Adobe Illustrator CS6 Introduction

Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

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.

To ensure your success in this course, you should be familiar with the basic functions of your computer’s operating system such as creating folders, launching programs, and working with windows. You should also have basic Windows application skills, such as copying and pasting objects, formatting text, saving files, and so on.

Familiarity with basic design terminology, such as palettes, color modes, shapes, text, and paths is highly recommended.

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

• Identify the components and capabilities of Illustrator CS6.
• Create basic shapes.
• Create custom paths.
• Create graphics that contain custom text.
• Customize objects.
• Customize basic shapes.
• Prepare documents for deployment.

Lesson 1: Introduction to Illustrator CS6

Topic A: Evaluate Graphics Scalability
Topic B: Navigate, View, and Measure Graphics
Topic C: Customize the User Interface

Lesson 2: Creating Documents Containing Basic Shapes

Topic A: Create Documents
Topic B: Save Documents
Topic C: Draw Basic Shapes

Lesson 3: Creating Graphics Containing Customized Paths

Topic A: Draw Paths
Topic B: Modify Paths

Lesson 4: Creating Graphics Containing Customized Text

Topic A: Insert Text
Topic B: Flow Text Along a Path
Topic C: Insert Bounded Text
Topic D: Thread Text
Topic E: Apply Text Styles
Topic F: Insert Typographical Characters

Lesson 5: Customizing Objects

Topic A: Import and Link Graphics
Topic B: Alter the Appearance of Objects

Lesson 6: Customizing Basic Shapes

Topic A: Apply Strokes
Topic B: Fill Shapes
Topic C: Apply Gradients
Topic D: Apply Graphic Styles
Topic E: Distort Text with Text Envelopes

Lesson 7: Preparing Documents for Deployment

Topic A: Update Text
Topic B: Wrap Text
Topic C: Hyphenate Text
Topic D: Optimize Content for Print
Topic E: Optimize Content for the Web
Topic F: Optimize Content for PDF Documents

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