Location

Community Services & Continuing Education - Alexandria

Objectives

• • Knowing how to use the various elements in Adobe Illustrator interface to work efficiently with the program.• Knowing how to create simple and complex drawings using Drawing tools. • Understanding layers and knowing how to work with them efficiently.• Understanding how to use the various tools and commands in Adobe Illustrator to cut, reshape, transform and distort objects.• Knowing how to choose colors and how to apply solid colors, gradients and patterns to objects fills and strokes.• Understanding how to convert bitmap images to vector images and how to modify them.• Knowing how to use Type tools and how to work with text formatting options.• Understanding how to create mesh objects and how to edit them.• Understanding how to create blends and how to change options for a selected blend.• Knowing how to apply graphic styles and special effects to artwork and how to modify them.• Understanding perspective drawing.• Knowing how to export artwork in different file formats

Outcomes

Gaining the required skills to design professional-looking logos, illustrations, products design and vector graphics for print and web publishing.• Demonstrate using gradients, pattern fills, and blends, points, and path.• Demonstrate drawing and painting techniques in Illustrator.• student can design( Logo – cover books – cartoon characters- drawing landscape )• Demonstrate using Illustrator effects and symbols,

Course Contents

• Create new Illustrator documents and how to save them in different file formats.• Work with multiple art boards and how to edit, delete and rearrange them.• Work with selection, drawing, typing, painting, reshaping, cutting, symbolism, graph, moving and zooming tools.• Aligning and distributing objects and changing the stacking order of them.• Create layers and how to manage them.• Create variable width strokes and how to use the Stroke panel.• Use Color Picker, Colors Panel and Swatches panel and how to apply colors to fills and strokes.• Creating, using and editing gradients and patterns.• Create and edit clipping masks.• Identifying different methods to combine objects.• Distorting objects using Envelop Distort commands.• Apply blending modes and transparency to artwork.• Using graphic styles and effects.• Using Image Trace command to convert bitmap image to vector artwork.