Adobe Illustrator Masterclass: From Beginner to Pro

1. Class Introduction: Hey, guys, welcome to this Adobe Illustrator master class, and you already know what time it is. It's time to learn and have some fun. My name is Gabriel Shoal AKA K Show, and I'll be your captain in this Adobe Illustrator journey. In this training, you're going to be learning a lot from getting started in Adobe Illustrator. How to use colors, shapes, and outlines, working with text in Illustrator, using the Shape Builder tool. You'll also be learning how to create and draw Logals, how to use gradients, clipping maps, that is putting images in shapes, vectorizing your image, how to create flyers, and export your designs. This course is for beginners, intermediate, and advanced users. It's going to be an amazing time. So if you're ready, let's get straight into Adobe Illustrator, and I'll see you at the other side. 2. Exercise Files: Hey, guys, welcome to this video. In this video, I'm going to be talking about the exercise files. The exercise files are resources that will allow you to follow along with me during the course. You should find the exercise files below this video. Simply click on it to download it to your device. Don't forget it's a zip file, meaning that once you're done downloading it, you have to extract it with your PC. To do that, just simply double click on it, and that's it. And you can open the folder and begin to use those files to follow along with me during the course. I'll see you guys in the next video. 3. Getting Started in Adobe Illustrator: What's up, guys, I'm super excited to have you right here in this training. Welcome to the first session. And in this session, we're going to be talking about how to get started in Adobe Illustrator. You know how row. I'm so excited to have you here. So let's get started right now and go into Adobe Illustrator. Ooh. Okay, so I'm right here in Adobe Illustrator 2021. Now, if you're using an older version of Adobe Illustrator, things are not really that, you know, different. All right? You will always find, you know, whatever I have here, also in your own software. All right. So let's get started. Now, engaging Started Illustrator, you can either create a new document or open an existing document. So since we don't have an any existing document right now, let's just click on Create New, and that will bring us right here where we can create a new document. Now we have some preset here that we can easily just choose. And when we choose any preset here, it to automatically change the settings that we have here. For example, if I choose web lag You can see that it automatically changes the settings that I have right here. All right. So all the presets you have here, and even here here here, here, or here, they are all created from this section. All right. So let's talk about how to create our own our own preset. All right? And then after we're done, we could also save it and it's going to appear under this saved preset. All right. So back here, let's just come over here, and we're going to name this Adobe masterclass, all right? Showing untitled one, don't want to leave it as untitled one. You want to make sure that it is something related to what you want to work on. But as an example, we're going to use Adobe master class for this example. Now, the wit and height is another important thing. The wit and height is another important thing. So if I go to my folder right here, let me show you some images. You can see this image right here. This image right here is a portrait image. And what makes it portrait? It is because the height is longer than the wit. All right. And this image right here is a landscape image. And what makes the landscape, it's because the wit is longer than the height. All right. And then right here, we have a square image. So what makes this image a square image, I is because the wit and the height are equal, right. So the wit and height are equal. All right. So when we have the wit longer than the height, we have a landscape image. And when we have the height longer than the wit, we have a portrait image. And when we have the width and height equal, we have a square image. So let's go back to Illustrator. Now that we understand what, you know, with and height are, we can always choose the right values here. Depending on whether we want a landscape or a square or a portrait orientation. All right? It is very, very important. And in design, designs are categorized into two. Designs are categorized into two. We have print designs, and we have screen designs. All right? We have print designs, and we have screen designs. I mentioned a lot of these in the photoshop training. Okay, we have prints and screen designs. What are print designs? Print designs are designs that you will eventually print, like your business card, your billboard, roller banners, your business card, your flyers, and so on and so forth. While screen designs are not being printed, but rather, they are designs that are meant for social media, for your website, for maybe your PowerPoint presentation, or you need a design for your digital billboard. All right? These are examples of screen design. So you must have it at the back of your mind that we have two kinds or two categories of designs, print designs and screen designs. Okay. So if you come over here, we can come here and choose the right size forward design. But before entering your wit and height tire, it is very, very important that you choose the right measuring unit. Okay? It is very important that you choose the right measuring unit. So whatever I enter here, if I enter 300 and I come here and enter 500, This is 300 by 500 pixels. All right, 300 by 500 pixels. All right. So if what I intended to enter here was 300 centimeter by 500 centimeter, then I have done the wrong thing. All right? What I'm supposed to do is to click here first and then changes to centimeter. And then I can now come here and say, Oh, 300, by 500, and that'll give me centimeter. And see is writing CM CM right here. Okay. So it is very important that you make sure that you are using the right measuring unit before you enter your weight and height. Very, very important. All right. So because we're going to be doing a screen design, we're not going to be printing. Screen designs are best measured in pixels. So I'll come here and enter 1080. All right. And then I'll also enter tent here. Why am I entering Tent by tent? I'm doing this because we're going to be doing a screen design, and basically, maybe we're going to be posting it on our social media. And the best orientation for social media is square. So all social media love square, you know, Instagram, Whatsapp, Facebook, you know, Linden, Twitter, all of the social media platforms, love square images. For example, if you're trying to upload a portrait image on Instagram, you notice that Instagram, it's kind of cropping out your image. And why is that? It's because the platform just basically doesn't support, you know, portraits that are very long. It only supports square images. And then even when you put in landscape on Instagram, it's not always filling up the page like a square image will do. So that's why platforms, especially social media ones, they love square images. And that's why I'm using tenity by tenity, because when my weight and height are equal, it's going to give me a square size, right? And 108 is like the industry standard that we use when it comes to social media designs. So I'm just going to leave it at 1080. All right. Now, orientation I've spoken about that already. This is portrait, this is landscape. But because my size here is square, then it won't really make sense to, you know, change this here because I'm still going to get the same thing. Now, what is at board? At board is like pages. All right. So if I create this now and I use just one artboard, what does that mean? A mains start, you know, I'm just going to have a single page in my document, and that's all. But if I find myself in a situation whereby I want to do a design for maybe a magazine or a brochure, or I want to do a design for my business card front and back. Then it will make sense for me to increase this number of art boards or a number of pages so that I can have enough page to do page one, page two, page three, page four, page five, page six, and so on and so forth. Okay. So that is why you know, this art board is here. So if I have a designed I will require more than one page, I can increase my number of art board to that number, and that would give me that. So let me just do maybe six here, and let's see so we can use that as an example and see what six d bods can give us. Now we have this bleed right here. Okay, this bled is useful for those who are into publication. So those who maybe are doing magazines or those who are doing things has to e fairly print, it has to do with print most of the time. You know, so if you print on a paper, okay? And, you know, sometimes when you are doing your design, when we create like an A four size, we always fill up the entire page with our, you know, design. And then when it gets to the print house, we'll notice that in the process of printing, some part of our designs are cut off. All right? Some part of our designs are cut off, and that's because we didn't give space. Around the edges of our design. So that in case they are printing and there's need for any part to be cut off, it won't touch the design itself. And that's what this bleed is used for. So you can determine the number of you know, space, you want around the edge of your size so that when you take it out for print, and they're trying to print your design on maybe a paper or a canvas or whatever it is. And you don't want any part of your image to be cut out. You can make sure you increase your bleed to maybe about five pig cells by five peak es or ten peak ells by ten peak es, or maybe 1 " or 2 ", you know, depending on the space you would like to live. So that when you increase your bleed, illustrator will kind of, you know, separate or subtract that part of That part out of your design size, and so that all your design you will do will be within the page, and that bleed will be left empty so that when you go out to print, that part will become white. So you see a white border around your print, all right? And so if while they are trying to cut something or trying to cut out your, you know, canvas or the paper or whatever it is, it doesn't cut your design. So there's enough space to breed for the cutting machine. All right. So that's what bleed is all about. But since we're not printing anything today, we're going to leave it in zero. Because when it comes to screen designs, we don't need any bleed. There's no cutting or anything. So we're going to leave it at zero. But you notice that if I increase one of them, you can see all of them increase, which is very, very, very good because it will give you a uniform, you know, space between your four borders. So this is the top bottom, left and right. Let me just change this back to zero. And then move to the next. So under this advanced option, we can see, we have color mode. So I spoke about this in the photoshop training also. Color mode, when it comes to print and screen designs. Print designs require CMYK as your color mode. While screen designs require LGB as your color mode. All right. So when it comes to printing, you choose CMYK. When it comes to screen designs, you choose LGB. All right. So that's how the technology behind laptop screens, TV screens, phone, mobile screen, mobile phone screens, you know, and stuff. That's how they work. They use lgB, while printers use CMYK. So you also want to choose the right color mode here because if you don't choose right color mode, say, for example, you choose lg, but your design is meant for print. You might go to the printer and then you find out that your design, maybe you choose black. By the time you're done printing it, that black might change to something like a light gray, and you don't want that to happen with your design. So you choose the right color mode for the right scenario. The next thing is the Raster effect, which is also called your resolution. All right, Resolution. Now, for screen design, you can see, Illustrator has even put it here for you. Screen. You choose what 72. And then for print design, you use 300. All right. You're using 72 for screen design, because when it comes to screen design, you want to make sure that your design file size is as small as possible, but still having a good quality. All right? And then when it comes to print, you want to use 300, because you don't really care about the file size of your design. All you are really, really concerned about is the quality of your design. All right? And when you're done printing the design, you can even delete the source file if it's too heavy. But when it comes to screen designs, all right, your design will be moving from one device to another. And basically files that are too heavy, don't, you know, successfully move from one device to another device. But files that are not too heavy files like within the range of 100 kilobytes to maybe two megabyte max, you know, people are easy people are able to easily share that kind of file, send it on whatsapp, you know, upload it on Instagram, and do all of that. Mali trying to upload the 50 megabyte image on Instagram, you know, with a bad network, for example, right? So that is why when it comes to screen designs, You want to make sure that you choose 72, why, so that your file size by the time you export your design would be small, but you still have a good quality. Imagine you're trying to upload the 50 megabytes image on your website, and you have ten of those. That's 500 megabytes on your website. Your website will be the slowest website in the world. All right. So you want to make sure that you use 72 for screen so that your file size will be small, and then you can take it all the way up when it comes to print design because you don't really care about the file size. All right? So we're going to choose 72 for now. And then your preview mode, you want to leave it in the default right there. Okay? And that sits, guys, we've entered our name here, a Master class, our Wit and height, artboard, we choose six, a color mode, RGB, resolution or Raster Effects, 72 PPI. All right. And then all we need to do now is to just click on the Create button, and that will create our document for us in Illustrator. And we're going to see the six art bots that we created. So it's taken a while to just load up and you can see once it's done loading up. You can see our art bots right here. We chose six. So we have chosen one, we're just going to see one, you know, piece of page here. But right now, we can see one, two, three, four, five, six. We have six pages to work with in Illustrator. All right. So thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you in the next video. 4. Interface, Saving and Importing in Illustrator: Welcome back, guys. So let's get straight into Illustrator, Let's talk about the interface. Let's talk about how to bring in an image. Let's talk about how to save your work and some short cuts. So let's go straight into it right now. Okay, so we're right here inside of Adobe Illustrator, and let's quickly bring in an image. Or let's quickly talk about some short cuts before bringing in that. All right. So our favorite short cut is if I grab my rectangle and I just draw a rectangle. All right, change the color to something to Undo this, I'm going to press Command Z or Control Z. And to redo that, I can press command Shift Z or Control Shift Z. To delete stuff, just select them and press delete, and that's gone. Now, remember your Control minus, Control plus, Control zero in Photoshop. The same thing also applies to Illustrator. All right. If I press Control plus, that will begin to zoom in Control minus zoom out. And I can click on a particular artboard or a page and press Control zero, and it to just fit that artboard to my screen so that I can concentrate on that particular artboard. All right. So those are the major shortcuts that you need to know in Illustrator for now. All right, you undo, zooming and zooming out, you redo and fitting it to your screen. All right. So these tools are very important. So now let's talk about importing an image into Illustrator. So import an image to illustrator, you just go to file, and then on the file, you're going to see place. And the shortcut for that is command shift P. Or control shift P on a windows machine. If I click place, he's going to ask me, hey, what do you want to place inside here, so I can browse to where I have my images, and then I can import them. So from here, you want to go to the exercise one folder. All right, don't forget all of these exercise folders. You'll be able to download them on the platform, right? So we can follow along. So if I open the exercise one folder, I can see we have two images there. I can select this image and click on what please. And when I do that, you can see a tomb nail of the image showing and following my mouse. All right? I can do two things with this. I can either just click and to just drop the image in its full size. All right? And you can see the image is way bigger than the artboard. All right. This is one way. Let me undo that do. Alright, go back to file. Place. Okay. I can select this again, click on place. And this time, instead of just clicking and clicking on it, and then the image size just dropping, I can click and drag and determine the size of the image that I want. So if I want something like this, I can just click and drag that way, release my mouse, and then it drops that exact size of the image into Illustrator. All right. So this is another way of dropping in your file. Then another thing is, if you want to drop your image as a template. So maybe for one reason or the other, you want it to be a template meaning, it's going to be locked, and it's going to be at the background. All right. Illustrator can do that for you. All you need to do is just click on this template icon here, and then you click place, and you can see the way it drops the image and even makes it faded so that you can concentrate on what you want to do. Maybe you want to redraw you know, this image, with your Cvture tool, or with your pain tool inside of illustrator. You can do that and locks the image. So I can move the image. So it's more like the image is not there. So it's just for you to use for whatever means or whatever need you have for it. All right? So let's undo that, and let's just drop the image normally. So I'll go to File Place and then select the image and click place, All right, and then just click and drag and then drop our image right there. Okay. So, mind you, if your image is a very low quality image or a small image and you click and drag, and the size at which you click and drag is way bigger than the original size of the image. By the time you release your mouth and you see your image, it might look blurry. All right. So consider the size of your image before clicking and drag dragging to the extent that you want so that you don't make your image blurry. All right. This image is way bigger than the at both sides. That's why the quality is still as sharp as this even after clicking and dragging. All right. So this is one image. I can go ahead, go to Fi Place again, bring in the second image, which is this cake. Click on Place, and then I'll also click and drag On that, and that would drop the image above the current image, right. And this would allow me to talk about arranging arranging your images or your objects in illustrators. So you can see now that automatically, this one drops above the existing image. So what if I want my image behind to be the one in front, then I need the arrange button. I need the arrange button. All right. Now, if you look at the newer version of Illustrator, We have the property spanel here that quickly gives me some essential things I need for what I'm currently working on. And one of those things is this arrange under quick actions. All right. So Illustrated looks at what I'm doing, and then suggests different quick actions for me that I might need to use in what I'm doing right now. And one of that is a range. All right. But if you don't have all of this, you can still get your arrange in another way. You could simply go to object, and other object, you see a range. A other arrange, you see, bring to front, bring forward, send backward, send to back. All right. So but I like using the quick action because it makes my work faster. So I'll go to arrange here. Click on a range, and the cake is the image selected. I can say, Hey, send the cake image to the back. And when I click on that, can you see what happens, the image of the cake is now the image behind, and the one of the lady on the horse is now the image in front. So that's how you arrange your images and stuff in illustrator, you know, depending on what