Adobe Illustrator CS3
(also applicable for users of earlier versions)
No, you don’t have to be a graphic artist to
effectively use Adobe Illustrator, even though graphic artists have made Adobe Illustrator
the "industry-standard" illustration software package.
If you do desktop publishing, or need to create documents for print or
Web delivery, you’ll find that Illustrator offers unmatched flexibility in creating
your layouts. Illustrator may be the only software tool you need to create
professional-looking brochures, flyers, Web pages, and more.
The Level 1 workshop introduces the basics of Illustrator. In addition to
creating a graphic logo, you'll learn how to use special type effects (gradients
and "type on a path"), work with imported graphics, and work with body type in
an overall layout.
Note: This list of topics covered may be slightly
revised once the final version of the Level 1 workbook becomes available from our
publisher later this fall.
Among the topics to be covered are: |
- Navigating in Illustrator & working with the toolbox
- Creating documents utilizing CMYK or RGB color models (and
gamuts)
- Working with the shape tools
- Drawing paths with the pencil tool
- Formatting an object's "fill" and "stroke"
- Working with brushes, swatches, and libraries
- Utilizing the navigation, appearance, and transform palettes
- Adding and formatting type
- Using the pen tool to create and modify paths
- Applying graphic styles
- Creating special type effects
- applying gradients to type
- placing type on a path
- applying an envelope to distort type
- wrapping text
- Exporting Illustrator files
- Adding body type
- placing and positioning body type with bounding boxes
- formatting type with styles
- inserting glyphs
- Exploring the Adobe Bridge environment (as time allows)
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Adobe Illustrator CS3, Level 1
(also applicable for users of earlier versions)
Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of using your PC (Windows or Mac)
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 6
UIUC CEU’s: 0.6
CPDUs: 6 (Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 6 CPDUs for this
workshop)
Fee: $122 (includes workbook)
Date / Time: July 31, 2008 (Th); 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (lunch on
your own 11:30 - 1:00)
Windows User Registration Code: W-1694-E
Mac User Registration Code: M-1695-E
Location: UI Armory Building,
Suite 156 (use NE entrance to Armory)
Registration Form
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In the Level 2 Illustrator workshop, you'll create more complex illustrations,
working with compound paths, layers, symbols, and effects. You'll create a
banner graphic, slice and export it to a web-compatible format, and will also
work through some of the basics of color management and document output.
Note: This list of topics covered is being slightly revised.
The updated list will be posted here by mid-January.
Among the topics to be covered are: |
- Creating shapes using Pathfinder commands
- Creating compound and offset paths
- Working with symbols, the symbols palette, and symbolism tools
- Organizing objects with layers
- Modifying global colors
- Providing support for PSD and PDF files
- Tracing raster images, using the Live Trace command (new in
Illustrator CS2)
- Coloring artwork using Live Paint
- Creating clipping masks
- Applying effects and filters, including 3D effects
- Exporting graphics to the web (slicing, converting to "web-safe"
colors)
- Introduction to color management (as time allows)
- Printing composite proofs (as time allows)
- Creating color separations (as time allows)
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Adobe Illustrator CS3, Level 2
(also applicable for users of earlier versions)
Prerequisite: Adobe Illustrator Level 1 workshop, or equivalent
knowledge
Instructor: Peter Kimble, Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
Hours: 6
UIUC CEU’s: 0.6
CPDUs: 6 (Illinois teachers are eligible to earn 6 CPDUs for this
workshop)
Fee: $122 (includes workbook)
Date / Time: Aug. 1, 2008 (F); 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (lunch on
your own 11:30 - 1:00)
Windows User Registration Code: W-1696-E
Mac User Registration Code: M-1697-E
Location: UI Armory Building,
Suite 156 (use NE entrance to Armory)
Registration Form
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