VascoElbrecht's video: Illustrator CS6 Tutorial: Flowcharts for beginners Poster how to Part 5

In this beginners Illustrator tutorial we will make a cool flowchart from start to finish with Adobe illustrator CS6. Of course we will be using a lot of basic tools and elements in illustrator to build simple and complicated figures, but we also discuss how to integrate Illustrator into InDesign with matching font size etc! Below you will find a loose table of contents that allow you to jump to a point that interests you in this tutorial: 0:00 Introduction 1:03 Setting up the Illustrator file and get the sizes right in InDesign, introduction to layers 3:54 Tracing an Insect / illustration / drawing with the pen tool (also introduction to colors, lines, selection tools, smooth tool, grouping and send to back / front). 18:44 Working with text in Illustrator 20:27 Align tool box 20:37 Lines and arrow heads (Its a flowchart so we need arrows! ; ) 22:00 Booklet illustration using boxes, align and introduction to clipping masks 23:58 Make a line drawing of a blender using the pen tool, ellipses, path finder 27:17 Type text on a path 30:10 Draw nice DNA strands with the pattern brush 35:14 How to make schematic DNA sequences using simple lines and the align and distribute features 28:55 Make a data base figure 40:26 Boxes with rounded corners, also how to scale them 42:33 Get our Illustrator graphic into InDesign 43:21 Outro and additional videos! Thank you for watching = ) Feel free to subscribe for more, or take a look at the how to make a scientific poster playlist here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpEJ97U4ZamXD7a3V0UwWZSmfWsw9rfW8 Download the example insect we are using for tracking here: http://www.luckylion.de/YouTube/5_dinocras_template.png