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Adobe Illustrator CC 2015 User Manual (556 pages)


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Table of contents

Legal notices

2

Contents

3

Chapter 1: What's new

7

Adobe Stock

8

10x faster zoom, pan, scroll

8

Recover data in your files

9

Last updated 6/5/2015

10

GPU Performance

11

Touch workspace enhancements

11

Tool enhancements

12

Other important enhancements

12

Chapter 2: Workspace

13

Hide or show all panels

14

Display panel options

14

Search For Help box

15

About screen modes

15

Using the status bar

15

❖ Do any of the following:

16

Customizing the workspace

17

Dock and undock panels

18

Move panels

19

Add and remove panels

19

Manipulate panel groups

19

Stack floating panels

20

Resize panels

20

Use panel menus

21

Save and switch workspaces

22

Tools panel overview

23

View hidden tools

24

View tool options

24

Move the Tools panel

24

Select a tool

25

Change tool pointers

25

Tool galleries

26

Type tool gallery

28

Painting tool gallery

29

Reshaping tool gallery

30

Symbolism tool gallery

33

Graph tool gallery

33

Improved User Interface

35

Safe Mode

38

Using Safe Mode

39

Configurable preferences

43

Important considerations

43

Touch Workspace

44

Switching between workspaces

45

Tool bar

46

Control panel

47

Document bar

47

Artboard overview

48

Printing and saving artboards

49

Use rulers

50

Use the grid

51

Use guides

51

Smart Guides

52

Smart Guide preferences

53

Custom Tools Panels

54

Viewing artwork

56

About print tiling

57

Zoom in or out

57

Change the view area

57

Navigator panel overview

58

View artwork as outlines

58

Create a new window

59

Create a new view

59

Rename or delete a view

59

Switch between views

59

Setting preferences

60

About plug-in modules

61

Using multiple artboards

62

Artboards panel

63

Create an artboard

64

Delete an artboard

64

Select and view artboards

64

Edit artboards

65

Move an artboard

65

Reorder artboards

65

Rearrange artboards

65

Customize artboard names

66

9-point referencing

66

Undo and redo changes

67

Working with ConnectNow

68

Files and templates

68

About new document profiles

69

Create new documents

70

About templates

71

Create a new template

71

Open a file

72

Import and Export Settings

73

File Info dialog

74

Chapter 3: Drawing

76

About paths

77

Drawing modes

80

Drawing with the Pen tool

81

Draw curves with the Pen tool

82

Finish drawing a path

83

Drawing with the Pencil tool

85

Drawing flares

87

Create a flare

88

Create a default flare

88

Draw a flare

88

Draw rectangles and squares

89

Draw ellipses

90

Draw polygons

91

Draw stars

91

Draw arcs

91

Draw spirals

91

Draw grids

92

Editing paths

93

Smooth and simplify paths

94

Simplify paths

95

Erase artwork

97

Eraser tool options

98

Split a path

99

Viewing the pixel grid

101

Adjust path segments

102

Move straight segments

103

Delete a segment

104

Extend an open path

104

Connect two open paths

104

Join two endpoints

104

Join two or more paths

105

Pen tool rubberband preview

106

Curvature Tool

106

Using Image Trace

107

Tracing options

108

Enhanced Pencil Tool

109

Anchor Point enhancements

111

About symbols

114

Symbols panel overview

115

Symbol registration point

116

Place or create a symbol

116

Add sublayers for symbols

117

Use 9-slice scaling

117

Work with symbol instances

118

Expand a symbol instance

119

Reset transformations

119

Edit or redefine a symbol

120

Symbol libraries

120

About symbol sets

121

Create symbol sets

122

Resize symbol instances

123

Rotate symbol instances

123

Stain symbol instances

123

2 Do one of the following:

124

Perspective drawing

125

Define grid presets

126

Move the perspective grid

128

Attach objects to perspective

132

Transforming objects

133

Automatic plane positioning

135

Move plane to match object

138

Scale objects in perspective

138

About Perspective Grid

139

Trace artwork

141

More Help topics

143

Use a tracing preset

144

Release a tracing object

145

Overview

145

Chapter 4: Color

147

Grayscale

150

Color spaces and gamuts

150

About spot and process colors

151

About spot colors

151

About process colors

152

Selecting colors

153

Display the Color Picker

154

Display only web-safe colors

154

Color panel overview

155

Using and creating swatches

156

Use swatch libraries

158

Add all document colors

159

Create color swatches

160

Manage swatches

161

Color groups (harmonies)

