Adobe Illustrator CS6

 

 

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 CS6 — Introduction

 

 

Getting Started

  • Restoring default preferences
  • Saving and deleting current Illustrator preferences
  • To restore saved preferences after completing the lessons

What's New in Adobe Illustrator CS6

  • Perspective Drawing
  • Beautiful Strokes
  • Bristle Brush
  • Multiple art board enhancements
  • Shape Builder tool
  • Drawing enhancements
  • Round-trip editing with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS6
  • Resolution-independent Effects
  • Clean, sharp graphics for web and mobile devices
  • Integration with Adobe CS Review

A Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator CS6

  • Working with multiple art boards
  • Creating shapes
  • Working with the Shape Builder tool
  • Working with drawing modes
  • Working with strokes
  • Working with color groups and recoloring artwork
  • Placing Adobe Photoshop images in Illustrator
  • Using Live Trace and Live Paint
  • Working with the Blob Brush tool
  • Working with type
  • Using the Appearance panel and effects
  • Working with brushes
  • Creating and editing a gradient
  • Working with symbols
  • Working with perspective

Getting to Know the Work Area

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

Selecting and Aligning

  • Selecting objects
  • Using the Selection tool and Direct Selection tool
  • Creating selections with a marquee
  • Creating selections with the Magic Wand tool
  • Selecting similar objects
  • Align objects to each other
  • Aligning to a key object
  • Aligning points
  • Distributing objects
  • Aligning to the artboard
  • Working with groups
  • Working in isolation mode
  • Adding to a group
  • Arrange objects.
  • Selecting objects behind
  • Hiding objects
  • Applying selection techniques

Creating and Editing Shapes

  • Creating a document with multiple art boards
  • Working with basic shapes
  • Accessing the basic shape tools
  • Understanding drawing modes
  • Creating rectangles, rounded rectangles, ellipses, and polygons
  • Draw Inside mode
  • Changing stroke width and alignment
  • Working with line segments
  • Joining paths
  • Creating Stars
  • Using the Eraser tool
  • Using the Width tool
  • Outlining strokes
  • Combining and editing shapes
  • Working with the Shape Builder tool
  • Working with Pathfinder effects
  • Working with shape modes
  • Using Live Trace to create shapes

 

Transforming Objects

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

Drawing with the Pen and Pencil Tools

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

Colors and Painting

  • 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 patterns and gradients
  • Applying existing patterns
  • Creating, applying, and editing a pattern
  • Creating a Live Paint group
  • Editing Live Paint regions
  • Working with Gap Options

Working with type

  • Creating point and area type
  • Importing a plain text file
  • Creating columns of text
  • 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 open and closed paths
  • 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 CS6 — Advanced

 

 

Working with Perspective Drawing

  • Understanding perspective and the Perspective Grid
  • Using a preset grid
  • Editing the Perspective Grid
  • Drawing objects in perspective
  • Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
  • Attaching objects to perspective
  • Editing planes and objects together
  • Adding and editing text in perspective
  • Working with and adding Symbols to the Perspective Grid
  • Transforming Symbols in perspective
  • Releasing content from perspective

Blending Colors and Shapes

  • 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

  • Using Calligraphic brushes
  • Editing a brush
  • Using a fill color with brushes
  • Remove a brush stroke
  • Using Art brushes
  • Drawing with the Paintbrush tool
  • Editing paths with the Paintbrush tool
  • Create and Edit an Art brush
  • Painting with a Bristle brush
  • Creating and Using a Pattern brush
  • Applying a Pattern brush
  • Changing the color attributes of brushes
  • Changing a brush color using Tints and Hue Shift colorization
  • Drawing and Working with the Blob Brush tool
  • Merging paths with the Blob Brush tool
  • Editing with the Eraser tool

Applying Effects

  • Using live effects
  • Editing and Applying an effect
  • Styling text with effects
  • Editing shapes with a Pathfinder effect
  • Offsetting paths
  • Applying a Photoshop effect
  • Working with a 3D effect
  • Creating a revolved object
  • Changing the lighting of a 3D object
  • Mapping a symbol to the 3D artwork

 

Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles

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

Working with Symbols

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

Combining Illustrator CS6 Graphics with Other Adobe Applications

  • Working with Adobe Bridge
  • Combining artwork
  • Vector versus bitmap graphics
  • Placing Adobe Photoshop files
  • Duplicating and editing a placed image
  • Embed a Photoshop image with Layer comps
  • Applying color edits to a placed image
  • Masking an image
  • Applying a clipping mask to an image
  • Editing a mask
  • Masking an object with multiple shapes
  • Release a mask
  • Creating an opacity mask
  • Sampling colors in placed images
  • Replacing a placed, linked image
  • Exporting a layered file to Photoshop
  • Illustrator and Adobe InDesign
  • Illustrator and Adobe Flash
  • Illustrator and Adobe Flash Catalyst
  • Illustrator and Adobe Flex

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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 one of only a handful of instructors with multiple Adobe Creative Suite Master Designations. He currently holds one each for Web, Video and Design. An Adobe Certified Instructor since 2006, he provides relevant instruction due to real world work experience with the entire Adobe Creative Suite. He maintains application development and interactive concentrations in HTML 5, CSS, PHP, SQL, AJAX, XML and JavaScript. Mr. Johnson is the Owner and lead Pre Visualization Producer for Clarendon Cr Design in Southern California. He has 16 years of professional creative development and management experience in interactive, entertainment, advertising and print. He is an architect of numerous web based commerce and database connectivity solutions, as well as a developer of e-commerce systems for telecoms and Southern California entertainment studios. He is a specialist in digital photography and video for broadband.

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, FCP, STP & Logic.

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.

Jessica Thornhille-Skeete

Jessica Thornhille-Skeete is a recent Masters graduate from Columbia University in the area of Instructional Technology and Media, with a focus on mobile learning management system design. Ms. Skeete teaches iOS app development across the US, and enjoys introducing students of varying programming backgrounds to the wonderful world that is app development. Working in technical support for a top telecommunications company enriched Ms. Skeete's understanding of mobile devices and their capabilities ensuring her classroom a technilogically advanced environment. Ms. Skeete caters the hands-on-lab courseware to the level and interest of her students so they learn information relevant to their industry. Additionly, she is working on multiple apps, two of which will be available in the app store by September 2012.

Shelley Weiner

President of Business Rules, Inc., was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and graduated from Colby College and Columbia University. She started her career in graphic arts production management and spent eight years in commercial printing sales before turning her hand to technology. Shelley moved to rural Columbia County, NY in 2002, and opened her own Apple authorized training center in Rhinecliff, NY in 2006. Jazzing jaded technicians and opening PC minds to the joys of Apple hardware and software are two of her biggest highs, along with cooking with, and for, friends, listening to everything from fado to opera to samba, and reading non-fiction of all types.




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