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Adobe Illustrator Tutorial
Resolution settings
layout application
PLACE command
Text boxes

CREATE DOCUMENTS
FILE: New Documant RGB any default size
WINDIW: palettes Appearance, Stroke, Swatches, and Tools
VIEW: Hide Edges, Hide Bounding Box, Hide Page Tiling, Hide Rulers (not Show Rulers)


DRAWING WITH PENCIL AND PEN TOOL
- Set Stroke color to NONE. Open PENCIL setting.
- Draw curved path with LOW and HIGH settings.
Describe selection tools ARROWS and LASSO; examine POINTS and HANDLES and manipulate CONTROL HANDLES
- Draw lines with PEN tool
- Examine adding, subtracting, and converting points on all lines with arrows, lasso, and PLUS/MINUS/CONVERT pen tools.
-Draw closed shape with PENCIL tool (OPTION key) and PEN tool.
-Change SIZE and COLOR of STROKE; change FILL


DELETE AND CREATE NEW DOCUMENT

CREATING SHAPES WITH SHAPE TOOLS
-Demonstrate TEAR OFF of shape tools
-Insert ONE shape by DRAGGING or CLICKING (NUMERIC insertion)
-DRAG/INSERT shape using SHIFT/OPTION keys, and ARROWS (Polygon)


CREATING SHAPES WITH SHAPE TOOLS (COT"D)

- TRANSFORM shape with bounding box (option and shift keys)
TRANSFORM shape with TRANSFORM options (under VIEW or CONTROL key POP-UP menu)
- MOVE share with ARROW keys
-CUT share with SCISSOR and KNIFE tool(s).
- FILLS (Solid, Gradient, Pattern)
-TRANSFORM shape with bounding box; PROPORTIONAL (OPTION and SHIFT keys)
- GRADIENT MIXER, COLOR MIXER, save to SWATCHES)

BRUSHES

- Draw open path and apply different types of BRUSHES (CALLIGRAPHIC, SCATTER, ART, PATTERN0
Apply, Create, and Edit differenr ART and SCATTER brushes (Drag-off, edit, re-define)
- Draw rectangle and apply PATTERN brush

CLEAR DOCUMENT

LAYER PALETTE

- Open LAYERS palette (under WINDOWS)
-Create two shapes (rectangle and circle, different color)
- examine relationship of shapes to LAYER PALETTE
- Reposition shapes above and below and review PALETTE
- GROUP and UN-GROUP shapes (examine Palette)
- Create NEW LAYER and distribute one shape to each layer, then re-arrange layers, visibility on and off
-Create new shape on each layer and move/control visibility of each layer
-demonctrate LAYER options (double-click)

VARIOUS TOOLS AND PALETTES (Open/close , or DC -double-click'')

- TRANSPARENCY PALETTE (transparency/blending options)
- PATHFINGER PALETTE
- ALIGN and DISTRIBUTE PALETTES


TEAR OFF TOOLS (Demonstrate: Draw simple Closed shape with Pencil tool)

-ROTATE (DC), MIRROR (DC), SWIRL (Left or right)
-SCALE (DC), SHEAR (DC), SHAPE (select portion and apply)
-WARP (tool(s)
-FREE TRANSFORM Tool (With Command key)
-BLEND Tool (make two shapes), AUTO TRACE 9Place given image)
-EYEDROPPER Tool (shapes and text), PAINT BUCKET (Preset values), RULER (with COMMAND key)
- LINE, ARC, SPIRAL, GRIDS (DC all)
-GRADIENT MESH tool
-GRADIENT Tool (demonstrate on gradient fill)
-GRAPH tools (enter DATA)

VARIOUS TOOLS AND PALETTES (COT''D)
TEXT TOOL

-Text Box - Area text/TEXT to PATH/TEXT to SHAPE/MAKE OUTLINES
-WARPED TEXT
-TEXT WRAP 9around object above)

OTHER OBJECT COMMANDSS

-CLIPPING MASK 9use placed image0; make and realise / CROP MARKS
- COMPOUND SHAPE 9use two shapes)
-COPY/PASTE 9in FRONT, COPy/PASTE (BEHIND)
- ENVELOPE DISTORT
-PLACE command

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PEN TOOL

Pen Tooltip Direct Selection
Direction
Convert point
Corner point
Smooth point
Control Handles (mouse button down while dragging pen in direction of arrow)
(Mouse button...., ALT/OPTION KEY depressed to convert anchor point)

Convent point tool;
grab Control Hangle;
(Click anchor point to convert back to Corner point/staidht segments)

PATHFINDER (palette Transform-Align-Pathfinder)
Pathfinder (Shape Modes - Pathfinders: Divide, Trim, Merge, Crop, Outline, Minus Back)
Shape Modes:
Add to shape area
Subtract from shape area
Intersect shape areas
Exclude overlapping shape areas.

Divide
Trim (pulled apart afterwards)
Marge (pulled apart afterwards)
Crop
Outline (pulled apart afterwards)
Minus Back: the objects in back cut through the topmost object)

TOOLBOX/TEAROFFS

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V Selection (Selects entire objects)
Direct-selection A (Selects parts of objects)
Y Magic Wand (Selects objects by color)
Direct-select Lasso Q (selects individual points or segments by lassoing)
P Pen (Draws curved and straight line segments)
Type T (Creats and edits horizontal type)
/ Line Segment (Draws straight lines at any angle)
Rectangle M (Draws rectangles and squares)
B Paintbrush (Creates calligraphic, scatter, art, and pattern brush strokes)
Pencil N (Draws free-style lines)
R Rotate (Rotates objects)
Scale S (Enlarges or shrinks objects)
Shift-R Warp (Distorts shapes) Free Transform E (Rotates, scales, reflects, shears, distorts, or applies perspective)
Shift-S Symbol Sprayer (Sprays symbol instances)
Column Graph J (Creates graphs)
U Gradient Mesh (Creates and edits multicolored gradient mesh objects)
Gradient G (Changes the direction of existing gradients)
I Eyedropper (Samplies paint or type attributes) Blend W
(Creates shape and color blends between objects)
Shift-K Slice (Defines slice areas)
Scissors C (Cuts paths)
H Hand (Moves the artboard in the document window)
Zoom Z (Changes the magnification of the illustration)
X Fill (color that is applied inside a path)
Swap fill/stroke (SHIFT-X key)
Stroke X (color that is applied to the edge of a path)
D Default fill and stroke colors
Color-Gradient-None ?
F F Standard screen mode
Full screen mode with menu bar F
Full screen mode F

The tear-off toolbars (+Add-anchor-point, -Delite-anchor-point, or SHIFT-C key - Convert-anchor-point that converts corner points to curved, or vice versa
Group-selection (selects whole groups)
Lasso (selects whole objects by lassoing)
Drawing tools (Arc SEgment, Spiral, Rectangular Grid that creators rectangular grids, Polar grid for circular grids), Reflects for mirror image, Twisr twists shapes)

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