| Course Title : Adobe Illustrator CS5 - Introductory Workshop
Duration : 1 Day
Pricing : Basic - 1 person $750, 2 people $850 for both (see pricing page for full details)
Pre-requisites : Introduction to Windows or the Mac or equivalent experience.
For Whom: The course is intended for people who wish to create illustrations with full control of the image, including line shapes, thickness and fill. Custom colours and colour separations are also covered.
Course Objectives: At the conclusion of the training participants will be able to -
- Create an Illustrator document
- Create shapes in a drawing
- Select the colours in the drawing
- Reshape existing objects
- Reshape curves
- Create custom gradient fills
- Fit text to a curve
- Create Special Effects
- Work with drawing layers
- Apply 3D Effects
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The Illustrator Working Environment
- Viewing artwork
- Illustrator tools
- Working with palettes
- Using context menus
- Using the Control palette
- Multiple Artboards
Creating Basic Shapes
- Using basic shape tools
- Rectangles, Ovals, Freehand, Straight Lines, Arcs
- Drawing polygons, spirals, and stars
- Copying and scaling shapes
- Blob Brush
Selecting Objects
- Selection Tools
- Magic wand
- Selecting Anchor Points
- Selecting Paths
- Selecting Several Objects
Object Attributes
Colours
- Swatches and palettes
- Live Colour
- Matching Colours
- Colour schemes
- Kuler
Transforming Objects
- Scaling objects
- Rotating objects
- Distorting objects
- Shearing objects
- Positioning objects precisely
- Reflecting objects
- Changing the perspective
- Using the free transform tool
- Making multiple transformations
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The Bridge
- Accessing files
- Views
- Meta data and batching
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Working with Type
- Adding type to a document
- Changing character attributes
- Changing paragraph attributes
- Defining and applying Styles
- Creating columns of type
- Text flow
- Glyph palette
- Wrapping type around a graphic
- Typing along a path
- Creating type outlines
- Creating type masks
Using the Pen Tools
- Drawing straight lines and curves
- Editing curves
- Manipulating Points
- Using the Scissors Tool
- Add, Delete, & Convert Points
Special Effects
- Effects
- Roughening, Scribble & Tweaking
- Twirling, Punking and Bloating
- Rounding Corners
- Drop Shadows
- Transparency Effects
- Resolution Independent Effects
Working with Layers
- Creating layers
- Moving objects and layers
- Viewing & Locking layers
- Creating clipping masks
- Merging layers
- Applying appearance attributes to layers
3D Effects
- Extruding & bevelling objects
- Revolving Objects
- Rotating objects in 3D
- Surface Shading and lighting
- Mapping artwork to a surface
Animation
- Quick look at Flash Catalyst
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