Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator CS3
Adobe Illustrator is a powerful vector drawing software. In this instructor-led course lessons contain projects that build upon the student's growing knowledge of the software while reinforcing key concepts and skills. Illustrator is jam-packed with new features and enhancements, including Live Color, a new environment that enables users to explore, apply, and save custom color configurations; improved integration with Adobe Flash, which ensures that your vector illustrations import effortlessly to Flash with their anchor point positions, layers, and paths intact; a new Eraser tool, which lets users quickly modify objects or create entirely new shapes; a new Crop Area tool, which lets users set up a workspace so that it's automatically primed for the type of media that will display their design, whether it's print, Web, video, or film; new document profiles, newly improved drawing tools and controls, and much more. Whether you're brand-new to Adobe Illustrator or are looking for a project-based learning experience this course will prepare you with the key techniques and tips you need to get the most out of this software.

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Course Outline | Adobe Illustrator CS4 — Introduction

Getting Started

  • Restoring default preferences
  • To save current Illustrator preferences
  • To delete current Illustrator preferences
  • Additional resources

What's New in Adobe Illustrator CS4

  • Workspace improvements
  • Multiple artboards
  • Smart guides
  • Gradient enhancements
  • Transparency in gradients
  • The Blob Brush tool
  • In-panel appearance editing
  • Enriched Graphic Styles panel

A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator CS4

  • Working with multiple artboards
  • Working with alignment and smart guides
  • Working with the Blob Brush tool
  • Placing Adobe Photoshop images in Illustrator CS4
  • Using Live Trace
  • Using Live Paint
  • Working with color groups and Edit Color/Recolor Artwork
  • Working with type
  • Using the Appearance panel
  • Saving the appearance as a graphic style
  • Applying warp to the text
  • Creating and editing a gradient
  • Working with symbols
  • Creating a clipping mask

Getting to Know the Work Area

  • Understanding the workspace
  • Working with the Tools panel
  • The Control panel
  • Working with panels
  • Using panel menus
  • Resetting and saving your workspace
  • Changing the view of artwork
  • Viewing artwork
  • Using the view commands
  • Using the Zoom tool
  • Scrolling through a document
  • Navigating multiple artboards
  • Arranging documents
  • Document groups
  • Using the Navigator panel
  • Finding Resources for using Illustrator
  • Searching for a topic in Help
  • Checking for updates

Selecting and Aligning

  • Using the Selection tool
  • Using the Direct Selection tool
  • Creating selections with a marquee
  • Creating selections with the Magic Wand tool
  • Grouping items
  • Adding to a group
  • Working in isolation mode
  • Selecting similar objects
  • Applying selection techniques
  • Advanced selection techniques
  • Aligning objects
  • Aligning to a key object
  • Aligning points
  • Distributing objects
  • Aligning to the artboard

Creating and Editing Shapes

  • Creating a document with multiple artboards
  • Working with basic shapes
  • Accessing the basic shape tools
  • Creating with shapes
  • Outlining strokes
  • Working with line segments
  • Joining paths
  • Using the Eraser tool
  • Combining objects
  • Working with Pathfinder effects
  • Working with shape
  • Using Live Trace to create shapes

Transforming Objects

  • Working with artboards
  • Adding artboards to the document
  • Editing artboards
  • Transforming content
  • Working with rulers and guides
  • Scaling objects
  • Reflecting objects
  • Rotating objects
  • Distorting objects
  • Shearing objects
  • Positioning objects precisely
  • Changing the perspective
  • Using the Free Distort effect
  • Making multiple transformations

Drawing with the Pen and Pencil Tools

  • Creating straight lines
  • Creating curved paths
  • Building a curve
  • Converting curved points to corner points
  • Creating an illustration
  • Creating an arrow
  • Splitting a path
  • Adding arrowheads
  • Drawing curves
  • Selecting a curve
  • Drawing different kinds of curves
  • Convert between smooth points and corner points
  • Editing curves
  • Deleting and adding anchor points
  • Drawing with the Pencil tool
  • Editing with the Pencil tool
  • Assembling parts
  • Painting the artwork

Color and Painting

  • Understanding color
  • Color modes
  • Understanding the color controls
  • Creating color
  • Building and saving a custom color
  • Editing a swatch
  • Using Illustrator swatch libraries
  • Creating a spot color
  • Using the Color Picker
  • Creating and saving a tint of a color
  • Copying attributes
  • Creating color groups
  • Working with the Color Guide panel
  • Editing a color group
  • Editing colors in artwork
  • Working with the Kuler panel
  • Assigning colors to your artwork
  • Adjusting colors
  • Painting with gradients and patterns
  • Using patterns
  • Creating your own pattern
  • Applying a pattern
  • Editing a pattern
  • Working with Live Paint
  • Editing Live Paint regions

Working with Type

  • Working with type
  • Creating point type
  • Creating area type
  • Importing a plain text file
  • Creating columns of text
  • Understanding text flow
  • Working with overflow text and text reflow
  • Threading text
  • Resizing type objects
  • Formatting type
  • Changing the font size
  • Changing the font color
  • Changing additional text attributes
  • Changing paragraph attributes
  • Saving and using styles
  • Creating and using a paragraph style
  • Creating and using a character style
  • Sampling text
  • Reshaping text with an envelope warp
  • Wrapping text around an object
  • Creating text on paths and shapes
  • Creating text outlines

