Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

Choose Object > Hide > Selection to hide the background shape temporarily. That way you can focus on other artwork. Cl ...

Note Learn more about placing images in Lesson 14, “Using Illustrator CC with Other Adobe Applications.” Note On macOS, if you d ...

Using Image Trace You can use Image Trace to convert raster images into vector artwork. Next you’ll trace the hand lettering Pho ...

Note Note: The hand lettering was hand-drawn and a picture was taken of it. It was created by Danielle Fritz (www.behance.net/da ...

Paths: 25% Corners: 0% Noise: 25 px Snap Curves To Lines: deselected Ignore White: selected Note When you edit a value in the Im ...

Close the Image Trace panel by clicking the small X at the top. With the lettering still selected, click the Expand button i ...

Working with brushes Brushes let you stylize the appearance of paths. You can apply brush strokes to existing paths, or you can ...

Note The lines in the tail of the squirrel and the squirrel artwork are separate objects. If you find that you only drag one, si ...

Note The brush you apply is an art brush, which means that it stretches artwork along the path. The brush artwork is scaled on t ...

Click to select the background rectangle, and pressing the Shift key, click the BOUTIQUE text to select it as well. Tip You ca ...

Any content you apply an alignment to will now align to the edges of the artboard. Click the Horizontal Align Center button ( ...

Note Learn more about effects in Lesson 12, “Exploring Creative Uses of Effects and Graphic Styles.” With the Selection tool ( ...

Mode: Multiply (the default setting) Opacity: 30% X Offset and Y Offset: 0.05 in Blur: 0.04 Select Preview to see it applied t ...

Choose File > Save. Presenting your document In Illustrator, you can view your document in different ways. If you need to p ...

Everything but the active artboard is hidden from view. The area around the artboard is replaced by a solid color, usually black ...

1 Getting to Know the Work Area To make the most of the extensive drawing, painting, and editing capabilities of Adobe Illustrat ...

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in a PDF file, or imported into a vector-based graphics application. As a result, vector graphics are the best choice for artwor ...

Double-click the Adobe Illustrator CC icon to launch Adobe Illustrator. With Illustrator open, you will see a start screen sho ...

When the file is open and Illustrator is fully launched, the menus, Application bar, Tools panel, and panels appear on the scree ...