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Adobe Illustrator 6.0 Introduction Reference Guide




Course Aims
This course aims to provide users with a introductory reference guide to Adobe Illustrator 6.0. You will learn how to work with layers, graphs and objects.

This course can be found in the following categories:
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Table of Contents
Illustrator's Desktop and Preferences
  • Three Main Elements
     
    The Document Making Process
  • The Document Process
  • Saving a Document for Exporting
     
    Controls and Presentation
  • Viewing Documents on the Screen
  • Positioning
  • Scaling
  • Hiding/Displaying Non Printing Elements
  • Previewing Work in Action
  • Viewing Drawing Layers (Mac only)
  • Using Grids, Guides, Rules, Measure
  • Adding Horizontal/Vertical Ruler Guides
  • Adding Guides Based on Object Shapes
  • Aligning Elements to Points and Guides
  • Measuring Parts of a Drawing
     
    Drawing with Illustrator
  • Drawing Options
  • Selecting Objects
  • Manipulation of Paths/Points
  • Drawing/Painting in Loose Freehand
  • Importing Graphics
     
    Using Type
  • Creating Type
  • Creating a Type Column
  • Creating Type Within a Closed Path
  • Creating Type to Follow a Path
  • Changing Type Attributes
  • Manipulating the Block of Text
  • Altering Lettershapes
  • Linking Text Blocks
  • Incremental Type Adjustment
     
    Working with Objects
  • Transforming Objects
  • Rotating
  • Reflecting
  • Scaling
  • Shearing
  • Duplicating/Moving Objects
  • Duplicating
  • Moving Objects/Stepping and Repeating Objects
  • Locking/Arranging Objects
  • Grouping Objects to Form a Single Unit
  • Constraining Objects at Special Angles
  • Four Key Techniques
    Using Layers
  • Working on a Single Layer
  • Controlling Layers
  • Manipulating Objects Together on Separate Layers
     
    Using Graphs
  • Graphs in Illustrator
  • Creating Standard Graphs
  • Creating Graphs Based on Sample Custom Graph Designs
  • Creating a Custom Graph Design
     
    Painting Fills and Strokes
  • Assigning Fills to Paths and Strokes to Lines
  • Sampling/Applying Colours
  • Fills and Strokes
  • Specifying Fills and Strokes
  • Creating Custom Process (CMYK) Colours
  • Creating Gradients
  • Creating Tints
  • Creating Patterns
  • Adding Pantones/Gradients/Patterns to Palette Lists
  • Converting Custom Spot Colours to Process (CMYK) Colours
  • Trapping
  • Strategy for Trapping
  • Overprinting Objects
  • Trapping with Spreading/Choked Strokes
  • Trapping using the Pathfinder Trap Filter
  • Trapping using Process Colours
     
    Proof Printing
  • Adjusting the Printing Area of the Artboard
  • Checking Page Specifications
  • Printing
     
    Imagesetting
  • Preparation
  • Imagesetting
     
    Key Drawing Stages
  • Design Concept
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