Clear Canyon Technologies

Adobe® Illustrator® CS3: Level 2

Course Description

You probably used Adobe® Illustrator® to create simple illustrations and logos. However, you may need to create complex illustrations, print documents without any errors or color mismatches, or prepare illustrations for the web. In this course, you will create complex, robust illustrations that go beyond those you could create using Illustrator's basic tools.

Course Objective: You will create complex illustrations, manage color across a range of devices, and control how illustrations print, appear on the web and preview them in mobile devices.

Target Student: This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities, who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Prerequisites: Before taking this course, you should complete the Adobe® Illustrator® CS3: Level 1 Element K course, or have equivalent knowledge.

Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives

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

• create a complex illustration.
• enhance complex illustrations.
• create a vector version of a raster graphic.
• color an artwork using the Live Paint and Live Color features.
• create special effects.
• apply color management so that the colors on the screen and the output match as accurately as possible.
• prepare documents for composite and commercial printing.
• export graphics for the web and mobile.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Creating Complex Illustrations

Topic 1A: Create a Custom Shape Using Simple Shapes

Topic 1B: Create Compound Paths

Topic 1C: Offset Paths

Topic 1D: Erase Shapes

 

Lesson 2: Enhancing Complex Illustrations

Topic 2A: Apply Effects

Topic 2B: Create Symbols

Topic 2C: Create Custom Brushes

Topic 2D: Organize Objects With Layers

Topic 2E: Modify Global Colors

Topic 2F: Create a Mesh

 

Lesson 3: Creating a Vector Version of a Raster Graphic

Topic 3A: Open Layered Photoshop Documents

Topic 3B: Trace Raster Images Manually

Topic 3C: Trace Artwork Automatically

Topic 3D: Adjust the Results of Tracing

Topic 3E: Apply a Custom Preset

Topic 3F: Convert a Traced Object to Paths

 

Lesson 4: Coloring Artwork

Topic 4A: Apply Color Using Live Paint

Topic 4B: Correct Gaps in Objects

Topic 4C: Convert Objects to Live Paint Groups

Topic 4D: Apply Color Using Live Color

 

Lesson 5: Creating Special Effects

Topic 5A: Simplify Paths

Topic 5B: Create Masks

Topic 5C: Create 3D Effects

Topic 5D: Create Blends

Topic 5E: Share Graphic Styles

 

Lesson 6: Applying Color Management

Topic 6A: Decide When to Use Color Management

Topic 6B: Set Up Color Management

 

Lesson 7: Outputting Documents

Topic 7A: Create a Crop Area

Topic 7B: Preview an Overprint

Topic 7C: Print a Composite Proof

Topic 7D: Create Color Separations

Topic 7E: Create an Adobe PDF File

 

Lesson 8: Exporting Graphics for the Web and Mobile

Topic 8A: Convert Colors to Web-Safe Colors

Topic 8B: Create Slices

Topic 8C: Add Interactivity to an SVG File

Topic 8D: Export Web Graphics

Topic 8E: Preview an Illustration for Mobile Output

 

Appendix A: Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Objectives Mapping

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