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Adobe Illustrator CS5 Essentials and Fundamentals  ( 2 days )

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Description

Adobe® Illustrator® is the dream tool for creating digital illustrations. Illustrator provides a robust toolset for rendering superior, detailed, vector based artwork. Learn about this powerful, professional illustration and design tool for graphic artists, technical illustrators, and desktop publishers.

Level: Beginner to intermediate.

Prerequisites

Students must be familiar with the basics of navigating a PC or a Mac.

Course Outline

Topics include:

• Getting acquainted with the work area
  
• Creating basic geometric shapes with the Shape tools
  
• Using a grid and smart guides to aid symmetrical drawing
  
• Using the Bezier Pen, the Direct Selection tool, and the Convert Anchor Point tool efficiently
  
• Applying and editing color gradients to filled regions
  
• Creating and using swatches, tints, gradients, and patterns on filled regions and stroked edges
  
• Transform tools and panels including scaling, rotating, distorting, shearing, and reflecting
  
• Using the pathfinder panel to make complex shapes
  
• Working with the Blend tool
  

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