Illustrator 10 - Intermediate

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

Overview: Adobe Illustrator 10 is a vector graphics package with creative options and powerful tools for efficient publishing artwork on the Web, in print, everywhere. You can produce superb Web graphics using symbols and innovative slicing options. Explore creative ideas with live distortion tools. With versatile transparency capabilities, live object and layer effects, and an overprint preview mode, Adobe Illustrator 10 provides the control you need to achieve the highest quality output.

The Intermediate course will show delegates how to create dynamic graphics using advanced drawing and editing tools, path editing techniques, filter effects, and masks. You'll take advantage of Illustrator features such as the Transparency palette, live effects, and the Appearance palette to create engaging effects.

Objectives

	Draw with advanced object drawing tools and dynamically change their settings
	Use advanced path editing techniques such as splitting, duplicating, and simplifying
	Create and edit exciting graphics using a gradient mesh and blends between objects
	Perform exact transformations to move, rotate, reflect, and shear visually or in precise increments
	Modify compound paths, create compound shapes, and combine paths with the Pathfinder palette
	Convert vector images to raster and apply specialized filters
	Copy and paste live effects, dynamically edit the vector images that use them, and use the Appearance palette to manage the application of effects and styles
	Create layer masks and edit clipping masks

Advanced Drawing Tools

Advanced Drawing Tools

Advanced Path Editing

	Splitting Paths
	Duplicating Paths
	Simplifying Paths
	Aligning Objects
	Nesting Layers

Gradients and Blends

	Gradient Mesh
	Blends

Transforming

	Scaling
	Rotating
	Reflecting
	Shearing
	Transform Each

Compound Paths and Shapes

	Compound Paths
	Combining with the Pathfinder Palette

Raster Images and Filters

	Converting Vector Graphics to Raster
	Applying Filters to Raster Objects

Live Effects and Appearance

	Applying Live Effects
	Editing Live Effects
	The Appearance Palette
	Envelope Distortions

Masking

	Layer Masks
	Editing Masks

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