Course Synopsis: This course, Advanced Adobe IllustratorCS3, will help you customize your work environment and increase your illustration productivity with great tips and tricks. Projects include advanced selection techniques, perspective grids, using the gradient mesh tool, advanced brush techniques, graphs and patterns. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert status.
Who Should Attend: Graphic professionals who need an extensive understanding of
vector illustrations and the many features of Illustrator. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises. Sterling Ledet and Associates gears our Advanced Adobe courses to the Adobe Certified Expert Exam Bulletin, and we highly recommend this course if you are seeking the ACE status.
Prerequisites: Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insuffi cient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class. We highly recommend attending the Adobe Illustrator CS3 beginner level class before taking this class.
What You Will Learn:
• Customizing the Illustrator environment
• Advanced type conrols
• Refining paths
• Creating perspective grids
• Advanced selection techniques
• Masking and compound paths
• The Gradient Mesh Tool
• Advanced brushes
• Transforming Images
• Graphs and patterns
Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.
Locations: We have company-operated facilities in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, San Diego and Washington DC. We also work with a network of rental facilities to offer our classes regularly across the United States and in Canada. Please double-check the location of your class with our office to make sure you get to the right location.
Related Courses: We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Flash CS3. Please take a look at our other course outlines.
Goals: Sterling Ledet and Associates realizes the importance of education and we take pride in being able to offer you classes that are more custom fit to your needs. Call us at (770) 414-5007 if you have any special questions or e-mail us at sales@ledet.com.
Registration: Please fill out our registration form and fax it to us at (312) 896-9094. |
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
• Major features of Adobe Illustrator
• Difference between vector graphics
and raster (bitmap) images
• Native file formats in Adobe Illustrator
• Criteria used when you would output
an Illustrator document to various fi le
formats, such as SWF, PSD, JPEG, GIF,
PDF, SVG
• Basic color modes used in Adobe
Illustrator, such as HSB, RGB, CMYK
• Managing files by using WebDAV
LAYING OUT A DOCUMENT
• Different components of the work
area, such as imageable area,
nonimageable area, edge of page,
artboard, scratch area
• Appropriate document settings for
the artboard
• Appropriate document settings for
transparency
• Appropriate document settings for
printing and export
• Options available for importing
artwork by using the Open command
and the Place command
WORKING WITH SHAPES
& OBJECTS
• Which tool should be used to create a
shape or object
• When you would use a specific
editing tool, such as pens, pencils,
paint brushes
• Components of a path, such as anchor
points, direction points, direction lines,
corner point, smooth point
• Creating spot colors and adding
them to the Swatch palette
• Applying colors, strokes, fills, and
gradients to objects by using the Fill
and Stroke boxes
• Transforming shapes by using the
Transform tools and/or the Transform
palette
• Transforming shapes by using the
Distortion tools, such as Warp, Twirl,
Bloat, Scallop, Crystallize, Wrinkle,
Liquify
• Creating and modify masks, including
clipping masks
• Create, use, and customize brushes
• Modify overlapping objects by using
the Transparency palette
• Change the appearance of objects by
using the Styles palette and Effects
menu
• Change the appearance of objects by
using the Appearance palette
• Create graphs by using the graph tools
• Create, use, and edit symbols by using
the Symbols palette and tools
• Create and modify compound shapes
by using Pathfinder palette
• Transform shapes by using Warp
effects
• Select objects by using the selection
tools, such as Magic Wand, Select
menu, Direct Select, Group Select
• Assign variables to objects
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ADDING TYPE TO A
DOCUMENT
• Add type to a document, such as
including wrapping type around a
graphic, and creating type on a path
• Modify type by using the Character
and Paragraph palettes
• Transform type by using setting
options for scale, rotate, reflect, and
shear
• Change the look of type by using the
Create Outlines command
• Change the look of type by using the
Envelope command
ADVANCED LAYER TECHNIQUES
• How layers can be used to help create
and manage objects in a document
• Change the attributes of objects in a
layer by using the Layers palette
• Creating clipping masks
• Importing and exporting Adobe
Photoshop layers
• Export objects for a Flash (SWF) file by
using the Release to Layers command
MANAGING COLOR
• Color management workfl ow process
that is used in Adobe Illustrator,
including ICC profiles, conversion,
embedding, and policies
• Color management in Illustrator by
using the Color Settings dialog box
OUTPUTTING TO PRINT
• Crop marks and trim marks in a
document
• Resolution and rasterization settings in
the Document Setup dialog box
• Guidelines associated with printing
gradient mesh objects and color blends
• Prepare and output a document to be
used for color separation
• Guidelines associated with printing
transparencies, such as overprint
preview, flattening preview palette
PUBLISHING FOR THE WEB
• Options and considerations associated
with preparing graphics that will be
used on the Web
• Export Illustrator images that are
optimized for publication on the Web
• Output symbols to SWF and SVG
formats
• Create slices for objects and layers by
using the Slice tools
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