This course is designed for those who want to become Graphic Designers in the Print & Web Media. A Graphic Designer is responsible for designing advertisements, posters, brochures, Web Banners, logos, Greeting cards etc.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course the participant will:
- Design layouts, Paper Adverts, CD Covers, Posters
- Cartoons
- Brochures
- Package Design
- Logo
Introduction
- Get familiar with Illustrator CC interface
- Introduction
- Document Setup
- Working with new Documents
- Zooming & Panning
- Placing Files
- File Browser
- Shortcuts
Introduction to Shapes
- Tool Box & Tool Options Bar
- Creating Shapes
- Basic Shapes
- Rectangle
- Rounded Rectangle
- Ellipse
- Polygon
- Star
Modifying shapes
- Selection Tool
- Sub Selection Tool
- Lasso
Working with Pathfinder
- Adding shapes
- Subtracting Shapes
- Intersecting Shapes
- Excluding Shapes
Working with colors
- Fill Stroke
- Eye dropper
- Color Picker
- Gradients
Working with Rulers
- Zero Point
- Guidelines
- Safe Margins
Working With objects
- Lock
- Group
- Path options
Drawing Tools
- Brush
- Brush settings
- Borders
- Pencil
- Smooth
- Line
Working with Text
- Artistic & Paragraph Text
- Type on Path
- Area Type
- Text Effects
- Paragraph & Character Styles
Transforming Pictures,Shapes & Text
- Scale
- Rotate
- Skew
- Flip
Creating Complex Shapes
- Working with Pathfinder
- Working with shape builder
- Pen tool
- Spiral, pencil, smooth
- Working with Blob brush
Color and Painting
- Understanding color
- Creating color
- Editing a swatch
- Using Illustrator swatch libraries
- Using the Color Picker
- Copying attributes
- Creating color groups
- Working with the Color Guide panel
- Editing colors in artwork
- Working with the Kuler panel
- Painting with patterns and gradients
- Creating your own pattern
- Working with Live Paint
Perspective Grid
- Understanding the Perspective Grid
- Working with the Perspective Grid
- Using a preset grid
- Editing the Perspective Grid
- Drawing objects in perspective
Blending Colors And Shapes
- Working with gradients
- Changing colors and adjusting the gradient
- Applying gradients to multiple objects
- Adding transparency to gradients
- Working with blended objects
- Creating a blend with specified steps
- Modifying the blend
- Creating smooth color blends
Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles Using
- Using appearance attributes
- Editing and adding appearance attributes
- Using graphic styles
- Creating and saving a graphic style
- Applying a graphic style to a layer
- Applying an appearance to a layer
- Copying, applying, and removing graphic styles
Working with Symbols
- Using existing Illustrator symbol libraries
- Creating and Editing a symbol
- Working with the symbolism tools
- Storing and retrieving artwork in the Symbols panel
- Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork
Working with Patterns
Image Tracing
Working with images and Mask
- Applying color edits to a placed image
- Masking an image
- Applying a clipping mask to an image
- Masking an object with multiple shapes
- Release a mask
- Creating an opacity mask
- Sampling colors in placed images
- Replacing a placed, linked image
Photoshop Connection
- Placing a Photoshop file
- Duplicating and editing a placed image
- Embed a Photoshop image with Layer comps
- Exporting a layered file to Photoshop
