Adobe Illustrator

Description:

Adobe® Illustartor® is the most popular industry standard freehand illustration
software in the market. Using Illustrator you can create images from scratch. Adobe®
Illustrator software is an essential tool for anyone who needs to express ideas visually
in print, on the Web, and in any other medium. With powerful 3D features, advanced
typographical controls, Illustrator helps you explore your creative vision and efficiently
publish your artwork anywhere.

Goal:
In Adobe Illustrator course you will learn how to use the many different tools, drawing
and painting, modifying shapes, using layers and type, apply bitmap image filters,
making selections, symmetrical drawings, tracing over a images, creating a custom
colors, creating and editing a gradient fill, working with columns of text, type masks,
create different shape effects and much more....

Hands-on Introduction to Illustrator's Power

Unit 1

• Drawing Paths
• Ovals, Rectangles
• Polygons, Spirals, Stars
• Selection Tools
• Fills and Strokes
• Freehand Drawing
• Lines, Curves, Anchor Points
• Introduction to Type
• Type on a Path
  

Unit 2

• Average & Join Commands
• Scissors, Anchor Points
• Path Manipulation
• Select Options
• Creating Precise Shapes
• Rotating
• Working with Layers
• Auto Tracing

Unit 3

• Custom Colors
  

  Class Exercises:

  • Bezier Straight Lines
  • Bezier Curve Practice
  • Bezier Curve Drawing

  Class Exercises:

  • No Smoking Sign
  • Auto Tracing

  **Design Project:

  • Logo Design

Unit 4

Unit 5

• Fill and Path Patterns
• Transforming Patterns
• Working With Type
• Character Formatting
• Paragraph Formatting
• Area-Type
• Linked and Wraparound Text
• Creating Outlines
• Type on a Path
• Vertical Type
• Info Palette
• Using Type as a Mask
• Appearance
• Transparency
• Effects
• Styles

Class Exercises:

• Masks & Compound Paths
• Masking with Type
• Creating a 3-D Object

Class Exercises:

• Styling Effects
• Appearance & Styles

Class Exercises:

• Blending
• Creating Patterns,
• Transforming Patterns,
• Creating and Applying
• Colors,and Lighting Effects
• Using Pathfinder/
• Transparency
• Joy of Painting
• Guides

**Design Project:

• Packaging Design

**Design Project:  

• One Page Advertisement

Unit 6-7

• Placing Art
• Links Palette
• Moving Art between Illustrator & Photoshop
• Document Info
• Filters & Effects
• Create, Distort, Stylize Filters
• Layers
• Knife Tool
• Object-Path Functions
• Align Palette
• Ink Effects
• Measurements Tool
• Gallery Effects
• Page Tool
• Document Setup
• Preferences/Defaults
• Pixel Preview (Web feature)
• Save for the Web
• Keyboard Shortcuts

Class Exercises:

• Illustrating a Shirt Design
• Multiple Layered Illustration

**Design Project:

• DM Design
• We hope you enjoyed the lessons and learned a lot