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          Advanced Adobe Illustrator will help you customize your work environment and increase your illustration productivity with great tips and tricks. Discover the many capabilities available to you in Illustrator. In this two day course the students will work with dissecting live files to discover the techniques used to build complex documents as well as using the same techniques to create their own images. Course also covers troubleshooting for production personnel, as well as techniques for interesting design effects. We also recommend this course for those planning to obtain the Adobe Certified Expert status.
 
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          Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. We highly recommend working with the application tutorial before coming to the course.
 
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Customizing the Illustrator environment
• Screen real estate
• Document settings
• Preferences
• Modifying the startup file
• Saving and naming conventions

Creating Basic Shapes
• Text Attributes
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• More Typographic controls
• Importing and exporting text
• Linking text blocks
• Text wrap
• Type on a circle
• Text Outlining

Refining Paths
• Anchor points and segments
• Path editinh tools
• Path modifying tools and operations

Creating Perspective Grids
• Horizon and vanishing points
• Designing methods

Advanced Graphics Techniques
• The Direct Selection Tool• Other Selecting Options
• Masking
• Compound objects
• Troubleshooting compounding mishaps
• Blend Anatomy
• Blend Options
• The Spline
• The Blend Tool

Working with the Gradient Mesh
• What is a gradient mesh?
• Anatomy of the mesh
• How to create a gradient mesh
• How to paint the mesh
• Odd shapes and gradient meshes

Advanced Brush Tecniques
• Brush Strokes
• Resizing brushes and paths
• Brush options
• Creating a custom brush
• Other brush libraries

Working with Images
• Rasterizing Images
• Raster filters
• Filter dialog boxes
• Color adjusting filters
• Modifying portions of a raster image
• Using 1-bit images

Designing with Patterns
• How patterns work
• Precision alignment of pattern objects
• Defining the pattern
• Patterns with colored backgrounds
• Transforming patterns• Working with Expand
• Advanded Expand

Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects
• Using Appearance attributes
• Using live effects
• Editing an effect
• Using styles
• Copying, applying, and removing styles and appearances
• Printing and saving files with transparency effects

Working with Layers
• Creating layers
• Moving objects and layers
• Locking layers