Adobe Illustrator
Course Duration: One Day
Target Audience:
This course is designed for graphics 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 Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop.
Course Objectives:
Adobe Illustrator is a sophisticated graphics program capable of creating complex and attractive illustrations and type effects. You may need to create logos, advertisements, and other illustrations in Illustrator. If you have little or no experience with Illustrator, it can be overwhelming to start creating complex illustrations. In this course you will start by drawing and manipulating simple shapes to create logos. You will also combine text and graphics to create advertisements.
Course Outline:
Creating Logos Using Simple Shapes
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Choosing New Document Settings
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Creating a Custom Workspace
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Drawing Basic Shapes with the Shape Tools
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Drawing Paths with the Pencil Tool
Enhancing Logos
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Formatting Objects
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Manipulating Objects
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Inserting Type
Creating Logos Using Custom Paths
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Drawing Paths with the Pen Tool
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Modifying Existing Shapes
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Creating New Shapes
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Duplicating Objects
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Appling Graphic Styles
Creating a Logo with Type Special Effects
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Appling Gradients to Type
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Creating Type on a Path
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Appling an Envelope to Type
Creating an Advertisement
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Importing a Graphic
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Aligning Objects
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Appling Spot Colours
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Wrapping Text
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Exporting a File
Manipulating Body Type
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Importing Body Type
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Formatting Type with Styles
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Fixing Spelling Errors
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Finding and Replacing Text
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Inserting Typographic Characters
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Search for files and content
Managing Assets with Adobe Bridge
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Exploring the Adobe Bridge Environment
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Appling Metadata and Keywords to Assets in Adobe Bridge
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Appling Spot Colours