Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book, 1st edition

Published by Adobe Press (December 22, 2024) © 2025

  • Brian Wood
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The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator Classroom in a Book 2025 Release contains 17 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:

  • Dive into 17 real-world projects, from precise drawings to expressive paintings, logos, illustrations, social ads, posters, and more
  • Gain hands-on experience with a quick overview before diving into selections, shapes, colour, and editing
  • As you progress, you'll explore freeform gradients, layers, artistic brushes, creative effects, asset export, and more
  • These step-by-step projects will help you develop essential graphic design skills at every stage

Classroom in a Book, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does - an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

What you need to use this book: Adobe Illustrator 2025 Release software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

Table of contents

  • Getting Started
  • What’s New in Adobe Illustrator 2025 Release
  • A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator 2025 Release
  • 1 Getting to Know the Work Area
  • 2 Techniques for Selecting Artwork
  • 3 Make A Logo with Shapes
  • 4 Editing and Combining Shapes and Paths
  • 5 Transforming Artwork
  • 6 Using the Basic Drawing Tools
  • 7 Drawing with the Pen Tool
  • 8 Using Color to Enhance Artwork
  • 9 Adding Type to a Project
  • 10 Organizing Your Project with Layers
  • 11 Gradients, Blends, and Patterns
  • 12 Using Brushes to Create an Ad
  • 13 Exploring Creative Uses of Effects and Graphic Styles
  • 14 Exploring Time-Saving Techniques
  • 15 Placing and Working with Images
  • 16 Sharing Projects

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