Illustrator CS5: Level 1 – Creating Graphic Designs

Illustrator CS5: Level 1 - Creating Graphic Designs

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Description You will use Adobe Illustrator CS5 to create illustrations that include graphics and text. This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities and who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should be familiar with the basic functions of their computer's operating system such as creating folders, launching programs, and working with windows. Students should also have basic Windows application skills, such as copying and pasting objects, formatting text, saving files, and so on. Familiarity with other Adobe applications and basic design terminology such as palette, color mode, shapes, text, and paths is helpful.

Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Create shapes in a document.
Create custom paths.
Work with text in an Illustrator document.
Work with objects.
Enhance documents.
Proof documents to make them more accurate.
Save images for web and print.

Course Content

LESSON 1: GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS5

Topic 1A: Examine Imaging Concepts
Topic 1B: Explore the Interface
Topic 1C: Customize the Interface

LESSON 2: CREATING SHAPES IN A DOCUMENT

Topic 2A: Create a Document
Topic 2B: Draw Basic Shapes
Topic 2C: Save a Document

LESSON 3: CREATING CUSTOM PATHS

Topic 3A: Draw Paths
Topic 3B: Modify Paths

LESSON 4: WORKING WITH TEXT

Topic 4A: Insert Text
Topic 4B: Flow Text on a Path
Topic 4C: Import Body Text
Topic 4D: Format Text with Styles
Topic 4E: Thread Text
Topic 4F: Apply Hyphenation
Topic 4G: Insert Typographic Characters

LESSON 5: WORKING WITH OBJECTS

Topic 5A: Import Graphics
Topic 5B: Manipulate Objects

LESSON 6: ENHANCING DOCUMENTS

Topic 6A: Format Objects
Topic 6B: Apply Strokes
Topic 6C: Apply Gradients
Topic 6D: Apply Graphic Styles
Topic 6E: Apply an Envelope to Text

LESSON 7: PROOFING A DOCUMENT

Topic 7A: Wrap Text
Topic 7B: Find and Replace Text
Topic 7C: Fix Spelling Errors

LESSON 8: SAVING IMAGES FOR WEB AND PRINT

Topic 8A: Export Images for Print
Topic 8B: Save Images for the Web
Topic 8C: Save Images as PDFs

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