To get the full learning experience and follow along: Get the FREE PDF course index and the downloadable project folder from the course overview video here: th-cam.com/video/IBouhf4seWQ/w-d-xo.html Enjoy!
I'm a teacher and I've got to say this is one of the most professionally constructed courses I've seen on youtube much better than a lot of paid courses on various other mediums. Thank You. Many of the pseudo Udemy instructors need to take a lesson from this, this sets a benchmark in so many ways.
+Adam Kaan Hey Adam, Thank you very much for you kind words. Means a lot, especially from a teacher! All of this is purely instinctual. I have no formal qualifications in teaching or training. I would really love to meet up with fellow teachers and discus the principle of teaching, philosophies of teaching and tips of tricks. Is there someone sort of network? Or am I gonna have to go ahead and start one? ha ha
I'm sure there are forums online. Most of it is common sense. I think the reason why other tutorials aren't as good is simply because people are lazy/busy or both and don't put enough thought and time in to organising their work. I myself have been guilty of that. The only thing missing is a written script. Written scripts reduce the likelihood of missed steps. Also an assessment with a checklist would be great, even though the completed task acts as form of assessment.
I COULDN'T AGREE MORE!! I'm both a fan of creativity and organization. I've been hunting down for good tutorials on YT to give me a good start on using AI for my tshirt business. I love how clearly you presented AI -- from interface first then down to more technical/creative concepts. I've been looking for a while for something like this, because, as a beginner, I seek first to understand the program itself (interface, workspace, and other basic technicalities) before mixing and matching the installed applications/buttons to produce a creative work. Thank you so much!!!!!!!
By far the best tutorial available online. My designer ditched me and left me in the lurch for a project. Discovered your video. Took 3 whole days to go through everything and then completed the project myself. Saving myself some money now on having to pay design fees. Thank you very much! This is additional skill I can add to my resume.
Watching this in 2018 and is still amazing, learning photoshop and illustrator, i´ve browse and watched over 100 photoshop tutorials and just getting started with illustrator and i havent seen a tutorial like this, incredible value and its all for FREE¡!
One of the better tutorial series for Illustrator and design. I'm so thankful for this. There are so many TH-camrs that are completely pretentious (and terrible at both design and teaching, which compounds the problem).
I would like to say more than "Thank you so much", but I don't know what I have to say. I have learnt so many videos from your channel. You are "The Best". Thank you for sharing and teaching again.
This is by far the single best tutorial series I've ever seen on the Internet! The lesson plan, the content, the balance and sync between showing and speaking, the steps, and last but not least, your calm, nice voice, which makes it a pleasure to listen to... I'm a teacher, too, and I really appreciate all the effort and time you've put on this. THANK YOU so much for making this available for free!
Just reopened illustrator after 3 years of not working with it .. Now I am using your videos to familiarize myself with everything again. Thanks for the videos they are really great.
I followed your After Effects and Photoshop course and now am here. I think we should rename these course Adobe 101 and should be compulsory for anyone getting into studying design etc. in school. So well explained and so in sync with the beginner's mind. I congratulate you sir.
I've tried so many other tutorials since I'm a total stranger to vector graphics, they were all boring or excessively informative, although at this stage we're not on any real project, I can say I'm learning so much, this series of tuts is hands on the best.
I admire how you explained things so clearly. I'm from Indonesia and I can understand your pronunciation very well without subtitle. You're such a pro, thank you so much, I definitely will watch the entire lessons and I hope you will make advanced tutorials about Adobe Illustrator in the future.
I can't thank you enough for your fantastic tutorials. I was struggling to learn AI and you have made it crystal clear for me. Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!
i wish i could've found this video earlier than this, more than 6 years since the upload and still better than any "new' lessons, still have 15 video to catch on and in the first 4 videos i learn more than every tutorial i watched ( i have experience with PS and InDesign but never thought i would need illustrator) so this tutorial is really good at explaining even the smallest things
I have to say, that this is one of the best rounded tutorials that I have ever seen. Thank you for sharing this course for free and keep up the great work!
3:18 If you're having trouble selecting the dotted box on the right, try unlocking the blue "worksheet" layer in the layers panel by clicking the lock icon next to the layer. Mine was locked when I opened the doc, but in the video, it starts off unlocked. Can't select if it the layer is locked.
