You will learn

• Logo Design
• Brochure design
• Vector Artwork
• Recreate Artwork
• Business Cards
• Create Backgrounds
• Web Layouts
• Icon design
• Various type of printing technics

About the work Area

• Introduction
• An Overview of Adobe Illustrator
• Title-bar, Menu-bar, Toolbar and Illustrator palettes

Looking at the Work Area

• Using palettes
• Toolbox overview
• Using context menus
• Using the Navigator palette
• Using the status bar
• Setting preferences

Viewing artwork

• Setting up windows and views
• Viewing artwork as paths
• Viewing artwork as pixels
• Viewing how colors will overprint
• Magnifying and reducing the view

Setting Up Artwork in Illustrator

• About vector graphics and bitmap images
• About resolution in bitmap images
• Setting up the work area
• Tiling artwork and adjusting page boundaries
• Opening and placing artwork
• Managing linked and embedded images

Drawing in Illustrator

• About paths
• Drawing and editing free form paths
• Adjusting path segments
• Drawing shapes
• Drawing flares
• Drawing line and arc segments
• Drawing spirals
• Working with symbols
• Using symbolism tools
• Drawing and editing brushed paths
• Managing brushes
• Creating brushes
• Using the brush libraries
• Tracing artwork

Working With Objects

• Using rulers
• Changing the ruler origin
• Using the measure tool
• Using guides and grids
• Using Smart Guides
• Selecting objects
• Using the measure tool
• Moving, copying, and deleting objects
• Grouping and un-grouping objects
• Locking and hiding objects

Transforming and Distorting Shapes

• Transforming and Distorting Shapes
• Transforming selected objects
• Using the bounding box
• Using Warp effects
• Using envelopes
• Modifying shapes with liquify tool
• Modifying shapes with filters and effects
• Blending shapes
• Using the Pen & Ink filters
• Using the Pathfinder palette
• Combining objects into complex shapes
• Creating compound paths
• Converting strokes to filled objects
• Working with clipping masks

Color modes and models

• HSB model
• RGB model
• CMYK model
• Color gamuts
• About spot and process color types
• Working with swatches and unnamed colors
• Using the Color palette
• Applying color by dragging and dropping
• Using the Stroke palette
• Using the Color Picker

Using Transparency, Gradients,and Patterns

• Using the Transparency palette
• Creating opacity masks
• Create a clipping mask
• Working with gradient fills
• Creating multicolored objects with the mesh tool
• Creating and working with patterns
• Constructing patterns with irregular textures

Using Layers

• Using the Layers palette
• Creating and modifying layers
• Changing the appearance of artwork using the Layers
• palette
• Locking artwork
• Hiding or displaying artwork

Using Appearance Attributes,Styles, and Effects

• Using the Appearance palette
• Using styles
• Using style libraries
• Using effects

Working with Bitmap Images

• Changing vector graphics into bitmap images
• Applying filters and filter effects

Using Type

• Creating type & Select type
• Showing hidden characters
• Using the Character palette
• Transforming type
• Changing text orientation
• Modifying letterforms as graphic objects
• Working with columns of text
• Formatting columns and paragraphs
• Editing tex
• Checking spelling
• Finding and replacing text
• Changing capitalization

Saving and Exporting

• Saving artwork in Illustrator format
• Saving artwork in .EPS format
• Saving artwork in Adobe PDF format
• Exporting artwork in Photoshop format

Printing

• Various type of printing technics
• Types of printing
• Half-toning
• Color separation
• Printing your file

Automating Tasks

• About automating tasks using actions and scripts
• Using the Actions palette
• Creating and recording actions
• Playing actions
• Batch processing
• To delete a set, action, or command
• To save a set of actions
• Playing Actions