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Illustrator CS4 - Level 1 Illustrator CS4 - Level 1
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Duration: 8h

Overview:

In this course, students will use Adobe Illustrator CS4 by drawing and manipulating simple shapes to design a layout for their product.

Who Should Attend:

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, who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

At Course Completion:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: - get acquainted with the Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 application. - create shapes in a document. - create custom paths. - enter text in an Illustrator document. - enhance documents. - proof documents to make them more accurate. - save images for web and print.

Prerequisite Comments:

Familiar with the basic operating system functions such as creating folders, launching programs, and working with windows
Launch and close programs; navigate to information stored on the computer; and manage files and folders
Familiarity with basic design terminology, such as palette, color mode, shapes, text, and paths, is highly recommended
 

Outline:

Lesson 1: Getting Acquainted with Adobe Illustrator CS4

Explore the Interface
Explore the Navigation Tools
Customize the Interface
Use Illustrator Help
Differentiate Between Raster and Vector Graphics
Explore the Adobe Bridge Workspace

Lesson 2: Creating Shapes in a Document

Create a Document
Draw Basic Shapes
Save a Document

Lesson 3: Creating Custom Paths

Draw Paths
Modify Paths

Lesson 4: Working with Text

Insert Text
Flow Text on a Path
Import Body Text
Format Text with Styles
Thread Text
Apply Hyphenation
Insert Typographic Characters

Lesson 5: Enhancing Documents

Format Objects
Apply Gradients
Apply an Envelope to Text
Manipulate Objects
Import a Graphic
Apply Graphic Styles

Lesson 6: Proofing a Document

Wrap Text
Find and Replace Text
Fix Spelling Errors

Lesson 7: Saving Images for Web and Print

Export Images for Print
Export Images for the Web
Save Images as PDFs




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