Adobe Illustrator CC: Creating Basic & Complex Illustrations

Unlock your creative potential with Adobe Illustrator CC: Creating Basic & Complex Illustrations, designed for budding graphic designers and artists eager to master vector graphics and enhance their design projects.

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Essential Skills Gained

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Understand the fundamentals of Adobe Illustrator CC.

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Create and customize complex illustrations and paths.

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Design graphics using advanced text and shape techniques.

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Prepare artwork for deployment across various media platforms.

Format

  • Instructor-led
  • 2 days with lectures and hands-on labs.

Audience

  • Graphic Designers
  • Digital Artists
  • Illustrators
  • Design Students

Description

To meet the demands of individuals and organizations for flexible, reusable, and easily modified visual content, Adobe Systems has created a cadre of applications that collectively provide a scalable, end-to-end solution for nearly every type of visual design project one can contemplate. Called Creative Cloud™ (CC), the collection of applications perform specialized design tasks while interoperating among each other to deliver superlative content.

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Lesson 1: Introducing Illustrator CC

  1. Apply Design Principles, Elements, and Graphics Composition

  2. Evaluate Graphics Scalability

  3. Navigate the User Interface

  4. Customize the User Interface

Lesson 2: Creating Documents Containing Basic Shapes

  1. Create Documents

  2. Save Documents

  3. Draw Basic Shapes

Lesson 3: Creating Documents Containing Customized Paths

  1. Draw Paths

  2. Modify Paths

Lesson 4: Creating Graphics Containing Customized Text

  1. Insert Text

  2. Apply Flow Text Along a Path

  3. Insert Bounded and Threaded Text

  4. Apply Text Styles

  5. Insert Typographical Characters

Lesson 5: Customizing Objects

  1. Import, Place, and Link Graphics

  2. Alter the Appearance of Objects

Lesson 6: Customizing Basic Shapes

  1. Apply Strokes and Brushes

  2. Fill Shapes

  3. Apply Graphics Styles

  4. Distort Text with Text Envelopes

Lesson 7: Preparing Documents for Deployment

  1. Update Text

  2. Wrap Text

  3. Hyphenate Text

  4. Optimize Content for Print

  5. Optimize Content for the Web

  6. Optimize Content for PDF Documents

Lesson 8: Drawing Complex Illustrations

  1. Apply the Grid, Guides, and Info Panel

  2. Combine Objects to Create Complex Illustrations

  3. Organize Artwork with Layers

  4. Create a Perspective Drawing

  5. Trace Artwork

Lesson 9: Enhancing Artwork Using Painting Tools

  1. Paint Objects Using Fills and Strokes

  2. Paint Objects Using Live Paint Groups

  3. Paint with Custom Brushes

  4. Add Transparency and Blending Modes

  5. Apply Meshes to Objects

  6. Apply Patterns

Lesson 10: Customizing Colors and Swatches

  1. Manage Colors

  2. Customize Swatches

  3. Manage Color Groups

  4. Adjust Color

Lesson 11: Formatting Type

  1. Set Character Formats

  2. Apply Advanced Formatting Options to Type

Lesson 12: Enhancing the Appearance of Artwork

  1. Apply Effects to an Object

  2. Create Graphic Styles

  3. Apply a Mask to an Object

  4. Apply Symbols and Symbol Sets

Lesson 13: Preparing Content for Deployment

  1. Prepare Artwork for Printing

  2. Prepare Transparency and Colors for Printing

  3. Create Slices and Image Maps

  4. Save Graphics for the Web

  5. Prepare Documents for Video

  6. Prepare Files for Other Applications

Lesson 14: Setting Project Requirements

  1. Identify the Purpose, Audience, and Audience Needs

  2. Determine and Evaluate Standard Copyright Rules for Artwork, Graphics, and Graphics Use

  3. Determine and Evaluate Project Management Tasks and Responsibilities

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