Adobe Illustrator CS3 - Two Day Introduction training

Essential Illustrator Concepts
-What are Vector Graphics?
-Create a Custom Workspace
-Fill and Stroke Attributes
-Document Settings

The Illustrator Interface (Enhanced in CS3)
-Exploring panels and workspaces
-Using the Control Panel
-Navigation
-Smart Guides
-Preview Options
-Grids and Guides
-The Bounding Box
-Panels
-Libraries (New in CS3)

Drawing and Selection Essentials
-Draw Paths with the Pen Tool
-Shape Tools
-The Seletion Tools (Enhanced in CS3)
-Methods of Selection
-Shapes
-Duplicate Objects
-Mastering the Pen Tool
-The Pencil tool

Path Editing (Enhanced in CS3)
-Editing Anchor Points (Enhanced in CS3)
-Compound Shapes
-Pathfinder Options
-Eraser tool (New in CS3)

-Manipulating and Editing Paths
-Outlining Strokes
-Path Options

Appearances
-The Appearance Panel
-Object Attributes
-Multiple attributes
-Applying Live Effects
-Graphic Styles
-Appearance Panel settings

Working with Groups and Layers
-Defining groups
-Editing groups
-Working with layers
-Layers and object hierarchy

Working with Colour (Enhanced in CS3)
-Defining swatches (Enhanced in CS3)
-Creating swatch groups and libraries
-Working with gradients
-Working with patterns
-Using the Color Guide (Enhanced in CS3)
-Live Colour (New in CS3)
-Finding colours with kuler (New in CS3)
-Modifying colour in artwork

Object Transformation and Positioning
-Moving and copying objects
-Rotating and scaling objects
-Reflecting and skewing objects
-Using the Free Transform tool
-Using the Transform panel
-Repeating transformations
-Using the Transform Each function
-Aligning objects
-Distributing objects

Brushes
-Creating a calligraphic brush
-Creating a scatter brush
-Creating an art brush
-Creating a pattern brush

Using Symbols
-Defining and editing symbols
-Editing symbols

Applying Filters and Live Effects
-Minding your resolution settings
-Applying the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect
-Applying the 3D Revolve effects
-Mapping artwork to 3D objects
-Transforming Effects
-Using the Stylize effects
-Using the Scribble effect
-Using the Warp effect

Basic Text Editing
-Creating Point Text
-Creating Area Text
-Text Formatting
-Creating Text Threads
-Text on a Path
-Using the Glyphs panel
-Checking spelling
-Using the Change Case function
-Convert Text to Outlines

Creating Blends
-Creating a basic blend
-Using a blend to create an airbrush effect

Working with Images
-Placing images
-Using the Links panel
-The Edit Original workflow
-Live Trace
-Rasterizing artwork

Specialised Tasks
-Creating graphs
-Using Gradient Mesh
-Using Envelope Warps
-The Liquify Distortion tools

Saving and Printing
-Saving your Illustrator document
-Printing your Illustrator document
-Using the Crop Area tool (New in CS3)
-Setting up page tiling