Adobe Illustrator CS5 is an essential design tool for anyone who needs to express ideas visually in print, on the web, and in any other medium. In this three-day course, you will get a thorough overview of the interface, tools, and features of Illustrator CS5. You will learn, step-by-step, the key techniques, as well as tips and tricks, for working in Illustrator CS5. In this combination of instructor-led demonstration and hands-on practice led by Adobe certified instructors, you will learn the basics of working with Illustrator CS5 so that you can incorporate visual effects into your workflow.

Certification:

This course prepares you to earn the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) designation. Becoming an ACE means you have demonstrated a professional level of proficiency with one or more Adobe software products. To become an ACE, you must pass one or more product-specific proficiency exams and agree to the ACE terms and conditions.

What You'll Learn

• What's new in Adobe Illustrator CS5
• Selecting, aligning, and transforming objects
• Creating and editing shapes
• Drawing with the Pen and Pencil tools
• Painting, drawing, and working with brushes
• Blending color and shapes
• Working with type
• Working with layers
• Working with paths
• Perspective drawing
• Using effects

Who Needs to Attend

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Illustrator CS5

Prerequisites

• Practical working knowledge of computers

• Adobe Photoshop CS5 Fundamentals: An Introduction to Photoshop

Follow-On Courses

• Adobe Photoshop CS5 Advanced: Print and Photography
• Adobe Photoshop CS5 Advanced: Web and Video
• Adobe InDesign Fundamentals: An Introduction to InDesign
• Adobe Flash CS5 Fundamentals: An Introduction to Flash
• Introduction to Adobe After Effects

Course Outline

1. Getting Started

• Restoring default preferences
• Save current Illustrator preferences
• Delete current Illustrator preferences
• To restore saved preferences
• Additional resources

2. What's New in Adobe Illustrator CS5

• Perspective Drawing
• Beautiful Strokes
• Multiple artboard enhancements
• Shape Builder tool
• Drawing enhancements
• Round-trip editing with Adobe Flash Catalyst
• Resolution-independent Effects
• Clean, sharp graphics for web and mobile devices
• Integration with Adobe CS

3. Getting To Know the Work Area

• Getting Started
• The workspace
• Working with the Tools panel
• The Control panel
• Working with panels
• Resetting and saving your workspace
• Using panel menus
• Changing the view of artwork
• Using the view commands
• Using the Zoom tool
• Scrolling through a document
• Viewing artwork
• Navigating multiple artboards
• Using the Navigator panel
• Rulers
• Arranging multiple documents
• Document groups
• Finding resources for using Illustrator
• Searching for a topic in the Search For Help box
• Checking for updates

4. Selecting and Aligning

• Selecting objects
• Using the Selection tool
• Using the Direct Selection tool
• Creating selections with a marquee
• Creating selections with the Magic Wand tool
• Selecting similar objects
• Aligning objects
• Align objects to each other
• Aligning to a key object
• Aligning points
• Distributing objects
• Aligning to the artboard
• Working with groups
• Group items
• Working in isolation mode
• Adding to a group
• Object arrangement
• Arrange objects
• Selecting objects behind
• Hiding objects
• Applying selection techniques

5. Creating and Editing Shapes

• Creating a document with multiple artboards
• Working with basic shapes
• Accessing the basic shape tools
• Drawing modes
• Creating rectangles
• Creating rounded rectangles
• Creating ellipses
• Creating polygons
• Draw Inside mode
• Changing stroke width and alignment
• Working with line segments
• Joining paths
• Creating Stars
• Using the Eraser tool
• Using the Width tool
• Outlining strokes
• Combining and editing shapes
• Working with the Shape Builder tool
• Working with Pathfinder effects
• Working with shape modes
• Using Live Trace to create shapes

6. Transforming Objects

• Working with artboards
• Adding artboards to the document
• Editing artboards
• Renaming artboards
• Reordering artboards
• Transforming content
• Working with rulers and guides
• Scaling objects
• Reflecting objects
• Rotating objects
• Distorting objects
• Shearing objects
• Positioning objects precisely
• Changing the perspective
• Multiple transformations
• Using the Free Distort effect

