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Adobe Certified Associate Exam Preparation
Dena Wilson and Peter Lourekas
with Rob Schwartz
LEARN
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Adobe Illustrator CC
for Graphic Design and Illustration
Adobe Certified Associate Exam Preparation
Dena Wilson
and Peter Lourekas
with Rob Schwartz
LEArn AdobE ILLustrAtor CC for GrAPhIC dEsIGn And ILLustrAtIon
ADobe CeRtifieD ASSoCiAte exAm PRePARAtion
Dena Wilson and Peter Lourekas
with Rob Schwartz
Copyright © 2016 by Peachpit Press
Adobe Press books are published by Peachpit, a division of Pearson Education.
For the latest on Adobe Press books and videos, go to www.adobepress.com.
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Adobe Press Editor: Victor Gavenda
Senior Editor, Video: Karyn Johnson
Development Editors (book and video): Bob Lindstrom, Stephen Nathans-Kelly
Technical Reviewer: Chad Chelius
Copyeditor: Kelly Anton
Senior Production Editors: Becky Winter, Tracey Croom
Compositor: Kim Scott, Bumpy Design
Proofreader: Liz Welch
Indexer: Rebecca Plunkett
Cover & Interior Design: Mimi Heft
Cover Illustration: Sylverarts, Fotolia.com
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caution has been taken in the preparation of the book, neither the authors nor Peachpit shall have
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I dedicate this book to my family and close friends. I simply could not have
done this without the support, love, and patience from each one of you!
—Dena Wilson
To Elaine Weinmann, my wife and also my digital graphics co-author for
many years, whose designer’s eye and writer’s craftsmanship have inspired
me to always go further.
—Peter Lourekas
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Acknowledgments
I would like to thank the following people for their contributions to this project:
Rob Schwartz, a friend and colleague for life! Thank you for having enough faith in
me to get me involved!
Peter Lourekas, who has been invaluable as a resource, sounding board, and encour-
ager extraordinaire! Thank you!
My past and present graphics students who asked me to teach them “everything”
and made me push myself even harder!
And also to Victor Gavenda, Stephen Nathans-Kelly, and the editing crew who kept
me on track and running smoothly! Many thanks!
—Dena Wilson
My sincere thanks go to all the members of the Editorial and Production teams
who helped to turn my words into a book: Victor Gavenda, Adobe Press Editor; Bob
Lindstrom and Stephen Nathans-Kelly, development editors; Chad Chelius, techni-
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cal reviewer; Kelly Anton, copyeditor; Liz Welch, proofreader; Tracey Croom, Senior
Production Editor; Kim Scott of Bumpy Design, compositor; and Mimi Heft, cover
and interior design.
Thanks also to Matt Niemitz and Remy Mansfield of Adobe Education Programs for
help with this project.
I would like to include a special thank-you to my co-author Dena Wilson for
producing artful and inspiring visual projects—along with their accompanying
graphics—that made the writing assignment fun and enjoyable.
—Peter Lourekas
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About the Authors
Dena Wilson (video author) is a graphic artist and dedicated educator. She is an
avid Adobe Illustrator user and has taught graphic design for over 12 years at both
the high school and collegiate level.
Dena’s expertise is in the delivery of hands-on, skill-based instruction both online
and in the classroom. Her high school students enjoy a passing rate above 80
percent on the Adobe ACA certification exam. She was on the original team of
writers for the ACA exam for Adobe Photoshop and served as an Adobe Educa-
tion Leader for many years. Dena is an Adobe Certified Associate in Illustrator and
Photoshop.
As an expert author, Peter Lourekas (primary book author) knows the power
of visual learning. For two decades, he has been a co-author (with Elaine Wein-
mann) of the best-selling Visual QuickStart guides to Photoshop and Illustra-
tor—the top choice in college classrooms and the go-to reference for design
professionals. These guides have sold more than 3.5 million copies worldwide.
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Peter has co-authored the Photoshop and Illustrator courseware for the
MyGraphicsLab digital learning product series published by Pearson Education
and has taught at Cooper Union School of Art, the New School, and Parsons
School of Design.
