Adobe Illustrator CS3 Level 1

Overview:

Adobe Illustrator CS3 software is an essential design tool for anyone who needs to express ideas visually in print, on the Web, and in any other medium.

Description:

Who Should Attend:
Illustrator is a professional tool for graphic designers and production artists.
   
Prerequisites:
This is a beginning Illustrator course. No previous experience with the program is required. All students should be familiar with using a mouse, file management and general operations of a Macintosh or Windows operating system.
    
Course Outline:   
LESSON 1: APPLICATION OVERVIEW
Vector vs. Raster based images
Starting the application
Saving files, and choosing file formats
RAM and Hard Drive requirements

LESSON 2: PREFERENCES
Setting Illustrator preferences and Color Settings

LESSON 3: OVERVIEW OF THE WORKSPACE
Toolbox, palettes, hiding and docking palettes

LESSON 4: NAVIGATION
Getting around, and viewing images using the Navigator palette
Zooming in and out
Using the Hand tool
Custom viewsViewing images in Preview mode, and Artwork mode

LESSON 5: COLORS
Applying Fills and Strokes
Adjusting Stroke weight
Using the Swatches Palette
Dragging and dropping new colors to the
Swatches Palette, and onto objects
Loading Custom color libraries
Using the color sliders to choose colors

LESSON 6: LAYERS
Creating, viewing, reordering, and moving
Locking layers

LESSON 7: OBJECT TOOLS
Using the Ellipse, Rectangle, Star, and Polygon tools

LESSON 8: THE PEN TOOL
Creating curves and straight lines
Tracing objects with the Pen tool
Modifying Pen paths

LESSON 9: BASIC KEY COMMANDS

LESSON 10: MANIPULATION OF OBJECTS AND OBJECT TRANSFORMATION
Moving, duplicating, selecting and deselecting
Grouping and Ungrouping
Arranging objects
Locking objects
Aligning objects

LESSON 11: THE SELECTION TOOLS
The Selection tool, Group selection tool, Direct selection tool, Lassos, and Magic Wand

LESSON 12: THE TRANSFORMATION TOOLS
Scaling, rotating, distorting, and Free Transforming objects

LESSON 13: RASTERIZING OBJECTS
Creating and viewing objects as pixels

LESSON 14: TEXT
Using the Text toolsArea TypeType on a path
Vertical typeConverting type to outlines