Fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator for Web Design: Getting Started with the Basics (I)

Adobe Illustrator can be a wonderful and effective tool for designing for the web. In this beginners level class, you'll learn how to get started using Illustrator to design your own site.

This class is perfect for anyone looking to learn more about Adobe Illustrator, get started in web design, or for those who already know Illustrator but wanted to use it for web design as well.

What You'll Learn

• Getting Started. We'll walk through setting up your artboards, the workspace, and specific panels that are helpful for web design tasks.

• Shapes! Shapes! Shapes! We'll go over how to create, edit and arrange shapes, then turn them into site elements using different tools like alignment, groups, and paths.
• Typography and Color. We'll then dive into typography and color, what works best on the web, and how to integrate each into your design.

• Adding Styles. Here we'll cover layer styles, borders, glows, shadows, rounded corners and more.

• Working with Images. And finally, we'll integrate some imagery into our design and discuss how images are managed in Illustrator.

What You'll Make

In this class you'll create your own one page site, it can be a home page for a freelance project or a design for your own portfolio website. You'll use Adobe Illustrator throughout the process to create your final project.

• Getting Started in Illustrator
• Creating and Editing Shapes
• Typography and Color
• Adding Styles & Effects
• Adding Images
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