
You will also add effects and graphic styles to objects drawn in Illustrator CC. The Blend tool is one of the focal points of this lesson as it allows you to create new shapes by blending existing shapes and allows you to copy shapes. These add unique touches to a photo that can further enhance the quality and beauty of images, documents and even online elements. In this lesson, you will create blends and work with brushes. Lesson 4: Blending and Brushes and Graphic Effects and Styles Specifically for this lesson, you will learn how to organize your projects in layers to control content displays and adjust layers and their attributes. With layers, you can add effects on top of one another much, similar to using tracing paper and placing sheets on top of one another.

Lastly, you will be working with layers to help organize projects. You will also learn about warping text and converting text to paths. You will add various types of text - point, path and area - and learn how to apply character and paragraph formatting and styles. You will also work with text within Illustrator CC. You will create groups of color using the Color Guide panel and create patterns to paint your artwork. You will learn how to apply fill and line colors to your artwork and save colors used regularly into the Color Palette. In this lesson, you will explore the color features in Illustrator. Lesson 3: Working with Color, Text and Layers Once this lesson has been completed, you will have mastered numerous techniques that can be used within Illustrator CC to add life to an otherwise empty image. Once you have drawn the objects, you will learn to edit them by changing the shape of the objects, changing their fill and the stroke, and using the transform tools to rotate, skew, sheer and otherwise distort the objects. Additionally in this lesson, you will learn to confidently use the Pen tool to create freeform objects. You will draw rectangular and elliptical shapes as well as polygons and stars.

In this lesson, you will learn to work with some of the drawing tools Illustrator CC has to offer. Lesson 2: Creating and Transforming Shapes

Lastly, you will explore the various ways you can select objects, use the align and distribute tools and group and lock objects. Additionally, you will spend some time getting comfortable with the Illustrator workspace and customizing it to meet your needs. You will also look at the differences between bitmap and vector graphics and why one might be preferable over the other. In this lesson, you will get comfortable with the Illustrator environment and look at some of the basic tools being used throughout the course.
