Adobe Illustrator

1. Open an existing or new document in Adobe Illustrator. Use the "Place" option under the File Menu to import an object, or create an object using the Shape Builder Tool or the Rectangle Tool.
2. Make changes to the color, border, size or style using the tools in the Tool Panel. Click on the object you have created. Ensure you have selected the right layer in the Layer Panel before you start to warp your object.
3. Drag your cursor to the Effect Menu on the top horizontal toolbar. Find the word "Warp" under "Illustrator Effects." Drag your cursor to the word and hover until the option drops down on the right hand side.
4. Decide which effect you would prefer. For example, you can warp your object into a wave, fisheye, arch, or a number of other options. Select the Illustrator warp effect of your choice.
5. Go to the Window Menu on the top horizontal toolbar. Scroll down and click on the word "Appearance." The Appearance Panel will appear on the right and lists the warp effect that you just produced.
6. Select other warp effects. They will appear on the Appearance panel. You can delete a warp by clicking on it in the Appearance Panel and clicking on the small trash can on the bottom right of the panel.
7. Change your warp effect by double clicking on the effect as listed on the Appearance Panel. You should see a dialogue box that lists your warp options. Change the warp and click "Preview" to ensure you have done what you wanted to do.
8. Save your document immediately after you have found the right Illustrator warp effects for your object. You can still change it using the Appearance Panel.

1. Open your Adobe Illustrator program. Choose to open an existing document or create a new one. You may want to open an existing file and save it as a new file to create a document on which you can practice using the lasso tool without making mistakes to your original file.
2. Zoom in on the document once you have opened it. In order to use the lasso tool adeptly you need to be able to see it closely, because you will need to draw around the object you want to select. Either click the "Command" key and the "+" key, or go to the View Menu and select "Zoom In" from the list.
3. Select your lasso selection tool from the vertical toolbar on the left hand side of your screen. The box will look like a cursor and a dotted circle, and it should be close to the top on the right. The lasso tool allows you to freehand select objects, or parts of objects in your document.
4. Choose a portion of your document that you want to select with your lasso. It can be 1 or more objects, and even portions of objects. Once you draw a complete circle around this portion, you can make changes to the vector graphics anchor points that were selected.
   • Illustrator is a vector graphics editor, rather than a bitmap editor. This means that Illustrator selection tools, like the lasso tool, select anchor points on the image, rather than the edges of the whole image itself. You can select anchor points on a number of different images, and then you can move and change those points.
5. Click near the object and begin drawing a circle around the portion to want to select and change. You can draw clockwise or counter-clockwise. Complete the circle and let go of your mouse button.
   • If you have zoomed in close enough, you should see highlighted anchor points on your images. These are places that you can now change using effects or by moving them with your mouse.
6. Move the selected anchor points by clicking with your right mouse button inside the circle you just made and moving the image in any direction. You can also go to the top Effects Menu and choose a way to warm or change this selection. You can copy or delete your anchor points after they have been selected.
7. Press and hold the "Shift" button while you drag your cursor around an object, if you want to select more objects. You can select as many objects, or anchor points, as you wish before copying, editing or deleting the objects you have selected.
   • The lasso tool is good for editing objects, logos and typography, because they allow you to select portions of objects or paths and change them. You can select a large number of anchor points by drawing a circle around them. The white direct selection tool only allows you to select a whole object by clicking on it. The black direct selection tool makes you select your anchor points 1-by-1.

1. A good place to start is by designing a poster in Adobe Illustrator. Here you can learn how to create a starter document, do some basic text and color editing, and generate a product.
2. After you’ve made a poster, you can try to make a brochure in Adobe Illustrator which requires a more skilled understanding of height, width, sizing, and layout.
3. If however your plan is to create graphics that could be transported to Photoshop, you can start by learning how to use first the most basic tool for drawing on the software and that is the Pen Tool. Use the pen tool to start drawing a simple shape to creating a complex logo. So that you won’t be confused also on using the tool, make your fill white and your strokes black. Leave the effects, gradients and colors for a while and concentrate on drawing your graphic.
4. Once you’re skilled at the pen tool, you can try to draw something from start to finish.
5. The next step is to learn how to use the Shape and Pathfinder Tool. If you’re using the Pen Tool for drawing shapes and find that your shapes aren’t perfect enough, you can also use the Shape Tool. Use the Shape Tool to create ellipses, rectangles, rounded rectangles, triangles and stars.
6. You can also test your ability to use the Pathfinder Tool through this tutorial about making shapes. This tool helps when you’re creating complex shapes and objects.
7. After learning how to draw on Illustrator, learn how to use adobe illustrator swatches and colors. Begin by playing and changing the colors of the fills or strokes of your drawing by using your color swatches.
8. You can also apply a gradient by using the Mesh Tool. The basic idea is to use your color swatches if you’re aiming for a flat or 2D artwork, gradients to make your graphics more three-dimensional and then the Mesh Tool if you want your graphics to be more realistic.
9. Test your ability to use the color tools by drawing a hamburger from start to finish in this tutorial: Draw a Hamburger in Adobe Illustrator
10. To wrap up everything you have learned you can go ahead and create your own personal logo and business card. From following the tutorials on each of the step, you can essentially now start drawing a logo and prepare a simple layout. If however you’re still having trouble figuring out the software, you can follow the tutorial below on how to create a logo.
11. If you want even more of a challenge, try to live-trace a picture. This is a great introduction into some of the more advanced tools in Adobe Illustrator.

