Adobe Illustrator
Training Course Outline
Course Duration : 3days (21 hrs)

Complement your design
- Craft vector assets for use in any design project, from logos and branding to graphics for advertising, packaging, and environments. Create beautiful websites

- Design graphics for banners, web pages, and interactive experiences, or lay out your entire website.

You will learn the following topics:
Lesson 1 : Getting To Know The Work Area
1. Viewing artwork
2. Using the Illustrator tools
3. Changing the view of artwork
4. Working with palettes
5. Using context menus
6. Using online Help & galleries
7. Using Adobe online services

Lesson 2 : Creating Basic Shapes
1. Setting up the document
2. Using the tools
3. Drawing the pencil shape
4. Drawing the piece of stationery
5. Decorating the stationery border
6. Painting the logo
7. Copying & scaling shapes

Lesson 3 : Painting
1. Filling & Stroking with color
2. Building a custom palette
3. Copying paint attributes
4. Saturating colors
5. Painting with patterns & gradients
6. Painting with a pattern brush

Lesson 4 : Drawing with the Pen
1. Drawing straight lines
2. Splitting a path
3. Adding arrowheads
4. Drawing curves & the leaf
5. Drawing different kinds of curves & editing curve
6. Changing a smooth curve to a corner & vice versa
7. Drawing the pear shape
8. Finishing the pear illustration

Lesson 5 : Working with Brushes
      1. Using Art brushes :
      - Drawing with the paintbrush tool
       - Editing paths with the paintbrush tool

      2. Using Scatter brushes :
      - Changing brush options
      - Applying a scatter brush to paths

      3. Changing the color attributes of brushes
      4. Using a fill color with brushes
      5. Using Calligraphic & Pattern brushes
      6. Creating brushes :
      - Creating swatches for a Pattern brush
      - Creating a Pattern brush from swatches
      - Painting with the new Pattern brush

Lesson 6 : Transforming Objects
1. Scaling & rotating objects
2. Distorting & shearing objects
3. Positioning objects precisely
4. Reflecting objects
5. Changing the perspective
6. Using the free transform tool
7. Making multiple transformations

Lesson 7 : Working with Type
1. Sampling type
2. Changing the character size
3. Creating columns of type
4. Changing character attributes of placed text
5. Changing paragraph attributes
6. Adjusting the text flow
7. Wrapping type around a graphic
8. Typing along a path
9. Creating type outlines (letterforms)
10. Creating type masks

Pre-requisites:
You should have basic Microsoft Windows operation system knowledge.
The training course will be conducted in English, unless otherwise specified.
Due to our continuous training course refinement process, the above course outline is subject to change without prior notice. All product trademarks and copyrights are the properties of their respective owners.