162

Color Guide panel overview

163

Create color groups

166

Save changes to a color group

169

Assign colors to your artwork

173

Reduce colors in your artwork

176

About Kuler

178

View and use themes

178

Color Themes panel

179

Adjusting colors

180

Blend colors

181

Change the tint of a color

182

Invert multiple colors

182

Convert colors to grayscale

183

Mix overlapping colors

184

Chapter 5: Painting

186

About fills and strokes

187

Fill and Stroke controls

188

Blob Brush tool guidelines

189

Create merged paths

190

Blob Brush tool options

190

Using the Width tool

192

About the Width tool

192

Width tool controls

193

Saving width profiles

194

Live Paint groups

195

Live Paint limitations

196

Create Live Paint groups

197

Select faces and edges

198

Modify Live Paint groups

199

❖ Do one of the following:

200

Live Paint Bucket options

201

Set Live Paint gap options

202

About brushes

203

Brushes panel overview

204

Work with brush libraries

204

Apply brush strokes

205

Paintbrush tool options

205

Remove brush strokes

206

Create or modify brushes

206

Brush options

207

Scatter brush options

208

Art brush options

209

Segmented art brush

210

Pattern brush options

211

Bristle brush

212

Using the Bristle brush

213

• 0 = 100

214

• 1 = 10%

214

• 9 = 90

214

About transparency

215

Transparency panel overview

216

View transparency in artwork

216

Change the opacity of artwork

216

Create an opacity mask

218

About blending modes

221

Gradients

223

Patterns

225

Create pattern swatches

226

Modify patterns

230

Create mesh objects

231

Edit mesh objects

232

Stroke an object

233

Create dotted or dashed lines

235

Add arrowheads

236

Customize arrowheads

236

Create and edit patterns

237

Apply or edit a gradient

238

Create an elliptical gradient

239

Painting

240

Selecting objects

242

Isolate artwork for editing

243

Isolate a path inside a group

244

Isolate a layer or sublayer

244

Select behind objects

245

Select filled objects

247

Repeat or invert a selection

250

Group or ungroup objects

251

Expand objects

251

Move objects

252

Move an object by dragging

253

Move multiple objects at once

254

Align and distribute objects

255

Rotate objects

257

Reflect or flip objects

259

Reflect by specifying an axis

260

About layers

261

Layers panel overview

261

Create a layer

263

Consolidate layers and groups

264

Duplicating objects

266

Stacking objects

268

Chapter 7: Reshaping objects

270

Scale objects

272

Scale multiple objects

273

Shear objects

274

Distort objects

275

Reshape using envelopes

276

About envelopes

277

Reset an envelope

278

Remove an envelope

278

Envelope options

278

Combining objects

279

Pathfinder options

280

Apply Pathfinder effects

281

Summary of Pathfinder effects

281

Compound shapes

282

Work with compound shapes

283

Create a compound shape

283

Modify a compound shape

283

Compound paths

284

Cutting and dividing objects

286

Clipping masks

287

About clipping masks

288

Edit a clipping mask

289

About the Shape Builder Tool

290

Reshaping objects

293

Working with Live Corners

296

The Corners dialog

297

Change the corner style

298

Considerations

298

Blending objects

299

Create blends

300

Blend options

301

1 Select the blended object

302

Pen Tool

303

Convert Anchor Point Tool

303

Direct Selection Tool

304

Creating 3D objects

305

Create 3D objects

306

Set options

307

Extrude & Bevel options

308

Revolve options

309

Surface shading options

309

Lighting options

310

Add a custom bevel path

311

Map artwork to a 3D object

312

OS-supported Gestures

315

Importing artwork files

318

Links panel overview

319

Work with the Links panel

320

Update modified links

320

Embed a linked file

321

Importing bitmap images

322

Importing Adobe PDF files

323

Adobe PDF placement options

324

Importing EPS files

325

Importing DCS files

326

Importing AutoCAD files

326

Photoshop import options

327

Saving artwork

328

About saving artwork

329

Save in Illustrator format

329

Save in EPS format

330

Save in SVG format

331

Package files

334

Unembed images

336

Share on Behance

336

Upload new artwork to Behance

337

Creating Adobe PDF files

340

Create Adobe PDF files

341

Adobe PDF presets

342

Customize PDF presets

344

Load PDF presets

344

Adobe PDF options

345

General options for PDF

346

Adding security to PDF files

350

Security options

350

Exporting artwork

351

AutoCAD export options

353

Flash export options

353

JPEG export options

356

Photoshop export options

356

PNG export options

357

File information and metadata

358

Extract CSS

360

Style to the clipboard E

361

Sample CSS Code

362

Links information

364

Chapter 9: Type

368

Export text to a text file

369

Tag text for export to Flash

369

Creating text

370

Enter text at a point

371

Enter text in an area

371

Manage the text area

372

Wrap text around an object

376

Wrap text

377

Set wrap options

377

Unwrap text from an object

377

Creating type on a path

378

Scaling and rotating type

382

Check spelling

383

Edit the spelling dictionary

383

Assign languages to text

384

About Unicode

