Adobe Illustrator CC: Part 2

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11 hours 40 minutes
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On-Demand
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Intermediate
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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.

Syllabus

Drawing Complex Illustrations

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.

Enhancing Artwork Using Painting Tools

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.

Customizing Colors and Swatches

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.

Formatting Type

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.

Enhancing the Appearance of Artwork

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.

Preparing Content for Deployment

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.

Setting Project Requirements

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.