Adobe Illustrator CC – Advanced Training Course

All right, welcome to the course. This is the Getting Started video. This, if I'm honest, is a bit boring, but hang in there, there's a few important details we need to cover before we get started. All right, let's go.

Hi there, in this video we're going to show you how to put in a drawn image in the background, fade it out, lock it, make a new layer like this all instamatically with one of the Illustrator features

We're going to use the new fancy improved Curvature Tool. You are going to test it, you might fall in love with it, like me, and you might be abandoning the Pen Tool. All right, I take that back; Pen Tool, I'm sorry, but you're very hard to learn, and the Curvature Tool, pretty easy. Let's go and learn how easy it is in this video.

Hi there, it is Advanced Pen Tool Tips and Tricks time in Illustrator. Now if you are a bit afraid of the Pen Tool still you might want to check out the Essentials course. Goes through the Pen Tool a lot more, kind of I guess, a bit more of basic understanding

Hi there, in this video we're going to take the Width Tool to the next level. We're going to take this hand drawn logo and amazingly vectorize it.

In this video you will learn how to master corners with Adobe Illustrator CC using corner widget effects

Hi there, in this video we're going to use the very best creation tool in all of Illustrator, in my opinion, the Shape Builder Tool to make this whale circle-y special thing. All right, let's go build it now in Illustrator.

Just when you thought the last video of our Shape Builder was long, there's more. There's a few special tricks we're going to do to complete some of the previous drawings we've done.

Welcome, friends. In this video, we are going to look at Live Shape Effects. Basically it makes Pacman. It allows you to add and remove sides to Polygons quite easily, like that. We'll go a little bit further, and make a Pie chart doughnut thing. Let's go and learn Live Shape Effects in Illustrator.

All right, it is the end of this big section about drawing. We've done lots of bits. Now, what I've done though is I've tried to make all the exercises that you do very one tool specific so that you're not kind of trying to combine but that's not real life, right?

All right, it is keyboard shortcut time, the advanced stuff, at least. Now, there is a PDF you can download, print it off, stick it next to your computer. It's at bringyourownlaptop.com

Hi there, welcome to this section, all about colors and patterns. There's going to be a bunch of videos to deal with this. First video here is about Advanced Color Tips & Tricks, before we get started. All right, let's jump in.

Hey there, so Color Themes in Illustrator is under 'Window'. If you go down to 'Color Themes' and basically all it is, it starts from 'Create', and you can jump across to 'Explore'. Depending on your internet connection it can take a little time, but Explore is the best option.

Hi there, in this video we're going to take this kind of hand drawn, done with a pencil in real life drawing, and go do this where we fill it with color, easily making it all kind of vectory and nice. All right, let's go do it now in this tutorial.

In this video you learn how to how to use the Color Guide in Adobe Illustrator

Hello, color loving Illustrator people. In this video we're going to take our whale, and we're going to recolor with my couple of different options. Super quick, super easy, using the Recolor Artwork option in Adobe Illustrator. Let's go learn how to use that now.

Hey there, in this video we're going to look at something called a Gradient Mesh. What that allows us to do is do Gradients that don't kind of follow the straight line, like a Linear Gradient, or a round Radial Gradient.

Hey there, it's Shadow time. We are going to do three kinds of shadows. We are going to do Lane Drop shadows, we're going to do Flat shadows, then we're going to do some Fady shadows. All very technical names. Let's go learn how to do those now in Adobe Illustrator.

Hi there, in this video we're going to crop a bike inside a giant letter R, but really we want to look at the color blending.

Hi there, in this video we're going to do two things. We're going to take this colored image, and turn it into a black and white image. Then we're going to do some cool stuff with colors, and blending with the background. You can see a few different options there. Let's go do that now in Adobe Illustrator.

Hey there, in this video we're going to make Anaglyphic Text. Basically it's that kind of Cyan-y red color overlapping to interact, to kind of look 3D retro.

Hi, in this video we're going to look at more Blending Modes. We're going to look at Gradients along Strokes. They kind of start overlapping and doing fun stuff. We'll also look at jamming a Gradient inside Type.

Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to create this Duo Tone effect in Adobe Illustrator.

Hi there, in this video we're going to make this rather hypnotic repeating pattern in Adobe Illustrator. We're going to look at some more advanced features in this video.

Hi there, in this video we're going to set the defaults for the Swatches in Adobe Illustrator. We'll also set the default font, get rid of Myriad 12 point, we'll change everything we need to. We'll even turn off that pesky hyphenation. All right, let's go do that now in Illustrator.

