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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:

Review
Review of basic path creation
Review of the Pen Tool
Review of File Formats

Blends
Basic shapes and colours
Complex blends for shadowing and highlighting
Making blends for use as animations

Advanced Editting Tools
Using the Scissors and Knife tools
Using the Eyedropper and Bucket tools
Using advanced Distortions tools
Using the Pencil and Smooth tools
Using the Simplify command

Patterns
Creating, editing, applying, and saving
Custom Patterns from Illustrator's Library
Seamless Patterns

Typography
Applying Effects to editable type
General Type effects

Web Usage
Previewing vector images as they will display in Pixels
Save for Web
When to use Gif or Jpeg
Saving SVG files
Saving in SWF format for use as Flash animations

Effects
Applying nondestructive visual effects to objects, images, and type
Creating editable shapes
Adding Drop Shadows and Glows

Actions
Automating repetitive tasks

Gradient Mesh Tool
Creating custom highlights and gradients for objects

The Styles Palette
Using, and creating new styles
Saving and editing styles

Artistic Brushes
Creating and saving artistic brushes

The Appearance Palette
Using the Appearance Palette to apply multiple strokes and fills

Blending Modes
Isolating Blending modes
Knockout Group Option

Compound Paths
Managing paths with holes
Working With Photoshop
Placing and embedding Photoshop files
Going back and forth between Illustrator and Photoshop
Using Photoshop files as tracing templates

Advanced Masking
Single and multiple masking objects
Using Clipping Masks and Opacity Masks
Importing Layer Masks from Photoshop
Using masks with the Layers Palette