In this lesson, I learned about the Pencil Tool and its usefulness when creating paths. The Pencil Tool inside of Illustrator is a freehand drawing tool. To start, head to the Pencil Tool in the Tools Panel and double-click, opening a box. Here you can change its fidelity, fill new pencil strokes, keep selected, toggle …
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Open Path Tools
Today, I learned about different Open Path Tools and their unique, unlimiting functions that change its appearance. To begin, head to the Line Tool in the Tools Panel, then click and hold to reveal the hidden tools. Then, click the arrow on the right side to create a tearaway where only the icons show in …
Live Corners
In today’s lesson, I learned about Live Corners, how they manipulate a shape’s corners, and different options when working with it. Live Corners is a feature that allows you to modify the corners after the fact. To start, create a shape that has corners by selecting a Shape Tool and clicking and dragging on the …
Drawing Modes
In this lesson, I learned about the three different drawing modes and their purposes and how to use them. Heading towards the bottom of the Tools Panel, there’s 3 little buttons. These represent the different drawing modes available to you. By default, the Normal drawing mode is selected. The one to the right is called …
Polygon Star Tools
Today, I learned about the other shape tools, namely Polygon, Star, and Flare, and their different capabilities. When drawing with Polygon Tool, the default shape it will create is a hexagon. To add or reduce the number of shapes, use the arrow keys. The same drawing functions of the rectangle tools are still applied to …
Drawing Basic Shapes
In today’s lesson, I learned how to draw, create , and customize shapes in Illustrator. On the tool bar which is on the right hand side, locate the rectangle icon. This is the Rectangle Tool and it creates rectangles, and on the flip side, you can toggle the shape by clicking and holding down, revealing …
Workspaces
In this lesson, I learned the usefulness of workspaces and the configuration of them. The default workspace, Essentials, is located in the top right hand corner of the screen. When clicked, a list of options appear, which will reconfigure the interface to display the option for the particular disciplines. If you want to save a …
Bounding Box
Today, I learned about the bounding box and its many functions that resize the selected image. To begin, grab your Selection Tool and click on the content in the document. Not only will that particular content be selected but a Bounding Box appears around it. This box has 8 handles, which give you the ability …
Document Navigation
In today’s lesson, I learned how magnify and navigate my way inside of a document. There’s several ways to navigate through a document, but the most useful and commonly used techniques are the View Menu and Zoom Tool. If you want to change the magnification of the document, head to View, and under the menu, …
Preview and Outline Models
Today, I learned about the functions of the Outline and Preview modes. A feature that can be helpful when trying to look, select, and manipulate content is the Outline Mode. When working with a group objects in Isolation Mode and needing to see a lot less detail, go to the View menu then choose Outline. …
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