384

About fonts

385

OpenType fonts

385

Previewing fonts

386

Specify a typeface size

386

Find and replace fonts

386

Work with missing fonts

387

The enhanced Find Font dialog

387

Substituted fonts preference

390

Text enhancements

391

Working with Typekit Fonts

391

Filtering Typekit fonts

392

Arabic and Hebrew type

393

Text direction

394

Digit Types

394

Legacy font support

395

Default fonts

395

Automatic Kashida insertion

395

Ligatures

396

Hyphenation

397

Find and replace

398

Diacritical marks

398

Line and character spacing

399

Shift the baseline

400

Kern and track

400

Adjust kerning

401

Adjust tracking

401

Tabs panel overview

402

Set tabs

402

Repeat tabs

403

Move tabs

403

Special characters

404

Glyphs panel overview

405

OpenType panel overview

406

Formatting Asian characters

407

Display Asian type options

408

Use tate-chu-yoko

409

Use warichu

411

Use mojikumi

412

Create a mojikumi set

413

Work with mojikumi sets

413

Use kinsoku

414

Specify a burasagari option

415

Use kurikaeshi moji shori

415

Formatting type

416

Find and replace text

417

Character panel overview

418

Apply all caps and small caps

419

Change capitalization styles

420

Convert type to outlines

422

Use smart punctuation

423

Formatting paragraphs

424

Align text

425

Justify text

425

Indent text

426

Adjust paragraph spacing

427

Hanging punctuation

427

Hyphenation and line breaks

428

Prevent words from breaking

429

Composition methods

429

Update selected legacy text

431

Remove style overrides

432

Creating composite fonts

433

Delete a composite font

435

Export a composite font

436

Appearance attributes

438

Edit an attribute

439

Manage appearance attributes

440

Creating special effects

442

Working with effects

443

About raster effects

444

Rasterization options

444

Summary of effects

446

Artistic effects

448

Blur effects

448

Brush Strokes effects

449

Pixelate effects

450

Sharpen effect

450

Sketch effects

450

Texture effects

451

Video effects

451

Create a drop shadow

452

Creating sketches and mosaics

453

Create a mosaic

454

Graphic styles

455

Create graphic styles

456

Apply a graphic style

457

Use graphic style libraries

457

Work with graphic styles

458

Chapter 11: Web graphics

460

About pixel preview mode

461

• Color Mode: RGB

462

• Raster Resolution: 72 ppi

462

Slices and image maps

463

Create slices

464

Select slices

465

Set slice options

465

Lock slices

466

Adjust slice boundaries

466

Remove slices

466

Show or hide slices

467

Create image maps

467

About SVG

467

Apply SVG effects

468

SVG events

469

Creating animations

470

Create Flash animations

471

Web graphics

472

Chapter 12: Printing

474

Print dialog box options

475

Print multiple artboards

476

Scale a document for printing

477

Printing color separations

479

Preview color separations

480

Print color separations

480

Color separation modes

481

Printer’s marks and bleeds

482

Add printer’s marks

483

About bleeds

483

Add a bleed

483

PostScript printing

484

Printing long, complex paths

485

About flattening

488

Printing

489

Highlight (preview) options

490

Overprinting

500

Trapping

501

Create a trap

502

Trap options

503

Create a spread or choke

504

Trap a line

504

Print presets

505

Apply print presets

506

Edit print presets

506

Delete print presets

506

Delete crop marks

507

Use Japanese-style crop marks

508

Chapter 13: Automating tasks

509

Play an action on a file

510

Record an action

510

Insert a path

511

Insert selection of an object

511

Insert a stop

512

Specify playback speed

513

Edit and rerecord actions

513

Manage action sets

514

Organize action sets

515

Automation with scripts

516

Install a script

517

Variables panel overview

517

Create variables

518

Edit variables

518

Delete variables

519

Edit dynamic objects

519

Data sets

520

About variable libraries

520

Chapter 14: Graphs

522

Creating a new chart

523

Replacing chart artwork

524

Editing chart artwork

525

Modifying chart layout

526

Editing chart data

528

Creating graphs

529

Adjust the width of columns

530

Enter graph data

530

Enter labels

531

Formatting graphs

533

General graph options

535

Add drop shadows

535

Format pie graphs

535

Pie graph options

536

Combine different graph types

536

Select parts of a graph

537

Format the text in a graph

537

About graph designs

537

Create a column design

538

Add totals to a column design

539

Create a marker design

540

Reuse a graph design

541

Customize keyboard shortcuts

542

Default keyboard shortcuts

543

Keys for viewing artwork

544

Keys for drawing

545

Keys for selecting

547

Keys for moving selections

548

Keys for editing shapes

548

Keys for painting objects

549

Keys for transforming objects

550

Keys for working with type

551

Keys for using panels

552

Keys for the Actions panel

552

Keys for the Brushes panel

553

Keys for the Color panel

553

Keys for the Gradient panel

553

Keys for the Layers panel

554

Keys for the Swatches panel

554

Keys for the Transform panel

555

Function keys

555





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