Offering an unparalleled combination of creative freedom and productivity, Adobe Illustrator is preferred by designers, graphic artists, technical illustrators, and business professionals. In this Virtual Training Company tutorial, Rachel Caplan guides you through the basics of Illustrator 9, then leads you into the more technical territory by showing you how to modify objects, the use of gradients, scribbling and tweaking, and more. By clicking one of the subjects below, you can start the learning process right away.
Basics
Introduction Raster vs. Vector Basic Interface The Toolbox Palettes Hand & Zoom tool Custom Views Navigator Palette Document Set Up Saving/Exporting Files Preferences Rulers & Guides/Grids Selection Tools Grouping Objects Locking & Hiding Arranging Objects New Features
Flash & SVG Output/Release to Layers Pixel Preview Instant Drop Shadows; Glows & Live Shapes Convert to Shape Drawing Objects
Drawing Rectangles Drawing Ellipses Polygons Stars Spirals Masks Opacity Masks
Drawing Paths
Bezier Paths
Anchor Points
Pencil Tool
Editing Paths
Adding & Deleting Anchor Points
Reshape Tool
Smooth & Erase Tool
Scissors Tool & Knife Tool
Joining Paths
Color
Color Palette/Liaries
Swatches Palette
Transparency Palette
Eyedropper Tool
Paint Bucket Tool
Fills & Strokes
Applying a Fill
Gradient Fills
Gradient Mesh Tool
Pattern Fills
Stroke Palette
Offset; Outline & Path
Painting
Brushes Palette
Paintush Tool
Calligraphic Brush
Scatter Brush
Art Brush
Pattern Brush
Transformations
Scaling & Rotating
Reflect
Shear
Free Transform Tool
Transform Each
Align Palette
Blend Tool
Pathfinder Palette
Duplicate; Transform & Again
Transform Palette
Text
Point Text
Area Text
Linking Text Blocks
Text on a Path
Vertical Text
Character Palette
Paragraph Palette
Tab Palette
MM Palette
Converting Text to Outlines
Text as Mask
Change Case & Find Font
Punctuation and Spelling
Filters
Free Distort
Punk & Bloat
Roughen
Scribble and Tweak
Twirl
Zig Zag
Rasterize
Arrows
Feather
Round Corners
Trim Marks
Vector Filters
Adjust Colors
Object Mosaic
Pen & Ink
Photo Crosshatch
Blending Objects
Overprint Black
Saturate
Placing Images
Placing Raster Images
Linking and Embedding
Links Palette
Auto Trace Tool
Actions
Actions Window
Creating Actions
Web Graphics
Web Palette
Assigning URLs to Objects
Web File Formats
Saving Images for the Web
Working with Animation