Lynda - Illustrator for Web Design

This course reveals how designers can create vibrant web graphics, wireframes, and complete web site mockups with the strong layout and color management tools in Adobe Illustrator. Author and Adobe Certified Expert Justin Seeley covers topics such as building responsive layouts with artboards, producing custom color palettes and swatches for web graphics, and making vector shapes and text that seamlessly scale. The course also explores adding drop shadows and other live effects, setting up interface elements such as forms and tabbed interfaces, optimizing and exporting different types of graphics, and speeding up your workflow with reusable image sprites and Smart Objects.

Topics include:

Customizing a web workspace

Decoding the mysteries behind screen size and resolution

Working with Pixel Preview and anti-aliasing

Coloring web graphics

Renaming and grouping layers

Working with shapes and symbols

Creating wireframes on a grid

Styling text

Creating image sprites

Simulating web pages with artboards

Optimizing and exporting your work

author: Justin Seeley

subject: Web, Web Graphics, Web Design, Web Foundations, Design

software: Illustrator CS6

duration: 5h 27m

released: Jul 30, 2012