7. Drawing with the Pen and Pencil Tools

• Creating straight lines
• Creating curved paths
• Building a curve
• Converting curved points to corner points
• Creating an illustration
• Drawing curves Selecting a curve
• Drawing a curved shape
• Drawing different kinds of curves
• Splitting a path
• Adding arrowheads
• Creating a dashed line
• Editing curves
• Deleting and adding anchor points
• Convert between smooth points and corner points
• Drawing with the Pencil tool
• Editing with the Pencil tool
• Assembling the parts
• Painting the artwork

8. Color and Painting

• Understanding color
• Color modes
• Color controls
• Creating color
• Building and saving a custom color
• Editing a swatch
• Using Illustrator swatch libraries 184
• Creating a spot color
• Using the Color Picker
• Creating and saving a tint of a color
• Copying attributes
• Creating color groups
• Working with the Color Guide panel
• Editing a color group
• Editing colors in artwork
• Working with the Kuler panel
• Assigning colors to your artwork
• Adjusting colors
• Painting with patterns and gradients
• Applying existing patterns
• Creating your own pattern
• Applying a pattern
• Editing a pattern
• Working with Live Paint
• Creating a Live Paint group
• Editing Live Paint regions
• Working with Gap Options

9. Working with Type

• Working with type
• Creating point type
• Creating area type 218
• Importing a plain text file
• Creating columns of text
• Text flow
• Working with overflow text and text reflow
• Threading text
• Resizing type objects
• Formatting type
• Changing the font size
• Changing the font color
• Changing additional text attributes
• Changing paragraph attributes
• Saving and using styles
• Creating and using a paragraph style
• Creating and using a character style
• Sampling text
• Reshaping text with an envelope warp
• Wrapping text around an object
• Creating text on open paths
• Creating text on closed paths
• Creating text outlines

10. Working with Layers

• Creating layers
• Moving objects and layers
• Locking layers
• Viewing layers
• Pasting layers
• Paste Remembers Layers
• Creating clipping masks
• Merging layers vs. Collect in New Layer
• Applying appearance attributes to layers
• Isolating layers

11. Working with Perspective Drawing

• Working with the Perspective Grid
• Using a preset grid
• Editing the Perspective Grid
• Drawing objects in perspective
• Selecting and transforming objects in perspective
• Attaching objects to perspective
• Editing planes and objects together
• Adding and editing text in perspective
• Working with symbols in perspective
• Adding Symbols to the Perspective Grid
• Transforming Symbols in perspective
• Release content from perspective

12. Blending Colors and Shapes

• Working with gradients
• Creating and applying a linear gradient
• Adjusting the direction and angle of a gradient blend
• Creating a radial gradient
• Changing colors and adjusting the gradient
• Applying gradients to multiple objects
• Adding transparency to gradients
• Working with blended objects
• Creating a blend with specified steps
• Modifying the blend
• Creating smooth color blends

13. Working with Brushes

• Working with brushes
• Using Calligraphic brushes
• Editing a brush
• Using a fill color with brushes
• Remove a brush stroke
• Using Art brushes
• Drawing with the Paintbrush tool
• Editing paths with the Paintbrush tool
• Create an Art brush
• Edit an Art brush
• Using Bristle brushes
• Changing bristle brush options
• Painting with a Bristle brush
• Using Pattern brushes
• Creating a Pattern brush
• Applying a Pattern brush
• Changing the color attributes of brushes
• Changing a brush color using Tints colorization
• Changing the brush color using Hue Shift colorization
• Working with the Blob Brush tool
• Drawing with the Blob Brush tool
• Merging paths with the Blob Brush tool
• Editing with the Eraser tool

14. Applying Effects

• Using live effects
• Applying an effect
• Editing an effect
• Styling text with effects
• Editing shapes with a Pathfinder effect
• Offsetting paths
• Applying a Photoshop effect
• Working with a 3D effect
• Creating a revolved object
• Changing the lighting of a 3D object
• Mapping a symbol to the 3D artwork