Working with Layers

  • Creating layers
  • Moving objects and layers
  • Locking layers
  • Viewing layers
  • Pasting layers
  • Creating clipping masks
  • Merging layers
  • Applying appearance attributes to layers
  • Isolating layers

Course Outline | Adobe Illustrator CS4 — Advanced

Blending Shapes and Colors

  • Working with gradients
  • Creating and applying a linear gradient
  • Adjusting the direction and angle of a gradient blend
  • Creating a radial gradient
  • Changing colors and adjusting the gradient
  • Applying gradients to multiple objects
  • Adding transparency to gradients
  • Working with blended objects
  • Creating a blend with specified steps
  • Modifying the blend
  • Creating smooth color blends

Working with Brushes

  • Working with the Blob Brush tool
  • Drawing with the Blob Brush tool
  • Editing with the Blob Brush and Eraser tools
  • Merge paths with the Blob Brush tool
  • Working with brushes
  • Using Art brushes
  • Drawing with the Paintbrush tool
  • Editing paths with the Paintbrush tool
  • Using Scatter brushes
  • Changing brush options
  • Applying a Scatter brush to paths
  • Changing the color attributes of brushes
  • Changing the brush color using Hue Shift colorization
  • Changing the brush color using Tints colorization
  • Using a fill color with brushes
  • Using Calligraphic brushes
  • Using Pattern brushes
  • Creating brushes
  • Creating swatches for a Pattern brush
  • Creating a Pattern brush from swatches
  • Painting with the Pattern brush
  • Applying the Scribble effect
  • Exploring on your own
  • The Blob Brush tool
  • Applying brushes
  • Creating brushes

Applying Effects

  • Using live effects
  • Applying an effect
  • Editing an effect
  • Creating a banner logo with the Warp effect
  • Creating logotype
  • Stylizing the banner and logotype
  • Creating a 3D cylinder
  • Using the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect
  • Applying a symbol as mapped artwork
  • Creating a revolved object
  • Changing the lighting
  • Mapping a Photoshop image
  • Adjusting the lighting

Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles

  • Using appearance attributes
  • Editing and adding appearance attributes
  • Reordering appearance attributes
  • Adding an additional stroke and fill
  • Using graphic styles
  • Creating and saving a graphic style
  • Applying a graphic style to an object
  • Applying a graphic style to a layer
  • Applying existing graphic style
  • Adding to an existing graphic style
  • Applying an appearance to a layer
  • Copying, applying, and removing graphic styles

Working with Symbols

  • Working with symbols
  • Using Illustrator symbol libraries
  • Creating symbols
  • Spraying symbol instances
  • Editing symbol sets using the symbolism tools
  • Editing symbols
  • Updating a symbol
  • Breaking a link to a symbol
  • Replacing symbols
  • Storing and retrieving artwork in the Symbols panel
  • Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork
  • Symbols and Flash integration

Combining Illustrator CS4 Graphics with Other Adobe Applications

  • Working with Adobe Bridge
  • Combining artwork
  • Vector versus bitmap graphics
  • Editing the artboard
  • Placing an Adobe Photoshop file
  • About layer comps
  • Editing and duplicating a placed image
  • Applying color edits to a placed image
  • Masking an image
  • Applying a clipping mask to an image
  • Creating compound paths and opacity masks
  • Editing an imported mask
  • Sampling colors in placed images
  • Replacing a placed image
  • Exporting a layered file to Adobe Photoshop
  • Placing Illustrator files in Adobe InDesign
  • Integrating Illustrator and Adobe Flash
  • Creating Illustrator files for Adobe Flex

Output

  • Understanding the printing process
  • Understanding printing devices
  • Halftone screens
  • Screen frequency
  • Output device resolution
  • About color
  • RGB color model
  • CMYK color model
  • Spot colors
  • What is color management?
  • Setting up color management in Illustrator
  • Soft-proofing colors
  • Color separations
  • Previewing color separations
  • Printing color separations
  • Specifying the bleed area
  • Separating colors
  • Specifying the screen frequency
  • Working with two-color illustrations
  • Separating spot colors
  • Understanding trapping
  • Overprinting objects
  • Saving and exporting artwork
  • Using the Document Info panel
  • Saving a file with transparency
  • Saving in the EPS format
  • Printing transparent artwork
  • Saving as Adobe PDF

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Instructor

Rich Baim

An Adobe Certified Instructor for Adobe Premiere Pro with over twenty years of video editing experience. Rich has a Master of Science degree in Instructional Media and was one of the beta testers for Premiere Pro 1.5. He currently works in the eLearning department at a technology center and specializes in streaming media for health education. Rich emphasizes real-world problem solving and provides "hands-on" experiences for students.