you're working on. And this also applies to shapes. If I can draw maybe a rectangle or so. And if I want the image to also be above that, I can select the rectangle, go to a range again, and then go to send to back. And it sends it all the way to the back. You can see that even the cake is in front of the rectangle. So let me undo that. And let's say I just want to send it in between the lady on the horse and the cake image. How do I go about that? I go to a range. And instead of send to back, I will use send backward. So send backward, we just push the image one step backward. All right. So if I do that now, we can see that it is behind the lady on the horse, but in front of the cake image. All right. So this is how you arrange your object or your images and illustrator. All right. And quickly, before I end this video, let me just talk about the interface. At the top here is your main menu, like you already know. Okay. And then on the left hand side here, we have the two bar. We have the two bar. Okay? This is where we are going to be picking different tools to use in Illustrator. And then right here is our main artboard where we see what we are working on. And then on the right here, like I said, we have the properties bar that will give us quick actions or more information about what we are working on. You can see right here, we have appearance. Here we have transform, here we have a line, here we have the quick action. I think in the very old version of Illustrator, your properties bar might be somewhere up here. So maybe you are using maybe 2015, T six, your properties bar might be somewhere at the top right here. So just take note of that. All right. And then even right here, beside the properties bar, we have the layers panel. All right. So if you also want to work in layers. So if you are really familiar with the way layers work in photoshop, and you also want to work like that in Illustrator, you can just keep creating separate layers for your objects, right? And you can do that by just clicking the plus button that we have right here, and that will create a new layer for you. All right. So but I like just doing the arranged thing, moving stuff forward and backward in Illustrator. It's kind of easy that way. And then we have the libraries, all right right there. So these are the different panels that we have in Illustrator. Don't forget, if you don't have any panel that you can see on mine show on yours, simply go to window, and on that window, you'll see all the available panels in Illustrator. For example, you don't have this properties panel here. You could just come to properties right here and then activate it. All right. So there are so many other panels that are not even activated. All right? Something like, you know, color. Se and see color pops up, right? So if I don't want it again, I can close it, and that goes away. If I want it again, I'll come to window and activate the color panel. So there are so many panels that are here. If there's a panel on mine that you don't have on yours, just take a look at the name and say, Oh, appearance, and then go to window and then click on appearance to bring up the appearance panel. All right. So it's as simple as that. And also, currently, my workspace, let's talk about workspace now. My workspace is currently on essentials. So the reason why some of you, your illustrator might look a little bit different from mine is that you might actually be on another workspace. For example, if I changes to painting, he's going to rearrange my workspace and rearrange it to painting, and maybe yours is looking like this and you're saying, Oh, my illustrator is way different from this. You don't need to panic. All you need to do is to come to window. Number one, make sure that you are on essentials, and that will just rearrange everything for you like mine. All right? And then if you mistakenly, you know, drag things around and things are scattered, your tubar is now in the wrong place, and everything is looking like, Oh, what's going on? Don't panic. Simply go to your window, go to work space. Number one, make sure you make sure you are on essentials. And then number two, you click on Reset Essentials. Now when I click on that, that will reset everything back to what is supposed to be. All right. So very simple, the way of working an Illustrator, your interface, shortcuts, you undo, arranging stuff, front and back, and all of that. In Illustrator. All right, thank you so much for watching this video. I will see you in the next video. 5. Working with Shapes, Colors and Outlines in Illustrator: Lots of guys, welcome to another video in this Adobe Illustrator training. And in this video, we're going to be talking about shapes. We'll be talking about rectangle, circle, polygon, lines, arcs. We'll be talking about how to give them colors, outlines, and so much more. Alright. So let's get straight into it right now, and I'll see you in Adobe Illustrator. Right. So we're back right here in Illustrator, and you can see this is where we stopped. So let me just select my second art board or my second page by using my, you know, selection to, I'll just click on it and then press Control zero, and that will automatically fit my second art board to my screen so that I can concentrate right here. All right. So all of this artboard, what it simply means is that, since I have six art bots, I can actually have six pages, or I can even have six designs. So I can do one design on page one or at board one, and then another one on At Board two, three, four, and five and six. All right. So that is the advantage of having separate art boards, okay? It's just like you're an artist and you have different canvas where you're painting on, and then you can even switch from one canvas to another canvass. Let's talk about shapes right now. How do I draw shapes? How do I do all of that? But before I talk about that, let's talk about saving our work because, you know, our computer might decide to act for me, and, you know, you don't want to be in that mess. So how do I save my work? I go to file, Okay. I go to Save As. Remember, I like using Save S for the first time because Save s will always give me the opportunity to give my work a name and choose where I want to save it. All right. So here I'm going to save it in my document, save it where I save my illustrator files, and then I'll leave the name as Adobe Master class. And then I'll click Save. And that will save my work. It's going to bring this up. We just want to leave everything in default and just click. Okay. And that saves your work to where you have chosen. All right. So in case our system decide to act up and stuff, we know that we've saved our work, but it doesn't stop there. Now, you have to be pressing Control S intermittently so as to save your current work, right? So if I don't press Control S throughout for the next 2 hours, by the time I open what I've saved, it will bring me back here. So you have to always be pressing Control S or command S, or you go to file and you choose save to save your work as you progress. So you save all the updates or changes that you have made. So back to what we're discussing. Let's talk about shapes. All right. So right here, okay, we can see the all minter rectangle two, right, I've been on the selection tool all this while. And that's what has enabled me to be moving images and stuff here and there. So like I used to say, when I done with any other tool here, always fall back to the selection tool. And the shortcut for the selection two is the letter V. All right. So one of the keys I press on my keyboard often is the letter V because anytime I'm done with something, I just press V, to go back to the selection too. All right. So going back to our rectangle to, I can click here, click and drag to draw a rectangle. All right. But if I hold down shift, I'll be able to draw a square. All right. If I need a square, I hold down rectangle. I'll hold down the shift. If I don't need a square, I can just drag it the way I want it, and that gives me a rectangle. All right. Now, you can see that my rectangle has this, you know, red, pinkish color. I don't know what to call this. I'm sure the ladies will know what to call this. This wine. Ladies, help me out here, okay? Now, if I try to move this rectangle and I click and drag Oops, I'm drawing another rectangle. And that's because, like I said, whenever you're done with a tool, always go back to the selection to, so you'll be able to move things around. So let me undo this and then go back to my selection to, and then I can click my rectangle and move my rectangle around. All right. So it's as simple as that. All right. So the next thing that we're going to talk about now is the color. All right, the color. So if I come right here, you can see that under my appearance, I can see the fill color and the stroke color and even opacity. And we're going to talk about that, you know, very soon. Okay? So how do I change my color? Now, don't forget if I using an older version, you might not see it here. It might be at the top somewhere here. So just take note of that. All right. Still the same thing. So to change my color, I can just click. On this fill color. And then it gives me some options here. I can select some of the options that we have here. And you can see that it just changes the color of my rex angle. I can, you know, choose another one year, choose another one year, choose another one year, or I could come to the color mixer. And this will give me more options of all the colors I have available in Illustrator. So I can move from red, choose a different shade, you know, dark red, light, red, you know, move to yellow, orange, you know, move to green, green, blue, you know, and so on and so forth. So this gives me all the color available in Illustrator. I can also, you know, enter my color code right here. All right, if I have a color code to enter, or I could also copy and paste the color code right here if I have one with me already. And the good thing about this is that we also have the L GB slide here. Remember, we chose LGB, so that's why we have Ll GBA. If it was CMYK we chose, we have CMYK here. So we also have the slide here to kind of still adjust your color a little bit. Maybe I want like a pinkish red, I can move towards that and then get that. I can adjust this. You know, I can adjust this and just keep, you know, playing around that. So The all essence of this is that there's no color you are looking for that you can't get under the color mixer. But the swatch is just quickly gives you, you know, some color preset that you can just quickly use, and then that's it. All right? So that's that for your feel color. All right. So the next thing I want to talk about now is the stroke. Stroke is the outline color on my object. Is the outline color on my object. So if I click away somewhere else, you can see that black line around, you know, the rectangle. So when I put my mouse I just changes to blue because it looks as, Oh, do you want to select this? But when I take my mouse away, you can clearly see that black, you know, line around the rectangle. That is your stroke. So let me select it. Let's see some options that we have for stroke. I can click on the color for stroke, and let's change that to a red color, and then, you know, click away and let's see. I see that the color has now changed to red. And that's the way it works. So let me click on it again. You'll see that we have something showing one point here. And that tells me that I can actually increase the weight of my outline around my object. So if I click on this drop down, I can go all the way to 20. And I can see how immediately my outline color is now big around my you know, shape. I can select it again. I can click on this truck for more stroke options by clicking on this struck here. Okay, for more options. You can see you can change the wit also here. You can change the type of outline that your outline has. You want it to be curved. You want it to be, you know, kind of like this. So you have so many other options for your, you know, outline right here, okay? And we have so many things that you can do from that. All right? It is as simple as that. So that's your outline color. And then lastly is opacity. Opacity is just the visibility of your shape. So if I reduce my opacity from 100, I'll make my shape transparent. All right. So it's not looking transparent like this because I don't have anything underneath it. So let me take it back to 100. Let me bring this image right here. Okay? You can see it's behind it already. So if I come to select my rex angle, come to the opacity again, and I reduce my opacity. Can you see what's going on now? I can even extend this to fill up the entire image and just create something like a frame around the image. I can see how nice this looks like, okay? So we can see what I've just created with that by reducing the transparency of my rectangle, putting it on the image, and it gives me this nice look that I have right here. All right. So that is opacity. Okay? That is opacity. So it's as simple as that. Okay. So that's your colors and shapes and everything all around it. So let's use this to create something. Before then, let me just go to this artboard. Select it, control zero or command zero to focus on this. I can come to my rectangle, tool again. But the thing now is that if you look at the rectangle two, there's a drop down arrow right there. Okay, let you know that there are other tools inside this rectangle two that are hiding. So to review them, I'll click and hold on that drop down. And you can see we have the ellipse, the polygon, the star, and the line segment. If I grab my, you know, ellipse two, I can draw a circle. All right. And you can see that Illustrator remembers your last color and your stroke and everything. So which is good because if you want to draw something else and you want to maintain the same color and stroke, You don't have to go through that settings again. Now, if I want a circle, because this is like val or you know spherical. If I want a circle, I'll hold down shift, and that will give me a circle with the same radius and diameter. All right, so you can see what we have right there. I'm going to delete that and come back right here, and we can see polygon. Let's draw a polygon. You can see as I draw my polygon, it also remembers the color and size. And we can see that this polygon is one, two, three, four, five, six, has six sides. All right. This polygon has six size. They want to ask, What if I want a polygon that has five size, what do I do? How do I go about that? It's very simple. I'll delete this. And then this time, before I start drawing my polygon, I'll just click once on my screen, and it's going to bring up this polygon option. I can see that the size we have here is currently six. I can click on this, you know, arrow pointing down to reduce that to five. And this time when I click, okay, it creates a polygon with five sides for me as simple as that. All right. So let's delete that. Let's talk about the star two. So this allows me to draw a star. Okay. And the same way I can click once to choose the number of points my star will have. Let's say ten, you can see the kind of star it has drawn for me now. I can undo that or delete that and then go to the next one, which is the line segment two. So the line segment two just basically allows me to draw a straight line. All right. So I can click and drag this way. Sorry. Can s that. Click and drag this way, and that gives me a straight line. Now you can see that this doesn't have any yellow in it because this is a line and strokes deals with line. All right? So we can see that the field is empty, but the stroke is still there. So take note of that. And I can draw my line in any direction. I can click and drag like this, click and drag like this. Draw it in any direction I want, click and drag like this, click and drag like this, and I have, you know, my straight lines all over the place. Okay? So that is how to draw lines inside of Illustrator. Okay? Now, you can see, I'm trying to delete everything at once. And if I want to do that, I have to select this, press delete, select the, press delete. But what if I want to delete everything at once, then I can select all of my shape at once. And how do I select them all at once? I'll just come out of my artboard, click and drag and make sure that this box touches everything I would like to be selected. So at this point, let me undo that. We do. So if I stop at this point, I'm only selecting one object, which is this line here. If I stop at this point, I'm only selecting two objects. I'll help you understand what I mean by that. If I stop at this, I'm selecting three. All right. So if I want to select everything, I have to make sure that this touches everything. And then when I release my mouse, you can see everything is selected, I can move everything together, or I can press the delete, and that will delete everything allogether. All right. So that is that. So I can also undo this again. And what I want to show you now that instead of deleting this, I can actually group it together. All right? And grouping it is very easy. Once all of them are selected, in my quick action, I'm already seeing what group. And that's why I like this quick action because he kind of knows what I want to do next when I do stuff in my artboard, right? So I can click the group here. But if you don't have the quick action here, you can always go to object, and the object, you'll see group. And the shortcut for the group here is Command G or Control G on windows. So I can come to my quick action, click on group. And now if I click outside and I click any part of my drawing, everything gets selected. All right. And at any point, if I want to on group, can go back to object, and O object, I'll see on group, or use the shortcut Control Shift G or command Shift G, or I'll just come to my quick action and click on on group. Then click outside and I'm able to select any part of my image. So let me undo that and press delete, and that deletes my shape. All right. And another thing I want to talk about now is the snap snap. You'll notice that as I move things around, they are kind of snapping to the things is seeing. And that was why it was very easy for me to kind of, you know, put this on the image, and it just, you know, fits perfectly. And that's because my snap is on. All right. So if your snap is not on, how do you turn it on? You go to your menu and then you click on view. Okay. And under view, you'll see smart guides. All right. So Illustrator calls it smart guides. All right, and you can use the short cut to also activate it, which is command or control you on windows. All right, that Smart guide. And there are times that your Smart guide might be annoying you. Maybe all you want to do is you want to put this close to this image, but not really at the edge. While you find out that, it just keeps jumping everywhere. All right, trying to, you know, snap to those things. So in that case, you can go to view, turn off your Smart guide, and you'll be able to freely move your image around without it, you know, kind of, you know, jumping everywhere or snapping, so it. All right. But for now, I need my smart guide, so I'll turn it on because it's going to help me a lot to just quickly arrange my shapes and objects. All right, so that's that for your snap too. All right. So thank you so much for watching this video. I'm super excited that you've learnt a lot in this video, and I'll see you in the next video. 