Training Program Details
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
New Features in Illustrator CS2
-Live Trace
-Live Paint
-Control palette
-Custom workspaces
-Adobe Photoshop layer comp support
-Adobe Bridge
-Expanded stroke options
-Mobile content creation
-Colorized grayscale
-PDF/X support
General Features
-About vectors and bitmaps
-When to use Illustrator CS2
-Overview of tools, palettes and window elements
-Contextual options bar and menu options.
-Navigation in Illustrator CS2
Objects and Shapes
-Creating basic shapes: rectangles, ellipses, polygons and stars
-Aligning objects
-Duplicating objects
-Selection and Direct Selection tools
-Grouping sets of objects
Selections, Fills and Groups
-Selecting and modifying objects
-Applying fills and strokes
-Grouping and ungrouping objects
-Selecting objects inside groups
Colour and Gradients
-Colour modes in Illustrator CS2
-The Colours vs. the Swatches palette
-Pantone/Spot colours
-Creating custom colours
-Using swatches from other documents
-Creating simple gradients
Drawing in Illustrator CS2
-Using the pen tool
-Bezier curves
-Anchor points and handles
-Convert Anchor Points tool
-Adding and subtracting anchor points on a path
Other Drawing Tools
-The Brush tool
-The Pencil
-The line tool
-The Arc tool
-The Spiral tool
-The Rectangular Grid tool
-The Polar Grid tool
Path editing tools
-The Smooth tool
-The Erase tool
-The Scissors tool
-The Knife tool
Text in Illustrator
-Placing and typing text in Illustrator CS2
-Using the Adobe type engine for text formatting
-Style Sheets
-Text on a path
-Converting text to outlines
Layering
-Creating layers
-making selections within layers
-Restacking elements and group elements
-Hiding, showing and locking layers and layer elements
-Tracing tool
Graphing with Illustrator
-Creating Illustrator CS2 graphs
-Working with graph data and Microsoft Excel
-Modifiying graphs
Transformation tools
-Rotate
-Reflect
-Skew
-Scale
-Free transform
Liquify tools
-The Warp tool
-The Twirl tool
-The Pucker tool
-The Bloat tool
-The Scallop tool
-The Crystallize tool
-The Wrinkle tool
Shape Modes and Pathfinders
-Combining, dividing, subtracting etc. with shapes
-Expanding objects
Graphic Styles/Patterns
-Creating Graphic Styles
-Applying and Controlling Graphic Styles
Symbols
-Creating Symbols
-Placing and controlling symbols
-Using the Symbols tools
General Features
-Essential keyboard shortcuts
-File formats
-Placing images in lllustrator as templates
-Layers and sub-layers in Illlustrator CS2
-Graphic Styles
-Symbols
-Guides and Smart Guides
-Outline and Preview views
Preparing artwork for print
-Colours, inks, and transparency flattening
Saving and Printing files
-Save as... options
-Export... (key options plus new options in CS2)
-Print...
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