Adobe Illustrator CS5 Tutorial |
What is Adobe Illustrator?
Adobe illustrator is a powerful and popular software for creating and editing a specific type of images called ‘Vector images’. Illustrator is used for creating various forms of artwork including logos, shapes, cartoons, caricatures, website themes, backgrounds etc.
Vector images are simply images that are not made up of dots or pixels. Thus their size can be increased or decreased to any limit without any loss of quality to the image, unlike the usual image type which is made up of pixels and quality is affected, specially on zooming in. (Details in next lesson- Types of images)
Illustrator is available for both Windows and Mac Users.
Pre-requisites of Learning Illustrator CS5?
This training is designed for absolute beginners to graphics in general and to adobe illustrator in particular. This course will take you step by step through every feature and use screenshots and images to assist you in understanding various functions and techniques.
If you are skilled at using Adobe Photoshop, some tools might appaer familiar. However this tutorial is still perfect for you as it mainly addresses a totally different type of images which cannot be created or worked on in Photoshop.
History of Illustrator?
The latest version is Adobe Illustrator CS 5 released in May 2010
Illustrator Earlier Versions
Version |
Year Released | Version | Year Released |
1 |
1987 |
8 |
1998 |
1.1 |
1987 |
9 |
2000 |
2 |
1989 |
10 |
2001 |
3 |
1990 |
CS |
2003 |
3.5 |
1991 |
CS2 |
2005 |
5 |
1993 | CS3 |
2007 |
6 |
1996 |
CS4 |
2008 |
7 |
1997 |
CS5 |
2010 |
How is Illustrator different from FreeHand and CorelDraw?
Macromedia FreeHand and CorelDraw are some other branded Vector graphics editing software. Their core functionality and purpose is same as that of Adobe Illustrator. Illustrator however is more widely used and is considered to be the industry standard.
Macromedia Freehand was last released in -----, . Later Adobe company purchased Macromedia and the production of Freehand was stopped. However an FreeHand like working interface was introduced in illustrator to help users who were earlier using FreeHand.
Course Contents
Chap 1
1.1 Types Of images - Bitmap and Vector images
1.2 Illustrator CS5 Welcome Screen
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