I learned this after searching a while about the topic and would like to share with you guys: When you have a handle visible, if you press and hold the ALT key, you can change only one of the handles at a time, instead of the two. This can be very useful for some tasks!
Very good tutorial! Honestly I tried Lynda and got bored within 20minutes. While at the same time, I just watched your 7 tutorials in one go without even leaving my computer for a second.I have to leave it now just because its too late here:P. Your tutorial,kept me engaged. Thank you very much :)
I hardly comment posts on yt, actually i think this is my 2nd comment under a video ever. But i wanted to say THANK YOU.. this is AWESOME and truly helpfull , many many thanks ! bless you !!
outstanding tutorial - no question, but regarding the rotate tool i thing that it's crucial to know, that it can be used to *precisely* rotate or *copy* rotate an object around *any* fixed point (axis), like so: 1. select an object, 2. select rotate tool, 3. alt/option click where you want a fixed point of rotation to be ( a window will pop up), 4. choose angle: negative = clockwise, positive = anticlockwise, 5. click ok to rotate or click copy if you wish to copy rotate, 6. moreover, if you wish to repeat copy rotation several times, after doing it once beforehand, just press ctrl/command + d this many times. have fun. ;)
I think it’s safe to say you are a blessing to us all I Learned More from you than I did in my Adobe classes in Art school!!!! Thank you so much !! I really appreciate the time and effort you put into these tutorials I’m blown away #bestteacherever
You are a SAINT for having such clear tutorials, organized so nicely and with accompanying files! One thing, I know how to zoom from previous programs, but perhaps utter beginners won't know how when you instruct them to do so at 1:32...?
This tutorial series is so organized and well thought out. Very informative and a great way to build a beginner's foundations in Illustrator. Thank you so much for these!
Honestly can't believe it took me so long to try learning this program! I'll look forward to when I can learn painting! I imagine this program is easier to make straight lines than photoshop! Great Tutorials so far!
When I use the direct selection tool, and use it to select the entire circle as you do (holding, clicking and dragging across with the rectangular "box"), the circle's edges are selected in red, but no handles are visible. Both the bounding box is shown, and so are edges under "view" (so it's not that, which is what everyone says the problem is in various forums). The only way to get the handles to "appear" is to use the direct selection tool and select an anchor point, and then only the handles for that particular anchor point are shown (never all 4 handles in the circle as you demonstrate). What am I doing wrong? I am using CS5 on a Mac and have loaded the appropriate file. Very frustrating.
+Craig Sibley You can change this in the Preferences. Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Selection & Anchorpoints. There you have to activate "Show handles when multiple anchors are selected"
These are fabulous videos, well developed and teached; clear, good sound, explanations, etc. The whole thing is great, you are awesome, and im agree with Adam Kaan. Im learning this software because corel is not required where Id like to work.
Thank you so so much! I am also looking to learn Illustrator as I will be studying in September Visual communication and your tutorials are helping me so much with refreshing my knowledge on the program but also I am learning things I never knew before :). Thanks for speaking clearly also!!! Great Pro!
Was the zoom option shown at 1:33 only in this version of illustrator? I'm on a newer version and can't seem to get it to work. Some searching on google suggested CTRL/CMND + SPACEBAR, but that just zooms based on mouse movement for me. Would love to be able to draw a square and zoom to exactly where I want.
Hi Thank you, a great tutorial. I seem to have a problem with my direct selection tool on the circle vector, I can see my anchors but they have no handles showing, is this a setting I should change.
Pieter Bickford I had to change my preferences. Go to Illustrator > preferences > third menu for selection and anchors > check the second box, right below the small pictures for how to view your handles and anchors. That fixed it for me. PS: I'm sorry for not using the precise names, my AI isn't set to english.
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To get the full learning experience and follow along:
Get the FREE PDF course index and the downloadable project folder from the course overview video here:
th-cam.com/video/IBouhf4seWQ/w-d-xo.html
Enjoy!
You're the best ! Thank you so much for this amazing course !
Awesome tutorial! But to my agony, I cannot download the project folder here. It said "the webpage is blocked"...
I couldn't download the folder. I think your newsletter isn't working
I'm a teacher and I've got to say this is one of the most professionally constructed courses I've seen on youtube much better than a lot of paid courses on various other mediums. Thank You. Many of the pseudo Udemy instructors need to take a lesson from this, this sets a benchmark in so many ways.
