Illustrator is the industry standard and a professional software which is commonly used in graphic design. The diversified features can help designers create their design works with many special graphic effects. Designers can make use of the toolbars to draw lines & shapes, and to select the font style & size and colours to create graphic illustrations. Further, it is compatible with word processing, layers and other special features to enrich your productions. Hence, Illustrator is the pioneer software tool to produce poster, company logo, leaflet and all printing designs, product design, and the graphic illustration of advertising and multimedia web. Apart from the design functions, Adobe Illustrator is also compatible of various file formats and output of different softwares. It is the software which designers and those who want to step-in the design field must learn.

Module 1: Illustrator 

• Working with templates and artwork
• Illustrator Interface
• Artboard size setting
• Changing document viewing mode (artwork, template, preview)
• Managing multiple windows

• Basic designing techniques
• The pen tool
• Selecting and arranging objects
• Using the selection tools
• Grouping and ungrouping objects
• Locking and unlocking objects
• Hiding ad showing objects
• Adjusting paths

  

  

• Moving, copying, and deleting objects

• Objects Transformation
• Scale, Rotating, Skew

• Drawing with Pen tool

• Layers

• Logo drawing

• Masking

• Compounding

• Blending

• Using the measurement tools
• Using the rulers
• Using gridline

  

• Setting the cursor key distance
• Using guide objects
• Setting snap to point option

• Painting
• Filling and stroking paths and type
• Looking at the current paint attributes
• Setting paint attributes

• Using type
• Using the type tool to create type
• Entering text in a irregularly shaped area
• Wrapping text around a path
• Entering text along a path
• Setting type attributes (fonts, size, leading,etc.)
• Converting text objects to editable path outlines

• Using patterns

• Printing documents

• Working with other applications

• Placing Illutrator artwork into other applications

• File Formats
• PDF and EPS



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Module 2: Advanced Illustrator 

• Options available for importing artwork by using the Open command and the Place command

• Transforming shapes by using the Transform tools and/or the Transform palette
• Transforming shapes by using the Distortion tools, such as Warp, Twirl, Bloat, Scallop, Crystallize, Wrinkle, Liquify
• Create, use, and customize brushes
• Modify overlapping objects by using the Transparency palette
• Change the appearance of objects by using the Styles palette and Effects menu
• Change the appearance of objects by using the Appearance palette
• Create graphs by using the graph tools
• Create, use, and edit symbols by using the Symbols palette and Symbols tools
• Create and modify compound shapes by using Pathfinder palette
• Transform shapes by using Warp effects
• More about selection techniques
• Assign variables to objects

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• Change the look of type by using the Envelope command
• More about text
• Creating columns of text
• Making text wrap around graphics
• Flowing text inside object
• Setting tabs to create table
• Change the look of type by using the Envelope command

• Ways of making 3d objects :- Extrude, Bevel and Revolve
• Fine tunning an 3d objects by setting different light sources, surface shading and mapping
• Perspective settings

• How layers can be used to help create and manage objects in a document
• Change the attributes of objects in a layer by using the Layers palette
• Importing and exporting Adobe Photoshop layers
• Export objects for a Flash (SWF) by using the Release to Layers command

• Options and considerations associated with preparing graphics that will be used on the Web
• Export Illustrator images that are optimized for publication on the Web
• Resolution and rasterization settings in the Document Setup dialog box
• Create slices for objects and layers by using the Slice tools

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