Illustrator 201: Hot Shot

Have already taken the Adobe Illustrator 101 training course or solid knowledge of topics covered in that workshop.

• Further adjust Bezier curves by creating Compound paths
• Create Custom Brushes and various Graphic Style
• Work with Transparency and other raster effects like drop shadows
• Accurately adjust type in an artwork
• Prepare documents for composite and commercial printing
• Enhance the workflow
• Integration of Illustrator with the rest of Creative Suite

Advanced environment management

• Working with multiple artboards
• The ‘links’ and ‘actions’ windows

Advanced drawing techniques

• Working with compound paths
• The ‘expand appearance’ command
• The ‘attributes’ window
• The ‘outline strokes’ command
• Creating and using graphic styles
• Using ‘envelope distort’
• Using clipping masks
• The ‘live paint’ colouring tools
• The width tool
• The shape builder
• Setting up perspective grids
• Transparency and opacity masks
• 3D shading with the gradient mesh tool

Creating custom brushes

• Calligraphy brushes
• Scatter brushes
• Pattern brushes
• Art brushes
• Bristle brushes

Using Live Colour

• Generating a colour group
• Recolouring artwork with colour guides

Applying special effects

• 3D effects: revolve, extrude and bevel, rotate
• Advanced blending techniques
• Photoshop effects in Illustrator

Advanced type features

• Creating character and paragraph styles
• Horizontal and vertical scaling
• Adding text to a vector path
• Adding gradients to type

Saving and exporting

• Printing your artwork
• Creating a PDF
• Editing options for PDFs
• Simulating multiple pages
• Creating separations with spot colour
• Exporting layers to Photoshop
• Using ‘release to layers’ for web animations
• Exporting for Adobe Flash (SWF)