Adobe Illustrator for Photoshop Users

Adobe Illustrator for Photoshop Users, available at $44.99, has an average rating of 4.6, with 36 lectures, based on 32 reviews, and has 299 subscribers.

You will learn about Harness your Photoshop skills to help you learn to use Illustrator faster Be able to choose the right tool for the task when creating designs in Illustrator Create cool designs without having to master the Pen tool Confidently create designs in Illustrator for social media, for sale as stock or for your business Create compelling designs even if you cant draw a stroke! This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who already uses Photoshop and wants to learn Illustrator or Beginner Illustrator users who have used other graphic software before or Anyone who is scared of the pen tool, who cant draw but wants to make cool graphic designs It is particularly useful for Anyone who already uses Photoshop and wants to learn Illustrator or Beginner Illustrator users who have used other graphic software before or Anyone who is scared of the pen tool, who cant draw but wants to make cool graphic designs.

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Summary

Title: Adobe Illustrator for Photoshop Users

Price: $44.99

Average Rating: 4.6

Number of Lectures: 36

Number of Published Lectures: 36

Number of Curriculum Items: 36

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 36

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Harness your Photoshop skills to help you learn to use Illustrator faster

Be able to choose the right tool for the task when creating designs in Illustrator

Create cool designs without having to master the Pen tool

Confidently create designs in Illustrator for social media, for sale as stock or for your business

Create compelling designs even if you cant draw a stroke!

Who Should Attend

Anyone who already uses Photoshop and wants to learn Illustrator

Beginner Illustrator users who have used other graphic software before

Anyone who is scared of the pen tool, who cant draw but wants to make cool graphic designs

Target Audiences

Anyone who already uses Photoshop and wants to learn Illustrator

Beginner Illustrator users who have used other graphic software before

Anyone who is scared of the pen tool, who cant draw but wants to make cool graphic designs

  Learn tools, features and techniques to create vector illustrations using Adobe Illustrator – the graphic industry’s premier software application. 

  Take your existing Photoshop knowledge and use it to quick start learning Illustrator. 

  Avoid going over information that you already know and get to grips quickly with what is new to you in Illustrator. 

  Learn and master Illustrator 

Vector shapes

Shape Creation tools

Type Effects

Repeating Patterns

Blends

Textures

  A Powerful New Skill for your Creative arsenal
  Learning Illustrator is your entry ticket to the world of graphic design. Illustrator is the industry standard application for Mac and PC. Knowing Illustrator will prepare you for working in the field of graphic design. Using it you can turn your art into scalable shapes, make salable vector stock and design anything from fabric to infographics. 

  Combined with your existing knowledge of Photoshop your new Illustrator skills can open up a world of creative opportunity and job prospects. 

  Content and Overview
  Suitable for Photoshop users this course of 35 lectures and over 3 hours of content, gets you up and running with Illustrator. Many lectures close with exercises for you to practice what you learned in that lecture. 

  Starting with the similarities and differences between Illustrator and Photoshop you’ll progress quickly to creating complex vector shapes from simple shapes. You’ll learn to edit and combine shapes and get familiar with the range of tools for creating and editing shapes. 

  You will learn how to color and recolor your art, create and style type, and paint with vector paint brushes. Advanced topics such as pattern making, tracing bitmaps, and creating blended shapes are covered. 

  You will finish the course making a piece of vector art. 

  When you complete this course you will have a solid grounding in using Illustrator and the ability to create vector artwork for yourself or for work. 

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Welcome to Illustrator for Photoshop Users

Lecture 1: What this course covers and how to study it

Chapter 2: Getting Started in Illustrator

Lecture 1: Learn the difference between vector and bitmap images

Lecture 2: Discover features common to Illustrator and Photoshop

Lecture 3: Learn key differences between Illustrator and Photoshop

Lecture 4: Learn which are the key tools you will be using in Illustrator

Lecture 5: Learn how to reveal custom settings for Illustrator tools

Lecture 6: Learn to find key menu options and panels in Illustrator

Chapter 3: Getting to Work on Your Designs

Lecture 1: Learn how to create a new document in Illustrator

Lecture 2: Save your Work as an Illustrator file

Lecture 3: Learn how to save your designs as files for the web

Chapter 4: Important Illustrator Concepts and Tools

Lecture 1: Learn to draw simple shapes inc. circles, squares, stars

Lecture 2: Learn how to set shape fill and stroke

Lecture 3: Join multiple simple shapes to make a more complex shape

Lecture 4: Simple techniques for reshaping basic shapes Pt 1

Lecture 5: Simple techniques for reshaping basic shapes Pt 2

Lecture 6: Simple techniques for reshaping basic shapes Pt 3

Lecture 7: Understand and use the Expand feature

Lecture 8: Learn what (little) you need to know about using the Pen tool

Lecture 9: Learn how to add multiple appearances to a shape

Lecture 10: Make Complex shapes combining Effects and Appearances

Chapter 5: Explore Alternate Shape Building Tools

Lecture 1: Learn to use the new Pencil tool to make and reshape shapes

Lecture 2: Learn to use the Shape Builder tool

Lecture 3: Learn to use the Blob Brush to paint shapes

Lecture 4: Create complex illustrations from lines using Live Paint

Chapter 6: Features and Tools to Enhance Your Designs

Lecture 1: Recolor your Art the Easy (and Fun) Way

Lecture 2: Designing with Type

Lecture 3: Learn to use, configure and create Brushes

Lecture 4: Explore Adobe Color (formerly Kuler) and its use in Illustrator

Chapter 7: More Advanced Tools and Techniques

Lecture 1: Work with Bitmap images in Illustrator

Lecture 2: Pattern Making 101

Lecture 3: Create and use Vector Textures

Lecture 4: Designs using Repeated Elements and Blends

Lecture 5: Learn to take designs to Photoshop and vice versa

Lecture 6: Create a piece of art from Woah! To Go!

Chapter 8: Wrapping Up

Lecture 1: Where to from here?

Chapter 9: Bonus Videos that Answer Student Questions

Lecture 1: How to Texturize an Object Ready for Cricut Design Space

Instructors

Helen Bradley
Designer, Adobe Illustrator & Procreate 5 Trainer

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