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Common Uses of Illustrator
1. Designing Logos
Common Uses of Illustrator
2. Drawing Maps
Common Uses of Illustrator
3. Drawing Illustrations
Common Uses of Illustrator
4. Infographics
Common Uses of Illustrator
5. Packaging Design
Illustrator Workspace
Control Palette
Menu
Floating Palette
Toolbar
Status Bar
Artboard
The Floating Palette
This is the floating palette which contains properties for our
shapes. It is commonly used for changing colors and stroke
width.
Please Complete
the Ai Tool
Identification
Worksheet
Turn into the Inbox when
completed
Day 2: Basic Shapes
In this lesson, we will look at how to use the
shape tools to draw our basic shapes in
illustrator. But before we start, we will look at
how to select a basic shape so that you have
no problems in selecting and editing shapes in
Illustrator.
Selection Tool: Used for selecting and moving a
shape. It can also be used to resize a shape.
Direct Selection Tool: Selects a single anchor
point instead of the whole shape. Used for
editing anchor point of a shape. Click once on a
point to select and hold Shift to select multiple
anchor points.
Shape Tools
Now we will move on to the Shape Tools. When
you go to the Tool Palette and hold the
Rectangle Tool, a list of shape tools will expand
out for you to pick. We will start with the default
Rectangle Tool.
Understanding Fill & Stroke
Click and drag out a Rectangle as shown. By
default, it has a white fill and black stroke.
(Stroke is the border of the shape)
Changing Fill Color
Lets start changing the fill color for the
rectangle. Double click the Fill from the Tool
Palette. It will pop up the Color Picker. Drag the
slider to blue and select a deep blue color. Click
Ok after that.
Removing Stroke
Click the Stroke in the Tool Palette once to swap
it above Fill. Click the None icon boxed up in red
to set the Stroke to None. The black stroke will
disappear.
Constrain Proportions
To draw a perfect square, we will select the
Rectangle Tool. Hold Shift and drag to draw a
square. Same for the circle, we will select the
Ellipse Tool and hold Shift to drag out a circle.
Resizing Shapes
To resize shapes, select the shape using the
Selection Tool and a bounding box will appear.
Drag the corner anchor point to resize it. To
constrain to proportion while resizing, hold Shift
as you resize. Hold Alt if your want to resize
from the same position.
Rotating Shapes
Select the shape with the Selection Tool and a
bounding box will appear. Move your cursor
near the anchor corner and a rotation icon will
icon, click and turn it to rotate the square. To
snap at 45 degrees increment, hold Shift and
turn.
More Options for Shape Tools
Select the Star Tool. Click once on the artboard
and an option will pop up. Enter the same
values below and click Ok. It will draw a star
burst shape. This method can be used to bring
out more options for shape tools.
Conclusion
Almost all the objects found in our daily life can
be built from combining using the basic shape
tools.
Assignment
Using your knowledge of Ai so far, create an
animal or object using the basic shape tools.
Submit your finished animal on eChalk as a .PDF
file.
How to save files
Go to File>Save As
File Name:
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