+Adam Kaan Hey Adam, Thank you very much for you kind words. Means a lot, especially from a teacher! All of this is purely instinctual. I have no formal qualifications in teaching or training. I would really love to meet up with fellow teachers and discus the principle of teaching, philosophies of teaching and tips of tricks. Is there someone sort of network? Or am I gonna have to go ahead and start one? ha ha
I'm sure there are forums online. Most of it is common sense. I think the reason why other tutorials aren't as good is simply because people are lazy/busy or both and don't put enough thought and time in to organising their work. I myself have been guilty of that. The only thing missing is a written script. Written scripts reduce the likelihood of missed steps. Also an assessment with a checklist would be great, even though the completed task acts as form of assessment.
I agree - these tutorials are fantastic! I can't believe it's free!
I COULDN'T AGREE MORE!! I'm both a fan of creativity and organization. I've been hunting down for good tutorials on YT to give me a good start on using AI for my tshirt business. I love how clearly you presented AI -- from interface first then down to more technical/creative concepts. I've been looking for a while for something like this, because, as a beginner, I seek first to understand the program itself (interface, workspace, and other basic technicalities) before mixing and matching the installed applications/buttons to produce a creative work. Thank you so much!!!!!!!
Couldn't agree more!!
Six years later, and this is still the best tutorial on "Selection" vs. "Direct Selection" tools. Bravo!
lol im not alone, amid the pandemic, im trying to learn some AI and this video series have been great so far
9 years later, and this is still the best. wow time flies. :)
By far the best tutorial available online. My designer ditched me and left me in the lurch for a project. Discovered your video. Took 3 whole days to go through everything and then completed the project myself. Saving myself some money now on having to pay design fees. Thank you very much! This is additional skill I can add to my resume.
Watching this in 2018 and is still amazing, learning photoshop and illustrator, i´ve browse and watched over 100 photoshop tutorials and just getting started with illustrator and i havent seen a tutorial like this, incredible value and its all for FREE¡!
One of the better tutorial series for Illustrator and design. I'm so thankful for this. There are so many TH-camrs that are completely pretentious (and terrible at both design and teaching, which compounds the problem).
I would like to say more than "Thank you so much", but I don't know what I have to say. I have learnt so many videos from your channel. You are "The Best". Thank you for sharing and teaching again.
u are more clear and concise than my graphic design professor. thank you
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This is by far the single best tutorial series I've ever seen on the Internet! The lesson plan, the content, the balance and sync between showing and speaking, the steps, and last but not least, your calm, nice voice, which makes it a pleasure to listen to... I'm a teacher, too, and I really appreciate all the effort and time you've put on this. THANK YOU so much for making this available for free!
Well I am a Graphic Designer. And still today I am learning. Thanks for such a great effort n the way u explain the Ai tutorials....wonderfully done.
Just reopened illustrator after 3 years of not working with it .. Now I am using your videos to familiarize myself with everything again. Thanks for the videos they are really great.
I followed your After Effects and Photoshop course and now am here. I think we should rename these course Adobe 101 and should be compulsory for anyone getting into studying design etc. in school. So well explained and so in sync with the beginner's mind. I congratulate you sir.
I've tried so many other tutorials since I'm a total stranger to vector graphics, they were all boring or excessively informative, although at this stage we're not on any real project, I can say I'm learning so much, this series of tuts is hands on the best.
I've just started using Illustrator and was sooooo fortunate to stumble upon such a great teacher right off the bet. You're the best!
I am a beginner in Ai and I found your course. I am practicing with your episodes. Really I am loving it. You are so much clear. Thank you.
Thank you very much. These videos are better than most "real-life-teachers"!
I admire how you explained things so clearly. I'm from Indonesia and I can understand your pronunciation very well without subtitle. You're such a pro, thank you so much, I definitely will watch the entire lessons and I hope you will make advanced tutorials about Adobe Illustrator in the future.
I can't thank you enough for your fantastic tutorials. I was struggling to learn AI and you have made it crystal clear for me. Thank you, Thank you, THANK YOU!
This dude is the best tutorial maker ever...
This is the type of tutorial that I love. Thank you for giving this for free.
i wish i could've found this video earlier than this, more than 6 years since the upload and still better than any "new' lessons, still have 15 video to catch on and in the first 4 videos i learn more than every tutorial i watched ( i have experience with PS and InDesign but never thought i would need illustrator) so this tutorial is really good at explaining even the smallest things
I have to say, that this is one of the best rounded tutorials that I have ever seen. Thank you for sharing this course for free and keep up the great work!
dude really you like the best tutor on youtube and without you i couldnt use PS or Ai really thanks, keep working on the good work
This is the best tutorial series I ever watched my entire life , thank you so much !!!
