The Illustrator Environment

• Touring the interface
• Scaling the interface
• The Toolbox
• Panels
• The Properties panel
• Panning and zooming
• Using the Navigator

 Selection

• The Selection tool
• The Direct Selection tool
• Drawing Tools
• Basic Drawing Tools
• Drawing Exercise, Coloring
• Drawing assistance tools
• Draw Inside, Pen Tool
• Pen Tool exercise
• Pen Tool alternatives
• Curvature Tool
• Distort and Transform tools
• Symmetrical drawing
• Concentric drawing techniques
• Manual tracing exercise

Color

• Color models in Illustrator
• The Swatches panel
• Global swatches
• Spot colors
• Using tints
• Color groups
• The Color Guide panel

Strokes

• Stroke attributes
• Creating dashed lines
• Creating dotted lines
• Creating arrowheads
• Variable width strokes

More on Selections

• The Lasso tool
• The Magic Wand
• Saving selections

Alignment, Distribution, and Stacking

• Aligning objects
• Aligning points
• Distributing objects
• Using key objects
• Changing the stacking order
• Using the draw modes

Groups

• Working with groups
• The Group Selection tool
• Using Isolation Mode

Layers

• Using layers
• Targeting objects using layers

Transforms

• Using the specific Transform tools
• Using the Free Transform tool
• Using Transform Again
• The Transform Each command
• Transforms as an effect

Drawing by Construction

• Compound Paths and Shapes
• The Pathfinder panel
• The Shape Builder
• Clipping masks

Drawing Tools

• The Pen tool
• The Curvature Pen tool
• The Shaper tool
• The Pencil tool
• Drawing with the Eraser tool
• Improving paths

Using Guides and Grids

• Creating and removing guides
• Making guides from objects

Gradients

• Linear gradients
• Radial gradients
• Freeform gradients
• Gradients on strokes

Patterns

• Creating a pattern
• Pattern strokes
• Transforming patterns

Symbols

• Static symbols
• Dynamic symbols

Blends, Blending, and Transparency

• Using blends
• Replacing a blend spine
• Using blending modes
• Using opacity masks

Appearances

• The power of appearances
• The Appearance panel
• Illustrator effects
• Photoshop effects
• Editing or removing effects
• Graphic styles
• The Eyedropper tool

Brushes

• Calligraphic Brushes
• Scatter Brushes
• Art Brushes
• Bristle Brushes
• Pattern Brushes
• Image Brushes

Type

• Character formatting
• Paragraph formatting
• Using Text styles
• Fonts
• Variable and SVG Fonts (New in CC 2018)
• Touch Type
• Type on a Path
• Type and Shapes
• Warp Text

3D Type

• Create Outlines from Text
• Image within Text
• Text Wrap
• Type Exercise

Image

• Working with Images
• Preparing simple images for tracing
• Preparing complex images for tracing
• Image Trace
• Improving and Coloring traced images

 Pixels to Vectors

• Using Image Trace
• Using Photoshop with Image Trace

Modifying Artwork

• Recolor artwork
• The Puppet Warp tool

Artboards

• Working with artboards
• Arranging artboards

Export & Integration

• Packaging Illustrator files
• Export as other file types
• Asset Export
• Legacy Save for Web
• PDF files and Illustrator
• Saving work for Print
• Saving work for Web
• Export for Screens
• Integration with Bridge

Efficiency in Illustrator

• Creating your own workspaces
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Custom views
• Custom toolboxes

New Features in Adobe Illustrator 2020

• Simplify Path
• Delete Anchor Point Tool update
• Faster Effects
• Recolor Freeform Gradients
• Auto Spell Check
• Background Save