Publisher: Adobe

Version: CS5
Length: 2 day s
Course-ID: SX696LAM

Course Overview

Adobe Illustrator CS5 is a powerful graphics application that helps you create complex and attractive designs with type effects. You can create advertisements, logos and other illustrations with ease using this software. However, creating complex designs can be demanding if you are not familiar with the tools and the features in Adobe Illustrator. In this course, you will use Adobe Illustrator CS5 by drawing and manipulating simple shapes to design a layout for your product.

Course Objective

You will use Adobe Illustrator CS5 to create illustrations that include vector and bitmap graphics and text.

Target student

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, who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, students should be familiar with the basic functions of their computer's operating system such as creating folders, launching programs, and working with windows.


Exploring the Workspace
  • Workspace basics
  • Tools and Panels
  • Customizing the workspace
  • Working with ConnectNow
  • Viewing artwork
  • Using multiple artboards
  • Rulers, grids, guides
  • Illustrator preferences
  • Recovery, undo, and automation
Importing, exporting, and saving
  • Importing files
  • Importing bitmap images
  • Adobe PDF files
  • Importing other file formats
  • Importing artwork from Photoshop
  • Saving and exporting artwork
  • File information and metadata
Drawing
  • Drawing basics
  • Drawing simple lines and shapes
  • Using the Pencil tool
  • Using the Pen tool
  • Editing paths
  • Perspective drawing
  • Live Trace
  • Symbols
  • Drawing flares
Colour
  • Selecting colours
  • Using and creating swatches
  • Working with colour groups (harmonies)
  • The Kuler panel
  • Adjusting colours
Painting
  • Fills and strokes
  • Live Paint groups
  • Brushes
  • Transparency and blending modes
  • Gradients
  • Meshes
  • Patterns
Selecting and arranging objects
  • Selecting
  • Grouping and expanding
  • Moving, aligning, and distributing
  • Rotating and reflecting
  • Working with layers
  • Stacking objects
  • Duplicating objects
  • Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
Reshaping objects
  • Transforming objects
  • Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects
  • Using envelopes
  • Combining objects
  • Cutting and dividing objects
  • Clipping masks
  • Blending objects
  • Using Effects
  • The Shape builder tool
  • D objects
Type
  • Importing and creating text
  • Type on a path
  • Scaling and rotating type
  • Formatting characters and paragraphs
  • Character and paragraph styles
  • Exporting text
  • Composite fonts
  • Updating text from Illustrator
Creating special effects
  • Appearance attributes
  • Working with effects
  • Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
  • Creating sketches and mosaics
  • Graphic styles
  • Web graphics
  • Optimising for web graphics
  • Slices and image maps
  • SVG
  • Creating animations
Working with FXG
  • About FXG
  • Save an Illustrator file in FXG format
  • Illustrator and Flash Catalyst workflow
  • FXG mapping of Illustrator objects and attributes
Printing
  • Preparing documents for printing
  • Printing colour separations
  • Printer’s marks and bleed
  • PostScript printing
  • Printing with colour management
  • Printing gradients, meshes, and colour blends
  • Printing and saving transparent artwork
  • Overprinting
  • Trapping
  • Print presets
Automating tasks
  • Actions
  • Scripts
  • Data-driven graphics