Adobe Illustrator CS6 Tutorial

This comprehensive series provides an in-depth guide to working with both text and graphics in Adobe Illustrator CS6. The initial lessons focus on typography, beginning with the Character Panel to control leading, kerning, and tracking, before exploring advanced features like scaling, rotation, and applying formatting like small caps and underlining. The tutorials then detail the Paragraph Panel, showing how to set alignment, adjust various indents, control spacing, and manage word hyphenation for a professional finish.

Efficiency is highlighted through the explanation of Type Styles and the features available within Open Type Fonts and Smart Punctuation. The text section concludes by showing how to use Create Outlines to convert live text into editable vector shapes.

The second half of the series transitions to graphics, covering file import via Place and focusing heavily on the Image Trace tool. Users learn to apply presets like Auto Color, adjust advanced controls such as Paths, Corners, and Noise, and select tracing methods (Abutting or Overlapping). The final step is Expanding the trace, which converts the raster conversion into a fully editable group of vector paths ready for final design work.