Rob Schwartz (author of book chapters 18 and 19) is an award-winning teacher
(currently at Sheridan Technical College in Hollywood, FL) with over 15 years’
experience in technical education. Rob holds several Adobe Certified Associate
certifications, and is also an Adobe Certified Instructor. As an Adobe Education
Leader Rob won the prestigious Impact Award from Adobe, and in 2010 Rob was
the first winner of the Certiport Adobe Certified Associate World Championship.
Find out more about Rob at his online curriculum website at brainbuffet.com.
About the Authors v
Contents
7 Complexity via Combination
and Effects 71
Reshape via Transformation 71
Getting Started viii
Combine via Pathfinder Options 73
Apply Effects to an Object 77
1 Introduction to Adobe
Illustrator CC 3
8 hand-drawn Look Applied
Illustrator CC Interface 3 to shapes 81
Using the Main Interface Elements 4
Create Spirals 81
Panels 7
Distortion Tools 82
Workspaces 11
Variable Line Widths 83
Group Objects 86
2 Working with documents 15
Selection Commands 87
Create a Document 15
Scale Options for Strokes 89
Artboards 17
Save a Document 20 9 Live Paint 91
Navigating the Illustrator Interface 21
Create a Live Paint Group 91
Use Gap Options in a Live Paint Group 92
3 Creating basic shapes 27
Live Paint Bucket Tool 93
Basic Geometric Shapes 27
Add New Paths to a Live Paint Group 94 ptg16675670
Reshape a Corner 31
Apply Color to Edges 96
Move a Corner 34
Expand or Release a Live Paint Group 97
4 fill, stroke, and Color 37
10 Cut objects and Apply
Working with Fill and Stroke 37 Gradients 99
Recolor Artwork 42
Draw Shapes by Cutting 99
Arrange Basic Objects to Create a Robot 45
Create Compound Paths 100
Add Gradient Fills 101
5 reshaping objects 47
Create a Custom Gradient 103
A Primer on Paths and Selection 47
Save a Custom Gradient as a Swatch 105
Draw a Face via Reshape and Transform 49
Edit a Gradient via On-Object
Draw a Second Face for an Advanced
Controls 106
Reshape 51
Layers Panel (First Look) 57 11 Creating blends 111
Blend Two Objects 112
6 Create a Logo 61
Specify Blend Options 112
Precise Alignment of Objects 61
Edit a Blend 113
Use the Shape Builder Tool 65
Release a Blend 114
Stack an Object Behind 68
Create Shading Using Blends 116
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12 symbols 121 16 Advanced drawing 173
Open Symbol Libraries 122 Place Bitmap Images as Embedded
Place a Single Symbol 122 Objects 173
Place a Set of Symbols 123 Place Bitmap Images as Links 174
Replace a Symbol 125 Manage Linked Images 175
Create a Symbol 126 Create a Clipping Mask 176
Edit a Symbol 126 Use Image Trace 178
Symbolism Tools 127 Expand a Tracing 179
Symbolism Tool Specifics 129 Fit an Object into a 3D and Perspective
Drawing 179
Unlink or Expand Instances 133
Use Perspective Grid Feature 181
Save a Custom Symbol Library 133
17 output 185
13 Pen and Pencil tools 135
Prepare Artwork for Print Output 186
Draw with the Pen Tool 135
Print Dialog Box Settings 190
Convert Points 139
Prepare Artwork for Web Output 192
Add or Remove Points 141
Export Artwork 193
Cut and Join Paths 141
Place as a Smart Object in Photoshop 195
Manually Trace a Raster Image 143
Draw with the Pencil Tool 143
18 Working with outsiders 199 ptg16675670
14 brushes 147 Who You’re Talking For and Who You’re
Talking To 199
The Brushes Panel 147
Copyrights and Wrongs 205
Apply Brushes 149
Think Like a Boss 211
Edit Brushes 150
Conclusion 224
Create a Custom Brush 155
Use the Blob Brush 156
ACA objectives Covered 225
15 type 159
Glossary 230
Create Point Type 159
Style Point Type 160 Index 239
Apply Effects to Type 162
Control Text Flow 163 19 Leveling up with design (included in
Place Type on a Path 166 ebooks and Web Edition*)
Create Area Type 168
Create Outline Type 169
Flow Type on a Circle 170
*To access your free copy of this book’s Web
Edition containing more than 6 hours of video,
see the instructions on pp. xi–xii.
