Adobe Illustrator Level 1

Course Details

Course Duration – One day

Course Objectives

This course focuses on Illustrator, the component used to create “drawn” graphics, while enabling its users to integrate content from other domains (such as photo-oriented graphics and animation, which belong to Photoshop® and Flash®). With Illustrator's many, easily used tools, you will discover that not only can you unlock the same creative impulses you've always had as you've picked up a pencil to sketch out an idea, but also capture those multiple ideas and “what ifs” during the creative process in ways that you never imagined. And for those of you who are just embarking on building your creative skills, you will be surprised at “how good” your work will appear even at the outset of your exploration of the world of graphic design.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to use Adobe Illustrator to create illustrations that include graphics and text.

This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities and who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Course Content

Introduction to Illustrator

• Evaluate Graphics Scalability
• Navigate, View, and Measure Graphics
• Customize the User Interface

Creating Documents Containing Basic Shapes

• Create Documents
• Save Documents
• Draw Basic Shapes

Creating Graphics Containing Customized Paths

• Draw Paths
• Modify Paths

Creating Graphics Containing Customized Text

• Insert Text
• Flow Text Along a Path
• Insert Bounded Text
• Thread Text
• Apply Text Styles
• Insert Typographical Characters

Customizing Objects

• Import and Link Graphics
• Alter the Appearance of Objects

Customizing Basic Shapes

• Apply Strokes
• Fill Shapes
• Apply Gradients
• Apply Graphic Styles
• Distort Text with Text Envelopes

Preparing Documents for Deployment

• Update Text
• Wrap Text
• Hyphenate Text
• Optimize Content for Print
• Optimize Content for the Web
• Optimize Content for PDF Documents

Prerequisites

You should be familiar with the basic functions of your computer’s operating system such as creating folders, launching programs, and working with windows. You should also have basic Windows application skills, such as copying and pasting objects, formatting text, saving files, and so on.

Familiarity with basic design terminology, such as palettes, colour modes, shapes, text, and paths is highly recommended.