Final Spine = 0.8125" Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 release ClASSRooM In A Book® Adobe A Illustrator CC d o b Build a strong foundation for working with e 2015 release Adobe Illustrator CC by following hands-on I projects for creating logos, illustrations, and ll posters. Learn how to use the Shaper tool u and Live Shapes along with dynamic symbols s t to streamline graphics creation. Create website r assets and export them in SVG format to a t support modern responsive web designs. o From exacting illustration to more free-form r painting, you’ll gain vital Illustrator skills as C you progress through the lessons. C 2 0 1 5 The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn “The Classroom in a Book r e le Adobe Illustrator CC (2015 release) series is by far the best a s e training material on Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does—an official the market. Everything training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support you need to master the of Adobe product experts. ptg16346465 W software is included: Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2015 release) contains 15 lessons that o o cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help clear explanations of D you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from each lesson, step-by- start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. step instructions, and Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. 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CONTENTS Where are the Lesson Files iii Getting Started 1 About Classroom in a Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Installing the program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Fonts used in this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Accessing the Classroom in a Book files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Web Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Restoring default preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 To delete or save the current Illustrator preferences file . . . . . . . 4 To restore saved preferences after completing the lessons . . . . 5 ptg16346465 Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Adobe Authorized Training Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 What’s New in Adobe Illustrator CC (2015 Release) 6 CC Libraries enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Shaper tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Dynamic Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 New SVG Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Live Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Smarter Guides and Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Other enhancements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator CC (2015 release) 10 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Creating a new document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Drawing a shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Rounding the corners of a shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Applying color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 iv CONTENTS Editing color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Editing strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Working with layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Drawing with the Pencil tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Creating shapes using the Shape Builder tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Creating a blend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Transforming artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Drawing with the Shaper tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Sampling formatting with the Eyedropper tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Placing an image in Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Using Image Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Creating and editing gradients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Working with type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Aligning artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Working with brushes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Working with symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Creating a clipping mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 ptg16346465 Working with effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 1 GETTING TO KNOW THE WORK AREA 30 Introducing Adobe Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Starting Illustrator and opening a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Exploring the workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Getting to know the Tools panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Working with the Control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Working with panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Working with panel groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Resetting and saving your workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Using panel menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Changing the view of artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Using view commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Using the Zoom tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Scrolling through a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Viewing artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CC CLASSROOM IN A BOOK (2015 RELEASE) v Navigating artboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Using the Artboards panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Arranging multiple documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Finding resources for using Illustrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 2 TECHNIQUES FOR SELECTING ARTWORK 58 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Selecting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Using the Selection tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Using the Direct Selection tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Creating selections with a marquee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Selecting artwork with the Magic Wand tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Selecting similar objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Selecting in Outline mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Aligning objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Aligning objects to each other . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Aligning to a key object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Aligning anchor points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Distributing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Aligning to the artboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 ptg16346465 Working with groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Grouping items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Working in Isolation mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Creating a nested group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Selecting using the Group Selection tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Exploring object arrangement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Arranging objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Selecting objects behind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Hiding and locking objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 3 USING SHAPES TO CREATE ARTWORK FOR A POSTCARD 76 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Creating a new document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Working with basic shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Creating and editing rectangles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Rounding corners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 Creating a rounded rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Creating and editing an ellipse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 vi CONTENTS Creating and editing a circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Creating and editing a polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Changing stroke width and alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Drawing lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Creating a star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Working with the Shaper tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Drawing shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Editing shapes with the Shaper tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Combining shapes with the Shaper tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Working with drawing modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Working with Draw Behind mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Using the Draw Inside mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Editing content drawn inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Using Image Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 4 EDITING AND COMBINING SHAPES AND PATHS 104 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 Editing paths and shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Cutting with the Scissors tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Joining paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 ptg16346465 Cutting with the Knife tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Using the Eraser tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Combining shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Working with the Shape Builder tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Working with the Pathfinder panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Creating a compound path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Using the Width tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 Outlining strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Finishing up the illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 5 TRANSFORMING ARTWORK 124 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Working with artboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Adding artboards to the document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Editing artboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Renaming artboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Reordering artboards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Transforming content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CC CLASSROOM IN A BOOK (2015 RELEASE) vii Working with rulers and guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Positioning objects precisely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Scaling objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Reflecting objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Distorting objects with effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Rotating objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Shearing objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Transforming with the Free Transform tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Creating a PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 6 CREATING AN ILLUSTRATION WITH THE DRAWING TOOLS 150 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 An intro to drawing with the Pen tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Selecting paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Drawing straight lines with the Pen tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Introducing curved paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Drawing a curve with the Pen tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Drawing a series of curves with the Pen tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Converting smooth points to corner points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Combining curves and straight lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 ptg16346465 Creating artwork with the Pen tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Drawing a coffee cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 Drawing with the Curvature tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Editing curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Reflecting the spoon shape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Rounding corner points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Editing paths and points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Deleting and adding anchor points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Converting between smooth points and corner points . . . . . 176 Working with the Anchor Point tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Creating a dashed line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Adding arrowheads to a path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Working with the Pencil tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Drawing freeform paths with the Pencil tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Drawing straight segments with the Pencil tool . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Joining with the Join tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 viii CONTENTS 7 USING COLOR TO ENHANCE SIGNAGE 186 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Exploring color modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Working with color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Applying an existing color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 Creating a custom color using the Color panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Saving a color as a swatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Creating a copy of a swatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Editing a swatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Creating and editing a global swatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194 Using the Color Picker to create color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Using Illustrator swatch libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 Adding a spot color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Creating and saving a tint of a color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Adjusting colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Copying appearance attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Creating a color group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Creative inspiration with the Color Guide panel . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Editing a color group in the Edit Colors dialog box . . . . . . . . . 204 ptg16346465 Editing colors in artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Assigning colors to your artwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Working with Live Paint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Creating a Live Paint group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Painting with the Live Paint Bucket tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Modifying a Live Paint group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 8 ADDING TYPE TO A POSTER 216 Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Adding type to the poster . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Adding text at a point . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Adding area type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Working with Auto Sizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Converting between area and point type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222 Importing a plain-text file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 Threading text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224 Formatting type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Changing font family and font style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226 Changing font size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CC CLASSROOM IN A BOOK (2015 RELEASE) ix Ъ