Adobe Illustrator

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This introductory course will illuminate the powerful vector tool that is Illustrator. It is more than applicable to first-time users and will provide a helpful foundation for more advanced designs.

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Course Outline / Curriculum:

Getting to know the Workspace:

  • Choosing a workspace
  • Opening a file
  • The document window
  • Using Artboards
  • Navigating multiple artboards
  • Using the new Artboards panel
  • Creating New Artboards
  • Switching screen modes
  • Changing your view
  • Preview versus Outlines
  • Zooming and scrolling
  • Scrolling with the Hand tool
  • Changing views with the Navigator panel
  • The Tools panel
  • Using tools and panels
  • The Control panel
  • Moving the Control panel
  • Panel groups and the dock
  • Custom workspaces
  • Saving workspaces
  • Using the Manage Workspaces dialog box

 

Illustrator Essentials:

  • Using the shape tools
  • Repositioning and visually resizing the rectangle
  • Finding or changing the shape’s dimensions using the Transform panel
  • Rotating and shearing using the Transform panel
  • Constraining a shape
  • Entering exact dimensions
  • Selecting artwork
  • Helpful keyboard shortcuts for selections
  • The selection tools
  • Using shape and transform tools to create artwork
  • Using the transform tools
  • Adding a fill color
  • Viewing in Outline view
  • Using layers when building an illustration
  • Creating a new blank layer
  • Cutting and pasting objects
  • Moving objects from one layer to another

 

Adding Color:

  • Basics of the Appearance panel
  • Changing colors
  • Adding Effects
  • Creating a colorful illustration
  • Using Live Paint
  • Adding a symbol to your artwork
  • Expanding the symbol
  • Saving swatches
  • What is a Global Color?
  • Selecting the Same color
  • Saving a set of colors as a group
  • Creating a color group from selected colors
  • Using the Color panel
  • Adding Pantone colors

 

Working with the Drawing Tools:

  • Working with the Pen tool
  • Drawing straight lines
  • Drawing curved lines
  • Drawing hinged curves
  • Drawing curved lines to straight lines
  • Drawing straight lines to curved lines
  • Shape Tools
  • Using the Eraser tool
  • Editing existing paths
  • Adding and removing points
  • Cutting and joining paths
  • Working with Live Trace
  • Expanding Live Traced artwork
  • Working with Live Paint
  • Combining shapes using the new Shape Builder tool
  • Subtracting with the Shape Builder tool

 

Working with Text:

  • Formatting type
  • Paragraph formatting
  • Formatting imported type
  • Paragraph and character styles
  • Text on a path
  • Warping text
  • Text in a shape
  • Creating outlines
  • Check spelling
  • Find and Replace

 

Working with Symbols:

  • Cleaning out the symbol library
  • Creating symbols
  • Editing symbols
  • Importing a symbol library
  • Using the symbol sprayer tools
  • Editing nested symbols
  • Replacing symbols 

 

Saving and Exporting:

  • Saving using the AI file format
  • Saving an illustration with layers
  • Saving a layered PDF
  • Integration with other applications
  • Saving as EPS
  • Save for Web

 

Whats New:

  • Getting into perspective
  • Defining the grid
  • Changing the plane
  • Using the Perspective Selection tool
  • Creating shapes with the
  • Shape Builder tool
  • To combine shapes
  • To delete shapes
  • To divide overlapping shapes
  • New Brush Controls
  • Advanced drawing controls
  • Artboard panel
  • Touch Type Tool
  • Images in Brushes
  • Font Search
  • Font Sync
  • Multiple-file place
  • CSS Extraction
  • Colour Sync
  • Area and Point Type Converion
  • File packaging
  • On-art free transform
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