Adobe Illustrator (CC Level 1)

Adobe Illustrator software allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium. Industry-standard drawing tools, flexible color controls, and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely, while timesaving features such as easier-to-access options let you work quickly and intuitively. Improved performance and tight integration with other Adobe applications also help you produce extraordinary graphics for print, web, interactive, mobile, and motion designs.

Adobe Illustrator allows you to efficiently create sophisticated vector graphics for print and the web.

Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to use Adobe Illustrator CC to create illustrations that include graphics and text.

You will:

• Identify the components and capabilities of Illustrator CS6.

• Create basic shapes.

• Create custom paths.

• Create graphics that contain custom text.

• Customize objects.

• Customize basic shapes.

• Prepare documents for deployment.

Prerequisites

To ensure your success in this course, you should be familiar with the basic functions of your computer’s operating system, such as creating folders, launching programs, and working with Windows. You should also have basic Windows application skills, such as copying and pasting objects, formatting text, saving files, and so on.

Familiarity with basic design terminology, such as palettes, color modes, shapes, text, and paths, is highly recommended.

Outline

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Illustrator CS6

  • Topic A: Evaluate Graphics Scalability

  • Topic B: Navigate, View, and Measure Graphics

  • Topic C: Customize the User Interface

• Lesson 2: Creating Documents Containing Basic Shapes

  • Topic A: Create Documents

  • Topic B: Save Documents

  • Topic C: Draw Basic Shapes

• Lesson 3: Creating Graphics Containing Customized Paths

  • Topic A: Draw Paths

  • Topic B: Modify Paths

• Lesson 4: Creating Graphics Containing Customized Text

  • Topic A: Insert Text

  • Topic B: Flow Text Along a Path

  • Topic C: Insert Bounded Text

  • Topic D: Thread Text

  • Topic E: Apply Text Styles

  • Topic F: Insert Typographical Characters

• Lesson 5: Customizing Objects

  • Topic A: Import and Link Graphics

  • Topic B: Alter the Appearance of Objects

• Lesson 6: Customizing Basic Shapes

  • Topic A: Apply Strokes

  • Topic B: Fill Shapes

  • Topic C: Apply Gradients

  • Topic D: Apply Graphic Styles

  • Topic E: Distort Text with Text Envelopes

• Lesson 7: Preparing Documents for Deployment

  • Topic A: Update Text

  • Topic B: Wrap Text

  • Topic C: Hyphenate Text

  • Topic D: Optimize Content for Print

  • Topic E: Optimize Content for the Web

  • Topic F: Optimize Content for PDF Documents