Adobe Illustrator CS CD Training (CBT)

Duration: 12 hrs

Adobe® Illustrator® CS is the essential tool for designers, graphic artists, technical illustrators, business professionals, or anyone who wants to express their ideas visually in print, on the Web, or other medium. Powerful new features allow users to quickly take control of their designs and page layouts.

New features include: optical kerning, global paragraph composition, and revolutionary new 3-D Effects. Author Nathan Dickson begins with an introduction of basic menus, windows and drawing tools, and then moves on to cover all essential elements of Illustrator CS, making you an expert in no time at all.

Contents
Introduction
What is CS?
New Features in Brief
What are Vector Graphics?

Getting Started
Welcome Screen
Interface Essentials
Saving
Getting Assistance
Resetting Mac Preferences
Resetting PC Preferences

Drawing Fundamentals
Basic Shapes
Basic Selections
Strokes / Fills / colours part 1
Strokes / Fills / colours part 2
The Stacking Order

Environment
Using the Keyboard part 1
Using the Keyboard part 2
The Workspace
The Toolbox
Managing Palettes part 1
Managing Palettes part 2
Entering Values part 1
Entering Values part 2

Paths
Line Segments
The Pen Tool
Drawing Curves
Smooth and Corner Points
Editing Paths
Compound Paths
Optimum Curves
Rules for Optimum Curves

Selecting
Primary Selection Tools
Magic Wand Tool
Lasso Tool
Select Menu part 1
Select Menu part 2
The Bounding Box and Edges

Primitives
Drawing Arcs
Drawing Polygons
Drawing Stars
Drawing Spirals
Drawing Lens Flares
Drawing Rectangular Grids
Drawing Polar Grids
Drawing with the Pencil Tool

Transforming
Grouping
Hiding and Locking
Moving part 1
Moving part 2
Rotating
Scaling
Shearing and Reflecting
Transform Palette
Using Transform Each
Free Transform Tool
Reshape Tool
Liquification Tools part 1
Liquification Tools part 2
Align Palette part 1
Align Palette part 2
Transform Shortcuts
Cloning

Type Fundamentals
Point Type Tool
Character Palette part 1
Character Palette part 2
Typography Shortcuts
Area Type
Every-Line Composer
Justification Settings
Tabs and Leaders
No Break and Open Type
colour and Outline Type

Productivity
Navigator Palette
Document Info Palette / Hiding the Artboard
Rulers
Guides
Smart Guides
Snapping To and Saving Views
Application Preferences part 1
Application Preferences part 2
Application Preferences part 3
Info Palette and Measure Tool

Layers
Clipping Masks
Layers Palette
Palette Options
Layer Options
Rearranging part 1
Rearranging part 2
New Object Targeting
Dupe / Merge / Flatten
Collect and Release
Better Mask Management

Advanced Type
Text Wraps
Type on a Path part 1
Type on a Path part 2
Advanced Area Type
Threaded Text
Find and Replace and Spelling
Legacy Text
Type Menu Potpourri

Visual Attributes
Stroke Palette
Gradient Tool and Palette
Swatch Palette Views
Global colours
Custom Patterns
Spot colours and Merging
Custom Swatch Libraries
Overprinting

Brushes
Brush Tool and Palette
Calligraphic Brushes
Art Brushes
Scatter Brushes
Pattern Brushes

Special Tools
Paintbucket and Eyedropper Tools
Graph Tool
Gradient Meshes part 1
Gradient Meshes part 2
Blends
Auto-Tracing
Pathfinder Palette
Envelope Distort
Path Menu
Scissor and Knife Tools

Appearances and Styles
Appearance Palette
Editing Appearances part 1
Editing Appearances part 2
Appearances in the Layers Palette
Graphic Styles Palette
Expanding

Transparency
Transparency Palette
Transparency Options
Opacity Masks

Symbolism
Symbol Tools part 1
Symbol Tools part 2

External Graphics
Embedding vs. Linking
Link Management

Effects vs. Filters
Filters
Effects
Rasterize Settings

3D Effects
3D Space
3D Rotate
3D Extrude
3D Surface Maps part 1
3D Surface Maps part 2
3D Revolve
3D Lighting

Saving and Printing
Saving Native Formats
Exporting Other Formats
Saving for the Web
Transparency Issues
Desktop Printing
High Resolution Printing
Presets

Final Thoughts
Wrapping it Up