Illustrator CS3 Introduction
Illustrator
Training
Provided by Harlequin Solutions.
Adobe Illustrator is a popular and versatile drawing and design package. This course will give you the experience you need to produce professional Graphics and Illustrations and will increase your levels of productivity and creativity within Adobe Illustrator. Once you have completed this course you can move onto Adobe Illustrator Advanced course.
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Illustrator CS3 Introduction
Course Content
Exploring the Illustrator environment
The Toolbox
Control palette
Arranging palettes
Creating and managing Workspaces
Workflow
Understanding bitmap and vector graphics
Creating and saving Illustrator documents
Using Document Profiles
Setting up units of measurement
Understanding the CMYK and RGB colour mode
Modifying the Artboard
Working with the Ruler and Grid
Navigation
Navigator palette
Zoom Tool
Navigating with Shortcuts
Drawing and painting Tools
Creating geometrical shapes with the:
Line Segment Tool
Rectangular-, Elliptical-, Polygon-, and Star Tool
Freeform shapes
Using the Pencil Tool
Setting up the Brush Tool
Modifying objects
Selecting and deleting objects
Understanding the Bounding Box
Moving and duplicating
Rotate, mirror, scale and shear
Aligning and distributing objects
Arranging objects
Modifying the Stroke
Cutting with the Knife-, and Scissors Tool
Delete parts of shapes or paths with the Eraser Tool
Working with the Transformation Palette
Working with Symbols
Creating and saving Symbols
Updating Symbols
Loading Symbol Libraries
Preparing for exchange
Working with Colours
Applying Fill-, and Stroke
Understanding Adobes Color Picker and Color Palette
Creating and saving Swatches
Compound Shapes
Introduction into the Pathfinder Palette
Creating more complex shapes with:
Add, subtract, intersect an exclude shape options
The Pen Tool
Understanding Bezier Curves
Creating shapes with the Pen Tool
Selecting, moving and deleting Anchor Points
Joining line segments
Converting Anchor Points
Loading Swatch Libraries
Preparing Swatches for exchange
Creating and applying Gradients
Text in Illustrator
Creating Point and Area Text
Selecting and modifying text
Basic text formatting with the Character-, and Paragraph Palettes
Creating text on a path
Using the Glyph Palette
Creating Text Outlines
Importing Word document into Illustrator
Introduction to Layers
Understanding Illustrators Layer
Creating-, arranging-, and deleting Layers
Selecting and moving Layers
Locking and hiding Layers
Printing
How to set up the printer
Creating and saving PDF files
Questions and Answers
Exploring the Illustrator environment
The Toolbox
Control palette
Arranging palettes
Creating and managing Workspaces
Workflow
Understanding bitmap and vector graphics
Creating and saving Illustrator documents
Using Document Profiles
Setting up units of measurement
Understanding the CMYK and RGB colour mode
Modifying the Artboard
Working with the Ruler and Grid
Navigation
Navigator palette
Zoom Tool
Navigating with Shortcuts
Drawing and painting Tools
Creating geometrical shapes with the:
Line Segment Tool
Rectangular-, Elliptical-, Polygon-, and Star Tool
Freeform shapes
Using the Pencil Tool
Setting up the Brush Tool
Modifying objects
Selecting and deleting objects
Understanding the Bounding Box
Moving and duplicating
Rotate, mirror, scale and shear
Aligning and distributing objects
Arranging objects
Modifying the Stroke
Cutting with the Knife-, and Scissors Tool
Delete parts of shapes or paths with the Eraser Tool
Working with the Transformation Palette
Working with Symbols
Creating and saving Symbols
Updating Symbols
Loading Symbol Libraries
Preparing for exchange
Working with Colours
Applying Fill-, and Stroke
Understanding Adobes Color Picker and Color Palette
Creating and saving Swatches
Compound Shapes
Introduction into the Pathfinder Palette
Creating more complex shapes with:
Add, subtract, intersect an exclude shape options
The Pen Tool
Understanding Bezier Curves
Creating shapes with the Pen Tool
Selecting, moving and deleting Anchor Points
Joining line segments
Converting Anchor Points
Loading Swatch Libraries
Preparing Swatches for exchange
Creating and applying Gradients
Text in Illustrator
Creating Point and Area Text
Selecting and modifying text
Basic text formatting with the Character-, and Paragraph Palettes
Creating text on a path
Using the Glyph Palette
Creating Text Outlines
Importing Word document into Illustrator
Introduction to Layers
Understanding Illustrators Layer
Creating-, arranging-, and deleting Layers
Selecting and moving Layers
Locking and hiding Layers
Printing
How to set up the printer
Creating and saving PDF files
Questions and Answers
About The Training Provider: Harlequin Solutions.
Harlequin Solutions. - Harlequin Training is the leading authorised Macromedia, Quark and Adobe training company for design, print and web applications as well as experts in Soft Skills, Microsoft and programming training.
Harlequin Training run public and private courses at our training centre in Ladbroke Grove in west London and can supply private courses at your offices. All of our courses are run by...
