Desain grafis merupakan salah satu cara efektif dalam menyampaikan pesan kepada orang banyak atau masyarakat. Hal ini karena desain grafis membuat suatu informasi menjadi lebih menarik dan lebih nyaman secara visual. Karena itulah desain grafis menjadi salah satu bidang yang banyak diminati. Dalam merancang sebuah desain grafis yang baik, selain dibutuhkan kreativitas dan pemahaman terhadap desain, hal yang tidak
kalah penting dibutuhkan bagi desainer grafis adalah tools atau aplikasi untuk desain profesional. Dibutuhkan aplikasi desain grafis yang bagus untuk menghasilkan desain grafis yang bagus pula, memiliki fitur yang lengkap untuk membantu memudahkan dalam perancangan sebuah karya desain grafis.
Salah satu aplikasi desain grafis yang populer dikalangan desainer grafis profesional maupun amatir dan juga memiliki fitur yang lengkap adalah Adobe Illustrator. Adobe Illustrator merupakan sebuah aplikasi berbasis vektor yang dikembangkan oleh perusahaan software terkemuka yaitu Adobe System. Kelebihan Adobe illustrator selain memiliki fitur yang sangat lengkap, juga mampu menghasilkan gambar dan warna yang tajam dengan hasil akhir yang beresolusi tinggi, sangat sesuai dangan kebutuhan pembuatan desain grafis seperti illustrasi, kartun, logo, dan vektor image lainnya. Selain itu, Adobe illustrator memiliki tampilan user friendly bahkan bagi pemula.
Pada training Adobe Illustrator ini peserta akan mempelajari fitur-fitur Adobe Illustrator CC 2021 dengan mudah dan cepat. Selain itu peserta juga akan mempelajari tahap demi tahap teknik bekerja dalam Illustrator CC 2021 dan bagaimana membuat karya desain grafis berbasis vektor untuk kebutuhan proyek lintas media seperti printing, website, proyek multimedia interaktif dan video.
CONTENT
1. Getting To Know The Work Area1.1. Understanding the workspace
1.2. Adjusting the user interface brightness
1.3. Working with the Tools panel
1.4. Exploring the Control panel
1.5. Working with panels
1.6. Resetting and saving your workspace
1.7. Using panel menus
1.8. Changing the view of artwork
1.9. Using the view commands
1.10. Using the Zoom tool
1.11. Scrolling through a document
1.12. Viewing artwork
1.13. Navigating multiple artboards
1.14. Using the Navigator panel
1.15. Understanding ruler
1.16. Arranging multiple documents
1.17. Exploring document groups
1.18. Finding resources for using Illustrator
2. Selecting And Aligning
2.1. Selecting objects
2.2. Using the Selection tool
2.3. Using the Direct Selection tool
2.4. Creating selections with a marquee
2.5. Creating selections with the Magic Wand tool
2.6. Selecting similar objects
2.7. Aligning objects
2.8. Aligning objects to each other
2.9. Aligning to a key object
2.10. Aligning points
2.11. Distributing objects
2.12. Aligning to the artboard
2.13. Working with groups
2.14. Grouping items
2.15. Working in Isolation mode
2.16. Adding to a group
2.17. Exploring object arrangement
2.18. Arranging objects
2.19. Selecting objects behind
2.20. Hiding objects
2.21. Applying selection techniques
3. Creating And Editing Shapes
3.1. Creating a new document
3.2. Working with basic shapes
3.3. Understanding drawing modes
3.4. Creating rectangles
3.5. Creating rounded rectangles
3.6. Creating ellipses
3.7. Creating polygons
3.8. Working with Draw Behind mode
3.9. Creating stars
3.10. Changing stroke width and alignment
3.11. Working with line segments
3.12. Joining paths
3.13. Using the Width tool
3.14. Outlining strokes
3.15. Combining and editing shapes
3.16. Working with the Shape Builder tool
3.17. Working with Pathfinder effects
3.18. Working with shape modes
3.19. Using Draw Inside mode
3.20. Editing content drawn inside
3.21. Using the Eraser tool
3.22. Using Image Trace to create shapes
3.23. Cleaning up traced artwork
4. Transforming Objects
4.1. Working with artboards
4.2. Adding artboards to the document
4.3. Editing artboards
4.4. Renaming artboards
4.5. Reordering artboards
4.6. Transforming content
4.7. Working with rulers and guides
4.8. Scaling objects
4.9. Reflecting objects
4.10. Rotating objects
4.11. Distorting objects
4.12. Shearing objects
4.13. Positioning objects precisely
4.14. Changing perspective
4.15. Applying multiple transformations
4.16. Using the Free Distort effect
5. Drawing With The Pen And Pencil Tools
5.1. Starting with the Pen tool
5.2. Creating straight lines
5.3. Creating curved paths
5.4. Building a curve
5.5. Converting smooth points to corner points
5.6. Creating the violin illustration
5.7. Drawing curves
5.8. Selecting a curved path
5.9. Drawing a curved path
5.10. Drawing a closed path with curves
5.11. Drawing the violin shape
5.12. Creating the strings
5.13. Splitting a path
5.14. Adding arrowheads
5.15. Creating a dashed line
5.16. Editing curves
5.17. Deleting and adding anchor points
5.18. Converting between smooth points and corner points
5.19. Drawing with the Pencil tool
5.20. Editing with the Pencil tool
5.21. Finishing the violin illustration
5.22. Assembling the parts
5.23. Painting the artwork
6. Color And Painting
6.1. Understanding color
6.2. Color modes
6.3. Understanding the color controls
6.4. Creating color
6.5. Building and saving a custom color
6.6. Editing a swatch
6.7. Using Illustrator swatch libraries
6.8. Creating a spot color
6.9. Using the Color Picker
6.10. Creating and saving a tint of a color
6.11. Copying appearance attributes
6.12. Creating color groups
6.13. Working with the Color Guide panel
6.14. Editing a color group
6.15. Editing colors in artwork
6.16. Working with the Kuler panel
6.17. Assigning colors to your artwork
6.18. Adjusting colors
6.19. Painting with patterns
6.20. Applying existing patterns
6.21. Creating your own pattern
6.22. Applying a pattern
6.23. Editing a pattern
6.24. Working with Live Paint
6.25. Creating a Live Paint group
6.26. Editing Live Paint regions
6.27. Working with gap options
7. Working With Type
7.1. Working with type
7.2. Creating point type
7.3. Creating area type
7.4. Importing a plain text file
7.5. Working with overflow text and text reflow
7.6. Threading text
7.7. Creating columns of text
7.8. Formatting type
7.9. Changing the font size
7.10. Changing the font color
7.11. Changing additional text attributes
7.12. Working with glyphs
7.13. Resizing type objects
7.14. Changing paragraph attributes
7.15. Creating and applying text styles
7.16. Creating and applying a paragraph style
7.17. Editing a paragraph style
7.18. Sampling text formatting
7.19. Creating and applying a character style
7.20. Editing a character style
7.21. Reshaping text with a preset envelope warp
7.22. Reshaping text with an object warp
7.23. Wrapping text around an object
7.24. Creating text on an open path
7.25. Creating text on closed paths
7.26. Creating text outlines