Illustrator can be used to accomplish many different design tasks. For this reason, Illustrator 2021 Essential Training teaches core concepts and techniques that can be applied to any workflow for print, the web, or assets that will find their way into other applications. Instructor Tony Harmer covers the essentials of Illustrator 2021, including artboards, workspaces, layers, and shapes.

Tony discusses vector graphics—paths, strokes, and fills—and shows how to use each of the drawing tools in Illustrator. He demonstrates how to combine and clean up paths, and organize them into groups and layers. Tony also covers text editing, working with color, expressive brush drawing, effects, and much more.

About the Author

Tony Harmer is an educator and illustrator. He has 160+ certifications—including Adobe Creative Suite Master.

Tony Harmer has worked in the creative industry for over thirty years on a range of design, illustration, and web/screen projects. An Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor with more than 160 certifications and one of only a few to achieve status as a Creative Suite Master, Tony has delivered training all over the UK and Europe.

Tony has written frequently for Computer Arts magazine and is a guest author on a number of blogs, but more than anything, he still just loves to sit and draw.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Full Exercise File Included
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 5h 27m
• Instructor: Tony Harmer

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Explore ways to use Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe InDesign as a powerhouse combination to save time, simplify workflow, and create impressive work. Discover the value and benefits of using native file formats in each application to make round-tripping easy, and learn how you can speed up production workflows using techniques involving nesting, snippets, layers, comps, and more. This course also covers importing and exporting, file placement, working with artboards, embedding files, linking files, and sharing between applications.

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Find out how to use Illustrator to design clever, eye-catching packaging that holds up to the rigors of handling and satisfies your client's needs. Industry veteran William Everhart introduces the questions you should ask before you begin, to detemine the colors, size, language, and legal requirements for your design. Then William shows how to measure the product, prepare the package structure in Illustrator, and start laying out your design. You'll also learn how to create and add barcodes, proof your design, work with CAD files, and prepare your files for printing. Start now, and learn to tackle any package project that comes your way.

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Illustrator's libraries and symbols make it a great program for developing detailed wireframes for your design ideas. In this installment of Illustrator CC for Web Design, Justin Seeley walks through everything to know about creating, using, and saving wireframes in Illustrator. Starting with a carefully chosen color scheme, Justin shows how to structure a wireframe in layers, develop templates for different devices, and create a library of ready-to-use UI elements, including multistate buttons and placeholders for media and forms. He then combines these elements in an example wireframe, and shows how to save versions of your file as the design evolves.

Miss part one? Check out Illustrator CC for Web Design: Core Concepts.

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It's easier to learn a new skill when you're designing something fun! In this course, you'll learn the ins and outs of creating and using custom brushes in Illustrator, while designing a full-size, Sherlock Holmes–inspired poster. Author Kevin Stohlmeyer walks through scanning the source materials, transforming them into Illustrator brushes, and then using them to create the final print-ready poster design.

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Learn to create a web animation from a simple Illustrator file, with Ai2Canvas—a free plugin that works with nearly every version of Illustrator, from CS3 to CC. In this short Design the Web project, Chris Converse shows how to achieve complex animations with Ai2Canvas, simply by naming your layers with different animation properties.

He also demonstrates how to combine properties like rotation and origin, for more interesting motion designs, and compress project files for web delivery. The exercise files for this course are free to all lynda.com members, so download them today.

About the Author

Chris Converse applies design and UX principles to technology, from motion graphics to CSS-driven websites.

Chris Converse graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a degree in graphic design. He began his career in print, designing and preparing digital files for commercial offset printing. Chris has spent the last 22 years studying and applying design and interface principles to technology. His work spans various distribution media (CD-ROMs, web sites, and interactive DVDs) and applies many authoring media and techniques (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, image optimization, motion graphics, Flash, Director, Shockwave, sound engineering, digital video compression, PHP, and ASP). Chris has a passion for and a commitment to conceiving, creating, and delivering the best possible user experience, regardless of the medium.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Full Exercise File Included
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 48m 25s
• Instructor: Chris Converse

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Infographics are everywhere. These data-driven illustrations visualize your data and help to tell the story behind it. In this course, Tony Harmer shows how to design charts, graphs, and other infographic components in Adobe Illustrator. He explains how to develop your core skills—including the ability to customize standard charts and manage large documents—and reveals the key components of a great information design. He then takes you through the various types of charts and graphs that you can use in infographic production, before wrapping with some tips for exporting your final product and sourcing and refining your data.

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This course provides an overview of what an icon is and its key characteristics, then teaches you how to design your own icons using Adobe Illustrator. Instructor Bart Van de Wiele explores why you need icons, how you use them, and why scalability is important. Bart steps you through how to set up your Illustrator document before you begin your design process. He describes how to organize your work using Illustrator artboards for arranging, naming, and exporting your icons. Bart walks you through ways to import your sketch into Illustrator, then goes over how to clean up your sketch digitally.

He shows you how to use simple, complex, and compound shapes to build your logo digitally, then explores several more advanced techniques. In conclusion, Bart covers best practices for exporting your icons for the web, for print, and for use in other applications like Photoshop.

About the Author

Bart Van de Wiele is a principal solutions consultant at Adobe.

Bart started his career in 2002 as a designer with a strong focus on print production and image retouching. His career quickly evolved into a life as an Adobe trainer, author, consultant, and worldwide public speaker, covering a variety of subjects and technologies. In his current role at Adobe, he is responsible for coordinating programs which support the company's partners, marketing campaigns, and business objectives across the EMEA region. This includes developing and delivering content which demonstrates the value proposition for Adobe Creative Cloud, Document Cloud and Adobe Stock, delivered via online and offline enablement programs.

Product Details

• Full Video Tutorials
• Full Exercise File Included
• Video File Format: MP4
• Skill Level: Beginner
• Video Duration: 3h 9m
• Instructor: Bart Van de Wiele

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Have you ever changed data manually to make multiple copies of the same design? If so, you know it can be tedious and time consuming. Learn how to dynamically populate new information into a design and quickly generate multiple versions with Adobe Illustrator Variable Data.

Designer John Garrett appreciates the many different types of variables and their practical uses, including generating business cards and direct mailers. In this course, he explains how to use variable data including managing linked images, graphics, tables of data, and graphs. He covers the entire workflow, from setup to exporting dynamic batches.

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If you're serious about digital illustration, there's a good chance you use, or want to use, a Wacom tablet. But are you getting the most out of your tools? In this course, Kevin Stohlmeyer shows how to optimize your Wacom tablet for use with Illustrator. He reviews each component of the tablet and Grip Pen and shows how to adjust preferences and customize your tablet to work best with Illustrator. Plus, he shows how to use Illustrator's features designed especially for tablet usage, such as the brush and symbol tools. Along the way, learn shortcuts and best practices for a more efficient workflow.

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