You have created simple artwork by using the basic drawing and painting tools available in Adobe® Illustrator®. You now want to use advanced tools, options, and effects to create complex artwork. In addition, you want to ensure that your artwork is ready for commercial printing and also save it for the web. In this course, you will draw complex illustrations and enhance them by using various painting options. You will also use painting tools, manage colors, format type, work with effects, prepare artwork for commercial printing, and prepare graphics for the web.
This course is a great component of your preparation for the Adobe Certified Professional in Graphic Design & Illustration Using Adobe Illustrator exam.
This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people taking on design responsibilities who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents. It is also useful for anyone interested in working toward the Adobe Certified Professional Graphic Design and Illustration Using Adobe Illustrator exam certification.
In this course, you will: draw complex illustrations, enhance artwork by using painting tools, customize colors and swatches, format type, enhance the appearance of artwork, prepare content for deployment, and set up project requirements.
This course requires that you have Adobe Illustrator installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.
You have experience creating relatively simple projects. Now, you can get started on design projects where you need to create complex illustrations. As the complexity of your projects increases, you will find it very difficult and time consuming to complete all your artwork with just the basic Adobe® Illustrator® features. Instead, you can apply several techniques that will let you create complex artwork from existing simple illustrations. In this lesson, you will draw complex illustrations.
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9 Plug-ins•Insgesamt 115 Minuten
Getting Started with This Course•15 Minuten
Lesson Introduction•5 Minuten
Apply the Grid, Guides, and Info Panel•15 Minuten
Combine Objects to Create Complex Illustrations•15 Minuten
You created complex illustrations by using different drawing techniques. Now, you may want to enhance those illustrations by painting them with beautiful fills and strokes. In this lesson, you will use painting tools to enhance artwork.
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9 Plug-ins•Insgesamt 115 Minuten
Lesson Introduction•5 Minuten
Paint Objects Using Fills and Strokes•15 Minuten
Paint Objects Using Live Paint Groups•15 Minuten
Paint with Custom Brushes•15 Minuten
Add Transparency and Blending Modes•15 Minuten
Apply Meshes to Objects•15 Minuten
Apply Patterns•15 Minuten
Mastery Builder: Painting Artwork•15 Minuten
Lesson Summary•5 Minuten
Customizing Colors and Swatches
Modul 3•1 Stunde abzuschließen
Moduldetails
You have used painting tools to enhance artwork. Imagine a situation in which you need to apply natural looking colors to an object. You may not be able to achieve the desired outcome by using the default swatches and colors available in Adobe® Illustrator®. However, you can customize the default colors and swatches to paint objects according to your preference. In this lesson, you will customize colors and swatches.
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7 Plug-ins•Insgesamt 85 Minuten
Lesson Introduction•5 Minuten
Manage Colors•15 Minuten
Customize Swatches•15 Minuten
Manage Color Groups•15 Minuten
Adjust Color•15 Minuten
Mastery Builder: Applying Colors Using Custom Swatches•15 Minuten
Lesson Summary•5 Minuten
Formatting Type
Modul 4•1 Stunde abzuschließen
Moduldetails
You controlled the way colors and swatches affect your illustrations. Controlling the appearance of text is also equally important, if you want your artwork to look great. Whether you have short titles and sentences or large blocks of text, you need to enhance the appearance of the text in your artwork. In this lesson, you will format type.
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5 Plug-ins•Insgesamt 55 Minuten
Lesson Introduction•5 Minuten
Set Character Formats•15 Minuten
Apply Advanced Formatting Options to Type•15 Minuten
Mastery Builder: Formatting Text in an Illustrator Document•15 Minuten
Lesson Summary•5 Minuten
Enhancing the Appearance of Artwork
Modul 5•2 Stunden abzuschließen
Moduldetails
Improving the appearance of your artwork will not stop with formatting type in your document. Imagine that you are creating a sales catalog for your company. You have added several photographs and product descriptions to this catalog. However, the sales manager wants the catalog to look unique so that it attracts customers. You can make the objects in the catalog stand out by using various Adobe® Illustrator® features such as effects, blends, masks, symbols, and graphic styles. In this lesson, you will enhance the appearance of artwork.
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8 Plug-ins•Insgesamt 100 Minuten
Lesson Introduction•5 Minuten
Apply Effects to an Object•15 Minuten
Create Graphic Styles•15 Minuten
Apply a Mask to an Object•15 Minuten
Apply Symbols and Symbol Sets•15 Minuten
Work with 3D Objects•15 Minuten
Mastery Builder: Enhancing Artwork•15 Minuten
Lesson Summary•5 Minuten
Preparing Content for Deployment
Modul 6•2 Stunden abzuschließen
Moduldetails
You applied different types of effects to your artwork. Having enhanced your artwork with different techniques, you would want to ensure that it appears as expected when printed. Printers use different technologies and settings to reproduce artwork. To ensure that your artwork prints identically and exactly the way you want it, you need to prepare it for printing. In this lesson, you will prepare content for deployment.
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9 Plug-ins•Insgesamt 120 Minuten
Lesson Introduction•5 Minuten
Prepare Artwork for Printing•15 Minuten
Prepare Transparency and Colors for Printing•15 Minuten
Create Slices and Image Maps•15 Minuten
Save Graphics for the Web•15 Minuten
Prepare Documents for Video•15 Minuten
Prepare Files for Other Applications•15 Minuten
Mastery Builder: Setting Print Options•20 Minuten
Lesson Summary•5 Minuten
Setting Project Requirements
Modul 7•1 Stunde abzuschließen
Moduldetails
As a designer and developer using Adobe® Illustrator®, you will need to have a solid understanding of the purpose and audience for rich media content. You will need to identify project requirements, client goals, audience needs, and common problems that arise throughout the project development cycles. You will also need to be familiar with the term intellectual property. Finally, you will need to have a solid understanding of project tasks and common problems that arise throughout the project development cycle. In this lesson, you will set project requirements.
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6 Plug-ins•Insgesamt 60 Minuten
Lesson Introduction•5 Minuten
Identify the Purpose, Audience, and Audience Needs•10 Minuten
Determine and Evaluate Standard Copyright Rules for Artwork, Graphics, and Graphics Use•10 Minuten
Determine and Evaluate Project Management Tasks and Responsibilities•10 Minuten
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