Margaret A. Gaeddert

Margaret "Margee" Gaeddert, is a certified professional designer and owner of G Art & Design in Oklahoma City. A 30 year career in design as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer has awarded her regional, national and international awards. She has worked with Fortune 500 and 1000 corporations such as AOL, Avon, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co, Sony Music, CNBC.com and Gucci. Local corporations include American Fidelity, KOCO Television, Metropolitan Library Association and Sperry Van Ness. She teaches design at the University of Central Oklahoma. Gaeddert enjoys serving on the board of the Oklahoma Watercolor Association, and two design advisory boards supporting education in Oklahoma. She holds a bachelor's of fine arts degree and is an accomplished award winning fine artist in watercolor media, calligraphy and caricature art.

Jason Gaines

Mr. Gaines is a certified professional in both Logic Pro 8 and Soundtrack 2. He is currently in demand as an instructor of both applications. Current projects include independent film work and collaboration on the television series, LA Ink. Jason Gaines is a New York City based trumpeter, composer and arranger. He has performed and recorded with some of the most influential performers in the jazz idiom including Arturo Sandoval, Roy Hargrove, Joshua Redman, Freddie Hubbard, Jackie McLean, Gerald Wilson and others. He holds degrees from Manhattan School of Music, New York University and Teachers College, Columbia University.

Foster Johnson

Foster Johnson is the Owner and Lead Creative for Foster Johnson Studios. He has 10 years of professional creative development and leadership experience in interactive, print and advertising, executing creative direction, art direction and team strategy. An architect of numerous web based commerce and database connectivity solutions, as well as e-commerce, telecoms, entertainment, advertising, publishing, photography and video for broadband. Johnson is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) with expert level application skills in Adobe Creative Suite 3, including: Flash using ActionScript 3.0, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects Pro, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Captivate 3.0, LiveCycle ES as well as QuarkXPress and web application development using advanced CSS, SQL, AJAX, XML, RSS, Google AdSense and AdWords.

Rick Allen Lippert

Rick Allen Lippert is president of Lippert Media in Oklahoma City with 30 years experience on both sides of the camera. Specializing in industrial production, he has won numerous awards for his writing, producing, and directing for clients such as the Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City University, the City of Oklahoma City, the University of Central Oklahoma, the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.His commercial clients include CompSource Oklahoma and Dane Design. Rick has been using Final Cut Pro since version 1.25. As an adjunct instructor, he teaches video production at Oklahoma City Community College and media writing at the University of Oklahoma.

Kiri Roberts

Kiri Christopher Roberts is the creative director of One Media USA, a media production house located in Albany, NY. Born in Zimbabwe, Kiri migrated to the UK where he received a Masters in Audio Production from the University of Westminster in London. With a diverse international experience he has worked on music production, TV commercials, documentary films, music videos and currently ‘Frozen River’ the movie. Kiri is also a contributing writer for the Edit-Well magazine whose editor is Larry Jordan of LA. Kiri balances his time between his business and as a trainer for Apple Pro Apps. He is an Apple Certified end user and trainer for Motion 3, FCP6, STP2 & Logic 8.

Adam Karneboge

Adam Karneboge, an avid road warrior and trainer for Metro Technology Centers, is a partner, and Director of Services & Technology, for MacSpecialist, a full-service Apple shop with locations in Villa Park and Chicago, IL. Adam is an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician, Apple Certified Technical Coordinator and Apple Certified System Administrator, teaching all of Apple's IT courses. including Xsan. Over the past five years, Adam has taught more than 160 classes for Apple, MacSpecialist, AATC's, and various companies and school districts, to outstanding reviews. He is also an avid fan who wholeheartedly stands with the Chicago Cubs. He wants you to know that he has a brick in the pavement outside Wrigley Field reading, "The Karneboge's, If It Takes Forever.”

Rob Daniels

Rob Daniels is President and Owner of Tech Wyze, Inc., in Kansas City, a computer consulting and training company. Rob began his career in professional digital photography in the early 1990s and found himself supporting his employer's computer imaging systems. After making a transition into the IT world, he became network manager of a publishing company and spent four years training graphics professionals across North America. Later, Rob established his own IT company to support such clients as Hallmark Cards, Kansas City Power & Light, and many more. Rob is a CompTia Certified Technical Trainer +, Apple Certified Trainer, and Adobe Certified Instructor. He holds numerous other IT certifications.

Cameron L. Fadjo

Cameron L. Fadjo is an instructor of iPhone/Objective-C 2.0 and Java development at Columbia University's Teachers College. A former Business Specialist with Apple and product specialist for Native Instruments, GmBH, Mr. Fadjo has over seven years of experience as a corporate trainer and leader. He holds a certification as a teacher in the state of New Hampshire and as a certified professional in Logic Pro 8. In addition, he holds a Bachelor of Music (B.M) in Music Synthesis from Berklee College of Music and an M.A. (Instructional Technology and Media) and Ed.M. (Cognitive Studies in Education) both from Teachers College, Columbia University. While he is pursuing his PhD from Columbia University, Mr. Fadjo is the lead researcher on a 4-year project using innovative and experimental ways to teach computer science and is concurrently the Director of the iPhone Development Group at Teachers College.

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