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DAY ONE
Welcome to Illustrator
• About vectors and bitmaps
Getting started in Illustrator
• Opening illustrations
• Using templates
• Creating new illustrations
• Using document profiles
• Exploring panels and workspaces
• Navigating your illustrations
Artwork components
• Outline vs Preview mode
• Rulers, guides and grids
• Introducing Smart Guides
• Paths, point and handles
• Grouping objects
• Group isolation mode
• Introduction to layers
Creating shapes
• Creating primitive shapes
• Creating polygons, stars and spirals
• Drawing lines, grids and arcs
• Snapping and aligning shapes
Working with colour
• Colour models
• Applying colour to objects
• Spot vs process colour
• Process and global process colours
• Managing swatches
• Creating colour groups
• Introduction to gradients
• Loading swatch libraries
• Sharing colour swatches across applications
Drawing in Illustrator
• Working with paths, points and direction handles
• Drawing freehand paths
• Tips for drawing curves
• Editing, manipulating and modifying paths
• Using the cutting tools
• Using the Average and Join commands
• Using the Eraser tool
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DAY TWO
Using LiveTrace
• Automatically tracing artwork
• Adjusting LiveTrace results
• Converting LiveTrace objects
Painting in Illustrator
• Manipulating stroke options
• Painting with the Paintbrush
• Introducing blends
• Introducing the Gradient mesh
• Creating multiple fills and strokes on a single object
• Introducing symbols
Introducing LivePaint
• Creating LivePaint groups
• Painting LivePaint objects
• Detecting gaps
• Path editing with LivePaint
Organising your artwork
• Editing the artboard size
• Using guides and smart guides
• Creating custom guides
• Positioning elements
• Using the Align palette
• Using layers
• Creating template layers
Transforming objects
• Using the Transform tools
• The Reshape tool
• Using the Transform panel
• Introducing the Liquify tools
• Basic Envelope distortions
Placing imported graphics
• Photoshop import options
Creating complex shapes
• Creating compound shapes
• Creating compound paths
• Expanding compound shapes
Working with type
• The type tools
• Using the Character panel
• Using the Paragraph panel
• Creating outlines from text
• Type on a path
Saving and exporting
• Saving Illustrator files
• Creating Adobe PDF files
• Exporting files from Illustrator
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