3:18 If you're having trouble selecting the dotted box on the right, try unlocking the blue "worksheet" layer in the layers panel by clicking the lock icon next to the layer. Mine was locked when I opened the doc, but in the video, it starts off unlocked. Can't select if it the layer is locked.
thanks
I learned this after searching a while about the topic and would like to share with you guys: When you have a handle visible, if you press and hold the ALT key, you can change only one of the handles at a time, instead of the two. This can be very useful for some tasks!
I'm just a begginer in illustrator and these videos helped me a lot. thank you much.
God bless you Gareth, I´ve learned a looooooot, thank
you so so so so much, keep up the great work.
Just incredible! Who the hell disliked these? Thank YOU TastyTuts!
This Christmas I really want to thank you because you are sooo selfless!!!
Very good tutorial! Honestly I tried Lynda and got bored within 20minutes. While at the same time, I just watched your 7 tutorials in one go without even leaving my computer for a second.I have to leave it now just because its too late here:P. Your tutorial,kept me engaged. Thank you very much :)
Gareth- I bought some books, enrolled for online courses, but gave up. Again I happened to see this. My problem was the basic.
Thanks a lot, Gareth.
Thanks verrrrrrrrry muchhhhhhhhhh. It is the best tutorial . Thank you very much
Welcome 😊
I hardly comment posts on yt, actually i think this is my 2nd comment under a video ever. But i wanted to say THANK YOU.. this is AWESOME and truly helpfull , many many thanks ! bless you !!
outstanding tutorial - no question, but regarding the rotate tool i thing that it's crucial to know, that it can be used to *precisely* rotate or *copy* rotate an object around *any* fixed point (axis), like so:
1. select an object,
2. select rotate tool,
3. alt/option click where you want a fixed point of rotation to be ( a window will pop up),
4. choose angle: negative = clockwise, positive = anticlockwise,
5. click ok to rotate or click copy if you wish to copy rotate,
6. moreover, if you wish to repeat copy rotation several times, after doing it once beforehand, just press ctrl/command + d this many times.
have fun. ;)
I think it’s safe to say you are a blessing to us all I Learned More from you than I did in my Adobe classes in Art school!!!! Thank you so much !! I really appreciate the time and effort you put into these tutorials I’m blown away #bestteacherever
You sir are a blessing. Thank you so much. Best learning video I have ever come across.
Very well made tutorial. The best I've seen so far. Pleasant voice, clearly explained.
You are a SAINT for having such clear tutorials, organized so nicely and with accompanying files! One thing, I know how to zoom from previous programs, but perhaps utter beginners won't know how when you instruct them to do so at 1:32...?
I love your videos! Thank you so much for doing this for free. This is really helpful. Love love!!! ♥♥♥
Very good Teacher, Salut, I've learnt already more from you and I wont stop learning.
You are amazing man, thank you very much for the lessons. Long time since I was looking for a course like this, I repeat you are JUST AMAZING!!!
I just love the way you talk.And thank you to give us the opurtunity to learn illustetor.Thanks a lot.
Thank you for putting so much effort into making guides for scripts!
The usefulness of these videos makes me want to say dirty words lol. They are so useful and you are so good at teaching. Thank you!
Youre the REAL MVP!
This tutorial series is so organized and well thought out. Very informative and a great way to build a beginner's foundations in Illustrator. Thank you so much for these!
I really appreciate you making this and offering this, you are a great teacher and are valued. Cheers!
I've just found your channel and I must say that these tutorials are fantastic!
This course is so good..... you are marvelous. I've learned a lot from your video's since I follow these tutorials. Many thanks
Honestly can't believe it took me so long to try learning this program! I'll look forward to when I can learn painting! I imagine this program is easier to make straight lines than photoshop! Great Tutorials so far!
thank you very much from middle east!
Thank you so much! This tutorial is a gold mine for a beginner like me.
great course online. never seen before like this
I love when he says art board. Amazing tutorials man, you really know what you are talking about and now I can learn all about design :)
Thank you for this tutorial. it is very professional, clear and useful.
