Outlines

1.. Getting to Know the Work Area

• Using the Illustrator tools
• Working with panels
• Using panel menus
• Using the zoom tool
• Using view commands
• Using the Navigator Panel
• Understanding rulers
• Arranging multiple documents
• The Search of Help Box

2. Selecting and Aligning

• Using the Selection Tools
• Working with the Magic Wand
• Selecting similar objects
• Aligning objects
• Aligning points
• Distributing objects
• Aligning to the artboard
• Working with groups
• Working in isolation mode
• Adding a group
• Object arrangement
• Applying techniques

3. Creating Basic Shapes

• Using the basic shape tools
• Understanding drawing modes
• Creating rectangles
• Creating ellipses and polygons
• Draw inside mode
• Changing stroke width and alignment
• Working with line segments
• Joining paths
• Using the eraser tool
• Using the width tool
• Outlining strokes
• Combining and editing shapes
• Working with the Shape Builder tool
• Working with Pathfinder effects
• Working with shape modes
• Using Live Trace to create shapes

4. Transforming Objects

• Working with Artboards
• Editing, renaming, and reordering Artboards
• Transforming content
• Working with rulers and guides
• Scaling objects
• Reflecting, rotating, distorting, and Shearing objects
• Positioning objects precisely
• Changing perspective
• Multiple transformations

5. Working with the Pen Tool

• Creating straight lines
• Building a curve
• Curves and corner anchor points
• Selecting and manipulating curves
• Editing curves
• Deleting and adding anchor points
• Convert between smooth and corner points
• Drawing and editing with the pencil tool

6. Color and Painting

• Color modes
• Understanding the color controls
• Creating color
• Build and save a custom color
• Swatch libraries
• Spot Color and Color Picker
• Creating and saving a tint of a color
• Copying attributes
• Creating and editing color groups
• Working with the Kuler panel
• Assigning colors to your artwork
• Adjusting colors
• Painting with patterns and gradients
• Applying existing patterns
• Editing a pattern
• Working with and editing Live Paint
• Working with Gap Options

7. Working with Type

• Importing a text file
• Creating columns of text
• Understanding text flow and working with overflow text
• Threading text
• Working with font size and color
• Paragraph attributes
• Saving and using styles
• Creating Character styles
• Sampling text
• Creating text on paths and shapes
• Creating text outlines

8. Working with Layers

• Creating, moving, locking, pasting layers
• Creating clipping masks
• Merging layers
• Applying appearance attributes to layers
• Isolating layers

9. Working with Perspective Drawing

• Understanding perspective
• Working with the perspective grid
• Using a preset grid
• Drawing objects in perspective
• Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
• Attaching objects to perspective
• Editing planes and objects together
• Adding and editing text and symbols in perspective
• Release content from perspective

10. Blending Shapes and Colors

• Creating a gradient fill
• Creating and applying a linear gradient
• Adjusting the direction of a gradient
• Creating a radical gradient
• Adding colors to a gradient
• Applying gradient to multiple objects
• Adding transparency to gradients
• Creating a blend with specified steps
• Creating smooth-color blends

11. Working with Brushes

• Using Calligraphic brushes
• Editing a brush
• Using a fill color with brushes
• Remove a brush stroke
• Using art brushes
• Drawing with the paintbrush tool
• Create and edit an Art brush
• Bristol brush options
• Creating and applying a pattern brush
• Changing the brush color options
• The Blob Brush tool
• Painting with a Bristle brush
• Editing the Eraser tool

12. Applying Effects

• Using live effects
• Applying and editing an effect
• Styling text with effects
• Editing shapes with a Pathfinder effect
• Offsetting paths
• Applying a PhotoShop effect
• Working with a 3D effect
• Creating a revolved object
• Changing the lighting of a 3D object
• Mapping a symbol to the 3D artwork

13. Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles

• Editing and adding appearance attributes
• Reordering appearance attributes
• Adding an additional stroke and fill
• Using graphic styles
• Creating and saving a graphic style
• Applying a graphics style to an object and to a layer
• Applying existing graphic styles
• Applying an appearance to a layer
• Copying, applying, and removing graphic styles

14. Working with symbols

• Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
• Creating and editing a symbol
• Breaking a link to a symbol
• Replacing and renaming symbols
• Working with the Symbolism tools
• Copy and edit symbol sets
• Storing and retrieving artwork in the Symbols panel
• Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork
• Symbols and Flash integration

15. Working with Adobe Bridge

• Combining artwork
• Vector versus bitmap graphic
• Placing Photoshop files
• Duplicating and editing a placed image
• Applying colors to a place image
• Masking an image
• Applying a clipping mask to an image
• Editing a mask
• Masking an object with multiple shapes
• Release a mask
• Creating an opacity mask
• Sampling colors in placed images
• Replacing a placed, linked image
• Exporting a layered file to PhotoShop

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities and who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Duration

3 Days