Course Synopsis: Discover high quality drawing and illustration with Adobe Illustrator. You will start with an overview of Illustrator and work on lessons that will step you into a greater skill level. Discover the unique features of Illustrator, including how to create logos, professional type effects, complex airbrush effects and color control. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certifi ed Expert status.
Who Should Attend: Graphic professionals who need an essential understanding of vector illustrations. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises. This class is a discounted combination of the Photoshop and Photoshop Advanced classes. For student cancellation purposes, each separate component is treated as a separate class.
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 insufficient 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 working with the application tutorial before coming to the course.
What You Will Learn:
• Lines and shapes
• Selection Tools
• The Pen Tool
• Using the Live Trace Tool
• Type Basics
• Transform Tools
• Fill and Stroke
• Gradients
• Using Layers
• Using Blends
• Transparency
• Exporting to EPS and PDF
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: Photoshop and Flash Professional. 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. |
LESSON 1
• Getting to know the work area
• Viewing artwork
• Using the Illustrator tools
• Working with panels
• Using panel menus
• Changing the view of artwork
• Using the view commands
• Using the navigator panel
• Using the Illustrator Help
LESSON 2
• Selecting and aligning
• Using the selection tool
• Using the Direct Selection tool
• Selections with the Magic Wand
• Grouping Items
• Aligning objects
• Applying selection techniques
LESSON 3
• Creating basic shapes
• Using basic shape tools
• Using Live Trace to create shapes
• Drawing polygons, spirals, and stars
LESSON 4
• Transforming objects
• Scaling objects
• Refl ecting objects
• Distorting objects
• Shearing objects
• Positioning objects precisely
• Changing the perspective
• Making multiple transformations
LESSON 5
• Drawing with the Pen tool
• Creating straight lines
• Creating curved paths
• Building a curve
• Curves and corner anchor points
• Selecting and manipulating curves
LESSON 6
• Color and painting
• Color Mode
• Understanding the color controls
• Color fundamentals
• Copying attributes
• Using the Appearance panel
• Building and saving your own custom color
• Using Illustrator swatch libraries
• Creating a spot color
• Creating color groups
• Editing color with Live Color
• Creating a color group with Live Color
• Assign colors to your artwork
• Using patterns
• Creating your own pattern
• Applying Live Paint
• Create a PDF from your artwork
LESSON 7
• Working with type
• Importing a text file
• Creating columns of text
• Understanding text flow
• Working with overfl ow 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
LESSON 8
• Working with layers
• Creating layers
• Moving objects and layers
• Locking layers
• Viewing layers
• Pasting layers
• Creating clipping masks
• Merging layers
LESSON 9
• Blending shapes and colors
• Creating a gradient fill
• Adjusting the direction of a gradient
• Adding colors to a gradient
• Creating smooth-color blends
• Modifying the blend
• Combining blends with gradients
LESSON 10
• Working with symbols
• Using Illustrator Symbol Libraries
• Editing Symbols
• Creating Symbols
• Applying a symbol instance
• Using the symbolism tools
• Updating a symbol
• Breaking a link to a symbol
• Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork
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LESSON 11
• Overview of printing and color
separations
• Learning about printing devices
• Halftone screens
• Output device resolution
• The RGB color model
• The CMYK color model
• Spot colors
• Synchronizing color using Adobe Bridge
• Specifying the bleed area
• Saving in the EPS format
• Exporting and importing flattening settings
• Saving as Adobe PDF
LESSON 12
• 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
LESSON 13
• 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
LESSON 14
• 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 Pathfi nder palette
• Transform shapes by using Warp effects
• Select objects by using the selection
tools, such as Magic Wand, Select
menu, Direct Select, Group Select
LESSON 15
• 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, refl ect, and shear
• Change the look of type by using the Create Outlines command
• Change the look of type by using the Envelope command
LESSON 16
• 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
LESSON 17
• 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
LESSON 18
• 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
LESSON 19
• 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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