Illustrator

Grossmont High School teacher Eileen Mandell has some great Illustrator tutorials on her site.

Intro to Illustrator

RGB or CMYK? | Saving a Workspace | Pen Tool 101 | Selections 101 | Curves with the Pen Tool | Rectangle, Oval, and Pathfinder | The Expand Command | Stacking Order | Move and Transform Again | Star, Polygon, and Keyboard Shortcut | Adding Points and Modifying Shapes | Don’t do This | Flare Tool | Lines and Arcs and Spirals, Oh My! | To Click or Double-Click? (Curves with the Brush Tool) | Path Eraser Tool | Eraser and Knife Tool |

Illustrator Basics and Drawing Tools

New Document and Screen Mode Options | Panels, Saving Workspaces, and Help | Changing System Preferences | Where and How to Work (Learn to Scroll and Zoom In or Out with the Shortcuts) | The Rectangle Tool & Stroke and Fill | Stacking Order (The Z Axis) | The Bounding Box, Preview, and Outline| Modifications (Fill and Stroke) | Modifications (Size and Rotation) | Black and White Arrow (Thanks Deke!) |Modifications (Size and Shape) | Under the Rectangle Tool (The Evil that is the Flare Tool) | The Power of the Up and Down Arrows | The Power of the Click | The White Arrow Revisited | The Pencil Tool (Seemingly Useless) | The Pencil Tool (Madman Makes it an Incredible Drawing Tool!) | The Power of the Pencil Tool | Under the Pencil Tool | Smooth Tool Preferences | The Line Tool | Under the Line Tool | Warp, Twirl, Pucker, and the Rest of these Oddities | The Brush Tool (What’s the Big Deal?) | The Brush Tool Panel | The Best Eraser Ever Invented! | The Extremely Basic Pen Tool Intro | Gradients Made Hard | Gradients Made Easy

Basic Shapes

What You’ll Build | Rotating and Scaling | Aligning Objects | Eyedropper | Duplicating

Text in Illustrator

Text 101 | Kerning and Tracking and Leading, Oh My! | Panels and Comparisons | The 3 Minute Logo (in text only) | Saving Files

Text in Illustrator—Two Line LogoType

Project Preview | Default Text | Saving Files | Leading | Tracking | Upper and Lower Case | Changing Font Weight, Color, etc. | Finishing Touches | The Challenge (or “Assignment” if you prefer)

The Pen Tool

Download Pen Tool exercise folder: Pen Tool Exercises | Pen Tool Tutorials: Fills, Strokes, and Lines | Bezier Curves | Changing Directions | Practice Makes Perfect | Maze I | Maze II | Maze III | Maze IV