Contents vii
Getting Started
Welcome to Learn Adobe Illustrator CC for Graphic Design and Illustration! This prod-
uct uses a combination of text and video to help you learn the basics of graphic
design and illustration with Adobe Illustrator CC along with other skills that you
will need to get your first job as a graphic designer or illustrator. Adobe Illustra-
tor CC is a powerful program for creating illustrations, logos, icons, and graphic
designs composed of type and vector art that can be scaled, transformed, recolored,
and reshaped at any time without any loss of quality. Various editable effects can be
applied to shapes or type to further stylize the objects in your artwork. You can also
use Illustrator to output your artwork as printed pieces or to export the artwork to
video and web applications for viewing on screen and mobile devices.
About this Product
Learn Adobe Illustrator CC for Graphic Design and Illustration was created by a team
of expert instructors, writers, and editors with years of experience in helping begin-
ning learners get their start with the cool creative tools from Adobe. Our aim is
not only to teach you the basics of the art of graphic design and illustration with ptg16675670
Illustrator, but to give you an introduction to the associated “soft” skills (like design
principles and project management) that you’ll need for your first job.
We’ve built the training around the objectives for the Graphic Design and Illustra-
tion Using Adobe Illustrator CC Adobe Certified Associate Exam, and if you master
the topics covered in this book and video you’ll be in good shape to take the exam.
But even if certification isn’t your goal, you’ll still find this training will give you an
excellent foundation for your future work in graphic design and illustration.
This product is a unique learning system that uses video and text in partnership.
You’ll experience this partnership in action in the Web Edition, which lives on your
Account page at peachpit.com. The Web Edition contains 6 hours of video—the
heart of the training—embedded in an online eBook that supports the video train-
ing and provides background material. The eBook material is also sold separately
for offline reading as a printed book or an eBook in a variety of formats. The Web
Edition also includes dozens of interactive review questions you can use to evaluate
your progress, as well as a chapter on principles of design (Chapter 19). Purchase of
the book in any format entitles you to free access to the Web Edition (instructions
for accessing it follow later in this section).
viii Learn Adobe Illustrator CC for Graphic Design and Illustration
Most chapters provide step-by-step instructions for creating a specific project or
learning a specific technique. Other chapters acquaint you with other skills and
concepts that you’ll come to depend on as you use the software in the workaday
world. You can follow the book from start to finish or work through only the chap-
ters that meet your interests and needs. Many chapters include several optional
tasks that let you further explore the features you’ve already learned.
Each chapter opens with two lists of objectives. One list lays out the learning objec-
tives: the specific tasks you’ll learn in the chapter. The second list shows the ACA
exam objectives that are covered in the chapter. A table at the end of the book
guides you to coverage of all of the exam objectives in the book or video.
Conventions Used in this book
This book uses several elements styled in ways to help you as you work through the
projects.
Text that you should enter appears in bold, such as:
In the Link field in the Property inspector, type https://helpx.adobe.com/
illustrator/topics.html.
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Terms that are defined in the Glossary appear in bold and in color, such as:
In Illustrator CC, you use the drawing tools on the Tools panel to create
Video Project
shapes.
01-01 Basic
Shape—Live Shapes
Links to videos that cover the topics in depth appear in the margins.
The ACA objectives covered in the chapters are called out in the margins beside the ACA Objective 2.1
sections that address them.
Notes and Tips give additional information about a topic. The information they
contain is not essential to accomplishing a task but provides a more in-depth
understanding of the topic.
NotE If your line segment has a stroke of white color, or a small stroke
weight, it may be hard to see. See “Working with Fill and Stroke” in this
chapter to learn how to edit the color.
tip To create a line segment by entering values, click the Line Segment
tool where you want the line to begin. In the dialog box, enter a Length
value and an Angle value, and click OK.
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