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Adobe Illustrator
has become an industry-standard and is used for producing
print, multimedia and on-line graphics.
It can be used to create such elements as
illustrations,
drawings,
maps,
logos, advertisements, multimedia
and web navigation graphics.
- Drawings created in illustrator are commonly exported to desktop
publishing programs such as
QuarkXPress
or PageMaker
to form part of a larger publication. - Users with experience of
using software like CorelDraw or Macromedia Freehand will find many
familiar tools and techniques.
Basics
- Overview of features
- Illustrators approach to drawing
- Setting stoke and fill attributes
- Printing documents
- Basic geometrical shapes
- Drawing straight paths
- Drawing curved paths
- The freehand tool
- The autotrace tool
- Selecting and arranging objects
- Editing objects
Text Handling
- Entering and editing text
- Text labels and text boxes
- Entering text along a path
- Entering text within a path
- Creating and editing text outlines
Drawing Techniques
- Creating your own patterns
- Measuring and constraining
- Guide objects and crop marks
- Hiding and locking objects
- The transformation tools
- The use of compound paths
- The use of masking objects
- The blend tool
- Working with layers
- Overview of Illustrator filters
Setting object attributes
- Defining colours
- Saving colours as swatches
- Spot and process colours
- Setting stroke attributes
- Adding arrows
- Setting fill attributes
- Creating gradients
- Applying gradients
Manipulating objects
- Making selections
- Saving selections
- Moving objects
- Duplicating objects
- Aligning objects
- Changing the stacking order
- Grouping and ungrouping
- Locking and hiding
Graphs
- Creating a graph
- The graph types
- Importing data
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