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Summary of the Chapters Module 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to Adobe Illustrator This chapter introduces the Adobe Illustrator screen ad its basic tools for drawing lines, arcs, rectangles, ovals, polygons, stars, etc, and how these shapes can be edited.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Next This chapter demonstrates some of the Type tools that Illustrator provides. This includes selecting fonts, font sizes, font styles and font colours, entering vertical text, entering text along a path, wrapping text around a shape and rotating text. 
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 3: Combining Objects into Designs This chapter demonstrates how to combine text and shapes to produce more complex designs. It covers grouping objects, duplicating objects, adding 3D effects, using Rulers and grids, etc.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 4: Drawing and Painting Tools This chapter introduces the Pencil tool, the Smooth tool, the Eraser tool, the Paintbrush tool and the Live Paint Bucket and demonstrates how to use them to create artwork.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 5: Using the Blob Brush Tool This chapter demonstrates how to use the Blob Brush tool to enhance the creation of artwork. It covers painting shapes, combining shapes into the one shape and adjusting text.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 6: Fills, Gradients and Effects Demonstrates how to apply fills and strokes to shapes, how to use the Gradient panel and the Gradient tool to apply different types of gradient fills, how to apply style effects on shapes and how to use the Rotate tool to create circular shapes. The assignment gets students to design alloy wheels for a car.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 7: Creating 3D Shapes Demonstrates how to extrude 2D shapes into 3D shapes, for example creating cylinders from circles and boxes from rectangles. The Revolve command is also used to create 3D shapes such as spheres.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to place images and symbols on the Artboard, how to edit images, how to open the Symbol Libraries and how to use the symbol tools - Symbol sprayer, Symbol Shifter, Symbol Scruncher, Symbol Sizer, Symbol Spinner, Symbol Stainer, Symbol Screener and Symbol Styler.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to distort images and text using the Free Transform tool and the Liquify tools. :
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Introduces the Layers panel and how to create designs using layers. It includes how to create a new layer, rename a layer, layer option, locking layers, turning the visibility of layers on or off and deleting layers. A sketch of a house is created with separate layers for the structure, doors, windows, etc.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Module 2 Demonstrates how to use the Pen tool to create straight lines and curved lines, how to adjust anchor points on a line, how to add and delete anchor points, how to position anchor points as they are drawn and how to trace an object.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to use the Mesh tool to creating realistic fill effects on shapes. Single and multiple meshes are applied to create a sphere and to improve the traced object created in the previous chapter.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Demonstrates how to display images and sketches within other shapes (envelopes). It includes creating envelopes, distorting photographs, envelope warps and applying meshes to envelopes.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next This chapter covers how to use the Live Trace command to trace scanned hand-drawn sketches or images. It covers tracing the scan, applying thresholds and blurs to improve the trace, expanding the result into an Illustrator object, applying Live Paint, checking for Gaps and adding backgrounds to the trace. How to use Live Trace with photos is also covered.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next This chapter demonstrates how to create Opacity Masks and Clipping Masks so that part of a sketch is viewed within a shape.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next This chapter demonstrates how to use the Blend tool to blend shapes, colours, effects and symbols and how to use the Pathfinder panel to create and edit shapes.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next Chapter 17: Creating Realistic 3D Shapes This chapter demonstrates how to create realistic 3D shapes and how to add content to the visible sides Shadows and a background are also added to the shapes.
Back to Adobe Illustrator| Top | Previous | Next Chapter 18: Multiple Artboard Documents This chapter demonstrates how to create documents that have multiple Artboards (pages). A two-page publicity document for a house for sale is created. It includes using the Artboard tool to add or delete Artboards, create Artboards of different sizes, duplicating Artboards and laying out Artboards to create six-sided pamphlets.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next The CAD capabilities of Illustrator are used to created scaled diagram of a Conference Room. The scale is determined at the start and content accurately drawn and positioned. It includes the use of layers, Rulers, grids, placing objects and the Measurement tool.
Back to Adobe Illustrator | Top | Previous | Next To complete the module some of Illustrator's handy tools are demonstrated, including saving images for the web, saving in other formats, drawling graphs, using Photoshop effects and saving styles.
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