Computer WorkGroup Training

Adobe Illustrator CS5

Duration : 1 Day

Pricing : Basic - 1 person $750, 2 people $850 for both (see pricing page for full details)

Pre-requisites : Introduction to Illustrator or equivalent experience.

For Whom: The course is intended for people who wish to extend their control of Adobe Illustrator.

Custom colours and colour separations are also covered.

Web aspects of Illustrator are addressed.

Course Objectives: At the conclusion of the training participants will be able to -

• Apply transparency and blending modes
• Work with vector brushes
• Create masks
• Blend shapes and colours
• Control printing features
• Prepare web graphics
• Create separations
• Work with data driven drawings
• Use the Perspective Plane

COURSE OUTLINE

ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS5 - 1 DAY ADVANCED WORKSHOP

WORKING WITH BRUSHES

• Applying brushes to paths
• Using Scatter brushes
• Using Calligraphic brushes
• Using Pattern brushes
• Using Art brushes
• Creating brushes
• Brush libraries
• Bristle Brush
• Segmented brushes

APPEARANCE ATTRIBUTES

• Using appearance attributes
• Using live effects
• Editing an effect
• Using styles
• Copying, applying, and removing styles and appearances
• Printing and saving files with transparency effects

GRADIENTS AND BLENDS

• Applying a gradient fill
• Adjusting the direction of the gradient blend
• Adding colors to a gradient
• Creating smooth-color blends
• Blending Objects
• Modifying the blend
• Combining blends with gradients
• Transparency in gradients

WEB GRAPHICS

• Pixel Preview mode
• Slices and image maps
• Optimising export
• Working with SVG and SWF files
• Sharp Web Graphics

BITMAPS

• Changing Vectors to Bitmaps
• Auto-trace Bitmaps
• Applying Special Effects

TRANSPARENCY

• Applying transparency
• Blending modes
• Transparency knockouts
• Opacity masks

AUTOMATION

• Actions
• Data-driven artwork

Perspective Drawings

• Adding Perspective planes
• Locking objects to a plane
• Modifying planes

MESH EFFECTS

• Filling with the gradient mesh tool
• Specifying the number of mesh lines
• Applying colours to the mesh
• Editing mesh points
• Applying transparency to a mesh

PRINTING AND COLOUR SEPARATIONS

• Printing: An overview
• Colour management
• Soft-proofing colours
• Using the Document Info command
• Creating colour separations
• Overprinting objects

MASKS

• Creating
• Modifying
• Selecting
• Mask Palette

LIVE TRACE

• Tracing Artwork
• Using Trace presets
• Converting to paths

LIVE PAINT

• LivePaint groups, regions and edges
• Bucket options
• Gap Options
• Converting objects to LivePaint groups

USING VARIABLES

• Data driven objects
• Updating objects by Importing variables
• Exporting variables

SYMBOLS

• Drawing with symbols
• Use symbolism tools
• Symbol libraries

GRAPHS

• Graph types
• Data window
• Formatting graphs
• Combining graph types