Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

Today we'll begin working with adobe Illustrator. Illustrator is a Vector Based graphics program. So far we have worked only with a Bitmap based graphics program, Photoshop.

We will learn about the some of the basic tools in Illustrator and do a brief exercise using these tools.

Selection Tool
Direct Selection Tool
Pen Tool
Layers Pallette

Here is a Pen Tool Cheat Sheet to help you

For today we will download and trace the objects in the page below: