Publisher: Adobe

Version: CS5
Length: 1 day
Course-ID: 084395

Course Overview

You will use Adobe Illustrator CS5 to create illustrations that include 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 and who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Prerequisites

Prior to this course, students should be familiar with the basic computer operations such as creating folders, launching programs, and working with windows. Students should have basic Windows application skills, such as copying and pasting objects, formatting text, saving files etc. Familiarity with basic design terminology, such as palette, color mode, shapes, text, and paths, is highly recommended.


Getting Acquainted with Adobe® Illustrator® CS5
  • Examine Imaging Concepts
  • Explore the Interface
  • Customize the Interface
Creating Shapes in a Document
  • Create a Document
  • Draw Basic Shapes
  • Save a Document
Creating Custom Paths
  • Draw Paths
  • Modify Paths
Working with Text
  • Insert Text
  • Flow Text on a Path
  • Import Body Text
  • Format Text with Styles
  • Thread Text
  • Apply Hyphenation
  • Insert Typographic Characters
Working with Objects
  • Import Graphics
  • Manipulate Objects
Enhancing Documents
  • Format Objects
  • Apply Strokes
  • Apply Gradients
  • Apply Graphic Styles
  • Apply an Envelope to Text
Proofing a Document
  • Wrap Text
  • Find and Replace Text
  • Fix Spelling Errors
Saving Images for Web and Print
  • Export Images for Print
  • Save Images for the Web
  • Save Images as PDFs
Optional Items
  • Organizing Assets Using Adobe® Bridge
  • New Features in Adobe Illustrator CS5