6. Direct Selection Tool in Illustrator: Welcome once again to another video in Adobe Illustrator Training. In this video, we're going to be talking about a guy called The Direct Selection Tool and how to use it in Illustrator. So let's get started right now. All right. So we're back right here in Illustrator. And quickly, let me just go back to my rectangle too. And you can see that I changed this to the line tool in the last video. So some of you might feel like, Oh, I'm looking for my rectangle too. I don't know where it is. Oh, no. I lost my rectangle too. No. Don't panic. Alright. Still right there. Just click and hold on the drop down, and then go back to your rectangle too. It's as simple as that. All right. This time, let me just change my color to maybe pink or something and then remove my stroke. Oh, sorry. I was adjusting that one. So, okay, let me just draw it first. So I want to draw a square, all right, and just stop that right there. So I want to come here, remove my stroke by clicking this no stroke. And then just leave my color the weights. Go back to my selection too so I can carry and move my, you know, square around. Now, I want to copy and paste this sell me drawing, you know, more of this rectangle, so I can copy and paste this, I'll select it, and then I'll do control C, or command C, which is copy, and then control V or command V, which is paste. And I'll just take that. Remember my smart guide is on, so it's allowing me to, you know, kind of arrange things properly. Then I'll do another control V and carry that and put that right here at the center of the other one here. Okay. And then control V again, grab that and put that right here. Okay? So it's as simple as that. So you can see how my smart guide has easily helped me to arrange this. Let me just bring them closer to each other. Yep. Yep. Yep. All right, great. Let's give them different colors. I can select this. You know, give this maybe a red color. Select this, give this maybe a purple color, or maybe orange color. Select this. Give this pop. Let's give them different colors. Select this, give this. Let's say, light blue color. All right? Let me change. Let me changes. Let me change. Let me change. Let me change. Let me change. Let me change it. What color should I cho choose? Uh uh. Oh, man. Okay, let's choose this. Yeah, I like that. So just to give everything like a different shade of color and everything. So I have three rectangles or sorry, sorry, what am I saying? Man, I have four squares right here. Okay? And let's talk about the direct selection two. All right. The direct selection two. Now, if I click on my Rectangle, There is something that is always showing here like a circle. You know, we all know that this one here allows us to reduce or increase all of those stuff, you know, they want to make sure that they are holding down shifts so that it maintains proportionality. So we know what, you know, this guy does, you know, we know what this does, this does. We know what this. We know what this does. We know what this does. We know all of that. We know we can use it to adjust the size of our object, you know, or reduce the size of our object. So but what do these guys do? These circle guys here? What do they do? What are they there for? All right. That actually allows you to adjust the corners of your rectangle or your square. So if I click on any of them and I click and drag, I see how it's adjusting the corners. And when I get all the way to the center, it just turns my square to a circle. All right. So but that's not what I want to do. You can see the effect it gives us right there. All right. And it applies to all of them. If I do this to Pis, You can see I can just convert them to a rounded square like this, and we have this, you know, nice look right here. All right. So that's what they do. But there's something called the direct selection two, which is this two that looks like the selection to or has a different color, which is white. All right. So why is it called the direct selection two? It's called the direct election two because it allows me to pick a particular circle. Now, if I go back to my selection to once again, if I click and drag on this one, every other thing is being adjusted, even though I'm dragging just on one side of the square. So but with my direct selection to, I can click on this alone and then drag it and say, I only want to bend this part of my square. I can do the same thing here. You click on it first to select the one you want to adjust, right? And then you click and drag and you give you that effect. All right. I can click Click on this one alone and then click and drag to give me that effect. All right, I can click. Click on this one alone and then click and drag to just round up the corner of that one alone. And you can see what I have right now. It's looking very good, right? And that is the essence of the direct selection too. It allows me to select, you know, single corners and adjust them in my rex go or my square, and even in other shapes that I might draw in Illustrator. All right. So that's how it works. So but let's use this to create something really, really nice. Okay. So what I want to do now is, I want to select this and this. So how do I go about that? Because when I adjust this, I also want this to get adjusted. So to do that, once I select this first one, I can hold down shift and select this second one, and the two of them are now selected. So when I drag any of them, can you see what happens. It gives me this effect right here. All right? It gives me this effect right here. Okay. So as simple as that. So I'm noting the value that I have here. Right now, I'm at 1:41 40, whatever, whatever, 14083. So I'll stop there because I want to also ensure that everything ends in the same unit number, so they will be uniform. So I'll select the, go to my direct selection to click here. All right, hold down shift, click this one, and then drag anyone. And then I'm waiting to get to that 140 something again. That's 140, 83, really difficult now to just get that 83. Let' me just stop by 81. Okay? And see what we have. So but this is not what I want exactly. All right. So I'm actually doing the same thing here. So instead of doing the same thing here. I'll do the opposite. I'll click on the direct election two of this corner here. Hold down shift and click on this one here. All right, so that when I click and drag, it gives me this nice effects. A right. So I'll also stop at the 140 something. Alright, 140 P. Kind of close, so I'll just stop right there. Then I'll do the same thing for this. I want this corner, hold down shift and this corner, and then drag that hoops. So I didn't select it very well. That's why we're getting this result. I'll undo that. Select this corner, hold down shift, select this corner, and then drag. Om. Wait for that 140 something, 140, where are you? Right there now. Trying to get that 80 something. Let me just stop somewhere around here. And then the last one, I'll come here. This one, I want to click Here, and then hold down shift and click this one and then drag both of them. Mistake again. Undo, select this, hold down shift, select this, and then drag. Oh, sorry, that's not the one I want to drag. This one here. So let me just click away. Click here, hold down shift, click here, and then drag. Woo. Right there. So you can see what we've created just now with our direct selection to. Very easy. Some of us have seen this kind of, you know, logo or design and we wonder how it's been done. It's just by using your direct selection to easily in Illustrator. One of the reasons why I like Illustrator is that it just makes drawing easy for you. When it comes to drawing, it just simplifies it and makes it so simple. All right. Thank you so much for watching this video. I'm super super super super excited that you were able to watch it to this point, and I'll see you in the next video. 7. Typography - Working with Text in Illustrator: Hey, guys, welcome once again to this video, and we are continuing with our Adobe Illustrator training. All right. And in this video, we're going to be focusing on text, how to work with text in Adobe Illustrator. So let's get straight into it right now. Okay, so we're right here in Adobe Illustrator. This is what we did in the previous video, and we're simply going to come to our text. You can see T right here. This allows you to type in illustrator. So if I click on T right here, let me just go to a different art board so we can type, you know, you know, properly there. So I can click on my screen and you can see it gives me a dummy text. I can change that immediately to whatever I want. This is text. All right. And then I can go back to my selection too. So anytime you're done typing, the first thing you want to do before moving your text around is to go back to your selection too, and that will allow you to actually move your text around, okay? All right. So once I'm done typing, you'll notice that in my properties bar right here, I can see my character and paragraph, and this would allow me to, you know, make adjustment to my text. If you can find yours here, you'll definitely find it at the top right here. All right, if you're using an older version of Illustrator. All right. So I'll come to my character panel. And the first thing I want to do is to make my text bigger. So I'll come. I can use this drop down to use the highest one, which is 72, or I can click inside, highlight it, and type my own value there, maybe 100. And that will make my text even bigger. Right now, my font is Myriad Pro. I can change that by clicking this drop down. And then choose whichever fonts that I want available on my system. Okay? Now, in case you do how to install fonts, you can, you know, download any fonts you want. All right. So if you go on Google, search for fonts, download them. They probably come in a zip file. All right? You want to on Zip. And when you're on ZPD, you see the font right there. You can open it up and, you know, just install the font. I have, you know, a section of this in the photoshop training where I talk about how to install fonts. And it's basically very easy to do, right. So back to illustrator who come here, and then I can choose the font that I want, right? And I can choose anyone that looks interesting to me right here. All right. So that is how to work with fund. Let me just spick or settle down for anyone right there. So this is summer ten Ds. All right. You can also choose if your font has a regular bold you know, italic style. So this particular fund doesn't have any other style apart from regular. If I choosing some other type of font, maybe futura or something, you'll see that if I come right here, it has medium, it has extra bold, it has medium italic, he has bold. So some funds have different font styles, while some funds only have just one font style. All right, so I can do all of that in the font style. Okay. Now, this text I typed here, is called a paragraph text. It's called a paragraph text. Now, if I want to type a lot of text, if I want to type a lot of text, so for example, if I double click on this text to continue editing it, you see that if I don't press the entire key, it just keeps typing forever and ever on that same line. Until I press the enter key and then to come to the next line. So if you want to type a lot of texts, the best thing to do is when you grab your text to, you click and drag to draw a text box. All right? I can draw a big text box as this. And then what do I notice? I can see that it gives me a dummy text inside. And what can I do? I can just type, type type. And when it gets to that point, you can see the way it automatically goes to the next line. Okay? Instead of me using the entire key. All right. It's wrapping my text within the box. And when I have more than more than the box, when I have more text than the box can contain, I'll see a red line here telling me, Oh, I have more texts, but it's not showing now because You know, the box can contain it. So I can go to my selection to click here and drag this down, All right, to give more space to my text. So it's still showing the red. It means I s have to drag it down some more, and then you can see that missing text right there showing. And then the red stuff showing here isn't showing again. All right. So that's how to work with, you know, text box. I can actually reduce the size because most likely where we have plenty texts like this, the size of my text should be small. Let me just go and copy, you know, some dummy texts that I have in my system where you so let me just copy maybe this contra C, come right here. So you can also copy text from outside of Illustrator into Illustrator. All right. I can copy that. I can you know, press maybe enter and paste the game, so I have two copies of that. So you can see how we help me to wrap things up. That's the advantage of typing. Using using your paragraph text. So when you click on T, when you click once and type, you're doing a character text. All right. But when you click and drag to draw a box before typing, then you're creating a paragraph text. So paragraph text is good when you have so much text you want to put into that place. Maybe you're doing a magazine or maybe you're creating a brochure and you have so much text to type. It's always good to put them in a textbook or create a paragraph text for it. And if you just want to type things like heading, you know, short text, then you can use a normal character text just by clicking and typing. All right. So that is that, let me undo that. Come back here. I can select this also. If I go to my paragraph, right now it's aligned left, I can align it to the center. I can align it to the right. I can justify it to the left. All right. And you can see things are still aligned to the left, but there is no space here. Before now, if I just click aligned left, you can see some spaces ahre. So this is good if you want your text to be neat and to create something like a rectangle. All right. When people look at it from a far, then you align your text, right with the you know, justify to, can see what I have right now. So can see how this text is being arranged and everything looks nice. I can just press entire to just break some of my text. So it looks neat, you know, more like you're reading a novel or something. All right? And even change this from medium metallic to just medium. All right. And that gives me that. So this is how to work with text. You can also change the color of your text. You can select your text, come to your appearance on the feel. You can choose whatever color you want. Maybe if you want a board heading like, you know, that, you can have that, you can also change the color of this to maybe blue or something, and then you have all of that. Let me leave this as black. All right. And then we have that right there. Okay. So this is how to work with text n Illustrator. All right. This is how to work with text n Illustrator. All right. So let me just come right here and let's type some text here. I'll grab MT, come here, click, and just type maybe number one. You have to lane. All right. Lane. I can change my font. Let's use Montserrat right there where you, Montserrat, and then choose the bold option and make my color white. And increase my phone size. Okay, let's do this n. O, let's reduce that to yeah, 36 n. All right. So we can see my snap is still on and is allowing me to align things across my design. N then I can copy and p. We can copy and p text, grab that one and then put that one also here. To edit this, I'll just double click and then click here and changes to two. Practice. You have to le when you're done lending, you practice all right. Practice. D strike that right there. Then control V again to paste or command V on Mac. Then you double click to dits number three. You have to be consistent. You have to be consistent. Put that right there, and then contra C, control V again, come here and then change this to number four. You have to be creative. All right. Thus adding text to my shapes right here and you can see the way I've aligned them across the screen. Now if you want to be sure that this is at the center of my image, or my object. You can select both of them. You can select the text, hold down shift, select the object or the shape. And then if you come to your properties bar here, you can see align. All right. I can align this to the center, and then also align this this way. So what happens, it has centered my text to the center of this image right here. All right. And I'll do the same thing here. I'll just click here and click here. Oop, sorry. I didn't have the text selected. So hold down shift, select the text. All right. Then I'll click here, and then I'll click here to center that also. Then I'll select the shape, select my text. Click here, click here, to also center that. Select my shape, hold down shift, select my text, click here and click here. All right. And we can see how we've aligned everything. And I've added this text to our shape. So, thank you so much for watching this video. Go right now and begin to type text everywhere on your house, paint, you know, in your bathroom. Sorry, I'll just kidding. I mean type inside your laptop or I don't go and type on the road or somewhere else. Okay? Stay creative, guys, and I'll see you in the next video. 8. The Shape Builder in Illustrator: What's up, guys, welcome to another video in this Adobe Illustrator training. In this video, we're going to be talking about the shape Buda. All right, guys, so let's get straight into it in Illustrator. Pooh. Okay, guys. So we're right here in Illustrator, and let's move on. So let me come to the At bot five right here, Control 02 or command zero to zooming. All right. So let's talk about the shape builder. Quickly, let me grab my rex angle two. And let me just draw, you know, like a cross with my rex angle two. Draw one there, and then come right here and draw, you know, another. So we're familiar with this, right? Okay? We're familiar with this. Let me give them separate colors. Let me give this like maybe red or something. All right. So we have separate colors right here. Let me center this. Okay. Great. So I have this right here. Okay. Now with my shape builder. Shape builder allows you to merge multiple shapes together. Right? The shape builder allows you to merge multiple shapes together. So where can I find the shape builder in Illustrator? I can come right here, and you can see Shape Builder two. The shortcut for that is Shift M. All right. So I can select my shape builder two. Now, to use the Shape Builder two, I have to I must have selected the two shapes together. All right. So right now, I can use it because I only have this shape selected. So what will I do? I'll go back to my selection to All right. And remember how I told you to select multiple objects. You come somewhere outside of your shapes, you click and drag, and that would allow you to select multiple shapes. Now, the shape builder also works with more than two shapes. You can have three, four, five, six, seven, 1,000 shapes, select all of them, and you can use your shape builder to kind of merge them together. So my goal here is with the shape builder. I want to merge this cross together so that it looks like a single shape. All right? And how do I do that? I'll now go to my shape builder. And as I move across each of the shape, you can see it's already recognizing the shape. Can you see that? It's recognizing it. So what can I do? All I need to do, I want to merge this side together and also merge this side together. So I'll just click and drag across like that and need to merge that for me. Then I'll also come here, click and drag across and need to merge that for me. And you can see now that it has successfully turned this my shape here to a single shape. And you can see what I have right there. Now, let me undo this. Apart from merging, you can also color. All right. You can also what color. So I can come here. I can click here change my color to maybe this color right here, and then come to any part of my shape and just click once. I need to change that part of the shape to that particular color. I can come here, change it to blue, click here with my shape build that to, I need to change that part to blue. And then I can go on and on, maybe click here, changes to that color, come back here, click here, changes to that color. I can see that even though they were separate shapes, I've been able to fill them with different colors. And guess what? I I try to select any of these colors now, they are now actually separate shapes. All right. Let me just select first and then grab any of them. We can see they are now separate shapes. So this is what the shape builder allows you to do in Illustrator. So if you have you know, an idea in your head, that's something you want to draw, and you feel like if I combine this shape and this shape and this shape and this shape together, and I kind of join them together or subtract a part of the shape out, then I should be able to create that thing in my head. Then you go ahead, drole shapes, and then you combine them together, and you have something, you know, extraordinary. All right. So that is how to use the shape builder. Let me just undo and do and doo that back to, you know, what I have at the beginning, and I can just select both of them, grab my shape builder and just turn them to one shape. And that turns that to one single ship. So that's how to use the shape builder. Thank you so much for watching this, and I'll see you in the next video pus. 9. Changing Text to Shapes: What's up, guys, welcome to another video, and in this video, we're going to be talking about changing your text to an outline. All right? Or you can say converting your text to a shape. All right. So let's get straight into it right now and I'll see you in illustrator. Oh. All right, guys. So we are back in Illustrator, and let's get started. So I'll go to my text to click and type let's say London. Okay? And then I'll just select that and put that right here. Let me use back to Black Demo as my font, where are you. Tit titty right there. Okay? And I can increase the size. Let's do maybe 200 and see how big that is right. Let's do 300. So you can see very well. Great. So you can see what I have right here now. Now, Creating outline from your text means that you