The Astute Graphics plugins can help you be more precise, efficient, and creative with Adobe Illustrator. In this course, learn how these plugins can revolutionize the way you draw and edit artwork in Illustrator. Instructor Mike Rankin explains what each plugin does and discusses how these plugins can offer more efficiency and features not available in the native Illustrator tools. Mike covers drawing and editing with VectorScribe and InkScribe, aligning and arranging objects with ColliderScribe, creating beautiful symmetry with MirrorMe, and adjusting color and applying effects with Phantasm. He also goes over tools in DynamicSketch and WidthScribe that make drawing with a tablet even more natural and intuitive.

Topics include:

• Working with dynamic corners and shapes
• Editing paths with PathScribe
• Connecting and straightening objects
• Drawing circles and arcs
• Using the Snap to and the Rotate at Collision tools
• Mirroring text and images
• Creating vector halftones
• Editing path segments with InkScribe
• Using DynamicSketch
• Working with the WidthScribe brush tools
• Stippling vector graphics, photos, and text