PS Training Ltd

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Course Booking and enquiries: 01352 810443
enquiries@pstraining.co.uk

Prerequisites:
Attendees should be familiar with a PC and the Windows environment and posses basic keyboard skills.

Duration:
This course is a one day course.

Getting Started

• The Illustrator Environment
• Overview of the toolbox
• Exploration of the palettes
• Using the info bar
• Magnification and views
• Setting document preferences
• Using the control palette
• Multiple artboards (CS4 only)

Creating a Simple Illustration

• Creating a new document
• Basic shapes
• Using the rectangle, ellipse, star, polygon and spiral tools
• Using smart guides
• Manipulating objects
• Moving and copying objects
• Controlling the stacking order
• Using the pathfinder palette
• Grouping and ungrouping
• Using the transform tools: scale, reflect, shear and rotate
• Using the transform palette
• Manipulating shapes
• Exporting an illustration

Applying Basic Colour

• Using the colour palette
• Creating process colours
• Specifying spot colours
• Choosing Pantone colours
• Using the swatches palette
• Adding and deleting swatches
• Applying colour
• Stroke options
• The Eyedropper Tool

Drawing Paths

• Raster images
• Basic drawings
• Selecting and editing paths
• An introduction to bézier curves
• Understanding how to draw béziers curves and lines using the pen tool
• Adding and deleting points
• Using keyboard shortcuts to draw more efficiently
• Cutting and joining paths using the scissors and knife tool
• Using the pencil tool
• Using the smooth pencil tool
• Using the eraser
• Editing paths using the reshape tool
• Blob brush tool