want to convert your text to shape or to something that you can manipulate. So right now, it is still a text. I can't manipulate my text. So to be able to manipulate my text, I can go to my menu, click on Type, and then I'll see something called Create Outlines. And you can see the shortcut for this is Command Shift zero or Control Shift zero on your windows machine. So once I click on that, what happens to my text? My text has now been converted to something like a shape. All right. And once you Go to type and you click on, create Outline. Your text will no longer be editable. So I can say, Oh, I want to edit my text, or I want to do something. And now when I click on any part of my text, you can see that that particular letter is being selected. All right, is being selected. All right. So you must take note of that. And when you create outline on your text, it's automatically group your text together. So they are already in different parts and it's grouped together. So the first thing you want to do is to ungroup it. So you'll be able to manipulate them individually. And to do that, on my quick action, I'm going to see on group. You can also go to Object and choose on group. So I'll just click on on group here, click outside, and then I'm able to click any of my text right here. Okay? You can see what we have right there. Okay. So after on grouping, you can see what we have now. All right. Now, after selecting my direct selection to, I can now select specifics. So when I click on L, you can see all the points that were created when it was converting this text to an outline. So what I want in this case is, I want to select first and select only this part of this L here. All right. Because I want to click on that and drag that. And that will kind of, you know, help me to extend it across like that. So we can see what I've been able to create, you know, by transforming my text to an outline. I can even maybe drag this, you know, up, select my N here, okay? Oh, sorry, I have to go back to my direct selection to select this part of the n here and even, you know, extend this up the more. You can see you can manipulate your text. I can select this here and just drag that, you know, select the entire thing if you want to drag your, you know, D up, and you can see how I'm able to just manipulate my text the way I want it using the direct selection to after converting my text to an outline. All right. So if you want to manipulate your text, you know, do some stuff to your text, you can do that by converting your text to an outline and you'll be able to manipulate it in any form or manner that you want to. All right. So that is how to use the you know, create outline for your text. So let's do one more example with this before we close this video. So this, we're going to be using a combination of our shipbuilder and the create outline for our text. So but now you notice that I don't have any more, you know, space for my artboard. So how do I add more artboards or how do I add more pages to my document in Illustrator. To do that, I'll simply go to the artboard tool, which is right here. Click on that, and that will show me the artboard on the right here in the properties pad, and I can simply click on this plus button to add a new artboard. I'm going to add maybe about an extra three. I can see them being added in my document. All right? So that is that. Let's make it ten. All right. Let's make it ten. You can see the weight that has added it. And when you're done, you want to leave the artboard tool and go back to your selection too, and then I can click on a particular artboard and press Control zero and it to fit the artboard to my screen. Okay. So let's do something else. Let's create a circle this time. All right. Let's make the color of the circle maybe red or something. I love red. So then let's type text. I'll grab my text, click anywhere, and just type the letter X. All right. I don't want this type of font, so I'll just go back. So let me type a capital letter X. All right. I'll change my font to maybe multi sat bod. All right. Let's do bod, and then increase my font size to about maybe 3,000 or something. So I'll just type 3,000 there, make it very big. All right, exactly. So this is what I want. Okay. Now, remember our shape builder. I can use sp builder to join two or more shapes together or to remove some particular shape. Out. All right. And I want to use this example to let you know that it also applies to text, okay? It also applies to text. So you can use your shape builder on text also. So if I grab my shape builder, before grabbing my shape builder, if I select both my text and my circle and I grab my shape builder, you will notice that it is not recognizing the text. And it's because the shape builder doesn't just work like that on text. The first thing I'll need to do is to go back and turn this my text to an outline, just like we did for this London. So I'll go to type and say what create outline. And once I do that, the text is now like a shape. So if I select both the text and the circle now, and I go back to my shape builder, you can see that the text the Shape builder is now recognizing the text and the circle together. All right? And what can I do? I can merge them together by clicking like this, clicking like this, clicking like this, and clicking like this and it merges everything together as one sheap. Okay. You can see it has met them as one shape, meaning that I can click this part and move it away and click this part and move it away, click that part and move it away. Okay. But what I want to do now is to actually click on this X and delete that. And you can see that it has subtracted or have subtracted this x out of this circle. Another way to go about this is that, let me undo this and select both of them together. I can actually down with my Shape builder selected, I can hold down ought. And you can see that I showing plus here before. I can hold down Ought and say, Mr. Shape Builder, everything I select, you subtract it out of my design. So I'll click and start dragging. Still holding down my out, and then make sure I select the entire X. And when I release my mouse, you can see that he immediately, you know, subtract that part off. If all I had done was hold down uh and I click here, you can see that I just subtract that part, or I click here with my out selected, subtract that part. So by this time, we wanted to subtract the X, so we hold down, click and drag. Okay. Click and drag and we subtracted all the parts from the circle, and it gives me this nice design. All right? And I can even call this X men or something. All right, but I can see that these are still separate. So what do I do? I select all of them together and I use what my group to to group them together. All right? I can move this up now and grab my text and just type X men. X. All right, my text is way bigger than what I want, so I'll just change it like 200 and I'll reduce it. Okay? Maybe reduce it to 72 or something. Put that right there. Double click to edit and correct that. All right, and then center this. So we can see what we have right here. Okay? That is, you know, combination of using our shape builder and our create outline to get these effects in Illustrator. It is as simple as that. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you in the next video. Piece out. 10. Adding Drop Shadow in Illustrator: What's up, guys, welcome once again. And in this video, we're going to be talking about how to add drop shadow to your objects, your text, and what have you. All right. So let's get straight into Illustrator now and get started. So we're right here in Illustrator, and to add drop shadow is very simple. I could just select my, you know, shape and go to effects. And then under effect, I'm going to see stylize, and under stylize, I'm going to see drop shadow. All right. When I click on that, it brings up the drop shadow panel, and I can adjust the way my drop shadow looks like from right here. I can increase the opacity if I want it to be very dark. So I could just type in 100 here, and that will just give me like, you know, the drop shadow. I can go back to my drop shadow and, you know, Okay, let me just undo that. Effect, Stylize, and then do drop shadow. All right? I can reduce my opacity. Now, this is your X and Y. So back then in school, when you were teaching us or bra, when you hear the word X in your graph, it means this line. All right, your horizontal line. And when you hear of Y in your graph, it means this line like this. So this x and y also corresponds to that. If I want to adjust my shadow based on this, you know, level, I can adjust the x. And if I want to adjust my shadow based on this level, I can adjust the y. So if I click here, you can see that it's shrinking in right there. So I just wanted to state something like that. If I want to adjust the up and down, which is the hit, I can also use this, and you can see the way I've shifted my shadow from right here pointing down right here. You can also click on color and choose the color you want. Obviously, we're not going to choose red because we already have red as a color. Let me just choose a darker red, you know, instead of just red, right? And that gives you that nice shadow. I can also choose the blowness. If I change my blowness to zero, right, if I change that to zero, You'll see that it's not going to look smooth. It's going to look really hard. All right? I can increase that to 30, and that will give you that soft nice shadow on it. And this same thing applies to your text. You can go to effect stylize and then choose drop shadow, and you'll be able to add shadow to your text to do all of those settings and everything is on. Just make sure your preview is checked on so I can see the changes you make to your shadow as you adjust the settings right here. All right. Thank you so much for watching this video, and that's it for adding drop shadows to your object or your text and Illustrator. I'll see you guys in the next video bye for now. 11. Creating a Logo: What up guys, welcome once again to another video of Adobe Illustrator training. And in this video, I'm going to be focusing on logos. All right. So let's talk about logos right now. Okay? I'm going to talk about the different types of logos, how to get started with creating a logo in Illustrator. Yeah, I know we've been creating some logos in the previous videos, but now let's just talk about logos. You know what I mean? All right. So let's get straight into Illustrator or come over to my screen, and I'll show you some few things. Okay, so I'm back right here in Illustrator. But talking about the different types of logos, let's go to a website. All right, 99 designs.com. By the way, this website is a great place to come as a beginner, you know, and to grow yourself as a designer in the design world. You know, they have a lot of valuable contents right here. Okay. So but now you know, they have this content by Kelly Moore that talks about the seven types of logos and how to use them. So I like this summary that we have here. These are just the seven main logos that we have different types of logos. Other people might call it other names, you know, but right now, let's just, you know, focus on these names right here. We have the abstract mac, We have the mascot logo. We have the combination mark. We have the emblem logo. We have the letter mark, we have the pictoral mark, and we have the word mark. All right. So, you know, it's basically, you know, simple to understand based on the name. Abstract in the natural English word simply means something that is not really defined. And what does that mean? That simply means that these are type of logos that have like an abstract drawing that represents what the company stands for. All right. So let me just help myself and just, you know, quickly go through them. You can see let's go to the abstract, abstract, where you. So you can see an abstract mark is a specific type of pictorial logo, instead of being a recognizable image. So we can see. So it's not something you see and then you easily recognize straight. All right. So that's what abstract logos are. The things that when you see, you know, you might want to ponder a little while and say, Oh, what does this logo actually depict? What does it mean? And, you know, the graphic designer will always be able to tell you what it means. All right. And that's what abstract logos are. Alright? So we have examples of BP, Pepsi, Adidas, and the likes. So let me just go straight back to number one. We have the letter mark, the letter mark. All right. Monogram logos or letter marks are logos that consist of letters, usually brand initials. So if you go back to the example of this, you can see logos that are made out of the initials of the company name, like HBO, IBM, and NASA. All right? We also have other ones, you know, like, you know, CBN, you know, NTA, all of those logos that, you know, was created based on the initials of those companies name. All right? That is what is called the letter Mark. All right. And then the second one I have here is the wordmark or logo types. Similar to a letter Mark, a wordmark or logo is a font based logo that focuses on a business name alone. So if you look at this and this, they are kind of similar because what we just have here is all about texts. What we have here is also what text. But what makes it different is that the wordmark focuses on the company's name alone. And we can see great examples. So these are not abbreviations. These are not like Visa doesn't mean you V stands or something. I stand Visa is visa. That's the name of the company. Ccacul is Ccacul. Google is Google. A right. Facebook is Facebook. So these are wordmark. They basically just write out the name of the company. Out, okay. And then they use a particular font when doing that is that clay. All right. So let's go to the third one. We have the pictorial mark. All right? A pictorial mark, sometimes called brand mark or logo symbol, is an icon or a graphic based logo. So it's an icon based logo or a graphic spas logo, because when you see them, you can easily depict what they mean. You can say, Oh, this is an apple. Oh, this is a bird. Oh, this is, you know, a bus eye. Are we getting it now? So that's why it's called pictorama. There are pictures of things that we see in our day to day that we recognize that are being now used as a company's logo. And that's why they're called pictorama. So it's different from the abstract logos because the abstract logos, you can't really depict what they mean, except The graphic designer or someone in the company explain to you what that logo is all about. All right? So that's abstract. Spoken about abstract. Let's go to mascot. So mascot, you know, these are logos that involve an illustrated character, that's simple as that. And a classical example is the KFC's logo. All right, this is a mascot logo because it's, you know, it involves a logo that illustrates a character. All right. And this character can be the CEO of the company, or it could be a famous character in a cartoon. It could be a character that, you know, depicts what the company is all about, and so on and so forth. Another example here is quicker at. All right? We can see the logo of that quicker out. He has that quicker a man right there. And a lot of bakeries, catering services use this kind of logos also. We can see this pinot here. It is an illustration of a peanut man, right? And we can see this jar also here. And so many logos that fall under mascot. So when people create like an illustration from the CO or from something that is very popular to depict the logo of the company, then you can categorize those kind of logos under mascot. All right? And then number six, we have the combination mac. So a combination logo is a logo comprised of a combined word mark or letter mark and a pictorial mark abstract mark or mascot. So it's like the combination mark is like a combination of everything. All right. So you could combine your word mark and abstract, you could combine No, if you look at the do retos now, you can see this is abstract. The fire thing going on around this abstract, and then we have a letter mark that spells out the name of the company. We have this burger king, too. All right? We have an abstract around it, and we have a word mark. We have last court. We have, you know, the mascot here, which is an illustration, and we have the normal word mark. All right. So this is the combination mark. And the last one we have here is the emblem. All right. We see a lot of this logo with schools, with, you know, organizations, bodies, what is emblem? An emblem logo consists of font inside a symbol or an icon. All right. So think of batches, think of seals, and crests, all of those things. You know, you're always finding that they come in, you know, in an emblem for even the ndran coat of arm it's like an emblem, you know, things that you can just put around, put your text around it. And then also if you look at the emblem logos, they also have several things inside that one thing that depicts a lot of things. All right? And all when you look at, you know, logos of schools, usually have like a crest, and then they have like a book, they have, like, you know, knowledge, you know, represented with like a light bub or something. And then they have like a pen and paper, you know, so many things inside that crest. And that's why it is called an emblem. All right. So that is that for all the different types of logo, If you want to learn more about this, you can come tonight nine designs.com, go to the blog, put to their tips, and then you'll find types of logos. All right. So those are the different types of logos. I hope you enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for watching, and I'll see you in the next video 12. Drawing a Logo in Illustrator: Okay, guys, welcome to another video in this Adobe Illustrator training. And in this video, we're going to be talking about, you know, the process of drawing a logo. So now that we know the different types of logos, let's talk about the process of drawing that logo. All right, so let's get straight into Illustrator right now. So we're here where we left off, and let's go to Illustrator. So I'm back right here in Illustrator. So how do you go about the process of creating a logo? The first thing I always tell people to do is number one. Do your research. All right. So you have a brand that wants to go into fashion, and they need a logo to represent their business. You want to make sure that you go online, do your research, look at other fashion brands. Look at how, you know, their logo look like. Look at what kind of color they use. And then that would be able to that will allow you to be able to determine what type of logo you are going to be able to build for that brand, okay? So maybe it's going to be wordmark, maybe it's going to be letter Mark, maybe it's going to be Pictoria, maybe it's going to be mascot, maybe it's going to be, you know, combination mark, you know, and all those different types of logo I spoke about in the previous video. So you have to do your research because you can just create your own logo. There's a way the industry have, you know, The industry you're trying to create that logo for. There's the way their logos look like. So if you look at the faction industry, for example, like Nike, Adidas, you know, Hombro, all of them, they have a way their logo look like. All right. And the type of logo they choose also is being determined by where they'll be placing those logos. So Nike knows is going to be placing the logo on jerseys, shoes, you know, main accessories, sport accessories, and stuff. And, you know, they were able to come up with a logo that will be able to stand out on any of those materials. So you won't see Nike using something that will have so much writing and so much things inside. So that by the time they put it on a shert, you won't even know what is there. So but you can see how their logo is just, you know, a doit sign or a check mark sign, and whatever, you know, material they place the logo on, it just stands out. So these are all of the things you consider when you're creating your logo or trying to determine what type of logo you're going to build for your brand or for your client's brand. All right. So it's very important that you do your research. All right, and it might take you hours, it might take you days. It doesn't matter. Once you get it, then you can come into Illustrator to do something. Because like I used to say, what makes you a designer is not the software. All right? What makes you a designer is not the software? What makes you a designer is not a illustrator? What makes you a designer is you. All right? It is what you have, your creativity level. That's what makes you a designer. That's why people will pay you a huge sum of money to create amazing designs for them. All right. So focus more on building your creativity