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Orient students to the major tools. They begin by creating and manipulating the properties of simple shapes. They play with color, including re-coloring using color harmonies, gradients, and the eyedropper tool. They open vector images (included in download) and practice grouping, editing, and moving shapes. They also use the alignment tools. They try out the eraser, scissors, and knife. They use the pen tools to adjust anchors, and they experiment with the curvature tool. Next, they try out the shaper tool, pencil tool, path eraser tool, and join tool. Finally, they play with tools like warp, pucker, and bloat. Now that they have unique images to work with, they learn about the Live Paint Bucket tool. At the conclusion of the lessons, students are given a project where they choose images to try and recreate by drawing them in Adobe Illustrator.
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