Illustrator 9 - Introduction

Course Length: One-Day
Fees: Training at Client Offices: One delegate: £495 per-day + VAT
Additional delegates attending: £100 each per-day + VAT

Overview: The Introduction course will establish a firm foundation in Illustrator by mastering the primary tools and techniques necessary to create complex and attractive illustrations and text effects. Delegates will learn to use Illustrator's foundational tools and techniques to create artwork and illustrations that could be used in printed materials or for distribution on the World Wide Web. Adobe® Illustrator® 9.0 expands your creative freedom and enhances your productivity with its new Web graphics tools, versatile transparency capabilities, powerful object and layer effects, and other innovative features. Now you can use these fast, flexible tools to transform your creative ideas into sophisticated graphics for use on the Web, in print, or in dynamic media projects.

Objectives

	Navigate in the Adobe Illustrator environment.
	Master the use of the Pencil and Pen tools to create paths.
	Use several tools to manipulate and modify paths.
	Create and edit geometric objects.
	Apply fill and stroke attributes to objects and paths.
	Define process colours and gradients and work with spot colours.
	Use layers to manage complex illustrations.
	Use the Transparency palette to change the opacity of selected objects.
	Enter and format type in an illustration, and create eye-catching type effects.

Illustrator Environment

	Parts of a Window
	Navigating in Illustrator

Working with Paths

	Vector Graphics and Raster Graphics
	Drawing Tools
	Pen Tool
	Creating Straight Segments with the Editing Paths

Working with Objects

Using Rulers

Creating & Editing Objects

Paint Attributes

	Applying & Creating Colours
	Gradients
	Using Brushes
	Transparency

Layers

	Stacking Order
	Using Layers

Working with Type

	Creating Type
	Type within an Area
	Copying Type Formatting
	Type on a Path
	Type Objects
	Creating Outlines

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