In the past few years, Adobe have created new drawing tools for Illustrator. These enhance basic vector drawing capabilities beyond the tools that have been in Illustrator since its inception in the 1980's.

The Appearance Panel contains each element of a graphic, including strokes, fills, effects and more. It should be on your screen at all times. Use it for all your stylin'.

Patterns, patterns, patterns. They enhance your art by adding interest and texture to otherwise flat and bland graphics. We'll explore the many ways they can be created in Illustrator. We'll make some manually, then we'll let Illustrator do the heavy lifting for us.

Create, edit and apply gradients to strokes and fills in Adobe Illustrator.

This page will include all the Illustrator skills learned to date this semester.

Boring graphs can really put the kibosh on a great design. As a designer, one of the most difficult and rewarding jobs is to transform boring data into exciting, engaging visuals. The challenge is to present so many numbers in a compelling way.

Boring graphs can really put the kibosh on a great design. As a designer, one of the most difficult and rewarding jobs is to transform boring data into exciting, engaging visuals. The challenge is to present so many numbers in a compelling way.

InDesign is surprisingly adept at illustration. There's often no need to jump into Illustrator to create vector art. It can be done right in your page layout in InDesign.

In this assignment, we'll look at the foundations of building an InDesign document from scratch. We'll set up the document to for maximum flexibility when doing revisions. This is really how every InDesign document you make should be built.

Selecting pixels is central to editing in Photoshop. Leveraging the characteristics of the photo is critical to getting a good selection. From there after, you can target selected pixels for editing. All this is done in a non-destructive workflow.

If you need to close-crop object photography, there's no substitute for a clipping path.

Before you can correct, you must select. This is a time-tested saying amongst Photoshop pros. Learning to make accurate selections of complex and detailed objects in Photoshop is a life-long learning process. We'll continue that here.

Blend Modes are used like paints being mixed. You have your base colour which you blend to obtain your blended result.

In Photoshop, a composite is a collage of multiple photos and graphics with a theme. The focus of this assignment is to build one of these compositions in the most non-destructive, editable way possible.

Performing repetitive tasks on your computer can cause errors and be really tedious. Automator is an often ignored app which can perform the same work faster and without errors.

Before starting to design a publication, you need to set up the content. This is detail-oriented work. Doing this at the outset will eliminate formatting headaches later in the design process.