Graphic professionals who need an extensive understanding of vector illustrations and the many features of Illustrator. Experienced users will also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises. We gear our Advanced Adobe courses to the Adobe Certified Expert Exam Bulletin, and we highly recommend this course if you are seeking the ACE status.

Creating Complex Illustrations

• Make use of Outline Strokes technique
• Explore Shape Modes and Pathfinder palette - create Compound Paths for trendy grunge effects
• Use Expand Appearance to modify individual elements
• Create your own Custom Brushes: Calligraphy,
  Scatter or Art, to place objects along a path
• Keep your paths Simple & Cleaned Up
• Graphs - use your own artwork instead of a simple bar

Modifying Artworks

• Envelope Distort & other forms of Warping objects
• Clipping Mask for advanced design
• Transparency for more polished look
• Create drop shadows, glows and more using the
  Stylise Live Effects
• Share the appearance attributes with Graphic Styles
• Explore Gradient Mesh & its ability to add realistic 3D shading and highlights to 2D graphics
• Learn the difference between Filters & Live Effects
• Blend shapes or groups for advanced compositions

Advanced Typographical Features

• Character Palette - adjust the kerning, baseline shift, horizontal & vertical scaling
• Paragraph Palette - Justification and Hyphenation options
• Use the 3D feature to extrude text and other Illustrator objects

Printing your Artwork

• Simulate multiple pages in Illustrator using the artboard and document setup
• Flattening Transparency for raster effects like drop shadows, glows and blurs
• Creating separations with Spot colour vs. Process colour

Enhancing your workflow

• Explore Links & Actions palettes
• Export to Flash (SWF)
• Use Symbols to create elements used repeatedly in animations and complex artworks
• Use the Release to Layers command to distribute all of the objects on a layer onto separate, individual layers for quick web animations
• Creating Smart objects, Dragging-and-dropping and exporting layers into Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator CS3 Introduction or equivalent experience.

Graphic designers or people switching into a design job or taking on design responsibilities. They will have some previous experience with Illustrator.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Further adjust Bezier curves by creating Compound paths
• Create Custom Brushes and various Graphic Styles
• Work with Transparency and other raster effects like drop shadows
• Accurately adjust type in an artwork
• Prepare documents for composite and commercial printing
• Enhance the workflow and integration of Illustrator with the rest of Creative Suite

Creative Suite Design - Master Class Introduction

Illustrator CS3 - Introduction

Indesign CS3 - Master Class