level, rather than focusing on, Oh, if I not to use illustrator, then I'm the best designer in the world. Doesn't work that way. What makes you know, the greatest design is the person behind the laptop. All right, so when you're done with your research, you can now, you know, decide the type of logo that you're going to be creating. And then the next thing you want to do is to get a sheet of paper, or you get a sketch pad, or your tablet, whatever you can draw on. You know, that idea of the logo that you have in your head, just draw it out somewhere. All right. So just draw it out somewhere, maybe in your tablet, your phone. If you can use a style s pen, you could grab a sheet of paper with your pencil or pen. Just sketch out the logo, because where you have done drawing, what you want to do is to bring it into Illustrator and vectorize it. Alright? So what does that mean? It means you now grab the tools in Illustrator to recreate that drawing that you've made in your paper, or your pad, or your tablet, or wherever you've done it. All right. So that is the whole process of creating a logo from your research to deciding a type of logo, to drawing it out, and then importing it into Illustrator and recreating it or vectorizing it. So let's practicalize everything that we've been, you know, saying all the wei. All right. So let's Zoom. I want to create a logo for, you know, adobe, for example, Allright I have a drawing right here. I don't know if you can see. All right. That's my drawing right there. And I'm going to take a screenshot of this right now and then import it into Illustrator. All right, so I'm right here in Illustrator, and I want to import, you know, the screenshot of my logo into Illustrator so I can vectorize it. So I'll go to my menu. I'm going to click on file, and then I'll choose place. All right. And I will load up my file manager. And I want to browse to where I have my, you know, drawing, where I have saved the screenshot. So it's under your exercise two folder. So if I open up the exercise two folder, you see the Adobe screenshot right there. All right. You can see what we have right here. Okay. And then I'll click on place. And I can drag and drop. All right. So you can see I have my image right now in Illustrator. Okay. So you can see how I went through, you know, drawing this in a sheet of paper, taking a screenshot of V, so I actually do this in the paper, took a screenshot of it with my phone, and then I'm importing it right now into Illustrator. So how do I vectorize this? Alright. There are a couple of tools that we can use to create what we have right here. But my favorite tool of all time is the Cvture tool is the Cvture tool. A right. So I havean't spoken about the Covature tool, you know, all this while in the course. And it's because I'm waiting for this moment. All right. So what's the coverture two and how does it work? Now, the coverture two is right here in the tube. It's a more user friendly version of the pain two. All right. With the pain tool, I have to kind of do everything manually. So if I want to draw this, I have to click here, click here, then click here and drag to kind of get that in a curve. And then click here. Okay, and drag so and then kind of come back to where I started from and click to draw something like this. All right. So I have my feel turned on. That's why you're saying white here. So let me just turn it off and turn on my stroke. Yeah. So you can see how I was able to draw up with my paint too. But most of the times, you know, as a beginner, you might struggle with, you know, using your pain too. So let me just delete what I drew there. And how does the covature to work? The coverature to kind of work automatically. All right? He just sees what is in my mind, and then just helps me to draw that. So how do I use it? Now, to use your coverture to, anytime you want to click on a sharp edge, or anytime you want to click on an edge, where we have two lines, straight lines meeting together, you double click. All right. And anytime you want to draw a curve using the Coverture two, you just click once. All right. So when you're trying to click where you have a sharp edge, where two straight lines are meeting or where we have a sharp edge, you double click. And when you're trying to draw a curve, you just click once. All right. So if you still don't understand what I'm saying, let's just practicalize it now and then you'll get to understand what I mean by that. So if you look here, this is a sharp edge, where two lines are meeting, and it's very sharp at this point here. So what do I do? I double click. Okay. And then I can go clockwise, come to this other side here. All right, this is also a sharp edge. So what do I do? I double click. All right. Now I want to draw this curve right here. So I'm not going to jump from here and come to this point because if I do that, it's not going to give me what I, you know, expect. So all I need to do is anytime you want to draw a curve, All you need to do is to look for the center of that curve, where, you know, your curve is going to be where's going to be the center of your curve and just click once right there to get that curve. So right here is the center of this entire curve for this letter A. All right. So what do I do? I just come here and click once. All right, when I click once, by the time I begin to drag my mouse to the other point, I'll begin to see that it's trying to curve it out for me, and you can see what's happening right here. Or I can inside the curve that is being drawn. Okay? You can see the curve that is being drawn. So Even though I clicked once here to kind of form this cuff for me, as I'm coming to this point here to click, this is a sharp edge. So what do I do in this place? I would double click. Okay? Then I'll go to this next point. Now, because I've double clicked to create this point here initially, there's no point coming to double click again. So when you're coming back to end your drawing and you've already double click to create a straight line, you don't need to double click again, just click once, and that will join your ship. And with this, you can see what I've drawn in illustrator. If I go back to my selection to, I can click and drag that out. And I can see the nice, you know, kind of triangle that we've drawn with a covature tool, and it looks really, really good. All right. So just for you to understand more, I'll delete that and do it again because I really want you to understand how to use the covature two. It's very important because with a coverature two, you could basically just redraw anything you want to withdraw a illustrator. Okay? So I'll come back here, click on a Coverature two again. Now, I said, when you're at a sharp edge, you double click. This is sharp edge. I double click. I want to create this curve that I have here, so I'll go to the middle of the curve and just click once. Okay? And then when I come back here, this is on that sharp edge, I would double click. And then I'll come back here because I already double clicked at the beginning, I don't need to double click again to create a sharp edge. I'll just click. And it's as simple as that. If I come to my field, I can fill this with a color and I can see what we've drawn right there. All right. So you can see that, you know, it's not looking like mine because the one I drew was with my hand, so, you know, the curve was not really that straight. So that's why we have to vectorize it so that we can have something that's really, really perfect, you know, and straight and measured properly. Okay. So once again, I'll delete it again because I really want you to understand this. Let me remove my feel color so that when I'm drawing, it doesn't give me a color, so I doesn't need stroke so I can see the line. And I'll come here again. This is a sharp edge. I would double click. This is on that sharp edge. I will double click. I want to draw this curve right here, so I'll see. An see what's happening here. I actually didn't double click here. I thought I'd double click where I didn't double click. So anytime you make a mistake like this, just go back to that point and double click to let you know illustrate on that, yes, you meant to double click that point. Okay? So coming back to this curve. Run on George's curve, I'll go to the middle. All right, and click. Once, yes, you got it. Then I'll come right here and then click twice. That's double click because this is a what points. I hope you're getting it. And then I'll come back here. Do I need to double click here again? No, because I have already double clicked here while creating it at the beginning. So I'll just click once. And it's as simple as that. And I have my stuff drawn all ready. So I can fill this with color now and give it color red. Okay? But mind you, we still have let me remove the color again. We still have this small parts inside here. So let me fill this with red again. What I'm going to do this time is instead of me drawing a smaller one, I'll go back to my selection to, grab this one right here. Control C and Control V or command C and command V. That is copy and paste. So I have two of these right now. And what I can do is I can come to the edge. Click, hold down shift. If I don't hold down shift, it's going to distort my image. All right. So when I'm clicking, I will hold down shift and reduce the size to that small version I want. Okay? And then I can place that somewhere in the middle using my smart guide. All right. And you can see what we have, and I can change the color of this to white. Okay? So you can see how from, you know, our note right here. Okay. You can see what it's drawn here. All right. So what we have right now in Illustrator. Okay. So all I need to do now is I can Also come here and type my text. So I'll go to T, click and type adobe. All right. Go back to my selection too. Then my character panel is now showing. Don't forget for using an older version. It might be somewhere up here. So I'll come right here increase this to maybe, let's do 72, then change out from regular to bold. And I can put that right here. So I don't need this sample or this template again. So what I can do is to click on it and press delete, so I can see what I've done so far. All right. So you can see how we went from let me undo that from this all right to vectorizing it in Illustrator. All right. So it's as simple as that. So let me delete that again. Okay. Press delete, and that removes it. So one more thing I want to do. I I'm not really a fan of outline colors and stuff. So I'm going to remove my outline color. That's that black line you're seeing around this. So I'll select this, go to stroke, remove the outline color because I don't need it again. Click here. Go to stroke, remove the stroke or the outline color, so you can see what we have thus far. All right. Another thing I can do now is I can select everything. All right, and then come to my align here and click on this horizontal align center to kind of center everything for me. And then when I'm done, I can click on group to group eight for me. So when I click on any part, everything moves together. All right. So that is how to, you know, go through a process of creating a logo, vectorizing it, and then we can export it and, you know, send to our clients or put it on a mockup in photoshop, like I told you in the photoshop class, and You're done. All right. So for us to be sure that we really understand how to use the CVture two. Let's quickly do another example. So this time, let's recreate the Twitter logo. All right. So let me just zoom into this next act board. All right. And then go to file, go to place. And then inside the same exercise two folder we can see the Twitter logo right there. Click on Place and then I do drag And when I like it, I'll release my mouse and it's going to drop the image right there. Okay? So we can see we have this Twitter logo here. And we want to use the cvture to to recreate this Twitter logo. All right. And thereby, you know, if you're able to do it successfully, then it means that we really understand how to use the covature too. So let's get straight into it again. I'll grab my cvture too. All right. Once again, I'll make sure my field is nothing, and then my stroke is black, so I can only see that black line as I draw. Okay. Then I'll come. So you can see my mouse is showing this kind of X. And that was because when I was siping this adobe, I had to turn off my caps lock. So an illustrator, if you find out that your tool is showing something like an x like this. It means your caps lock is on, so you want to turn off your caps lock, so it will show the normal way it's supposed to show. Okay? So I can come to this edge. I would is this a sharp edge or a curve? This is a sharp edge. So what do I do for sharp edge? Yes, I double click. All right. Now, this is not a straight line. So if I just come here and double click, you're just going to give me a straight line. So this is a curve. So what do I do? I look for the middle of the curve, and I just click once. Okay? And then I go to the next point, and this is a, you know, sharp edge. So what do I do? I double click. All right? Okay, so you can see I didn't really double click. So what I'm going to do is go back to the point and double click. All right. You can see how I was able to draw this nice and easy. Even though it's not really that straight, it's something that we can come back to and edit when we are done. So if we didn't get it properly, don't worry. You can always come back and edit it. So this is an other curve right here. So I'll come to the middle, click once, and then go to the next edge and then what double click. All right. Then this is an other curve right here. Oh, I don't know why I'm not always double clicking. So let me just double click that. All right. So this is under cove right here. I'll just come here, click the middle, click once, and then go to the next double click. All right. This are cove here. Go to the middle, click once, and come to the edge, double click. This is under Cove right here ops. I don't know what's wrong with my mouse and double clicking. All right. Forgive me. So this under Cove right here. Okay, I'll come to the middle, click once. Go to the sharp edge, double click. Come to the middle to draw a. Not again. Double click. So I'll come to the middle right here. Click ones to kind of draw that small curve right there and then come to the edge and double click. All right. So I'm really hitting my mouse really hard right now to make sure I'm double clicking. Okay, so this is a very big curve. And all I need to do is to just kind of locate where the half way is, click once and then go to the next Edge adjust what double click. All right, don't worry. We can still come back to adjust it later. Then I'll go to the middle right here, click once. Come here, double click. Go to the middle, click once. Come here, double click. Go to the middle, click ones. Come here. Double click. All right. It's on that cove right here. So the reason I chose this Twitter logo is because of the so many caves we have and the sharp edges we have. So to really allow you to practice and understand how to use the Cvture two. So I'll click the meddle here once, then move to the sharp edge and double click. Come to the middle, click once, and double click. Come right here. Click once and come back here. You don't double click. Why? Because when I was starting this point, I double clicked from the beginning. So I'll just click once. And you can see how we're able to quickly trace out this Twitter logo with our coverture to. So with the coverture two, you could practically draw anything. All right. It is as simple as that. So to edit those parts that are not really looking good, I can just come to the middle point here and just drag, you know, left and right up and down, depending on what I want until, I have something that matches what I'm looking for. Now, as I'm doing this, my smart guide is kind of making things jump around, okay? So if your smart guide is annoying you, the way mine is doing now, you can always turn it off. So I'll just simply go to view and turn off my smart guide, so that when I click and move this around, it moves the way I want it to move, right? So I'll just put that somewhere here. Come to this point here and just adjust this right there. All right. Then this is okay, so I'll just move it a little bit. I can zoom in, so I can see what I'm working on very well. All right. Just adjust that little bits. All right, come to this, adjust. So you can see, even if you didn't get it right the first time, you can always come back and adjust all of your points still with the CVture to to get that perfect you know. Selection you're looking for. So, I have this one right here. Let me zoom out a little bit and then just try and adjust this. So trike this. Let me just strike it down some more. Okay. And you can see what we have right there. Then adjust this adjust this Okay. So there we go. Done. And all I need to do now is go back to my selection to and I can come to my field and fill this with a color. So let me choose this color right here and then I can move that with my selection to select the original image and press delete. I can see what we have right here. Okay, I'll go to my stroke. Remove my outlines color because I don't need it again. I can see what we have created right here in Illustrator. So that is how to use the Cvture two, and that's the power in the Cvture two. We can basically use it to draw anything. I've seen one of my students, you know, grab this coverture too, and he is vectorizing all of his arts drawn in his notebook right now and, you know, posting them on Instagram and getting a lot of followers and, you know, doing great stuff. So, go out there, use the coverature to draw as many things you want to draw in Illustrator and see how it works. Don't forget, stay creative, and I'll see you in the next video. Piece outs. 13. How to use Gradients in Illustrator: Guys, welcome to another video of this Adobe Illustrator training. Now, in this video, we're going to be talking about gradient. So we totally, you know, forgotten about gradient all this while, but it's time to talk about gradient, and let's get straight into it right now. So I'm right here in Illustrator, and with this gradient, let's recreate the Instagram logo. So let's go to file. Let's go to place. And let's go to our Exercise three folder. Okay. And inside there, you're going to see the Instagram logo. Just go to click on place. Let's drag and drop a little of it right there because we want to draw the main logo right here. So I'll just put that somewhere here, and I'll grab my rec anangle too. So you can see the color we have for the Instagram is multiple colors, right? And that's why we're going to be using this to just talk about gradients and how to use them. So I'll grab my rectangle two I'll click and drag. So you can see it remembers our previous color. Okay? So I'm trying to draw a square. So make sure you are drawing a square. So I'll just draw that right there and then go back to my selection and just position it where I want it to be. Okay. And then the next thing is we can see that these edges are curved out. So to simply do that, we don't need our direct selection tool in this case. With our selection tool. I'm just going to click on this circle re, click and drag, and that will help us to curve out our edges. All right. So don't forget this corner pins here is what you used to curve out the edges of your shape. Okay. So, definitely, I don't want this orange color. What I want is this same instagram, you know, gradient color, mixture of orange, pink, and I think, purpular so. Alright. So let's get into that. So how do I change the color of my shape to a gradient? It's very, very simple. I'll go to my feel. And when I get to feel, right at the bottom here, we can see we have some gradients here. All right. And we're just going to select this default one of black and white or white and black. I'll click on that, and that will just easily give me a white to black gradient, a white to black gradient. And then the next thing I want to do is to now edit this gradient color. And you see that mediately I clicked on the gradient color. I can now see my gradient option showing right here. All right. And all I need to do now is to click on Edit gradient. Okay, dit gradient. And once I click on a dit gradient, that will give me this line right here and also help me to activate my gradient to right here. And I can use this to change the direction of my gradient. So right now it's kind of going horizontally from the left to the right. So but I can make it go from the right by clicking and dragging. To the left. You can see that. So I just click and drag from here to this point. I can also drag from here up and then that will give me the gradient as such. I can drag in any direction. So with the gradient to a digital gradient, all you need to do is you