Adobe Illustrator for Beginners 2021

Book excerpt: Adobe Illustrator is an application for creating beautiful and unique artworks. It is a vector graphics maker designed and developed by Adobe Inc in 1985. It is included as a part of the Adobe package, i.e., Adobe Creative cloud which includes Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe XD and more. This software is user friendly and supported by both WindowsOS and MacOS. Furthermore, it is widely used by graphic designers for visual designs that combine shapes, text, and images. However, you can create different digital and printed artworks that include logos, icons, book covers, media post images, cartoons, business cards, and many more. Illustrator's most important use is its ability to create solid and quality artworks that are widely supported and used. As a guide, this will walk you through the basics, which will ignite your ability to think creatively using Adobe Illustrator. You will get a simplified breakdown of utilizing this application by showing the various areas and tools on this platform. Hence, you understand → How to use this software → Working with shapes → Drawing and combining shapes → Working with text → The art tools → Tracing a photograph → Using brushes → Transforming objects → 3-d → Shortcuts, tips and tricks, and many more... Now that you have an idea of the amazing things you get to learn from this book, go ahead and grab your copy now rather than later.