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Training Course Summary:

Imagine being able to create logos, professional type effects, complex airbrush effects and colour control using Illustartor CS3 after just 2 days training!!

That's what you'll be able to do after taking this Illustrator training course from Academy Class.

Discover high quality drawing and illustration with Adobe Illustrator CS3. You will start with an overview of Illustrator and work on lessons that will step you into a greater skill level. Discover the unique features of Illustrator, including how to create logos, professional type effects, complex airbrush effects and colour control.

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based graphics program that allows beginners and experts alike to create professional quality print and web designs. In this Illustrator course, you will learn skills that allow you to take advantage of Illustrator's powerful tools to create illustrations and type effects. Learn to design advertisements and printable documents. Work with colors, gradients, layers, fonts, and photos to create eye-catching illustrations and text effects. We'll discuss both the print and web uses of this sophisticated graphics program. Through Illustrator, you will have new creative freedom that to realize your ideas quickly and powerfully, instantly converting bitmaps to vector artwork and paint more intuitively, saving time with intelligent palettes and optimized workspaces and integrate with other software allowing you to produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices.
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

create a logo using simple shapes.
enhance logos.
create logos using custom paths.
create a logo with type special effects.
create an advertisement.
import body type.
manage your creative assets using Adobe Bridge.

Pre-Requisites:

Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of your computer's operating system. For example, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CD and other media.

Who Should Attend:

Graphic designers, or people transitioning into a design job or taking on design responsibilities, who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents. They may have little or no experience with Illustrator. They may already use InDesign and Photoshop.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Essential Illustrator Concepts
What are Vector Graphics?

Create a Custom Workspace

Fill and Stroke Attributes

Document Settings

The Illustrator Interface - Enhanced in CS3
Exploring panels and workspaces

Using the Control Panel

Navigation

Smart Guides

Preview Options

Grids and Guides

The Bounding Box

Panels

Libraries - New in CS3

Drawing and Selection Essentials
Draw Paths with the Pen Tool

Shape Tools

The Seletion Tools - Enhanced in CS3

Methods of Selection

Shapes

Duplicate Objects

Mastering the Pen Tool

The Pencil tool

Path Editing - Enhanced in CS3
Editing Anchor Points - Enhanced in CS3

Compound Shapes

Pathfinder Options

Eraser tool - New in CS3

Manipulating and Editing Paths

Outlining Strokes

Path Options

Appearances
The Appearance Panel

Object Attributes

Multiple attributes

Applying Live Effects

Graphic Styles

Appearance Panel settings

Working with Groups and Layers
Defining groups

Editing groups

Working with layers

Layers and object hierarchy
Working with Color - Enhanced in CS3
Defining swatches - Enhanced in CS3

Creating swatch groups and libraries

Working with gradients

Working with patterns

Using the Color Guide - Enhanced in CS3

Live Colour - New in CS3

Finding colors with kuler - New in CS3

Modifying color in artwork

Object Transformation and Positioning
Moving and copying objects

Rotating and scaling objects

Reflecting and skewing objects

Using the Free Transform tool

Using the Transform panel

Repeating transformations

Using the Transform Each function

Aligning objects

Distributing objects
Brushes
Creating a calligraphic brush

Creating a scatter brush

Creating an art brush

Creating a pattern brush
Using Symbols
Defining and editing symbols

Editing symbols
Applying Filters and Live Effects
Minding your resolution settings

Applying the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect

Applying the 3D Revolve effects

Mapping artwork to 3D objects

Transforming Effects

Using the Stylize effects

Using the Scribble effect

Using the Warp effect
Basic Text Editing
Creating Point Text

Creating Area Text

Text Formatting

Creating Text Threads

Text on a Path

Using the Glyphs panel

Checking spelling

Using the Change Case function

Convert Text to Outlines

Creating Blends
Creating a basic blend

Using a blend to create an airbrush effect
Working with Images
Placing images

Using the Links panel

The Edit Original workflow

Live Trace

Rasterizing artwork
Specialised Tasks
Creating graphs

Using Gradient Mesh

Using Envelope Warps

The Liquify Distortion tools

Saving and Printing
Saving your Illustrator document

Printing your Illustrator document

Using the Crop Area tool - New in CS3

Setting up page tiling