God bless you
When I use the direct selection tool, and use it to select the entire circle as you do (holding, clicking and dragging across with the rectangular "box"), the circle's edges are selected in red, but no handles are visible. Both the bounding box is shown, and so are edges under "view" (so it's not that, which is what everyone says the problem is in various forums). The only way to get the handles to "appear" is to use the direct selection tool and select an anchor point, and then only the handles for that particular anchor point are shown (never all 4 handles in the circle as you demonstrate). What am I doing wrong? I am using CS5 on a Mac and have loaded the appropriate file. Very frustrating.
+Craig Sibley Same here - Windows and CS6. Did you solve the problem?
+Craig Sibley You can change this in the Preferences. Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Selection & Anchorpoints. There you have to activate "Show handles when multiple anchors are selected"
+Mike Arndt Props bruh
+Mike Arndt thanks man i love you
Thank you!
Thank you Gareth! All of them are just perfect tutorials!
Thank you so much and you don't know how grateful I am for your great tutorials for beginners like me who doesn't find Adobe intuitive...haha
Thank you very much sir.lessons are clear and easy to understand.keep it up.great work
I dont Understand how this is free but thank you very much.
I almost bought a course on Udemy but i browsed on TH-cam first and found this. Excellent course and most importantly, it is free!! HOW O-O?????
Excellent tutorial! It's very clear and concise. Thank you so much!
Love these tutorials. Thanks for creating these for us. GBU Gareth!
THANKS VERY MUCH REALLLLLLLY. It is brief and short.
No problem!
Awesome tutorial from a great teacher! thank you sir :)
These are fabulous videos, well developed and teached; clear, good sound, explanations, etc. The whole thing is great, you are awesome, and im agree with Adam Kaan. Im learning this software because corel is not required where Id like to work.
I'm already feeling a lot better about using this for illustrations then what I've managed to achieve with Photoshop.
thank you thank you thank you..I can keep writing but have to go 5th episode of this tutorial :)
Now that is teaching, thank you sooo much!
Very, very, very nicely done tutorials. Thanks a lot
A really wall done course! Thanks a lot, you are a legend!
very very very useful clear and efficient course.
Thanks for these videos! It's like having a personal tutor :)
This course is simply amazing!!Excellent work, I have learnt so much.
I believe this is easier to follow than the class i took in college
Thank you so so much! I am also looking to learn Illustrator as I will be studying in September Visual communication and your tutorials are helping me so much with refreshing my knowledge on the program but also I am learning things I never knew before :). Thanks for speaking clearly also!!! Great Pro!
wow . its the best free curse i have ever seen.
you are awesome, thanx you for your great and free tutorials.....Greatings from egypt
This is better than Udemy or Lynda classes to be honest!
so glad i found this playlist,god bless you man.
Thanks a million for these incredible tutorials! xx
You are the legend my man
These tutorials are amazing, thanks for the help!!!!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE TUTORIALS.
This is like finding a diamond 💎
Thank you for creating amazing tutorials!
This series is amazing!
Agreed, this is perfect! Thank you Gareth!
What a teacher! Tysm!
love yourr tutorials ....
i couldn't learn this program any better thank you : )
You're an awesome teacher. Thank you so much!
You doing such a good job that even monkey could be a professional after watching Your videos. Amazing work! Thank You for Your effort ☺🤩
Wow this is so simple 💕
These tutorials are amazing!
Thanks very much,it's very helpful for me
I'm following all your videos
Was the zoom option shown at 1:33 only in this version of illustrator? I'm on a newer version and can't seem to get it to work. Some searching on google suggested CTRL/CMND + SPACEBAR, but that just zooms based on mouse movement for me. Would love to be able to draw a square and zoom to exactly where I want.
Excellent tutorial, thank you!
Hi
Thank you, a great tutorial.
I seem to have a problem with my direct selection tool on the circle vector, I can see my anchors but they have no handles showing, is this a setting I should change.
I don't see them either but it's probably visible only on CC
Rawrkee I'm using CC and also don't get the handles... until I click on the anchor points.
Pieter Bickford I had to change my preferences. Go to Illustrator > preferences > third menu for selection and anchors > check the second box, right below the small pictures for how to view your handles and anchors. That fixed it for me. PS: I'm sorry for not using the precise names, my AI isn't set to english.
thank you
Excellent, thanks!@@merlindezoet
Very good Ai Tutorial! Love it. Thank You!