Adobe Illustrator 9.0
Course Outline
Discover high quality drawing and illustration with Adobe Illustrator.
You will start with an overview of Illustrator and
work on lessons that will step you into a greater skill level.
Discover the unique features of Illustrator, including how to
create logos, professional type effects, complex airbrush effects
and color control.You will learn the industry standard
program for print and online graphics.
Prerequisites
Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require
students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening
and saving files, and the general operations of computers.While
we will make every reasonable effort to help, students
with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class
lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down
the rest of the class. We highly recommend working with the
application tutorial before coming to the course.
What You Will Learn
· The Work Area: the Toolbox, Palettes, Views, Guides
and Zooming
· Basic shapes and Painting
· Drawing with the Pen tool
· Working with Brushes
· Transforming Objects
· Type
· Blending Shapes and Color
· The Gradient Mesh Tool
· Layers
· Printing and Color Separations
LESSON I Getting to Know the Work Area
· Viewing artwork
· Using the illustrator tools
· Changing the view of artwork
· Working with palettes
· Using context menus
· Calibrating your monitor
· Using online help
· Review questions
LESSON II Creating Basic Shapes
· Setting up the document
· Using the tools
· Drawing a the pencil shape
· Drawing the piece of stationary
· Decorating the stationary border
· Painting the logo
· Copying and scaling shapes
· Review questions
LESSON III Painting
· Filling with color
· Stroking with color
· Building a custom palette
· Copying paint attributes
· Saturating colors
· Painting with patterns and gradients
· Painting with a pattern brush
· Review questions
LESSON IV Drawing with the Pen
· Drawing straight lines
· Drawing curves
· Editing curves
· Finishing the pear illustration
· Review questions
LESSON V Working with Brushes
· Applying brushes to paths
· Getting started
· Using art brushes
· Using scatter brushes
· Changing the color attributes of brushes
· Using a fill color with brushes
· Using calligraphic brushes
· Using pattern brushes
· Creating brushes
· Review questions
LESSON VI Working with Type
· Adding type to a document
· Sampling type
· Changing the character size
· Creating columns of type
· Changing character attributes of placed text
· Changing paragraph attributes
· Adjusting the text flow
· Wrapping type around a graphic
· Typing along a path
· Creating type outlines (letterforms)
· Creating type masks
· Review questions
LESSON VII Blending Shapes and Colors
· Creating a gradient fill
· Adjusting the direction of the gradient blend
· Adding colors to a gradient
· Creating smooth-color blends
· Blending intermediate steps
· Modifying the blend
· Combining blends with gradients
· Review questions
LESSON VIII Creating Shapes with the Pathfinder
· Uniting shapes
· Removing shapes to create a new object
· Intersecting objects trimming objects
· Blending colors with the soft mix command
· Blending colors with the hard mix command
· Dividing shapes with the divide command
· Review questions
LESSON IX Working with Layers
· Creating layers
· Moving objects and layers
· Locking layers
· Viewing layers
· Pasting layers
· Merging layers
· Review questions
Pricing
Adobe Illustrator 8 is a one-day course for $250.00 plus $40.00
for materials.
Time
Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00/4:30 p.m.
Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically
scheduled 12-1. Students provide their own lunch.