illustrator courses

GETTING TO KNOW THE WORK AREA
• Control panel
• Working with panels
• Tool panel
• Saving your work
• Using multiple artboards
• Customizing your workspace

SELECTING AND ALIGNING
• Selection Tool v. Direct Selection Tool
• Magic Wand
• Grouping objects
• Aligning objects

  BASIC SHAPES
• Basic Shape Tools
• Stroke and Fill
• Line segments
• Joining paths
• Modifying basic shapes

PATHFINDER
• Shape Modes v. Pathfinders
• Shape builder (NEW TO CS5!)

TRANSFORMING OBJECTS
• Scaling objects
• Reflecting objects
• Distorting objects
• Shearing objects
• Making multiple transformations

  DRAWING WITH THE PEN TOOL/PENCIL TOOL
• Creating straight lines
• Creating curved paths
• Curves and corner anchor points
• Selecting and manipulating curves
• Pencil tool
• Changing pencil tool options
• Smooth tool
• Variable-width strokes
• Drawing tablet

LAYERS
• Creating layers
• Moving layers
• Locking layers
• Viewing layers
• Merging layers
• Isolation mode

  USING COLOR
• CMYK v. RGB
• Color panel
• Color guide
• Appearance panel
• Creating and saving custom colors
• Swatch libraries
• Spot colors
• Live paint
• Kuler color panel

TYPE
• Importing text files
• Using columns
• Threading Text
• Character Panel
• Character Styles
• Paragraph Panel
• Type on a path

BRUSHES
• Brush libraries
• Creating own brushes
• Pattern brushes
• Bristle Brush