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Adobe Illustrator, Course G401 Syllabus
Week 1 - Overview of illustration basics
- Raster vs. vector graphics
- Print vs. web
- Creating new drawings & opening existing drawings
- Page set up
- Setting the rulers, grids and guidelines
- Smart Guides Smart guide preferences
- One last guide to set
- Viewing your work - full screen previews, zooming
- Gleaning information on your document (document info)
- Illustrator's Design Tools
- Grid
- Artboard
- Offsetting objects
- Bounding Box
- Navigation or "Where the heck did that drawing go?"
- Setting preferences/customizing Exporting your file
Week 2 - Tools
- Toolbars
- Let's Play
- Drawing, selecting, moving & manipulating object
center points
- Drawing lines, curves, arcs
- Pen Tool Paths
- Straight segments
- Smooth points
- Non-continuous curve
- Drawing an Ogee Curve
- Video demonstration
- Working with Anchor Points
- Setting Line Measurements & Validating for Errors
- Setting line measurements
- Attributes Palette
- Validating measurements
- Manipulating lines
- Filling & outlining
- Symbols
- The Pencil Tool Set
- Pencil Tool
- Smooth Tool
- Erase Tool
- The Brush Tool
- Brush options
- Brush types
- Get me outta this! Escaping brush mode.
- Undo the deed
- Special Focus Lecture
- Real Life Drawing Challenges
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Week 3 - Transforming Objects
- Copy and Duplicating
- Transforming Objects
- Scaling & Stretching
- Rotating & Reflecting
- Shearing
- Pathfinder Palette
- Combining shapes
- Add
- Subtract
- Intersect
- Exclude
- Live Paint to Color Paths
- Divide
- Trim
- Merge
- Crop
- Outline
- Minus Back
- Positioning objects
- Aligning & Distributing
- Stacking/Ordering objects
- Nudging
- Tyin' 'em Together & Breakin' 'em apart
- Grouping & ungrouping
- Locking & unlocking
- Combining & breaking apart
- Hiding and revealing
- Hackin' & A 'Hewin'
Week 4 - Layers, Color, Type & Appearance
- Layers
- Working with color
- A word about color
- Color aspects
- Special painting tools
- Spot & process color
- One last word
- Working with text
- Adding, selecting & manipulating text
- Editing existing text
- Formatting
- Fitting text to a curve or line
- Fitting text to a shape
- Wrapping text
- Symbols & special characters
- Spacing, kerning & leading
- Spell checking
- Text special effects
- Text to Outlines
- Styles
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Week 5 - Live Paint & Live Trace (Available
in CS2 Only)
- Live Paint
- Live Paint Paths
- Live Paint Groups
- Limits
- Back to Paths
- Converting Existing Objects into Live Paint Groups
- Expanding or Releasing a Live Paint Group
- Live Paint Bucket Options
- Live Paint Selection Tool
- Live Paint Selection Tool Options
- Live Trace
- Tracing raster art
- Tracing options
- Tracing presets
- Expanding or Releasing a live trace
- Converting a traced object to a Live Paint Group
Week 6 - ClipArt, 3D, Special Effects, and
Working with Images
- Working with clipart 3D Tips & Tricks
- Filters & Effects
- Light sources and drop shadows
- Special Focus Lecture - Positioning Shadows
- Special Focus Lecture - Using Version CS 3D Modeling Tools
- Perspective
- Final Words on Perspective
- Working with images
- Special Effects
- Distortion & Object Creation Tools
- Appearance Palette
Week 7 - Blends, Meshes, Masks & Libraries
- Blends
- Gradient Meshes
- Masks
- Transparency masks
- Clipping masks
- Libraries
- Library Locations & Custom Libraries
- Creating/Editing Custom Library Items
- Working with Symbol Libraries
- Few Final Words on Libraries
- Actions
- Action options
- Creating a new action set
- Recording an action
- Scripting
- Working with Image Maps
- Slicing
Week 8 – Illustrator & The Web
- Input
- A Word on Output Types
- Color Gamut
- Output Types
- Dithering
- Anti-alias
- JPG
- GIF
- PNG
- TIFF
- SVG
- SWF
- Sharing files with PhotoShop
- Output Options
- Working with Flash
- SVG - A Closer Look
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