just click and drag in the direction you want, and that will give you your gradient. It is as simple as that. And if you look at here, we also have types of gradients. I can click this for a radial gradient. I can click this for, you know, kind of, you know, a very odd gradient right there. So, but I personally like using the linear gradient and the radial gradient. All right. So the next question you want to ask is. So how do I change the color from black and white to something else? Alright. To do that, I'll need to bring up my gradient panel. And when we talk about panels, where do we go to? We go to window. So I'll go to window, and on that window, I'm going to see gradients. A right, shortcut command F nine. On windows, that will be Control F nine. So if I click on that, that will bring up my gradient panel. All right. I can place that somewhere around here. And you can see that we now have more options for my gradient. So basically, this white and black color making up this gradient is what we can see right here. All right. We can see the color white here, and we can see the color black right here. So if I double click on this color white. All right. That will bring up this color mixer, and I'll be able to, you know, change my color. Don't forget. You might be here, you might be here. Wherever you are, just make sure that you choose the color mixer, so you can see all the available colors that you can choose from. So I want to know, let's create that. Let's create something, maybe, you know, gold color. So I can come here, grab an orange. Or, let's just do it red to black or something. And you can see that might changes color to red, you can see that my image is now a red and black, you know, gradient as simple as that. And then I can come to the black, double click on the black and change that to maybe blue. I can see I have a red and blue color for my gradient. So but if you look at this, you know, Instagram gradient, it's actually being made up of three colors. And when it comes to gradient, you can actually have more than two colors. So by default, we have two colors when we choose the white and black. So what if I want more colors? I can easily get that by just You can see when I put my mouse here, you can see a plus showing under my mouse. It means that I can double click right there. It's going to add another one and it's going to bring up my color, and I can easily change that to something else. All right. You can see I have red, green, and blue right now. Okay, red, green, and blue. So that is how to do. I can add more here. I can add more here, and I keep going and adding and adding more colors, you know, and knock myself out. So but right now, all we need is just three of these color stops. All right. So how do I delete this? I'll select it and press the trash icon here. I'll select this and press the trash icon here. So I'm back to three colors. So to make this easy for me in selecting the Instagram color, I'll double click on the first color right here. All right, to open up my color mixer, and this is the color here. So instead of me trying to guess the color at this point. All I can do is I can grab my color picker here and use that to come select this color from the Instagram logo. All right. So when I click on that, you can see that it selects that exact color for me instantly. All right. So I'll go to the second one, double click and grab my color picker and then come and select the second color again, which is this kind of pink color. And then I'll go right here, double click right here, grab my color picker and then select this color right here. And that will give me that kind of, you know, purple ish color right there. All right. So these are the three colors we're looking for. Now we have them. But there's one more thing. The way our color is looking like is quite different from the mixture of their own color. So what do we do? The first thing is to change this to a radial gradient. All right? We can see what we have, right? So after changing it to a radial gradient, with my gradient to selected, I'm going to come here, click and change the direction of my, you know, Instagram color. All right. So I can click and drag change the direction the way I want it, and that will now kind of give me that color of Instagram. Okay? You can see what I have right there. So you can see this circle right here. These are the three colors. This is the first one. This is the second one, and this is the third one. So depending on how much of it you need, you can still also adjust. So you can see we have more of this orange. So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to come push this up, Okay, push this up right there. I don't want to over push it. All right? It's going to just disappear. So we want to make sure that you just, you know, push it to a certain limit, and you can see we have more of that all range at this point. And I can even move this inside the more. So you can see there's a lot of settings available for us here to play around it in our gradient, okay? So let me just undo that, and that will give me back what I have right there. Okay? So that is that. Then I can go back grab my shape. So if you look at the remaining part of this Instagram logo, it's basically, you know, done with an outline. It's basically done with an outline. All right. And to easily do that, I can contra C, control V, my square. And then after doing that, the next thing I want to do is before I start adjusting it, I can close my gradient now. I don't need it again. I'll change my few to nothing. All right, and then change my stroke to white. So that's how this was created. Okay, so this is like a transparent square but has a very big outline color or stroke. All right. So I'll change my stroke to white, and then I'll come to the point of my stroke and increase it to something very big. So you get the idea now. All right? This is what we have. Okay? So this is still kind of too big. So let me do 40 and see what we have with that. So the next thing I'll need to do is to reduce the size of this. Now, take note, if your ship in Illustrator doesn't have any feel color. If you try and say, Oh, I want to grab it from the middle here, you're going to be grabbing the other thing because the way illustrator works is that when something has no field color. Then you can't click in the middle of that thing. You have to click on the line itself to move it around. All right. So don't forget that, you know, because most times, just want to come here and say, Oh, let me move this, and then it's final that the other thing is the one moving instead of the main image. So I'll click here and come to the edge, click hold down shift and reduce the size. Oops. Let me undo that. Click, hold down shift and reduce the size. And then I can ops. See what I was talking about. Then I can carry. And then I can take that and come and position it where it's supposed to be. Let me expand it some more. And from what I'm seeing, I can see that the width of my stroke is too big. So I'll come and reduce it some more to maybe 20. So 20 is too small. So let's just type in 30 inside here ourselves and enter 30 points. So I think T 30 looks good. And then you can see what we have already. All right? You can see what we have already. To make sure that this is centered, you can select this shape, select your stroke shape, and then come to you a line, click this and click this, and that will help you to center it all together. All right to make sure that it's at the center. So I just want to Should I reduce my stroke or reduce the size? Let me just reduce the size a little bit. All right. Let me just reduce the size a little bit, and then senti again. So I'll hold down shift, select this, click here and click here to sent back. So it's kind of looking good now. And then for this other one here, I will also grab my circle, my lips to click, hold down shift to draw a circle. All right. So I have a circle right there, and you can see it remembers my last color setting. So that is very that is okay because, you know, it's really saving me a lot of time now to doing that. So they can see what we have right now. So let me just still make this a little bit bigger. Yeah. Coming. Place that right there. I can select this, select this and select the big shape. Click here again and click here again to center everything altogether. All right to center everything altogether. I think I'm going to make my stroke a little bit bigger here. Let's do 35. Okay. Let's do some like five. And then I need this one right here. So I can basically Grab my circle again, click hold on sheet to just draw a very small circle. Go back to my selection to change the field to white and remove the stroke. Okay. So I have just a normal circle right there, and then I'll increase the size to make it big and just position that where it's supposed to be. Okay. They probably I'll reduce the size a little bit and just position that right there. So you can see how we've been able to recreate the Instagram logo, you know, in Illustrator, and this allowed us to really dive into gradients and how to add gradients to our design in Illustrator. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you guys in the next video. Piece out. 14. Clipping Mask in Illustrator: Lots of guys, welcome to another video in this Adobe Illustrator training. And in this video, we're going to be talking about clipping Max. All right? We're going to be talking about clipping Max, and that's all about putting images into shapes. All right. So let's get straight into Illustrator and get started. Yeah. So we're right here in Illustrator, and I currently don't have any ad board left, so I'll just go to my ad Board too and just click on the ad to add another ad board for me. Maybe I'll just add, you know, a couple more right there. So go back to my selection to zoom out. I can see some have been added so it's time to just go around like this and then it's coming down here to add my artboard. Let me go to this one here. Click on Control zero to fit to my screen or command zero on Mac, and I'll quickly bring in an image. All right. So let me bring in an image. I'll go to file, place, and I'll go to the exercise. I'll go to the exercise four folder. Yes. So right there, I can see this image right here. All right. And click on Place. Just click and drag, something like this. That looks good, and then I'll just position my image right here. And now I want to draw a circle in which I'm going to put in this image. All right. So you can see remembers our lat setting. So I'll go back to my selection to and all I want is stroke black, all right, and change this to the smallest, which is like one. So I'll just see the guideline right there. All right. So this is what I have. I have my image underneath it, and I have my shape over it. All right. So all I need to do is select both of them. And once both of them are selected, in my quick action, I can see make clipping maps. All right? If you can find this here, you can go to object And then on that object, you're going to see clipping max, and then you see make. That's Control seven. All right. So if I click on that, you can see that immediately the image goes inside the circle. All right? The image goes inside the circle. And the reason why we are seeing this here and here and here and here is because the image is not big enough to cover the circle. All right. The image is not big enough to cover the circle. So If I want to edit what I have right inside my circle, all I need to do because if I try to expand right now, it's not going to be expanding the image. It's going to be expanding the entire thing, right? Whether I take it down or up, it's going to look the same thing. So to focus or to tell illustrator that you want to edit the image inside. Then all you need to do is when you click out, you double click. All right. And when you double click, it takes you to an isolation mode. So if I look to the left, you can see that everything here is looking gray because I'm in my isolation mode. And your isolation mode means you're kind of away from everything and focusing only on the image. So now I can select the image and adjust it the way I want. And you can see it's filling up the circle. I can move it left and right. So I want to adjust it to something like this. Maybe you will make it bigger. And then like, fills up the entire circle and then just adjust it. D don't want to adjust it like this or like this or like this or like this. You want to make sure that it fills up your entire circle, right. And then there we go, okay? And then when I'm done adjusting because I'm going to remain in this isolation mode, and in this isolation mode, I won't be able to do much, except edit my image size and stuff. So to exit the isolation mode, you can see right here that it's already giving us, like a link to where we are right now. So right now we're in the clip group. So all I need to do is to click on this arrow to go back outside. All right? I want to click on that, it takes me all the way back outside. And you can see every other thing here is now, you know, selectable. And if I come back and I select now, this time, I'm not going to be moving the image, but I'll be moving the entire circle and the image together. All right. So that is how to work with your clipping mark. So clipping mark allows you to clip an image into You know, a shape. So it could be any shape, right? It could be any shape. It's not just circle, but you know, circle is like the most popular. That's why I'm using circle as an example. So it could be a polygon, it could be a rectangle. He guess what? I can even do it on this Instagram logo and stuff. For example, if I go to far place again, All right. And I select this place, and I just drop this, you know, right there on my image. I'll just come to my arrange and choose sent to back. And I'll take it all the way behind this layer. All right? Be the image has to be behind the shape that you want to power clip it into. Alright, don't forget that. The image has to be behind. So when we're doing this, we'll notice that Tim Gorey was behind and the circle was in front. So now with Tim Gorey behind or this image behind and this square in front. I can select both the image and the square. I see. I'm making sure I'm not touching this or touching this or touching this, this. So selecting just the image and the square, and then I'll click on M clipping Max. I can see what we have right there. And if I want to edit my image, I just double click. Right there, it takes me into isolation mode. We can see right here, and then I can adjust and then go back outside, and you can see what we have. Okay. So it works with any image. All right, so let me just take it far. Bring my image in again here. File place. Select the team got three image place, drag and release right there. Okay. Let me just increase it some more because I wanted to cover the entire Twitter Lugo. So just strike that drag drag drag. Good. And what do I do? I go to a range, or you go to object, arrange, send to back. Okay. And then select both of them together. I'll click on the bird, click on Tim Guthrie holding down shift, and I'll select both of them, and I'll choose make clipping maps. Then if I want to edit the image inside, I can double click. All right. Go into isolation mode and choose the parts of my image that I would like to have show. Okay. So you can see that. This means I have to make my image bigger, very big if I really want just that face showing here. Okay? Let me reduce the size a little bit. And let's see if it works now. Great, so you can see what I have right there. And then when I'm done, I go back outside. So you can see how, you know, If Po clipped this image into different shapes in Illustrator, right? Even into the Twitter Lo good that we did. All right. So it's as simple as that. Let me just do and do and do and dodo, and do and do and do and do and do and do and do and do do. All right. And delete. So we can see that right there. All right. So that's how to work with Clippy Max in Illustrator. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you guys in the next video piece out. 15. Compound Paths in Illustrator: What's up guys, welcome to another video in this AWB Illustrator training. All right. So in this video, we're going to be talking about compound P, compound parts, and how to use them in Illustrator. So let's go straight into Illustrator right now, and I'll show you how to do just that. P. Okay, so we're back right here in Illustrator. And what I want to show you with the compound part is something similar to the clipping max. All right. So let's go to the next art board that we have created in the previous video right here, and then just control zero to fit to the art board. And I'm going to come right to my shape too. Let me just draw a couple of rectangles. All right. Let me just draw one like this. Okay? You can see he remembers our last last stuff. So let me just draw, you know, a couple of rectangles as such. All right. And So right now, the color doesn't really matter because what I'm trying to show you with the compound part is, I, for example, I go back to file place, okay? And I'm trying to, you know, power clip my image into these three rectangles that I drew. And I say, Okay, arrange sent to back, and it's now behind, and I select everything, a? And I say, a, since I've selected everything, make clipping mark, you can see that Illustrator just looks at the last rectangle I drew and just puts the image into that one and removes the remaining two rectangles. All right? And that is now what I was trying to do. So what I was trying to do was to kind of create an effect like this like we see on social media or other people's design, whereby I can get the person's face to show in this rectangle right here and other parts of him showing in the other rectangle. So before I can achieve that The first thing I'll need to do. Let me delete the image is to make this a compound part. All right. So grouping it will not also, you know, give you a solution. If I do bring back the image, and I select the three rex angles using the shift key. All right. Select the, select this, select this, and I group them, and I also grab all of them, and I say make clipping marks. You can see that this one is even worse. I'm not even seeing the image again. All right. So grouping will not also give you the solution. What will give you the solution is that you make these three rex angles a compound part. All right? Make it a compound part. Let me just adjust things a little bit here. We make this in, you know, make this little ina like that and just put them you know, arrange them like that. So you can see what we have right here. So I can select the three of them. One, hold down shift, select, select, or you can simply just drag like this and select all of them. And then I can go to, object, and then under object, I'll see compound part. And then under compound part, I'll see. All right. So when I click on M, it makes this a compound part. And immediately, you can even see that the gradient, instead of, you know, being applied individually, is now applied across board, meaning that illustrator is now seeing the three rectangles, even though they are three rectangles, he's now seeing them as one shape. All right. So Basically, you can have multiple shapes, select all of them together, make them compound part, and that will kind of create like a one single shape, and you can do whatever I want to do with that. So now, I'll go back to my file place, bring in my image again, click on place, click and drag. Okay. Drag, I want to drag that to cover the entire thing. And then I'll go to arrange, send you back, and this time, if I select all, and I say make clipping max pom. You can see the results we have instantly. All right. You can see how it gives us this nice effect of Tim Guthrie. Don't forget if phone to adjust you double click. You go into isolation mode, and you can adjust your image, the way you would like it to be. And then when I'm done, I'll click back, and I'll bring me back outside, and you can see how I was able to create this nice design. I'm clipping this image into this compound. At. All right. So let me even add some shadow to this. I'll go to effect stylize, drop shadow. Let's say I's going to look like with some shadows. Okay? Looking nice, not too bad. All right. Let me just let's increase some of the distance, bring it down a little bit, down, down, down, down, down, down, down. Alright. Then make it blow a little more b. Alright. You can see what we have right there. Okay? So this is how you use compound parts to kind of, you know, join multiple shapes together, making it a single shape. So it's different from grouping shapes together. This is actually joining them together to make it look like one single shape. Thank you so much for watching this tutorial, and I'll see you in the next video 16. Image Trace in Illustrator: What's