Illustrator Advanced
Adobe (public class max is 7 students)
* Need to take the Illustrator Introduction/Intermediate class before? It will be held right before this class. See schedule for exact date.
* Training at your company site (group or 1on1) -- click here.
Course Description
You have probably used Illustrator to create simple illustrations and logos. However, you may now need to create complex illustrations, print documents without any errors or color mismatches, or prepare illustrations for the web. In this course, you will create complex, robust illustrations that go beyond those you could create using Illustrator's basic tools.
Some advanced topics include: Live Color, a new environment that enables users to explore, apply, and save custom color configurations; a new Eraser tool, which lets users quickly modify objects or create entirely new shapes; a new Crop Area tool, which lets users set up a workspace so that it's automatically primed for the type of media that will display their design, whether it's print, Web, video, or film; new document profiles, newly improved drawing tools and controls, and much more.
Course Content
This course will learn the more advanced topics, from the following areas:
- Transforming Objects
- Drawing with the Pen tool
- Color and Painting
- Working with type
- Working with Layers
- Blending Shapes and Colors
- Working with Brushes
- Applying Effects
- Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles
- Working with Symbols
- Combining Illustrator Graphics with the Creative Suite
- Printing Artwork and Producing Color Separations
⇒Printing overview, About printing devices, Halftone screens, Screen frequency, Output device resolution, About color, The RGB color model, The CMYK color model, Spot colors, Getting started, What is color management?, Setting up color management in Adobe applications, Synchronizing color using Adobe Bridge, Application color settings, Printing black-and-white proofs, Soft-proofing colors, Using the Document Info command, Creating color separations, Selecting a printer description file, Specifying the bleed area, Separating colors, Specifying the screen frequency, Working with two-color illustrations, Editing a spot color, Separating spot colors, Creating a trap , Overprinting objects, Saving and printing files with transparency effects, Specifying resolution of fiIters and live effects, Using Document Raster Effects Settings, Using the Flattener Preview panel, Assigning the Flattening preset, Saving a file with transparency, Saving in the EPS format, Printing transparent artwork, Exporting and importing flattening settings, Saving as Adobe PDF.