adobe illustrator - advanced

By attending Adobe Illustrator - Advanced workshop, Participants will learn:

  • Applying appearance attributes and graphic styles
  • Symbols and Flash integration
  • Illustrator tools
  • Combining Illustrator graphics with other Adobe applications
  • Printing and color management
  • Creating and working with objects
  • Patterns, brushes, symbols, and paths
  • Scripts and actions
  • Tips and tricks

Adobe Illustrator - Advanced training course, which is a combination of instructor-led demonstrations and hands-on exercises, you will learn the advanced techniques of working with Illustrator so that you can incorporate visual effects into your workflow.

  • Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X
  • Photoshop Essentials

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, most comprehensive way to learn Illustrator.

COURSE AGENDA

  • Advanced understanding of Illustrator Objects
  • What Object can become what Object?
  • Advances uses of the Blend Object
  • Gradient or Mesh
  • Advanced use of the Symbol Sprayer
  • Advanced use of the Variable Width
  • Expanding
  • Compound Shape vs. Compound Path
  • Breaking it all a part
  • Layers Panel
  • Patterns
  • Gradient on a stroke
  • Image Trace
  • Gaussian Blur
  • Variable Width Options
  • Perspective drawing
  • Bristle brush
  • Multiple art boards enhancements
  • Shape Builder tool
  • Mesh tool
  • Mesh as opacity mask
  • Lasso tool
  • Warp tool
  • Twirl tool
  • Pucker tool
  • Bloat tool
  • Scallop tool
  • Crystallize tool
  • Wrinkle tool
  • Width tool
  • Polar grid tool
  • Rectangular grid tool
  • Flare tool
  • Free transform tool
  • Graph tools
  • Scissor tool
  • Knife tool
  • Perspective
  • Perspective Grid
  • Using a preset grid
  • Editing the Perspective Grid
  • Drawing objects in perspective
  • Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
  • Attaching content to perspective
  • Editing planes and objects together
  • Adding and editing text in perspective
  • Working with symbols in perspective
  • Adding symbols to the Perspective Grid
  • Transforming symbols in perspective
  • Releasing content from perspective
  • Horizontal plane
  • Using live effects
  • Applying an effect
  • Using live effects
  • Applying an effect
  • Editing an effect
  • Styling text with effects
  • Editing shapes with a Pathfinder effect
  • Applying the Offset Path effect
  • Working with a 3D effect
  • Creating a revolved object
  • Changing the lighting of a 3D object
  • Mapping a symbol to the 3D artwork
  • Where to put the Effect
  • Using appearance attributes
  • Editing and adding appearance attributes
  • Adding another stroke
  • Adding another fill
  • Reordering appearance attributes
  • Applying an appearance to a layer
  • Using graphic styles
  • Creating and spacing a graphic style
  • Applying a graphic style to an object
  • Replacing graphic style attributes
  • Applying a graphic style to a layer
  • Editing a graphic style applies to a layer
  • Applying an existing graphic style
  • Applying multiple graphic styles
  • Applying a graphic style to text
  • Copying and removing graphic styles
  • Creating web graphics
  • Aligning content to the pixel grid
  • Slicing content
  • Selecting and editing slices
  • Using the Save For Web command
  • Symbols
  • Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
  • Creating symbols
  • Editing a symbol
  • Replacing symbols
  • Breaking a link to a symbol
  • Editing symbol options
  • Editing 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
  • Creating a Graph
  • Types of Graphs
  • Making a Design for Columns and Markers
  • Updating the Data
  • Masking an image
  • Applying a simple clipping mask to an image
  • Editing a mask
  • Masking an object with a shape
  • Masking an object with multiple shapes
  • Creating an opacity mask
  • Editing an opacity mask
  • Adobe Bridge
  • Combining artwork
  • Vector versus bitmap graphics
  • Placing Photoshop files
  • Transforming a placed image
  • Embedding a Photoshop image with layer comps
  • Applying color edits to a placed image
  • Masking an image
  • Applying a simple clipping mask to an image
  • Editing a mask
  • Masking an object with a shape
  • Masking an object with multiple shapes
  • Creating an opacity mask
  • Editing an opacity mask
  • Sampling colors in placed images
  • Image links
  • Finding link information
  • Replacing a linked image
  • Exporting a layered file to Photoshop
  • Illustrator and Web Designers
  • Illustrator and Print Designers
  • Illustrator and Interactive Designers
  • Illustrator and Video Compositors