Imagine being able to create logos, professional type effects, complex airbrush effects and colour control using Illustartor CS3 after just 2 days training. That's what you'll be able to do after taking this Illustrator training course from Certitec. Discover high quality drawing and illustration with Adobe Illustrator CS3. You will start with an overview of Illustrator and work on lessons that will step you into a greater skill level. Discover the unique features of Illustrator, including how to create logos, professional type effects, complex airbrush effects and colour control.

Course Content

Essential Illustrator Concepts
What are Vector Graphics?
Create a Custom Workspace
Fill and Stroke Attributes
Document Settings

The Illustrator Interface
Exploring panels and workspaces
Using the Control Panel
Navigation
Smart Guides
Preview Options
Grids and Guides
The Bounding Box
Panels
Libraries

Drawing and Selection Essentials
Draw Paths with the Pen Tool
Shape Tools
The Seletion Tools
Methods of Selection
Shapes
Duplicate Objects
Mastering the Pen Tool
The Pencil tool

Path Editing
Editing Anchor Points
Compound Shapes
Pathfinder Options
Eraser tool
Manipulating and Editing Paths
Outlining Strokes
Path Options

Appearances
The Appearance Panel
Object Attributes
Multiple attributes
Applying Live Effects
Graphic Styles
Appearance Panel settings

Working with Groups and Layers
Defining groups
Editing groups
Working with layers
Layers and object hierarchy

Working with Color
Defining swatches
Creating swatch groups and libraries
Working with gradients
Working with patterns
Using the Color Guides
Live Colour
Finding colors with kuler
Modifying color in artwork

Object Transformation and Positioning
Moving and copying objects
Rotating and scaling objects
Reflecting and skewing objects
Using the Free Transform tool
Using the Transform panel
Repeating transformations
Using the Transform Each function
Aligning objects
Distributing objects

Brushes
Creating a calligraphic brush
Creating a scatter brush
Creating an art brush
Creating a pattern brush

Using Symbols
Defining and editing symbols
Editing symbols

Applying Filters and Live Effects
Minding your resolution settings
Applying the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect
Applying the 3D Revolve effects
Mapping artwork to 3D objects
Transforming Effects
Using the Stylize effects
Using the Scribble effect
Using the Warp effect

Basic Text Editing
Creating Point Text
Creating Area Text
Text Formatting
Creating Text Threads
Text on a Path
Using the Glyphs panel
Checking spelling
Using the Change Case function
Convert Text to Outlines

Creating Blends
Creating a basic blend
Using a blend to create an airbrush effect
Working with Images

Placing images
Using the Links panel
The Edit Original workflow
Live Trace
Rasterizing artwork

Specialised Tasks
Creating graphs
Using Gradient Mesh
Using Envelope Warps
The Liquify Distortion tools

Saving and Printing
Saving your Illustrator document
Printing your Illustrator document
Using the Crop Area tool
Setting up page tiling