Adobe Illustrator Overview

• What is Adobe Illustrator?
• Understanding Bitmap Graphics
• Understanding Vector Graphics
• Understanding File types
• Learning the Workspace
• Customizing the workspace

Creating a new document

• Document Settings
• Creating multiple artboards
• Exporting and printing multiple artboards
• Importing files to Illustrator

Managing Assets with Adobe Bridge

• Explore Adobe Bridge
• Apply Metadata and Keywords

Creating Simple Vector Shapes

• Draw Basic Shapes with the Shape Tools
• Draw Basic Shapes with the Line Tools

The Drawing Tools

• Draw Paths with the Pencil Tool
• Draw Paths with the Brush Tool
• Draw Paths with the Pen Tool
• Draw Paths with the Blob Tool

Manipulate Shapes, Objects and Paths

• Modify existing shapes to create new shapes
• Duplicate and Resizing Objects

Cutting, Merge and divide objects

• Simple cutting and joining
• Joining Shapes, Objects and Paths
• Compound Path
• Shape Modes
• Path Finders

Cleaning up Your Artwork

• Clean up

Type

• Type tools
• Create Type on a Path
• Create Outlined Type
• Apply an Envelope Distort to Type
• Create Type Masks

Understanding and Applying Colour

• Colour fills and strokes
• Colour swatches and libraries
• Applying colour
• Creating and saving new colours

Gradients and Patterns

• Creating and saving Gradients
• Applying Gradients
• Creating and saving Patterns
• Applying Patterns
• Gradient and Pattern Libraries

Brushes

• Creating a Caligraphic Brush
• Creating an art Brush
• Creating a Scattered Brush
• Creating a Pattern Brush

Layout

• Page Layout, Guides and Measurements
• Perspective Grids (perspective drawing)
• Multiple Artboards

Masking and Cropping

• Creating simple Clipping Masks
• Clipping Type Mask
• Opacity Mask
• Manipulating Masks
• Cropping

Using Layers

• The Layers Palette
• Managing your work with Layers
• Template Layers

Envelopes, Meshes, Blends

• Warp
• Top Object
• Mesh Tool
• Warp Tool

Symbols

• Using Symbols Libraries
• Creating a New Symbol
• Sharing Libraries

Working with Appearance

• Effects Menu Appearance
• PalletMultiple
• Strokes and Fills

Working with 3D

• Extrude
• Rotate
• Semi-revolve
• Bevel

Creating a Logo

• Creating a multi-use logo
• Saving and exporting for multi-use

Live Trace and Live Paint

• Live Trace an existing piece of artwork
• Tracing options
• Converting to a Live Paint object
• Colour a Live Paint object

Integrating with other Adobe Software

• Integrating with Photoshop
• Integrating with Flash