Adobe Illustrator Introduction:
Illustrator is the market leading illustrations program, used to produce original artwork for print and the web. Excellent text control tools allows Illustrator to be used as a very feasible desktop publishing program.
Course Outline
Introduction to Illustrator 1 - 2 Days
Who is it for?
Anyone wishing to create original artwork for print and the web.
Prerequisites
This courses is designed for people with little or no knowledge of Illustrator.
- The Basics
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- Raster and Vector graphics
- Opening existing documents & setting up new documents
- Deciding on the colour mode & setting up the art board
- Artwork and preview mode
- Saving artwork & using the palettes
- The status bar, toolbox, rulers, grids and guides
- Creating Basic Shapes
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- The pen, line, pencil, brush, freehand and reshape tool
- The paint, eyedropper, gradient mesh and grid tools
- The smooth and eraser tools & the magic wand tool
- Selecting objects & parts of objects
- Modifying, cutting and closing paths
- Resizing, rotating, hiding and deleting objects
- Blending tools & transforming objects
- Colour & Graphics
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- The swatches & colour palette
- Creating gradients & the gradient palette
- Filling and stroking shapes
- Adding colours to the swatches palette
- Placing images
- Creating compound paths
- Using the Pathfinder
- Using the brushes and graphic styles palettes
- Printing, general and setup options
- Typography
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- Entering, editing & formatting text
- Adding type to a path
- Converting type to outlines
- Wrapping text around shapes