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