Adobe Illustrator Introduction

Course Contents

The Bascis

• Overview of features
• Illustrator's approach to drawing
• techniques
• Setting your stroke and fill attributes
• Basic geometrical shapes
• Drawing straight paths
• Creating curved paths
• Using the freehand tool
• Auto trace tool
• Selecting Objects
• Arranging objects
• Editing Drawn objects
• Printing documents

Text Handling

• Entering and editing text
• Using text labels and text boxes
• Entering text along and within a path
• Creating and editing text outlines

Drawing techniques

• Creating your own patterns
• Measuring and constraints
• Guide objects
• Using crop marks
• Hiding and locking objects
• Transformation tools
• Using compound paths
• Masking objects
• Blend tool
• Overview of using filters
• Working with layers

Object Attribute

• Defining your colours
• Saving colours as swatches
• Spot and process colours techniques
• Setting stroke attributes
• Adding arrows
• Setting fill attributes
• Creating and applying gradients

Manipulating Objects

• Making selections
• Saving selections
• Moving objects
• Duplicating objects
• Aligning objects
• Grouping and ungrouping
• Stacking order
• Locking and hiding

Graphic Tool

• Creating a graph
• The graph types
• Importing data