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Training Course Summary:

Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard vector graphics creation software for print and the Web. Illustrator expands your creative freedom and enhances your productivity with its new Web graphics tools, versatile transparency capabilities, powerful object and layer effects, gradient mesh, pathfinders, and other innovative features. Now you can use these fast, flexible tools to transform your creative ideas into sophisticated graphics for use on the Web, in print, or in dynamic media projects.

Training Course Overview/Content:

Application Overview
Vector vs. Raster based images
Starting the application
Opening files from the hard drive, and opening new files
Saving files, and choosing file formats
Setting Preferences and colour Settings

Overview of the Illustrator Workspace
Toolbox, palettes, hiding and docking palettes

Navigation
Getting around, and viewing images using the Navigator palette
Zooming in and out
Using the Hand tool
Custom views
Viewing images in Preview mode, and Artwork mode

Working With colour
Applying Fills and Strokes
Adjusting Stroke weight
Using the Swatches Palette
Dragging and dropping new colours to the Swatches Palette, and onto objects
Loading Custom colour libraries
Using the colour sliders to choose colours

Layers
Creating, viewing, reordering, linking, and moving
Locking layers

Object Tools
Using the Ellipse, Rectangle, Star, and Polygon tools
The Pen Tool
Creating curves and straight lines
Tracing objects with the Pen tool
Modifying Pen paths

Basic Key Commands

Manipulation of Objects and Object Transformation
Moving, duplicating, selecting and deselecting
Grouping and Ungrouping
Arranging objects
Locking objects
Aligning objects

The Selection Tools
The Selection tool, Group selection tool, and Direct selection tool

Pathfinder Filters
Using the Pathfinder filters to combine objects and paths

The Transformation Tools
Scaling, rotating, distorting, and Free Transforming objects

The Gradient Tool
Using the gradient tool
Creating and saving gradients

Rasterizing Objects
Creating and viewing objects as pixels

The Appearance Palette

Masking Objects
Using paths to mask objects
Adding layer masks to objects

The Transparency Palette
Adding transparency to objects

The Styles Palette
Using and creating new styles

Working With Text
Using the Text tools
Area Type
Type on a path
Vertical type
Converting type to outlines