Adobe Illustrator CS3 Fundamentals On-Site Training

This on-site training class is also available as Public Schedule Seminar.

• Locate the Illustrator tools
• Find and place the panels
• Customize your workspace
• Change the view of artwork
• Use the Zoom tool
• Navigate through a document
• Search Help with keywords, links, and the index

• Use the Selection tool
• Use the Direct Selection tool
• Create selections with the Magic Wand
• Group items
• Apply selection techniques
• Align objects

• Create basic shapes with the shape tools
• Draw the pencil shape
• Use the Pencil tool
• Use Live Trace to create shapes
• Tips for drawing polygons, spirals, and stars

• Scale objects
• Reflect objects
• Rotate objects
• Distort objects
• Shear objects
• Position objects precisely
• Change the perspective
• Use the Free Transform tool
• Make multiple transformations

• Draw straight lines
• Create curved paths
• Build a curve
• Reshape curves and insert corner anchor points
• Create the pear illustration
• Create the arrow
• Split a path
• Add arrowheads
• Draw curves
• Select a curve
• Draw a leaf
• Draw different kinds of curves
• Convert between smooth points and corner points
• Draw the pear shape
• Edit curves
• Finish the pear illustration

• Color Mode
• Understand the color controls
• Grasp color fundamentals
• Copy attributes
• Use the Appearance panel for fills and strokes
• Build and save your own custom color
• Use and reuse Illustrator swatch libraries
• Create a spot color
• Create color groups
• Edit color with Live Color
• Create a color group using Live Color
• Assign colors to your artwork
• Use and create patterns
• Apply the pattern
• Edit the pattern
• Apply Live Paint
• Edit Live Paint regions
• Create a PDF from your artwork

• Import a text file
• Create columns of text
• Understand text flow
• Work with overflow text and text reflow
• Thread text
• Resize the text area
• Change text attributes
• Change font size
• Chang font color
• Change additional text attributes
• Change paragraph attributes
• Save and use styles
• Create and use a Paragraph style
• Create and use Character styles
• Sample text
• Wrap text around a graphic
• Reshape text with a warp
• Create text on paths and shapes
• Create text outlines

• Create layers
• Move objects and layers
• Lock layers
• View layers
• Paste layers
• Create clipping masks
• Merge layers
• Apply appearance attributes to layers

• Create a gradient fil
• Adjust the direction of the gradient blend
• Add colors to a gradient
• Create smooth-color blends
• Blend intermediate steps
• Modify the blend
• Combine blends with gradients

• Use Art brushes
• Draw with the Paintbrush tool
• Edit paths with the Paintbrush tool
• Use Scatter brushes
• Change brush options
• Apply a Scatter brush to paths
• Change the color attributes of brushes
• Change brush color using Hue Shift colorization
• Change brush color using Tints colorization
• Use a fill color with brushes
• Use Calligraphic brushes
• Use Pattern brushes
• Create brushes
• Create swatches for a Pattern brush
• Create a Pattern brush from swatches
• Paint with the Pattern brush
• Apply the Scribble Effect

• Use live effects
• Create a banner logo with the Warp effect
• Create the logotype
• Stylize the banner and logotype
• Edit an effect
• Apply the Symbol as mapped artwork
• Create and revolve an object
• Change the lighting
• Map a Photoshop image
• Adjusting the lighting

• Document Startup Profiles
• Add and apply appearance attributes
• Reorder appearance attributes
• Create and save a Graphic Style
• Apply a Graphic Style to a layer
• Apply existing Graphic Styles
• Apply an appearance to a layer
• Remove Graphic Styles

• Work with symbols
• Use Illustrator Symbol Libraries
• Edit a Symbol
• Create a Symbol
• Apply a symbol instance
• Edit symbols using the symbol tools
• Update a symbol
• Break the link to a symbol
• Store and retrieve artwork in the Symbols panel
• Map a symbol to 3D artwork
• Integrate a Symbol into a Flash movie.

• Combine artwork
• Identify Vector versus bitmap graphics
• Create a crop area
• Place an Adobe Photoshop file
• Create a layer comp
• Duplicate a placed image
• Apply Color Edits to a placed image
• Apply a Clipping Mask to an image
• Create compound paths and opacity masks
• Edit an imported mask
• Sample colors in placed images
• Replace a placed image
• Export a layered file to Photoshop

• Printing: An overview
• About printing devices
• Halftone screens
• Screen frequency
• Output device resolution
• About color
• The RGB color model
• The CMYK color model
• Spot colors
• What is color management?
• Set up color management in Adobe applications
• Synchronize color using Adobe Bridge
• Specify and apply Application color settings
• Print black-and-white proofs
• Soft-proof colors
• Use the Document Info command
• Create color separations
• Select a printer description file
• Specify the bleed area  

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