1. To change the background color, choose File > Document Setup>Transparency.
2. Select Simulate Colored Paper. Click the top color swatch, and select a new color using the Color dialog box > OK.
3. You'll got a new background color.
4. To change the background size, choose File > Document Setup > Artboard > then you can select size from the list or create custom size.

Use Free CDR Viewer (Corel Draw Viewer)

CDR Viewer is free for use software tool. This viewer can be used to open/display CorelDRAW image files and gives you and options to convert .cdr file types to other image file formats as .jpg, .gif, .png, .tiff and .bmp.

1 Draw first your landscape picture and scan your drawing. Then on your Adobe Illustrator software, go to File and then click on Place to import your scanned drawing over your file. Lock the layer of your scanned drawing.

2 Using your pen tool, trace over your scanned drawing. Make sure to organize also your traced drawings such as all the trees or clouds are grouped together, renaming each layer.

3 Next is to color our traced artwork. Select the lowest landscape and color its fill green, remove also its black stroke.

4 Then using the mesh tool, deselect first the last graphic your have selected and then click on the mesh tool and then click on a color on your swatches panel. After doing this click on any part of the landscape and a mesh point will appear on the graphic.

5 Keep applying the fourth step to the second landscape, clouds, sun and tree shrubs of your artwork.

6 Then to make your trees more realistic add a point using a pen tool to the trunks of your trees for the roots.

7 Finally add some brush and drop shadow effects on your artwork and your done.

- To add a brush stroke to your birds select the layer first and go to your brushes panel. Go to Open Brush Library>Artistic>Artistic_Ink>Tapered_Sharp.

-  And then for your drop shadow effect, select your group of clouds or trees and go to Effect>Stylize>Drop Shadow.

8 Lastly group everything together. Group everything together by clicking on your keyboard these commands Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+G.

9 Here is now supposedly should be your final artwork.

1 There are many ways to create vector graphics through illustrator, one way is to start with the type tool.

• 1Click on the Type Tool and type a word, such as “Vectors” like the accompanied illustration or even your name would do.
• 2Choose also five colors you would like to use for this tutorial. If you want to follow the colors used, here are also the details on the color settings. Dark Blue: C=100, M=97, Y=0, K=45 ; Dark Red: C=0, M=100, Y=79, K=20 ; Orange: C=0, M=53, Y=68, K=0 ; Yellow: C=0, M=0, Y=51, K=0 ; Green: C=61, M=0 ,Y=45, K=0.

2 The next step is to select your text, right-click and click on Create Outlines to outline your text. You can also use Shift + Ctrl + O as a shortcut on creating outlines.

3 Here is now a sampled text vectorized or outlined.

4 Next is to create different vector shapes. Start by dragging first and tearing off Illustrator’s Shape Tool, so that you will be able to see all the different shape applications Illustrator can offer.

5 Then starting with the Rectangle Tool create a square. Click on the rectangle tool icon and then click over the Illustrator canvas. Set the settings as indicated on the accompanied illustration or you can set your own size also. Be reminded also to make the size equal on both sides.

6 Next is to create a rounded square using the Rounded Rectangle Tool. With the same application as the previous step create the rounded square. However because the Rounded Rectangle Tool has round corners add then a setting for its corner radius.

7 Create a circle for the third shape using the Ellipse Tool. With the same settings as a square, set a same size on the width and height of the circle.

8 Then the fourth shape is a hexagon using the Polygon Tool. For the settings of the hexagon set the size 50% smaller and then type on its sides 6 for 6 sides for a hexagon.

9 And then for the fifth shape make a star using the Star Tool. Set the size of the star 50% smaller also for its first radius and then one-third smaller for its second radius. Then type in 5 for 5 points on the star.

10 Lastly, another way to create a vector is to use the Pen Tool. Use the Pen Tool to draw or trace shapes, in this case to complete your artwork draw a small heart.

11 Here is thus your vectored text and 6 vector shapes made through three applications on how to create vectors. You can now add in colors on the shapes and vectored text.

12 Sample Final Artwork.

1 Start by opening any graphic file. For this tutorial I’ve sampled a graphic such as a cupcake.

2 The next step is to go to View and then to click on Hide Artboards or you can also use the shortcut Shift + Ctrl + H.

3 After hiding your artboard you can now click on Document Setup. A dialog box will appear click then Grid Colors to change color of your canvas.

4 Another dialog box will, select then the color you prefer your canvas to be in whether it be in black, gray or pink.

5 After choosing the color, click also Simulate Colored Paper and then ok.

6 You now have changed the background color of your graphic file.

1 Open your existing file or graphic, for this tutorial a personal calling card was used. As shown on the illustration the file was opened and set on a letter sized canvas.

2 Go now to the top corner and click on Document Setup and a dialog box will appear. On the dialog box change the unit to inches and click on Edit Artboards.

3 By clicking on Edit Artboard, Illustrator will automatically shadow your excess canvas and highlight your existing letter sized canvas. It will also show you the Artboard Panel where you can now change your canvas size.

4 Change now your canvas size by typing your preferred setting on the width and height of your canvas. In this case, a setting of 3.65x2.4 inches for the personal calling card example.

5 Or another option is you can also click on Presets and select Fit to Artwork Bounds or even click on any size you would prefer on your graphic such as a standard letter size, A4 or A3.

6 Here is thus now your final artwork.