Illustrator for the In-House Designer

Transition your Illustrator skills to a role as an in-house designer. Learn how to leverage artboards, symbols, libraries, and plugins to save time performing common design tasks.

Introduction

• Illustrator for the in-house designer

1. Producing Print Graphics in Illustrator

• Print color considerations
• Document raster effects
• Using artboards as pages
• Using layers for substitutions
• Using libraries effectively
• File output formats

2. Producing Digital Graphics in Illustrator

• Digital color considerations
• Working with artboards
• Layer and object naming
• Working with Asset Export
• Using symbols and libraries
• Image formats
• SVG
• SVG interactivity in Illustrator
• Create a usable image map

3. Basic Print Production in Illustrator

• Print production in a nutshell
• About spot colors
• Adding a varnish plate
• Overprint view
• Separations preview
• Creating a multitone single color file
• Many flavors of PDF

4. Using Plugins

• Some useful Illustrator scripts
• DynamicSketch
• VectorScribe
• Phantasm
• MirrorMe
• VectorFirstAid
• Nimbling SSR30

Conclusion

• Next steps