Illustrator is a vector graphics editing software package. Using Illustrator, high quality graphics can be created. Illustrator provides more professional and effective design. Illustrator is a highly user-friendly software. Illustrator is more than just photography manipulation. Illustrator is a software designed for the artists. Illustrator is used to create 3D graphics. Illustrator is the topmost priority for graphic designers. Infographic designing is one of the application of Illustrator.
Illustrator is mainly be used for:
· Icon Designing
· Logo Designing
· Brochure Designing
· Billboard Designing
· Signage Designing
· Business Flier Designing.
Illustrator Overview
Illustrator Installation
Workspace Basics
· Workspace optimization
· Workspace operations
Tools panel
· Tool selection
· Changing pointer
· Selection tool
· Drawing tool
· Type tool
· Painting tool
· Reshaping tool
· Symbolism tool
· Graph tool
· Slicing and cutting tool
· Moving and zooming tool
Templates and files
· New Document creation
· Creating templates
· Opening a file
· File browsing
Artwork Crop
· Crop area operations
· Crop area rulers
· Crop area options
Artwork View
· Colour changing
· Size changing
· Page tiling
· Zooming and moving
· Navigator panel
· Outlines
· Multiple window and Preview
Ruler
· Changing unit
· Using grid, guides and smart guides
· Distance measurement
· Info panel
Settings
Automation, undo and recovery
Drawing
· Lines, shapes and flares
· Pencil tool
· Pen tool
· Path editing
· Artwork tracing
· Symbols, tools and sets
Color
· Color Selection
· Swatches
· Color groups
· Color adjustment
· Color management
· Color settings
Painting
· Fills and strokes
· Arrowheads
· Object selection
· Creating multiple fills and strokes
Live paint groups
· Creating
· Expanding or releasing
· Selecting and modification
· Bucket tool
· Gap closing
Brushes
· Brush panel
· Brush libraries
· Brush strokes
· Lines and strokes
· Removing brush strokes
· Stokes and outlines
· Creation and modification of brushes
· Options
Transparency
· Transparency panel
Transparency and artwork
· Changing opacity of artwork
· Tranparency knockout
· Opacity masks
· Blending modes
Gradients
Meshes
Color blends
Patterns
· Create pattern swatches
· Geometric patters
· Textured patters
· Brush patterns
· Pattern modification
Object selection and arrangement
· Selection
· Grouping
· Expanding
· Moving
· Aligning
· Distributing
· Rotating
· Reflecting
· Layers
· Locking, hiding and deleting objects
· Stacking objects
· Duplicating objects
Reshaping objects
· Transformation
· Distortion
· Combination
· Clipping
· Blending
· 3D object creation
Save import and export files
Type
· Creating and importing
· Type on path
· Rotating type
· Spelling and language
· Fonts
· Formatting type
· Spacing
· Special characters
· Line breaks
· Tabs
· Paragraph styles
Special effects
· Filters
· Shadows
· Glows
· Feathering
· Sketching
· Changing vector graphics to bitmap
· Graphic styles
Web Graphics
· Slicing
· Image map
· SVG
· Creating animations
· Image optimization
Graphs
· Creating graphs
· Formatting graphs
· Adding items to graphs
Keyboard shortcuts
Illustrator Training Duration | |||
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Weekdays | Mon-Fri | 1.5 hrs/day | 1 month |
Weekends | Sat-Sun | 3 hrs/day | 1 month |