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Digital Publishing

Digital Publishing works much like a professional design firm. Students will work in the areas of design, marketing, business, and fashion to create real-world projects for clients.
Course Expectations

Adobe Illustrator for Beginners

9/8/2015

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Adobe Illustrator is a powerful program that allows you to draw digitally. It does take some time, however, to master. 

For today's assignment, you must:
  • Create two 8x10 artboards
  • Draw your name in bubble letters on one art board using the pen tool. Draw a heart or shield using the pen tool. Make sure both are filled in with colors and have outlines.
  • Do the same exact thing on the second artboard using the BRUSH tool.
  • Save your file as an yourfullname.illustrator.eps and yourfullname.illustratodra.ai file.
Intro Tips
  • Changing units to inches
  • Scaling strokes & effects
  • Creating documents
  • Saving documents
  • The artboards
  • Showing the ruler
  • Layers
  • Space bar changes to a hand

Beginning Tips

  • The pen tool
  • The brush tool
  • Closing and filling shapes
  • How to format text
  • Anchors and handles
  • The direct selection tool
  • Fill & stroke
  • Bringing forward & sending backwards

Secondary Tips
  • Placing files (linking and embedding them)
  • Alignment
  • Effects
  • Guides
  • Text transform
  • Exporting files

Advanced Tips
  • Clipping masks
  • Paths
  • Appearances

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