), the Options bar, and the Title bar.

The Menus allow you to do some specific functions like creating a new document, saving a document, and more. The Options bar allows you to modify your selected tool at a point in time. And the Title bar displays the title of the opened document(s).

1. On the left-hand side, we have the Toolbar. The Toolbar contains several tools that will help you work well and bring your imagination into reality. We have tools like the Pen tool for drawing, the shape tools, the Text tools, the Shape Builder tool, and many more.

1. And on the right-hand side are several panels for use; we have the Color panel (for choosing colors), the Swatches (for choosing preset colors), Layers panel, Stroke panel, and more. However, you can add more panels by clicking the Window menu and selecting the panel you want.

When you open a panel, you minimize it by clicking the double-left arrow at the top right of such panel and click the x icon to close.

However, if you keep working with a specific panel, you can easily dock it by clicking and dragging such panel to the Panel bar.

Now, you should be familiar with this fantastic software. So far, so good, we have discussed Illustrator's interface; the Menus, Options bar, Toolbar, and Panels. In the next topic, we will talk about creating a new document.

GETTING STARTED CREATING A NEW DOCUMENT

As soon as you open Adobe Illustrator, the next thing you most likely want to do is either open an existing document or create a new document. On a new document is where you work and can do all those fantastic things. So, let us create a new document.

You can create a new document through the File menu (File > New) or utilize the shortcut Ctrl or Command + N. Then, you get a pop-up window. This window allows you to make some settings to your new document.

Listed below are tips on the next thing to do:

Name: Give your file a name; this will allow you to locate such a file quickly.

Profile: This will allow you to choose based on the purpose you want to design. You can choose within Print, Web, Devices, Video and Film, Basic RGB, Flash Builder, and you can even browse for more. Mostly, you would be using Print and Web.

The Print option will change your color mode to CMYK (standard color for printing). If you are working on something like a T-shirt or a Poster, you need to work in that color profile. Web is the right selection when you are working on something for the Internet, a Logo or graphics for your website, for instance. Selecting Web will automatically change your color mode to RGB. However, you can always convert your color mode from RGB to CMYK and vice-versa.

Number of Artboards: This option allows you to set the number of canvases or workspace you want. You also have the option to specify how they are arranged; you can make a Grid by Row, Grid by Column, Arrange by Row, and Arrange by Column. You can also choose Spacing and the number of columns you want, provided you have selected more than one artboard.

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