Adobe Illustrator CS5 Classroom in a Book

3. Creating and Editing Shapes

Lesson overview

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to do the following:

• Create a document with multiple artboards.

• Use tools and commands to create basic shapes.

• Work with drawing modes.

• Use rulers and smart guides as drawing aids.

• Scale and duplicate objects.

• Join and outline objects.

• Edit strokes with the Width tool.

• Work with the Shape Builder tool.

• Work with Pathfinder commands to create shapes.

• Use Live Trace to create shapes.

This lesson will take approximately an hour and a half to complete. If needed, remove the previous lesson folder from your hard disk and copy the Lesson03 folder onto it.

You can create documents with multiple artboards and many kinds of objects by starting with ...