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Adobe Illustrator

Course Overview

This course is designed for those who want to become Graphic Designers in the Print & Web Media. A Graphic Designer is responsible for designing advertisements, posters, brochures, Web Banners, logos, Greeting cards etc.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course the participant will:

  • Design layouts, Paper Adverts, CD Covers, Posters
  • Cartoons
  • Brochures
  • Package Design
  • Logo

Introduction

  • Getting familiar with Illustrator CC interface
  • Introduction
  • Document Setup
  • Working with new Documents
  • Zooming & Panning
  • Placing Files
  • File Browser
  • Shortcuts

Introduction To Shapes

  • Tool Box & Tool Options Bar
  • Creating Shapes
  • Basic Shapes
  • Rectangle
  • Rounded Rectangle
  • Ellipse
  • Polygon
  • Star

Modifying Shapes

  • Selection Tool
  • Sub Selection Tool
  • Lasso

Working With Pathfinder

  • Adding shapes
  • Subtracting Shapes
  • Intersecting Shapes
  • Excluding Shapes

Working With Colors

  • Fill Stroke
  • Eye dropper
  • Color Picker
  • Gradients

Working With Rulers

  • Zero Point
  • Guidelines
  • Safe Margins

Working With Objects

  • Lock
  • Group
  • Path options

Drawing Tools

  • Brush
  • Brush settings
  • Borders
  • Pencil
  • Smooth
  • Line

Working With Text

  • Artistic & Paragraph Text
  • Type on Path
  • Area Type
  • Text Effects
  • Paragraph & Character Styles

Transforming Pictures,Shapes & Text

  • Scale
  • Rotate
  • Skew
  • Flip

Creating Complex Shapes

  • Working with Pathfinder
  • Working with shape builder
  • Pen tool
  • Spiral, pencil, smooth
  • Working with Blob brush

Color And Painting

  • Understanding color
  • Creating color
  • Editing a swatch
  • Using Illustrator swatch libraries
  • Using the Color Picker
  • Copying attributes
  • Creating color groups
  • Working with the Color Guide panel
  • Editing colors in artwork
  • Working with the Kuler panel
  • Painting with patterns and gradients
  • Creating your own pattern
  • Working with Live Paint

Perspective Grid

  • Understanding the Perspective Grid
  • Working with the Perspective Grid
  • Using a preset grid
  • Editing the Perspective Grid
  • Drawing objects in perspective

Blending Colors And Shapes

  • Working with gradients
  • Changing colors and adjusting the gradient
  • Applying gradients to multiple objects
  • Adding transparency to gradients
  • Working with blended objects
  • Creating a blend with specified steps
  • Modifying the blend
  • Creating smooth color blends

Applying Appearance Attributes And Graphic Styles

  • Using appearance attributes
  • Editing and adding appearance attributes
  • Using graphic styles
  • Creating and saving a graphic style
  • Applying a graphic style to a layer
  • Applying an appearance to a layer
  • Copying, applying, and removing graphic styles

Working With Symbols

  • Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
  • Creating and Editing a symbol
  • Working with the symbolism tools
  • Storing and retrieving artwork in the Symbols panel
  • Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork

Working With Patterns

Image Tracing

Working With Images And Mask

  • Applying color edits to a placed image
  • Masking an image
  • Applying a clipping mask to an image
  • Masking an object with multiple shapes
  • Release a mask
  • Creating an opacity mask
  • Sampling colors in placed images
  • Replacing a placed, linked image

Photoshop Connection

  • Placing a Photoshop file
  • Duplicating and editing a placed image
  • Embed a Photoshop image with Layer comps
  • Exporting a layered file to Photoshop

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