What is illustrator ?
Since its release, Adobe's Illustrator has grown to become the designer's right hand man when it comes to creating premier vector graphics and elements. There's so much you can do with it that it can be difficult to know where to start.
Several innovations to vector-based illustration originated with illustrator: a node-edit tool that operates differently on different objects, fit text-to-path, stroke-before-fill, quick fill/stroke color selection palettes, perspective projections, mesh fills and complex gradient fills.
illustrator is capable of handling multiple pages along with multiple master layers. Multipage documents are easy to create and edit and the Corel print engine allows for booklet and other imposition so even simple printers can be used for producing finished documents. One of the useful features for single and multi-page documents is the ability to create linked text boxes across documents that can be resized and moved while the text itself resets and flows through the boxes. Useful for creating and editing multi-article newsletters etc.
» Features of illustrator
» Understanding gradients
» Working with 3D
» Analogue effects
» Common Tasks
» Creating Basic Shapes
» Reshaping Objects
» Applying color fills and Outlines
» Mastering with Text
» Artistic and paragraph text