To meet the demands of individuals and organizations for flexible, reusable, and easily modified visual content, Adobe Systems has created a cadre of applications that collectively provide a scalable, end-to-end solution for nearly every type of visual design project one can contemplate. Called Creative Cloud®, the collection of applications perform specialized design tasks while interoperating among each other to deliver content.
Adobe Illustrator CC: Part 1
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In this course, you will use Adobe Illustrator CC to create illustrations that include graphics and text.
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December 2025
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There are 8 modules in this course
Welcome to the world of Adobe® Illustrator®, one of the most powerful tools for creating, editing, and deploying drawn digital graphics!
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8 plugins
You've developed some skill moving around the Adobe® Illustrator® user interface and modifying user environment settings, and you've evaluated some graphical content, but a big milestone is still ahead: drawing a multi-part graphic.
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6 plugins
As an artist, you know that the pen is a mighty tool. You can use it in ways that freely express your intentions, but does that same freedom exist in the world of digital vector graphic development? The Pen tool works much like the real thing, and in many respects, it is an advance over manual drawing tools. In this lesson, you will learn how to draw custom paths with the Pen tool.
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5 plugins
Not only is Adobe® Illustrator® a powerful tool for creating vector graphics, but it is also effective in handling text in a variety of engaging, artful ways. In truth, much of what graphic designers do depends upon the interplay of the "wordlessness" of art and the words on the page to create compelling messages for an intended audience. In this lesson, you will create graphics that contain custom text.
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8 plugins
The days of Henry Ford's dictum of, "They can have any color car, as long as it's black," are over. Everything (especially graphic design) must possess the aura of special customization, even if it is mass produced. Adobe® Illustrator® has many tools that will enable you to improve the appearance of, and leverage, existing graphical content to put it in the best possible light. In this lesson, you will customize objects.
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5 plugins
You have worked with basic shapes but don't see much "bang for the buck" so far in terms of formatting them. Adobe® Illustrator® has many formatting tools that operate on basic shapes so that you can create a multitude of beautiful, engaging designs from simple geometric objects. In this lesson, you will customize basic shapes.
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7 plugins
Once you've done the creative work, the practical part is ahead of you: where the content will go and how it will be used. Adobe® Illustrator® has a nice array of tools you can use to optimize the content you create in most delivery modalities, on and off the Internet. In this lesson, you will prepare documents for deployment.
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9 plugins
You'll wrap things up and then validate what you've learned in this course by taking an assessment.
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