All right, it's advanced tips and tricks work flow, speed up your daily stuff. There's lots in this whole section on work flow, but this particular one is lots of little bitsy things that don't deserve their own video. They're lumped together in this one, there's some good stuff though.

In this video we're going to learn the shortcuts for aligning and distributing. And the short answer is, there's no default shortcuts and it's a little bit hard to make them.

This is for the people that use Illustrator a little more of a, maybe an offset printing type of view, and you want to proof your colors, because I design a lot in RGB, and switch it to CMYK at the end.

In this video you will learn why Adobe Illustrator is running slow and how to speed it up

In this video you will learn how to best use Illustrator with other Adobe CC software

In this video you will learn advanced fonts tricks & tips in Adobe Illustrator CC

Hi there, are you ready to put text inside other text in Illustrator? We'll do that, plus we'll add some Gradients, add some image. Cool stuff going on. Let's go learn that now.

Hi there, in this video we're going to learn the Touch Type Tool in Adobe Illustrator. And by the looks of this, we are going to pick some really, really bad fonts. All right, let's go and learn how to use it now.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look to add more than one Stroke to a path. What that means is that there's just one path and these extra Strokes applied to it.

In this video you will learn how to add a stroke line around the outside of text or shapes in Illustrator

In this video you will learn how to make multiple lines using offset path in Adobe Illustrator CC

Hey there, in this video we're going to do some introduction to 3D. We'll look at the Revolve along the top left there, and a couple of Extrude, and the 3D Rotate. Let's go and learn that now in Adobe Illustrator.

In this video you will learn how to make semi flat 3D icons & ui design using Adobe Illustrator CC

Hi there, in this video we're going to make this paper cut effect using Adobe Illustrator. All right, let's jump in and do it.

Hey there, in this video we're going to make charts, graphs, pie charts, and things. We'll even make them 3D.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at some advanced usage of Artboards. Not sort of advanced, more kind of like work flow techniques. So jump into the video, let's show you all that the Artboards can be

Hey there, in this video we're going to look at some tips and tricks for using CC Libraries and other kind of internal parts like the Market.

It's time to do some advanced image tips and tricks. There's not much we can do but there's some cool little work flow things I think you'll like. Let's get started.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at distorting, pulling, and pushing using Illustrator's Envelope Distort. We're going to turn our Gradient into some kind of weird looking fish. And we'll even combine the bottom two graphics to turn them into the love heart.

Hi, and welcome to this Ribbon making class in Adobe Illustrator. We're going to use an Envelope Distort and particularly a Mesh to make this pretty rainbow ribbon. All right, let's jump in.

Hi there, in this video we're going to make lots and lots of lines. We'll make them join up and do cool Geometry and Sign Graph looking things. Also lots of Gradients. All right, let's get started.

Hi there, in this video we're going to make this kind of effect where it's kind of 3D and Gradients happening. It's very retro, very in. I don't even know what to call it. We'll do a couple of things we'll look at some of the more advanced usage and we'll add kind of a cool Grain to it as well to kind of grunge it up. All right, let's go do that now in Adobe Illustrator.

Hello wonderful Illustrator people. In this tutorial we're going to learn how to make a Linocut.

Hi there, welcome to this video about the Puppet Warp Tool in Adobe Illustrator. It's used for a couple of good things. One of them is this, where we get to kind of manipulate Type and bend it around so it fits into shapes, but also make monsters dance. Very, very important and useful technique. All right, maybe he wants to wave too. Let's go and do the tutorial. Yay! Let's get started.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at using Illustrator for Web & UI App design. Now Illustrator is one of the tools that gets used a lot by UI/UX designers to build things like websites and apps. We're not going to go through everything possible for Web and UI for Illustrator. I've got a completely other course that's dedicated to it. It's another 50 videos, so if you want to go in, like full board and do it, go check out that course.

Hello everyone, we are going to make an animated GIF in Illustrator. This looks… it looks okay, it could be better. I'm going to show you the tools and you're going to make prettier stuff than I have. All right, let's get into it.

Hey, you made it all the way to the end. It's a long series, I hope you enjoyed it. If you did, I'd love you to drop a comment, or leave a review. That will be super awesome. And with your class projects, I'd love to see them. Either post them on the site here or tag me in your Instagram pics, or maybe in Twitter. So Instagram, it's bringyourownlaptop, and on Twitter it's danlovesadobe.