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Four-week Adobe Illustrator essential skills

Attend this Illustrator course and tap into the power of this vector-based program, allowing you to create detailed and scalable art for almost any application.

Adobe Illustrator is a powerful and versatile tool for creating illustrations for the print and web.

Recommended prerequisite: General knowledge of the Windows or Macintosh operating environment.

Course content:
Basics
‹ Introducing vector-based paths
‹ CMYK vs. RGB
‹ Workspace and navigation
‹ Layers and arranging objects
‹ Basic tools
‹ Combining shapes

Working with colour, fills and strokes
‹ Black vs. Rich Black in the Colour Palette
‹ Creating and saving new colour swatches
‹ Display Artifacts and Stroke Pallete options
‹ Creating a fill pattern

Transform and reshape
‹ Transforming, duplicating objects
‹ Reshape Tool
‹ Rotating multiple objects and advanced options

Working with paths
‹ Using the Powerful Pen Tool
‹ Modifying paths, Spline and Beziér Curves
‹ Cutting, extending, and closing paths
‹ Join command and compound paths
‹ Pathfinder operations

Special effects
‹ Joining paths and the Miter Limit
‹ Cropping, uniting and arranging
‹ Liquify, envelope and Warp Tool
‹ Gradients and gradient mesh
‹ Blends and masks and clipping masks
‹ Dynamic effects for objects
‹ Creating drop shadows and text effects

Brushes
‹ Art brushes and editing art brush strokes
‹ Making a custom art brush

Using transparency
‹ Working with Knockout group
‹ Opacity masks
‹ Printing tips with flattener preview

Printing and exporting
‹ Altering document rasterize settings
‹ Saving print settings and export formats
‹ Flash animation
‹ The bridge

Venues

Date: 04 February 2008 to 28 February 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town 8001

Date: 05 May 2008 to 29 May 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town 8001

Date: 04 August 2008 to 28 August 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town 8001

Date: 03 November 2008 to 27 November 2008
Location: Friends of Design, Cape Town
More info: 60 Sir Lowry Road
Cape Town 8001

Contact: Moritz Fritsche
Company name: Friends of Design - Academy of Digital Arts
Telephone number: +27 21 461 09 71
Email address moritz@friendsofdesign.net


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