Adobe Illustrator (Advanced)

This course teaches you techniques that help you work faster and smarter. You’ll also work with advanced features that make it easier to create schematics, infographics, graphs, 3d comps, floor plans, or architectural elevations. 

Prerequisite: Illustrator 101 or equivalent experience. 

Basic review of essentials

• The Workspace
• Appearances
• Automated procedures (rotate, resize)
• Lock, Hide
• Preview mode

3D drawing

• Draw 3d objects
• Change lighting
• Map art

Perspective drawing

• Drawing in perspective
• Customing your perspective grid
• Adding type to the grid
• Transforming objects using the grid

Creating any object

• Think “basic shapes”
• Creating icons
• Using Pathfinder filters
• Outline Stroke and offset Path

Using the power of Blends

• Morphing objects
• Smooth colour blends
• Smooth steps

Designing Type & Layout

• Types of Type
• Working with Threaded Text

Wrapping Area Type Around Objects

• Converting Type to Outlines
• The Glyphs Panel
• Fitting Type to Curved Paths
• Transforming Type with Warps & Envelopes

Working with transparency

• Opacity and blending modes
• Transparency effects

Using gradient mesh

• Create and modify gradient mesh
• Convert shapes to mesh
• Modify gradient colour in mesh
• Add, remove and modify mesh anchor points

Live Trace

• Converting raster files to vector

Working with graphs

• Create various types of graphs
• Import and export graph data
• Create custom graphs

Colour

• Create colours
• Recolour Artwork
• Colour Rules
• Kuler Colour

Preparing Art for Commercial Printing

• Crops, bleed
• File menu, Package