up, everybody. Welcome to another video in this illustrator training. In this video, we're going to be talking about image trace. All right. We all know that in graphic design, we have vectors, and we have images. All right. Vectors are all of these lines and shapes and everything we've been drawing in Illustrator. While images are regular JPEG, PNG, and so on. So with image trace in Illustrator, we can convert an image such as JPEG, PNG, to a vector. And when something becomes a vector, it means you can colorize it. You can even adjust it, make some changes to it and do a whole lot with it. So let's go straight into Illustrator right now, and I'll show you how to do just that. I Okay, so I'm right here in Illustrator, and I just want to bring in some images. So apart from fire place that we do, I could actually do drag and drop in Illustrator. All I need to do is to open my folder right here and make sure that I can see Illustrator on the background. I can go to Exercise five. On that exercise five, I can see we have two icons here. So basically, what this image trace is mostly used for is When you find yourself in a situation whereby you downloaded an icon of maybe social media or of an art or illustration, and you want to change the color, you want to be able to make some adjustment to it. Then that is the essence of this image trace. And that's why we are using social media icons as examples in this case. So let me drag in this Facebook icon. You can see it's PNG, so I'll just drag that and drop into Illustrator. So that's another way of bringing images into Illustrator. You can see it's PNG. If I put it right here, you can see it's transparent. So for best result, it is always good that you download transparent icons, all right? And those are the ones that, you know, are in PNG format. So with this selected to do this We'll go to our window, and then on that window, we're going to see image trace. And when we click on that, that will make the image trace panel pop up. And once this pop up, all I need to tell illustrator is, is it a black and white image or color or gray scale? So in this case, mine is what black and white. So I'll click on Black and white and say trace. And it does that seamlessly. Once it's done tracing, the next thing I'll need to do is to expand it is to expand it. And to expand it, I can expand here. Or if I can't find my quick action here, I can go to object, and on the other under object, I'm going to see expand. So when I click on Expand, All right. It's going to ask me this, and I'll click Okay, and that expands my image. All right. And that's the whole process to vectorizing your JPEG or PNG. All right. You go to window, you bring up your image trace, choose whether it's black and white color or gray scale, and then you expand it. Once you're done expanding it, this is now a vector right that I can make changes to now, if I put this here, So I'm putting it here so we can see what's actually going on. You can see that before I, you know, did my image image trace on this PNG file, it was transparent. But after, you know, image tracing it and expanding it, I comes with a white background. And that's because when Illustrator is doing this image trace, he traces everything. All right. So both that transparency that was here before, he traced it and filled it with a white color. So for us to dismantle things and begin to arrange it the way we want it. The first thing we need to do is to ungroup. So after doing your image chase and expand, Illustrator will automatically help you to group all those different layers of the image that he has vectorized. So if you drag this I, put this right here now, let me just leave this here so we can see what's going on, or let me just quickly draw a erected angle and fill it with color so that we can see what's going on actually. Let me just fill it with maybe color, dark brown or something, and then send it to the back. Okay, good. So we can see our, you know, Facebook icon very well now. So we can actually see that it's not transparent because if I live it on the white background, might be thinking, Oh, it's actually transparent. So with this background, it's helping us now to understand what's going on. So everything is grouped together because if I try to change the color now, the color is going to change, I can see like, you know, this is not the way I expect the color to change. All right. Because without vectorizing your PNG. You can't change the color. If I bring in this Facebook icon again. And this one, I try to change the color. If I go to feel, change the color to any color, you can see that it is not changing because this is an image. This is a PNG. There's no way we can change the color. But since we've vectorized it, okay, we can now change the color, but it's not working the way we expect it to work. So let me undo this undo also undo this color I added, and it will bring me back here. So what I need to do is to ungroup it first so that I can now select the particular part of the image I want to put color or the ones I want to remove. For example, I want to remove this white box behind it. All right. So I'll just come to my quick action on group, or you go to object, you see on group. And once I group that, I can now click outside, then come back and select the particular things I'll need. For example, I want to first delete this white background. So I'll click on it and then press delete. All right? And when I did that, you can see the whole thing deleted. And that was because when I tried on grouping it the first time, it didn't actually group. So I'll go back to object again and say on group. All right, and then click outside, select this white box, press delete, and I can see that part is gone. All right. So even this one here is not supposed to be here. This is supposed to be transparent. When I place this icon on any background, that color of that background will show through this. So I'll select this and also press delete. And when I do that, you can see now that I'm back to the original icon that was there before, you know, I vectorize it. And now if I go to my field, I can actually change the color, you know, to any color that I want, and you can see my icon is giving me that color. And I can delete this my rex angle here to see my icon very well, since I don't need it again. So you can see. So that's the process of vectorizing your image in Illustrator. All right, is as simple as that. So let's do one more example with the linking icon so that we can really get this very well. So I'll go here once again. You can see I'm just dragging and dropping now. I'm not using file and place, so we can use file place or you can simply drag and drop. So now we can see that this is also what a PNG file transparent and all. So what the first now do, I would do my image trace. So I'll go to window on that window, I'll see image trace, bring up the panel and say, yes, this is black and white. I'll click on Trace. And then after clicking on Trace, I'll click on Expand. Okay. After expanding it, I will group. All right, then I'll click outside and then select the part I want. So there's one part here, I can see this part. We don't want it, so we delete it. Then we select this also, delete. We select this, delete, we select this, delete. And then we can see that we're back to a transparent linking icon, and then I can close this symetrix, come to my field and change that to another color. All right. So click there. I can see we have two colors of our icons now. So with this, I can, you know, begin to change the color to whatever color I want and adjusted the way I want it adjusted. So that is how to work with image trace in illustrator and it's as simple as that. So finally, let me just import this one. I'll go to my station. Let me look for a colored one. So you can see this is a YouTube icon, which is colored already. Let me drag that and drop it. I can see it's also the inside part is not transparent, but you can see the PNG image because this outer part is transparent. So but this one has color. So how do you work with color? Okay? So if I go to my sorry, M. Do that again. So if I go to my window image trace, and I leave it on black and white, and I click trace. Okay. You can see what it does, if I leave it on black and white. So if I want that color maintained and everything, I will undo that and then say, Hey, this is color. All right, then I'll click on Trace. And after tracing it, you can see that it maintains the red color on the icon. Then I'll click on Expand. After clicking on Expand, I'll click on on Group. All right. After clicking on that, I can now select different pieces. Remember this. Delete that. All right. So you can see we have this part also. So so many parts of my image, we even have these small parts here, delete that. You have another one somewhere see around here, so nothing there. All right. So we can begin to select different parts and give it color. I can select this. Close my mage trace, changes to maybe yellow, color, and then changes to maybe black. No, I'm just trying to go all the way in here, and then changes to maybe blue. All right. So you can see how I've been able to vectorize this, and I was able to change the color. And don't forget, if you're fine with this, you can always select it because this one has multiple layers, so you can select everything and group it back again, so that when I move any part, it stays together. Alright, thank you so much for watching this video. I hope you now know how to vectorize your image in Illustrator. It's very simple. Go ahead and vectorize more icons on your own, and I'll see you in the next video. Piece out. 17. Creating a Flyer in Illustrator: What's up, everybody. Welcome to another video in this Adobe Illustrator training. And in this video, we're going to be creating a social media flyer. All right. So we're doing it designed for social media inside of Illustrator. So let's get straight into it. I'm super excited and pumped up. See you in Illustrator. Okay, so right here in Illustrator, I need an extra at bot. So I'll just go to my at Bard two and just click add to add another one right there. And okay, I can go back to my selection to control zero to fit to that at board. And quickly, let's go to a folder. Let's go to a folder. Let's go to the Exercise six folder where we have this flyer design for one of my trainings, Legos Nigeria. Okay. So let's just drag that and drop that. So I'm already like in this dragon drop in Illustrator. So just reduce the size of that and just place that somewhere outside here, so we can just use that as a reference for our design. Okay. Let me just put that somewhere here. Okay. Great. So now, looking at this design, we're going to use this as a guide, and then we're going to create our own right here. Okay? So let's go straight and get started with that. So the first thing we can see here is that we can see there's a red background right here, filling up the entire page. So that tells me that I have to first create a red square to fill up my entire page also. So I'll grab my resgle to All right. And at this point, I need my smart guide turned on because I'm trying to get the edge of this hello square here, and it's kind of difficult. So I'll go to my view, turn on my Smart guide. And then this time if I come here, you can see, he's telling me intersect. So letting me know that I'm at the intersect of the square. So I'll click and drag. And go to the next intersect. All right. And that will give me a perfect, you know, square covering my, you know, page. All right. So don't a zoom that this is an existing shape, right? Don't assume that this is just your art board, so there's nothing here. I can't fill this with color. So always remember that this is your okay at board. Let me undo that. All right. And then we are back right here. So let me change the color of this to red. So I can go to my color mixer, right. And, so let me just use my color picker. So we have the color picker to right here. I'll just use it to click on this and it automatically fill this with the exact same color, and you can see very smooth. Okay. So we're getting there. I don't want stroke, so you can see my stroke is turned off. So I just have a few color here, no stroke color right here. All right. So the next thing I'm going to do is this year, this year, this year, this year. Let's just get, you know, done with all of the shapes and everything. So to do that, I'm going to grab my, you know, lips to to draw a circle. I'll click drag hold down shift as I do that so I can have a perfect circle. Okay, I think that's too big. Let me just dress something like this. Now, I want to remove the field color. So I'll go back to my selection to remove the field color. So I'll go back to the swatches, click here to remove the field color. Then what you're seeing here is a stroke. Okay? What you're seeing here is a stroke. So I'll come to my stroke. And make it white and then increase my stroke size to make it look big. So let's try 100, so we can see 1100 gives us. I'll come here, click and drag and just position this to the side like that. So 100 is still a little bit small. So let's do like 150. Let's see 150. Let's do 130. Great. So we can see what we have here. Now, one thing I like about Illustrator is that by the time I'll be exporting my design. You see this excess part here, okay, this excess part here would not be part of my design. It would not be part of my design. Okay? So that's one thing I like about that. So instead of me creating a clipping max and, you know, getting all of that on the way. I can just draw my circle, the way I've just drawn it now, and just know that by the time I'm ready to export, he's not going to show right there. Okay? Is not going to show right there. So let me reduce this 110. All right. Looking good. So I'm aligning it. All right. If you look at my circle, Okay. You can see the center point is here. This is touching here. This is touching here so that it gives me that smooth, you know, line across right there. So I can just control C control V the circle, that's command C, command V on Mac and copy and paste it and put it right here. Don't forget, you can click in the middle when you have an outline. You can only click on the line itself to move that around. Okay. So I'll just click and drag, move that around, and just position that also at the top right there. All right. So you can see what we have so far. Don't forget, all of these parts will not be part of your exported design. It is only what you have in your artboard that will be part of your exported design. So don't worry about, why is it overlapping like this? It's not going to do that and do that. Just leave that for illustrator to take care of. All right. So I need another circle here. So I'll grab my ellips to click and drag and draw a circle. This time, I'll change it my fill color to white and remove my stroke color. So I just have a regular circle right here. Okay? So I have a regular circle right here. So I ah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah. Let me kind of reduce the size because it's kind of getting, you know, too big for that. And reduce this also, hod down shifts, and put that right there. So good. So I can have this right here. At this junction. So with that said, you can see we have another circle with a power clip of my image inside. All right. We have another circle, re per click of my image inside. So what I'm going to do is to just control C, control V, this existing circle. All right, reduce its size and just come and center that back inside this place. All right. So let me just expand that a bit more and recenter it. So that looks good, and I can now place my image inside this circle. So to do that, I'll bring in my image, go to file, place, and then we'll go to Exercise six. And then we'll find this transparent image of Tim Godfrey here. I'll click on place, and I'll just click and drag to kind of let it fill up the entire place right there. Okay? Maybe reduce the size a little bit, hold down shift while doing that. Okay. So once again, I need to make the image behind the circular onto power clipping. And this time, I can just say, Oh, go Timothy, go all the way to the back. If I say go to the back, I'm going to go all the way back pa pa pa pa, and I don't want that. I'll just do arrange and send backward. So that'll just move it one step backward, and then I can select him, select the circular so by holding down shift. And then I'll click on M clipping Max. And then I can double click on it to go into the isolation mode and just arrange that right there. Okay? And when I'm done, I'll click on this back icon to go back to my design. So to separate my image, this one here from this circle right here, you can see, I added the shadow right there to just give it that nice effect. So I'm going to select this right here, go to effect, go to stylize, go to drop shadow. And you can see that it's adding the drop shadow, but to them Goth, that's the image itself. And also the circle. All right. And that's because if you look at our circle, our circle has no field color and no stroke color. So it's just totally opened up. And that's why the shadow is also affecting, you know, the image of the subject. So I'm going to cancel that and select my circle, go to feel, and give it a white feel color. All right. So now, Illustrator now sees this as a full circle. I can now go to my effect. You know, starlize, and then go to drop shadow. I can see it's only affecting the circle right now. Okay, so let me just adjust all this to get the right settings. All right. Let's reduce the opacity. Okay and then play with our x and y. Taking it to that side and I want to take it up. U up up up. Take it more to the side. Increase my blow. All right, reduce my opacity. Okay? And I think we got it. Let me make it come down come down a little bit y. And then you can see what I have right there. So you can see that shadow just gives you that nice effect distinguishing those two, you know, circles from each other. All right. So I need to draw the circle right here, so I'll grab my circle, click, hold down shift, draw a circle right there and go back to my selection to just place that somewhere around here and also add, you know, my drop shadow to that. Boom. Click Okay, and change the color. So I'll go to few. All right. So, for my few here, there's no collpka. So I'll grab my Colopia tool, which is right here. Use it to select this yellow and need to fill it with that same yellow. And you can see what we have right now. Okay. And what else, what else, what else? So I'll come here. We need to draw this circle right here. So I'm going to grab my circle, click drag, draw a circle right there. All right. Grab that. That's too big. Reduce the size. A little bit, and then put that right there. Then change my field color to white, so I can see that, and it has no stroke color. Okay, I has no stroke color. Let me make that a little bit bigger and just position it somewhere around here. So now we can see the stripes around my shape. And this is where we're going to be talking about the shape builder once again. All right. Remember our shape builder, a shape builder. So I'll come right here. Grab a rectangle, click drag to draw a very tiny rectangle as such. Okay. You can see how tiny it is. And then go back to my selection to now, I want to rotate this rectangle. Let me just give this rectangle on that color so that we can see it while we drop it on this circle. So I want to rotate this rectangle here. And to simply do that, you can see that anytime I have. Let me just draw a big rectangle here to show what I'm about to do. But I go back to my selection too. If I move out out out out and I get here. You can see what my moutones to. Once my mouse stones to this. It means I can rotate my rethgul, 360 degree anyhow I want it. All right? Don't forget. Once you know, do as if you want to resize your shape, but you now move out a little bit, it turns to this and you can rotate your shape. Let me delete this and then apply that same thing to this one, then rotate it, grab it and put it in place where I would want it to be. All right. We can see that right there. You can see that right there. So Amo genic with my Coso keys right there. So just trying to put it in the right exact place. So you can see what I have. So my goal now is to duplicate this a couple of times until I have my full duplication. So I'll just select this and press Control C, Control V. And when I press control V or command V, You see that I paste it somewhere far away. All right. So if I delete that, this time if I select this, if I press control C, if I go to objects, or if I go to a dit I mean, you'll see something called paste in place. All right, meaning that it should paste it exactly where we have the old or the current one. All right. So if I click on that, you can see that it to paste it on exactly the same place, and I can drag that and put that where I would