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Introduction
Introduction To Illustrator
Tour of the Screen
The Various Control Palettes
Setting up the Page
Toolbox
Using the Toolbox
Tool Pop-Out Menus
How Illustrator Works
Vectors and Rasters
Components for Images
Text
Creating Shapes
Colour
Drawing
Using the Drawing Tools
Creating & editing a Rectangle
Creating & editing an Ellipse
Creating & editing a Polygon
Creating & editing a Star
Fills and Colours
Drawing (Cont'd)
Drawing using the Pencil Tool
Selecting, Copying and Moving Objects
Rotating and Skewing Objects
Aligning Objects
Hiding and Locking
Special Effects
Transforming
Use smart guides as you rotate, scale, or shear an object
Rotate an object using a dialog box and by dragging
Scale an object using a dialog box and by dragging
Flip an object using a dialog box and by dragging
Slant an object using a dialog box and by dragging
The bounding box
Squaring the bounding box
Use the Free Transform tool
Fills and strokes
Dragging colour
Apply a fill or stroke of black or white
The Palettes
Basic Colours
Swatches
Types of Colour
Colour modes
Process colours
Colour editing shortcuts
The Colour, Gradient, and None buttons
Changing and editing stroke attributes
Using the Swatches palette
Use the Paint Bucket tool
Creating and Editing Paths
Creating Paths
Draw a straight?sided object using the Pen tool
Draw continuous curves using the Pen tool
Convert smooth points into corner
Convert points in an existing object
Move an anchor point or a line
Shaping a curve
Converting an anchor point
Pinch a curve inward
Adding points
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Text
Creating Text Objects
Correct Use of Artistic and Paragraph Text
Colouring and Filling Your Text
Moving and Resizing Text
Reshaping Text
Placing Text Around Objects
Linking Paragraphs
Editing Linked Text
Creating Outlines
Editing and Styling Text
Selecting Text
Editing Type Attributes
Word Processing
Type Effects
Layers
Creating layers
The layers Palette
Create a sublayer
Editing Layers
Opening and placing images
Acquiring images
Placing images
Editing and Framing Placed Images
Using Brushes
Draw with the Paintbrush tool
Adding a brushstroke to an existing path
Removing a brushstroke from a path
Convert a brushstroke into outlined paths
Creating and modifying brushes
Delete a brush from the Brushes palette
Edit a scatter, art, or pattern brush manually
Create a new brush library
Gradients
Fill an object with a gradient
Create two?colour gradient
Edit colours in an existing gradient
Add colours to a gradient
Use the Gradient tool
Creating and Editing Gradient meshes
Expand a standard gradient into separate objects
Using and Editing effects
Remove an effect from a layer, object, or style
Apply a Convert to Shape effect
Live shapes with text
Using the Inner Glow, Outer Glow and the Add Arrowheads effect
Transparency
Editing the opacity or blending mode of an object, group, or layer
Blending modes
Filters
Filter basics
Scribble or tweak
Rough up a shape
Twirling path points
Punk or bloat an object
Raster filters
Pen and Ink filters
Printing
Previewing Your Work
The Print Dialog
Printing
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