Course Fee: $795 per student

Adobe Illustrator is offered as a 2-day course. All classes begin at 9am.

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Syllabus

• Viewing artwork
• Using the Illustrator tools
• Changing the view of artwork
• Working with palettes

Creating Basic Shapes

• Setting up the document
• Using the tools
• Drawing shapes
• Painting artwork
• Copying & scaling shapes
• Painting
• Filling with color
• Stroking with color
• Building a custom palette

Working with Brushes

• Using the Art Brushes
• Using Scatter Brushes
• Changing the color attributes of brushes
• Using a fill color with brushes

Transforming Objects

• Scaling objects
• Rotating objects
• Distorting objects

• Sampling type
• Changing the character size
• Creating columns of type
• Changing character attributes of placed text
• Changing paragraph attributes

Blending Shapes and Colors

• Creating a gradient fill
• Adjusting the direction of the gradient blend
• Adding colors to a gradient
• Creating smooth-color blends
• Blending intermediate steps
• Modifying the blend
• Combining blends with gradients
• Creating Shapes with the Pathfinder
• Uniting shapes

Creating Layers

• Moving objects and layers
• Locking layers
• Viewing layers

Creating Watercolor or Airbrush Effects

• Setting Smart Guide preferences
• Painting with the gradient mesh tool
• Specifying the number of mesh lines
• Applying colors to the mesh

• Drawing three-dimensional objects
• Drawing Cylinders

Printing Artwork & Producing Color Separations

• Overview of printing
• Color management
• Printing B&W proofs
• Document info command
• Creating Color separations
• Working with two-color illustrations
• Creating a trap
• Overprinting objects

Preparing Graphics for Web Publication

• Optimizing images for the Web
• Exporting flat-color artwork
• Exporting continuous- tone and gradient artwork