Adobe Illustrator

Course details

Adobe Illustrator has firmly established itself as a market leader in digital illustration and graphics.This course will helps the students to develops the skills for creating, managing, and editing vector artwork.Gain a sound introduction to the concepts of vector graphics and their implementation within the design process, and learn best practice approaches, which boost your productivity.

COURSE CONTENT

Module 1: Workspace

• Workspace basics
• Customizing the workspace
• Tools
• Tool galleries
• Files and templat
• Using multiple art boards
• Viewing artwork
• Rulers, grids, guides, and crop marks
• Undo, Redo

Module 2:Drawing

• Drawing basics
• Drawing simple lines and Shapes
• Drawing with the Pencil tool
• Drawing with the Pen tool
• Editing paths
• Perspective drawing
• Tracing artwork with Live Trace
• Manually trace artwork using template layers
• Symbols
• Drawing flares

Module 3: Color

• About color
• Selecting colors
• Using and creating swatches
• Working with color groups
• Adjusting colors
• Color Panel

Module 4: Painting

• About painting
• Painting with fills and strokes
• Live Paint groups
• Brushes
• Transparency and blending modes
• Gradients
• Meshes
• Patterns

Module 5: Selecting and arranging objects Tools

• Selecting objects
• Grouping and expanding objects
• Moving, aligning, and distributing objects
• Rotating and reflecting objects
• Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
• Duplicating objects

Module 6: Typing

• About type
• Creating text
• Creating type on a path
• Scaling and rotating type
• Spelling and language dictionaries
• Fonts
• Formatting type
• Line and character spacing
• Character and paragraph styles

Module 7: Reshaping objects

• Transforming objects
• Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects
• Reshape using envelopes
• Combining objects
• Cutting and piding objects Clipping masks
• Blending objects
• Reshaping objects with effects
• Creating 3D objects

Module 8: Creating special effects

• Working with effects
• Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
• Creating sketches and mosaics
• Graphic styles

Module9: Creating Web Pages

• Web Page Designing
• practices for creating web graphics
• Slices and images

Module 10:Printing

• Setting up documents for printing
• Printing color separations
• Printer’s marks and bleed
• Printing with color management
• Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends
• Printing and saving transparent artwork
• Overprinting
• Print presets

Module 11:Keyboard shortcuts

• Customizing keyboard shortcuts
• Default keyboard shortcuts