Adobe Illustrator CS4 is the industry-standard program with drawing tools, flexible color controls, and professional type controls that allows you to electronically illustrate documents using vector graphics. Vector graphics consist of lines and curves defined by mathematical objects called vectors.
For example, when drawing a circle, the program creates the circle based on its shape and size. The object, can then be moved, scaled or rotated without affecting the quality of the printed copy object.
Whether you are a designer, technical illustrator or an artist producing graphics for the Web or multimedia, you will find that Adobe Illustrator excels as an art production tool. This program gives you precise control over artwork and the ability to produce anything from small designs to large, complex projects.
Users:
Creative, Web, Engineering, Finance, IT, Legal, Marketing and Admin Professionals as well as anyone who needs to create, edit, assemble, publish and distribute electronic illustrations, imagery and presentations.
Duration: Two-Day Course
Platform: Windows and Macintosh
Fee: $765 CDN (+HST)
This class is limited to eight people.
*As of April 2009 DPA Communications will offer Adobe Acrobat, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator,
Dreamweaver and Flash courses on version CS4 (Creative Suite 4).
If you are currently using previous
versions see the CS3 version of this course outline for any differences in training course content. Please contact DPA for more details or to have an instructor contact you.
In this course you will learn to create original artwork and recreate scanned artwork. Use the type tools in Illustrator to create blocks of type, type on a path and fill an irregular shape with type as well as linking text blocks and wrapping text around graphics. You will explore the transformation tools to resize, rotate, reflect and shear graphics. Also covered in this course are the layers palette, compound paths, blends, masks & patterns.
Editing shapes with the scissors tool and the knife tool
Using Anchor Points
Drawing straight lines using the Pen Tool (considered to be the most powerful tool in Illustrator)
Drawing curves and lines
Drawing graphics with the Pen Tool
Using the transformation tools: scaling, rotating, shearing, reflecting
Using type including creating type on a path, inserting type into an object, linking blocks of type, wrapping type around a graphic
All about blends, including blending outline type
Creating compound paths
Clipping paths
Working with layers & sub-layers: the layers palette, creating a layer, selecting objects in a layer or multiple layers, hiding layers, locking layers, deleting layers and more
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