Adobe Illustrator CS5 Training

Course review:

Creating illustrations in a vector program like Adobe Illustrator can either be quite exciting or pretty frustrating if you don't know what your doing.

It's therefore essential to learn some simple illustration techniques for easy production of great-looking professional artwork.

Course outline

Introducing Illustrator

• Using the Welcome Screen
• Introducing Vector Based Paths
• Working with Layers in Illustrator
• Introducing Anchor Points

Shapes

• A Look at the Shape Tools. Creating a Circle, Star and Rectangle
• Aligning Shapes
• Combining Shapes

Fill, Stroke and Colour

• Fill and Stroke
• An Overview of the Colour Palette
• CMYK vs. RGB
• Creating and Saving new Colour Swatches
• Creating a fill Patter

Creating and Formatting Type

• Importing Text into Illustrator
• Selecting Text for Reformatting
• Moving Text to a New Text Container
• Reformatting Text with the Paragraphs Pallet
• Altering Text Font and Size

Transforming Paths

• Introducing Path Transformations
• Duplicating Objects
• Moving Objects in Increments
• Moving Paths
• Working with Swatches
• Grouping Paths
• Using the Scale Tool
• Using the Rotate Tool
• Rotating Multiple Objects
• Advanced Rotate Options

Using the Pen Tool

• Drawing with the Pen Tool
• Modifying a Path
• Using and Editing Spline Curves
• Using Bezier Curves
• Using Direction Handles & Anchor Points

Pathfinder

• Working with the Pathfinder Palette
• Comparing Pathfinder Behaviours
• Joining Paths
• Cropping, Uniting and Arranging
• Selecting and Deselecting Paths
• Fill Options and other pathfinder operations