Adobe Illustrator CS5 Training
Adobe Illustrator CS5
Course Outline
1. Getting to Know the Work Area
- Using the Illustrator tools
- Working with panels
- Using panel menus
- Using the zoom tool
- Using view commands
- Using the Navigator Panel
- Understanding rulers
- Arranging multiple documents
- The Search of Help Box
2. Selecting and Aligning
- Using the Selection Tools
- Working with the Magic Wand
- Selecting similar objects
- Aligning objects
- Aligning points
- Distributing objects
- Aligning to the artboard
- Working with groups
- Working in isolation mode
- Adding a group
- Object arrangement
- Applying techniques
3. Creating Basic Shapes
- Using the basic shape tools
- Understanding drawing modes
- Creating rectangles
- Creating ellipses and polygons
- Draw inside mode
- Changing stroke width and alignment
- Working with line segments
- Joining paths
- Using the eraser tool
- Using the width tool
- Outlining strokes
- Combining and editing shapes
- Working with the Shape Builder tool
- Working with Pathfinder effects
- Working with shape modes
- Using Live Trace to create shapes
4. Transforming Objects
- Working with Artboards
- Editing, renaming, and reordering Artboards
- Transforming content
- Working with rulers and guides
- Scaling objects
- Reflecting, rotating, distorting, and Shearing objects
- Positioning objects precisely
- Changing perspective
- Multiple transformations
5. Working with the Pen Tool
- Creating straight lines
- Building a curve
- Curves and corner anchor points
- Selecting and manipulating curves
- Editing curves
- Deleting and adding anchor points
- Convert between smooth and corner points
- Drawing and editing with the pencil tool
6. Color and Painting
- Color modes
- Understanding the color controls
- Creating color
- Build and save a custom color
- Swatch libraries
- Spot Color and Color Picker
- Creating and saving a tint of a color
- Copying attributes
- Creating and editing color groups
- Working with the Kuler panel
- Assigning colors to your artwork
- Adjusting colors
- Painting with patterns and gradients
- Applying existing patterns
- Editing a pattern
- Working with and editing Live Paint
- Working with Gap Options
7. Working with Type
- Importing a text file
- Creating columns of text
- Understanding text flow and working with overflow text
- Threading text
- Working with font size and color
- Paragraph attributes
- Saving and using styles
- Creating Character styles
- Sampling text
- Creating text on paths and shapes
- Creating text outlines
8. Working with Layers
- Creating, moving, locking, pasting layers
- Creating clipping masks
- Merging layers
- Applying appearance attributes to layers
- Isolating layers
9. Working with Perspective Drawing
- Understanding perspective
- Working with the perspective grid
- Using a preset grid
- Drawing objects in perspective
- Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
- Attaching objects to perspective
- Editing planes and objects together
- Adding and editing text and symbols in perspective
- Release content from perspective
10. Blending Shapes and Colors
- Creating a gradient fill
- Creating and applying a linear gradient
- Adjusting the direction of a gradient
- Creating a radical gradient
- Adding colors to a gradient
- Applying gradient to multiple objects
- Adding transparency to gradients
- Creating a blend with specified steps
- Creating smooth-color blends
11. Working with Brushes
- Using Calligraphic brushes
- Editing a brush
- Using a fill color with brushes
- Remove a brush stroke
- Using art brushes
- Drawing with the paintbrush tool
- Create and edit an Art brush
- Bristol brush options
- Creating and applying a pattern brush
- Changing the brush color options
- The Blob Brush tool
- Painting with a Bristle brush
- Editing the Eraser tool
12. Applying Effects
- Using live effects
- Applying and editing an effect
- Styling text with effects
- Editing shapes with a Pathfinder effect
- Offsetting paths
- Applying a PhotoShop effect
- Working with a 3D effect
- Creating a revolved object
- Changing the lighting of a 3D object
- Mapping a symbol to the 3D artwork
13. Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles
- Editing and adding appearance attributes
- Reordering appearance attributes
- Adding an additional stroke and fill
- Using graphic styles
- Creating and saving a graphic style
- Applying a graphics style to an object and to a layer
- Applying existing graphic styles
- Applying an appearance to a layer
- Copying, applying, and removing graphic styles
14. Working with symbols
- Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
- Creating and editing a symbol
- Breaking a link to a symbol
- Replacing and renaming symbols
- Working with the Symbolism tools
- Copy and edit symbol sets
- Storing and retrieving artwork in the Symbols panel
- Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork
- Symbols and Flash integration
15. Working with Adobe Bridge
- Combining artwork
- Vector versus bitmap graphic
- Placing Photoshop files
- Duplicating and editing a placed image
- Applying colors to a place image
- Masking an image
- Applying a clipping mask to an image
- Editing a mask
- Masking an object with multiple shapes
- Release a mask
- Creating an opacity mask
- Sampling colors in placed images
- Replacing a placed, linked image
- Exporting a layered file to PhotoShop
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