ILLUSTRATOR CC - MASTERCLASS Central

Course details

This course is packed with tips and techniques carefully selected to help you use Adobe Illustrator more efficiently. It provides creative inspired ideas and helps propel your Illustrator skills beyond any level you may have achieved in the past.

Learn the many unusual techniques that allow you to experiment freely and quickly achieve just the look you want.

Be able to handle complex with speed and ease!

HARDWARE AND WORK HABITS MATTERS
Saving time with Illustrator power shortcuts
Tweaking preferences for improved efficiency
Setting up scratch disk to compensate for the lack of memory
Ensuring high quality print via Document Raster Effects Settings


ADVANCED DRAWING TECHNIQUES
Learn the many variations of using Pathfinder commands to reduce drawing efforts
Discover hidden short-cut keys that can help you draw efficiently
Using Envelope Distort to create shapes
Using in-panel appearance editing
Distributing objects accurately in a circular ring
Create inter-locking shapes
Go beyond the basic ways of applying blend
Quickly style your objects with graphic styles
Using the Width tool to create strokes with variable widths
Adding variable strokes as presets
GRAPHS AND CHARTS
Communicating information visually with graphing tools
Creating graphs using various charting tools
Add and edit graph data
Formatting graphs
Adding symbols and pictures to graphs
Creating 3D pie charts


MUST KNOW EFFECTS
Creating concentric borders
Creating transparent objects the quick and easy way
Create fading effects with opacity masks
Using Appearance panel to add "stacking" lines and interesting line styles
Add gradients to text without creating outlines
Repeating a object across artboards
Making detailed line adjustments and adding arrowheads
Implementing the 9-slice scaling to protect parts of your artwork
Packaging files for hand over to printers