like it to be. All right. So instead of me going all the way down to drag and drop, I'll just use control shift V again, and that paste right there. And then you can see that my smart guide is helping me out here to kind of get the same, you know, space between them. And I'll do control, you know, control command shifts B again. You can see right there again, drag that and arrange that where it's supposed to be. So my smart guide is just helping me out here. Command shift again, drag put that where it's supposed to be. I'm just trying to align things here. Command Shift V or control shift V, to put that right there again, command shift V, to put that right there, and I think this should be the last one that we're going to be using for today. You can see what I have right there. What I can do now is I can select all Okay. Now when I do that, you can see that it automatically selects this red background and everything here. So I'll just hold down shift and click on this to select the red background. And so that I just have this alone. Then I'll go to my shape builder. All right. I my shape builder hold down aught to subtract these parts from it, and I'll just click and drag, click Out and drag and then keep repeating that process. Okay Hoops. So let me zoom in here so I can see what I'm working on very well. So I'll all down, click drag to the other one. I know why my mouse keeps going to the other part. Okay. So O down, click on this guy. You can also just be clicking on it. Instead of clicking and dragging. All right, click, click. Don't forget. I have all press down or options press down on my Mac Book pro. And then when I'm done with that, you can see this nice effect that we have right here. Okay? So that's how I was able to achieve that. I can go back to my selection to now, and I can see what we have right here. I can select all of them together, k. Select my big rectangle and then group this together so that they stay together. So when I click on one, everything gets selected. All right. And that was how that was created right there. All right. So, you can see that we're getting there. Let me just reduce the size of this little bit like that. All right. Great. So we have that right there. Then I have my logo here. Okay. So let me just grab that from my document, where I have it and just add it right there. So you can add your own logo at that point. So let's just quickly do that. And this is the logo right here. Okay. And now you can see that it came in with a red color. And this is where my image trace comes in again. I can just quickly go to window, image trace, where are you, and then say it is colored, click on Image trace, traces it, then I'll expand it when it's done, tracing it. So I'm just going to wait for that to trace. All right, then expand it, and then ungroup it, and then select out. Click here, delete that. All right, click here, fill this with white. So I'll just come here and fill that with white. Click the middle one here, the small one here, and fill that also with color white. And very simple. You can also group it. Don't forget the red Bagn has been selected also. So I'll hold down shifts to select that and then group. Okay. So you can see my Logo has been placed right there. And then now my text. All right. So I'll click on text, click here, and then type this time, let's type online. Since we are watching this online. Put that right there. I need more space here. I'll just select this big circle right here. Don't know why it's not being selected. I think it's because of the shadow I added. I'm trying to select it now. Select, hold down shift, select both of them, and then just note this a little bit to the side so that I can have more space right there. All right. I think I should just bring this up a little bit. Yeah. So I'll come here online. Let me change my font. Can't remember the fonts I use here right now, but, you know, let's just use Montserrat, make it extra bold and increase the size. So I'll come here change that to 100. Let's see. All right. So we can see online right there. Let me look for a more condensed font. So let's go back to feature. Let's use feature right here. Okay. Let's use condensed condensed extra boat. All right. So you can see the condensed font helps you to kind of shrink your fonts together so that you have more space around where you want it. So I'll just grab my color picker, pick this yellow, and that will fill it with my text. Very easy online. Then I can contra see Control V or command C, command V. Duplicate my text, change this to ops, what am I pressing, changes to adobe master class. Come back, change that to a featurer that is medium. And then reduce my size to maybe 36 and just place that right here. So we're really not using the same font I used here. So just, you know, manage this like that. All right. And we can see what we are doing now. And added some shadow here. So let me just quickly go to effect stylize, you know, drop shadow, and just, you know, reduce the blowness, one, and then change the offset, increase the opacity, so we can see reduce my blowness, so to look sharp. All right. Great. And then just work on that, bring it down, increase the blowness a little bit, reduce the opacity. And that looks good. All right. So we have that right there. And then we have our text here. So let me just finish this up. We'll come to texts. Click on 16th. To 28th. All right. And one thing I really want to emphasize on here is that you can see the way my text is being arranged. Let me just remove this from this place a little while so that we can see what I want to talk about here. So you can see the way I arrange my texts right here. All right. You can see everything here is aligned to the left. All right. Remember your text alignment and text hierarchy. We can see that this legal is the biggest. And in this case, this align is the biggest. All right? And we have the Duba circl. This is a smaller text compared to this, and then smaller texts compared to these and then smaller texts compared to this. All right. And you can see right here, went back up again so that people can see the amount of the training right here. And then we can see all of the we arrange everything, Aligned left. Okay. Everything is aligned left. So you must always keep in mind alignment when working in Illustrator. I can see that this I aligned it to the right. Okay? I aligned this to the right. And then you can see what I have here under my text here. This is aligned center. All right. So make sure that all of your texts are always aligned when working in Illustrator or Photoshop or whatever software that ise this text. You know what I mean? So let me just copy and paste this and then grab that and put that somewhere here. And then, you know, five 9:00 A.M. T 3:00 P.M. Okay. So let me just arrange everything to align. So at this point, you could just, you know, skip this video, out the type text and stuff, or just start working on your own text, you know, so that you can move on with the class. All right? Because everything I'm doing here, basically, we already know much about it. So I'm just trying to align my text, you know, doing all of those stuff. Control V again, paste my text, and then double click and changes to November. All right, 2020. Okay. And then reduce the size. So even though we're in 2021, let me just type 2020 since we're already working. Let me reduce the size like maybe 24. That looks good. And then I'll grab that and also align it with the rest. So make sure they're all aligned together. And then I'll copy and paste. Let me zoom in so I can see what I'm working on copy paste. Let me use control C control shift V to paste in place. And then I'll just move that to the side and changes to daily. Come back here. All right, so we can see how we are arranging our text. So I'll just copy and paste this, contra C, contra shift V, or command C, command shift V, double click this type venue. Oops. Okay. And then Control C, command shift V, paste. Don't forget control and command at the same both on mac and windows. So I'll just change this to three a straight. A good ga Llega Nigeria. All right. I can see that right there. So I can see how we've been able to arrange all of our texts the way it should be. Okay. And then I have this right here also. So I'll just contro this, grab that and put that here, double click to it and type. And increase the size of that to maybe, let me do 48, but make it bod. Bold is not really working. Let's leave it a medium condensed medium and just increase the size a little bit. Great. So I'll just put that right there and grab this contra contro we can see the way I copy and piece my text. It makes my work very fast. All right. Rather than me trying to, you know, do you know, my typing all the way from the scratch and doing all of that. So I'll just put that right here and select this, change the color to the red, so I'll just grab my copy cp. Pop Pop. That's it, and also do the same thing to this. Select this, grab my Colpy cp, and that gives me that color. All right. So there we have it. What other ones do I have? So I have my social media icons here. So let me grab my social media icons. For my laptop. So for your own, you have to go and download this because I propose did include, you know, these social media icons there and some other things because I want you to actually download, how to download icons, or you can even create them yourself, like we did with the Twitter, you know, and then add it up yourself. So let me just quickly go, let me just cheat and grab my own. Let me just grab my social media icons. So Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, strike the three of them and drop All right, so you can see they look very big. All right. Look very big, very, very big. So I'll just come here and just reduce it to about 200 press enter. I can see it is not linked. That's why I toning it distorting the image like this. So I will undo that. Link it, make sure they're linked, and then changes to 200 again. And that will help me to reduce the size. We can see that. So it's reduce everything to make them small, and I still need to make it smaller, but my Facebook and Instagram are already very small. So I'll just grab my Facebook, All right. Put that there, grab my Instagram, put it next to it, then my Twitter, reduce the size some more, and grab that and put that right there. Okay, and select the three of them by holding down shifts, so I can move them all together. All right. I need to adjust my Twitter a little bit to this side. Okay. Yeah. And then it's time to change the color. I need to do an image trace on them. If I go to effects. So if I go to window image trace, no I'll bring up the image trace. I can trace multiple images together. So I have to select them one by one. So, I select this, trace it, expand, on group, and come and then do my thing. Select this, delete. All right select that, deleted. Come to Instagram, trace, expand on group, and delete the necessary. Let me just zoom in very well, so I can see. Select this, delete, select this middle white here, delete, select this, delete, select, delete. I'm deleting the right thing. Let me zoom in very well. Okay. Yeah. Select this white, delete, select this white, delete. All right, T. Last one, the Twitter. Tracy may proceed slowly with this large image? Say yes, you can see the Twitter image was very large. So just one image that I might be taking more time than expected. And I just clicked. Okay. So I'll click on expand, click on on group. Then you know, select somewhere, select this, delete, select this, delete, select the inside, delete, select that, delete, select this, delete. All right. What happened there. Delete. Oops. What happened there. Sorry, let me delete this again. Delete, select this this white one and delete. Well, I don't know what happened there. So let me just go back to my Twitter. Expand on group, select, select, delete, select delete, select, delete, select, delete, select delete. And you can see what we have right now, and I can select all of them. Okay. So let me zoom out so I can select all of them. Select all of them. But don't forget the red has been selected, so I'll hold down shift to the select that, and then I can change the color of all of them at once to my yellow color. All right. So I'll just come here, grab my color picker ops, click here, and then it just changes the color to that yellow color. And we can see how I was able to do that. Okay. And then I'll grab my text again, Control C, Control V, bring that down. Double click to edit and just change that to a adobe Master class of Facebook Instagram and Twitter. So put that right there. Okay. And let me just see if I can take this up. Let's do 28. Yeah. Good. So so far so good. Ops, I forgot this guy here. Let me just return it back to where it's supposed to be. T T T T T right there. All right. So there we go. So we're almost done. The only thing left now is to add this text right here. So once again, I'll just contra, control V this text, grab that and put that here. So we have register now at. So type that in capital letter, register now at enter W master class g. Er call or whats. Plus 234, let me to 080, 35, ten, 60 14. So you can see that this text by default is aligned to the left. So I'll come to my paragraph here and align it to the right so that I can put it right here to rest on this portion of my design. Okay. So with that said, you can see how we took our design from from the scratch up to this point. All right. So the way to create this image, you know, I'll talk about this. It's the same thing as the tracing of your regular image. All right, creating a cartoon form of your normal image. So this is me in my cartoon form. We'll talk about this in the advanced class of the adb Illustrator training. All right. But for now, just use your image right here, and that looks good. So everything looks fine, clean, and nice. I can delete this, and that will be eight for that. So in the next video, we're going to talk about how to export this and work with exporting. All right, thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you in the next video. Pisa. 18. How to Export your Designs in Illustrator: Guys, in this Adobe Illustrator training video, we are going to be talking about how to export your designs in Adobe Illustrator. So let's get straight into it right now. Okay, guys, so we are back right here in Illustrator, and we have a design right here that we worked on in the last video. So now, let's talk about how to export our design. Let's talk about how to export our design. So to simply do that, I'll go to file, and then under file, I'm going to see Export. And then under export, I'm going to see Export, File Export Export As. So I'm going to click on Export As, and that will bring me right here. Is telling me to give my designing name, so I can name this flier. Okay, or call this E flier. Okay. And the next thing is, where do I want to save this? I can save this on my desktop. Now, what format do I want? All right. If I come here, I can choose PNG. Don't forget PNG is for you know, a design that has transparency. So if your designer doesn't have transparency, you don't need to choose PNG. All right. So in this case, my design doesn't have any transparency, so theys't need to use PNG. All right. Alternatively, what I'm to use right here is the JPEG format. All right. But we'll notice that we have other formats here. All right. So this is totally up to you depending on what you want. You can even save as a photoshop. Document, and be able to open that in photoshop. All right. So we have so much he PNG, PNB, you know, JPEG and PNG are the most popular one. So I'll just choose JPEG. Now, if I don't say use at board, ok? And I just say Export. So I want you to see what we're going to have. You're just going to bring me here. Everything here looks okay. The only thing I want to adjust here is maybe the quality. So but I always suggest that the quality is around seven to give you a nice in quality. Now, if I click, all right, and I go to my dektop, You can see what we have. It just exports my entire art board. It exports the entire art board altogether. And this is not what I want. Okay? So I'm going to delete that. So this time, we'll go back to file export, and then choose Okay, file export and choose Export As. And then we'll go through the same process again. But this time I'm going to say use at both. All right, use at both. And it's going to say all by default. So if I click Export, it's going to do the same thing that we got previously. So this time, I want to say range All right. And when I choose range, I can choose between at board one to three or at bot ten to 11 or at board, you know, seven to 12, depending on what I want. Or in this case, my at boat right here is at Board 14. All right? I can just come to this range and say, just export the At Boat 14 alone. And that will export only this design. So if I click on Exports now, Let it that high. Click Okay. All right. If I go to my desktop right now, you can see that I only have this design exported. And remember, I told you that all of these excesses that we have here created by our circle here and here, it's not going to be included in your export. All right. And when we checked our export, you can see that it's only our document size, our output size that was exported. All right. And that's how to simply export in Adobe Illustrator. It's very simple and straightforward. So this is a JPEG file. I can send to somebody on WhatsApp, I can cloude on my social media, Facebook Instagram, Twitter. I can, you know, use as my wallpaper or use whatever I want to use it for for my publicity, for my training. All right. So you can see that right there. Okay? So that's how to export. So you could also export as PDF. But this time, you're not going to be doing export, you're going to be coming to save us. And then under the savers, you can see the different format. All right, you can choose a DB PDF. And you can also choose a range if you want to be exported as a PDF. All right, and you click Save. So let me choose my dektop once again, click Save, and I will save this as a PDF. All right. So it's checking compatibility. I said, yes, yes, yes, I like it the way it is. All right. If I click on Optimize for fast web view, it's going to make the file size smaller and kind of reduce the quality also. Okay? So let me just click on Save for PDF without optimizing it. And then if I go to my decktop, all right, you can see it right there as a PDF. If I open it, It opens with my normal PDF viewer, and you can see each page right here as a PDF format. I can just grow through all of my designs in PDF, and that's how to export your designs also in PDF format. Okay? All right, so don't forget to save your work. You do file, save us, and then make sure that this is Illustrator. You click save, and that will save your entire work, and you can click Okay, and that saves your work. And the next time you want to edit it, you can open it and continue editing it in Illustrator. Thank you so much for watching this video, and I'll see you in the next video. Pisa. 19. Conclusion: Who. I'm super excited that you were able to make it to this point in this training. All right. You've gone through the beginners course and intermediate course in Adobe Illustrator. It's been an amazing journey with you, and it's been splendid. Now, if you're asking me what next, Cs. Alright, I have just three advice for you. Number one, practice. Number two, practice. Number three, practice. Alright. Those are the three advice I have for you because there's no way that you're going to become a professional in whatever you do if you don't practice. Alright? That's why they call doctors practitioners, because they keep practicing. Then from there, you make sure that you are also consistent and you are creative. It's very, very important. All right? That will take you in your journey of adobe illustrator. Don't forget. You can also go for the advanced class of Adobe Illustrator right here on this website, okay, check it out and also pay attention, practice, and do all that it's in the video. Okay? We have other courses on the website. Also, we have courses on Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe After Effect. All right. All of this is to spark up your creativity, to help you with your content creation. You know, we also have digital marketing for those who are interested in marketing online and growing your business. We have the web design master class, which is focused on showing you how to build a professional website, how you can set up your Eco ma store. So there's so much courses on this website. You want to make sure that you check them out, okay, and also make use of what you are being taught right there. Thank you so much once again. I'm so excited Oh. W. W. All right, guys. So I'm just so excited that you were able to go through this course, and I'll see you in the next video Pis.