Adobe Illustrator CS6 Essentials, A 12 hour Intro Course

Learn more at Luminous Works with this Introductory course.

For class dates, please see: Illustrator Essentials

$525 ( includes one time free refresher course if space is available)
Course led by Steve Laskevitch, consistently rated in the Top 6 Highest Worldwide in student evaluations of all Adobe Certified Instructors when Adobe released Instructor ranking information.

Register at: Illustrator Essentials

The Adobe CS6 Illustrator Essentials course will cover:
(Material always customized for the students in attendance):

Create both basic and complex shapes

• create simple, "logo-esque" shapes
• secrets of the "basic" shape tools
• know when to edit and when to redraw

Control your illustrations with Layers

• control stacking order of your illustration's parts
• organize complex illustrations (like maps)
• selecting objects from the Layers panel
• hiding, locking, and more

Bend and twist graphics with powerful transformation tools

• the Scale, Rotate, and Reflect tools
• the Liquify tools: Warp, Twirl, Pucker, Bloat, and friends
• Free Transform
• the Bounding Box
• point by point editing

Create and control color swatches

• the power and pitfalls of Illustrator swatches
• using color libraries (like Pantone®)
• the joys of Live Color: recolor whole illustrations elegantly

Use Gradients effectively

• surprising ways to add depth to objects
• shading and subtlety

Using Type

• the Adobe type engine
• font choices
• controlling typographic features
• converting type to graphics
• flowing text along a path
• flowing text inside a path
• getting text from other applications

Adding images from other programs to your illustrations

• take advantage of Photoshop features in Illustrator
• linking vs embedding

Tracing scanned images: pros and cons

• line drawing to vector paths
• photos to vector forms
• taming the Live Trace feature

Working intuitively: Live Paint

• from vector shape quilting to drawing the way you want
• mind the gap: pitfalls in Live Paint

Transparency

• transparency risks made clear (puns intended)
• opacity, blending modes, and output
• transparency effects vs overprinting

Combining Shapes

• shape modes
• using shapes as tools on other shapes

Basics of Blends

• morphing of objects
• using blends to create subtle shading

Graphic Styles

• saving appearance attributes for later use
• make major changes globally and efficiently

Saving and Exporting

• saving for older versions of Illustrator
• PDF and EPS



Register at: Illustrator CS6 Essentials in Seattle
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