- Introduction to Illustrator’s environment
- Working with Menus, Palettes and the Document Window
- About the Control Palette
- Using and saving Workspaces
- Setting preferences
- Moving around the Artboard
- Using the Navigator palette
- Options for viewing artwork
- Using Illustrator Help
- Working wit hBasic Tools
- Using the Toolbox
- Selection techniques with the Selection and Direct Selection tools
- Line and Shape tools
- Modifing tool options
- Techniques for polygons, rounded rectangles, spirals and stars
- Defining the Stroke and Fill of shapes
- Transforming and Controlling Shapes
- Grouping
- Work in Group Isolation Mode
- Understanding nested groups
- The Group Selection tool
- Using the Free Transform tool
- Changing the stacking order of objects
- Working with the Layers palette
- Objects
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Scaling objects
- Rotating objects
- Reflecting objects
- Distorting objects
- Shearing objects
- Position objects precisely
- Live Paint
- Create a Live Paint Group
- Edit Live Paint regions
- Add objects to Live Paint Groups
- Use the Live Paint tool
- Set Gap options
- Colour
- Color fundamentals
- Color Modes (RGB / CMYK)
- Defining and using Global and Spot Colours
- Mixing Colours with the Colour Palette and Colour Picker
- Saving, loading and exporting Swatches
- Creating, editing and applying Gradients
- Sampling colours with the
- Eyedropper tool
- Live Trace
- Importing bitmap graphics
- Converting bitmap art intov ector paths
- Working with Live Trace presets and options
- Drawing with the Pencil Tool
- Create paths with the Pencil tool
- Pencil, Eraser & Smooth tool options
- Splitting paths with the Eraser tool
- Simplifying paths with the Smooth tool
- Precision Drawing
- with the Pen Tool
- Creating paths with the Pen tool
- Splitting and joining paths
- Creating and editing
- Bezier curves
- Using the Convert Anchor Point tool
- Adding and removing Anchor Points
- Adding arrowheads
- Painting with the Paintbrush
- Creating paths with the Brushtools (Scatter, Art, Calligraphic and Pattern)
- Brush tool options and libraries
- Creating new brushes
- Applying brush strokes to existing paths
- Introduction to Filters and Effects
- Using Filters and Effects
- Controlling object attributes with the Appearance palette
- Illustrator’s 3D rendering effect
- Creating a 3D shape using Revolve
- Modifying the light source
- Creating 3D Beveled and Extruded Shapes
- 3D rotated shapes
- Mapping artwork to 3D shapes
- Symbols
- Understanding how Symbols work
- Creating and editing symbols
- Adding symbols to a document
- Modifying symbols sets with the Sumbols tool set
- Working with Type
- Creating Point, Path and Area type
- Importing text
- Applying character and paragraph formatting
- Wrapping text around images
- Threading text
- Creating and applying Character and Paragraph Styles
- Creating Outlines
- Creating Complex Illustrations
- Creating compound paths with the Pathfinder palette
- Creating compound shapes using the path finder palette
- Offset Paths
- Outline Paths
- Expanding objects
- Working with Masks
- Creating clipping masks
- Editing clipping masks and masked objects
- Releasing Clipping Masks
- Creating Opacity Masks
- Editing opacity masks and masked objects
- Understanding Knockout Group and Isolate Blending options
- Transparency effects
- Understanding blending modes
- Preparing documents containing transparency for printing
- Flattening
- Documents Raster Effects Settings
- Working in Perspective
- Creating illustrations in a one point perspective
- Understanding Isometrics
- Precision alignment
- Creating Graduated Shapes
- Creating Blends
- Editing Blends
- Blend options
- Graphic Styles
- Creating Graphic Styles
- Applying Graphic Styles
- Editing Graphic Styles
- Sharing Graphic Styles
- Creating Seamless patterns
- Creating Tiling patterns
- Applying patterns
- Editing patterns
- Transforming patterns within objects
- Working with Gradient Mesh
- Creating a Gradient Mesh Object
- Using the Gradient tool
- Creating Web Graphics
- Creating Slices
- Editing Slices
- Working with the Save for Web dialog box
- Graphic formats for the web (SVG, SWF, JPG, GIF, PNG 8, PNG 24)
- Creating an animated Flash banner
- Saving Options
- Printing options
