Adobe Illustrator

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Adobe Illustrator

• TTI1O
• Ms. Cooper

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Illustrator

• Adobe drawing program.
• Contains drawing tools and colour controls.
• Creates graphics for print, the internet, movies,
  motion design.

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Illustrator

• Photoshop manipulates bitmap images, illustrator
  uses vectors to create graphics.
• Vectors mathematical objects that do not have a
  resolution.
• Can be resized without losing an detail.

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Features

• Colour apply and control colours. Edit any
  artwork with different tints and shades.
• Trace converts pictures to editable images.
• Drawing tools and controls draw, erase images.
• Paint any closed area of artwork.
• Typography create types, change font.

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Design

• Divided in four sections artboard, scratch area,
  toolbox, and pallets.
• Artboard workspace.
• Imageable area where artwork resides
• Non-imageable area margin of page
• Scratch area surrounding artboard where you can
  doodle/practice.

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Design

• Toolbox frequently used items.
• Hidden tools where arrows to right of tool are.
• Palettes help monitor and modify files.
• Appearance, navigator, info, colour, attributes
  transparency, stroke, gradient swatches, brushes,
  character, paragraph layers, actions, links.

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Creating Files

• Select File - New.
• Select File - Document Setup to change size of
  artboard.
• Select the hand tool to drag an image anywhere on
  the artboard or the scatch area.
• Select the Zoom in/Zoom out tool to enlarge or
  decrease the view of your artwork.

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Choose View

• Choose View Tool allows you to quickly display
  your artwork at different views.
• To make document fit inside the monitors window
  choose View - Fit In Window.
• To display it at actual size choose View - Actual
  Size.
• To create a view choose View - New View and make
  a name for it.

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The Selection Tools

• The selection tool select entire objects.
• The Direct Selection Tool select portions, or
  segments of objects.
• The Group selection tool select a single object
  within a set of objects you have defined as a
  group.

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Drawing

• Path any line or shape created using the drawing
  tools (line, square).
• Can be edited by changing its size, shape,
  location and color.
• First and the last points on a path are
  endpoints.
• Two paths types open and closed.
• Open paths have a distinct beginning and end.
• Closed paths loop and have no end.

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Lines

• Constraining the Line to keep lines vertical,
  horizontal and diagonal hold down shift key while
  creating line segments.
• To begin a new line segment you must end the
  current path. Choose the selection tool from the
  toolbox and click away from the line to end the
  path.

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Curves

• Bezier Curve Set anchor points and drag to
  create the desired curve.
• Use the pen tool to set an anchor point where you
  want the curve to begin. Before you release the
  mouse button drag in the direction you want the
  "bump" of the curve to go.
• As you drag direction lines sprout up from the
  anchor point.
• Set an anchor point at the position you want the
  curve to end. Click at this point and before you
  release the mouse button, drag in direction you
  want the curve to go.

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Curves

• Corner points first draw two curved segments. To
  change the anchor point at their middle to a
  corner point use the Convert Direction Point
  Tool, and click on the anchor point you want to
  become a corner point. You can also do this
  process in reverse to change a corner point into
  a smooth curve.

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