ILCS3FT - Adobe Illustrator CS3: Fast Track
In the first day of this course, students will use Adobe Illustrator CS3 to draw and manipulate simple shapes to create logos, combine text and graphics to create advertisements, create logos using custom paths, create a logo with type effects and add body type to a document.
The second day of this Illustrator CS3 course teaches students to create more complex illustrations, print documents without errors or color mismatches, prepare illustrations for the Web, convert raster graphics to vector graphics, create a banner graphic, export a graphic for the Web, apply color management and prepare documents for composite and commercial printing.
What's New in Adobe Illustrator CS3
Workspace improvements
Control panel enhancements
Document startup profiles
Drawing enhancements
The Eraser tool
Live Color
Layers panel enhancements
The Crop tool
Symbol workflow improvements
Enhanced support for digital video workflows
Dynamic and input text
Quick Tour of Adobe Illustrator CS3
Working with color groups and Live Color
Placing Photoshop images in Illustrator CS3
Using Live Trace
Using the Control panel for typesetting
Getting to Know the Work Area
Viewing artwork
Using the Illustrator tools
Changing the view of artwork
Selecting and Aligning
Using the Selection tool
Using the Direct Selection tool
Creating Shapes
Creating basic shapes
Using basic shape tools
Drawing the pencil shape
Using the Pencil tool
Drawing the pencil can
Using Live Trace to create shapes
Tips for drawing polygons, spirals, and stars
Transforming Objects
Scaling objects
Reflecting objects
Rotating objects
Distorting objects
Shearing objects
Positioning objects precisely
Changing the perspective
Using the Free Transform tool
Making multiple transformations
Drawing with the Pen tool
Creating straight lines
Creating curved paths
Building a curve
Curves and corner anchor points
Creating the pear illustration
Drawing curves
Finishing the pear illustration
Exploring on your own
Color and Painting
Color Mode
Using the Appearance panel for fills and strokes
Building and saving your own custom color
Using Illustrator swatch libraries
Creating color groups
Editing color with Live Color
Painting with gradients and patterns
Create a PDF from your artwork
Working with type
Understanding text flow
Saving and using styles
Wrapping text around a graphic
Working with Layers
Creating layers
Locking layers
Viewing layers
Pasting layers
Creating clipping masks
Merging layers
Applying appearance attributes to layers
Blending Shapes and Colors
Creating a gradient fill
Adjusting the direction of the gradient blend
Adding colors to a gradient
Creating smooth-color blends
Blending intermediate steps
Modifying the blend
Combining blends with gradients
Working with Brushes
Using Art brushes
Using Scatter brushes
Applying a Scatter brush to paths
Changing the color attributes of brushes
Using a fill color with brushes
Using Calligraphic brushes
Using Pattern brushes
Creating brushes
Applying the Scribble Effect
Applying Effects
Creating a banner logo with the Warp effect
Creating the 3D cylinder
Using the 3D Extrude effect
Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles
Document Startup Profiles
Using appearance attributes
Copying, applying, and removing Graphic Styles
Working with Symbols
Working with symbols
Editing Symbols
Creating Symbols
Applying a symbol instance
Using the symbolism tools
Editing symbols
Updating a symbol
Breaking a link to a symbol
Storing and retrieving artwork in the Symbols panel
Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork
Symbols and Flash integration
Combining Illustrator CS3 Graphics with the Creative Suite
Combining artwork
Vector versus bitmap graphics
Creating a crop area
Placing an Adobe Photoshop file
Duplicatin g a placed image
Applying Color Edits to a placed image
Masking an image
Sampling colors in placed images
Replacing a placed image
Exporting a layered file to Photoshop
Printing Artwork and Producing Color Separations
Printing: An overview
About printing devices
About color
What is color management?
Printing black-and-white proofs
Soft-proofing colors
Using the Document Info command
Creating color separations
Separating colors
Working with two-color illustrations
Creating a trap
Overprinting objects
Saving and printing files with transparency effects
Exporting and importing flattening settings
Saving as Adobe PDF