Adobe Illustrator CS2: Advanced, ACE Edition Study Guide

1-4188-8861-3 © 2007 Publish date: April 10, 2006 286 pages

 

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CBT Planet presents the highly rated Illustrator CS2: Advanced, ACE Edition study guide. In fact, ProCert Labs rated this course a 4.9/5.0 in overall quality. You'll build on your basic skills and concepts that you learned in the basic ACE edition of Illustrator CS2. In this advanced course, you will learn about transforming objects, adjusting typography, conversion of raster images to vector art, 3D effects, commercial printer requirements, exporting artwork, and other advanced techniques.

Because this Illustrator CS2: Advanced, ACE Edition courseware is intended to help you prepare for your ACE certification, we have decided to bundle it with the CertBlaster exam prep software to better prepare you for the Adobe Certified Expert exam. Together, you can use these two products to thoroughly master Illustrator CS2 and easily ace the ACE exam!

Our computer training books are written by experts who deliver high-quality instruction in a logical way. The Illustrator CS2: Advanced, ACE Edition courseware is broken down into eight units with reviews and exercises that you can use to reinforce the subject matter. As you master each concept, you are ready to move to the next unit. By the end of the book, you will have learned numerous advanced techniques that you can use to create exceptional illustrations with.

Course Objectives

After completion of the courseware, you will be able to cut out holes in shapes, offset paths, outline strokes, work with Pathfinder commands, create clipping masks and opacity masks, flow type and wrap text, format tabs, work with typographic characters, use styles, check spelling, manage fonts, and find and replace text.

You will also know how to use the Appearance palette for creating multiple fills and strokes, how to apply color to grayscale images, and how to create gradient meshs, brushes, transform patterns, and manipulate symbols.

We'll show you how to use transformation and Liquify tools, work with envelopes, and create 3D effects. You'll be able to use filters, effects, and graphic styles.

Other topics include converting color raster images and line art into vector artwork, adding color to vector artwork, color management, crop areas, printing composite proofs, color separations, and generating PostScript files for commercial printers. You'll be able to view your artwork in pixel preview, work with slices, create hyperlinks, optimize your Illustrator images, export illustrations as a web page, and preview web pages in a browser.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers manipulating paths

• Path commands
• Masks

Unit 2 covers adjusting typography

• Flow type
• Formatting body text
• Editing text

Unit 3 discusses fills and strokes

• Fills and strokes
• Adding color to grayscale images
• Gradient mesh
• Patterns
• Brushes
• Symbols

Unit 4 goes over transforming shapes

• Transformation tools
• Envelopes
• Liquify tool
• 3D effects

Unit 5 goes over filters, effects, and graphic styles

• Filters
• Effects
• Graphic styles

Unit 6 covers converting raster images to vector art

• How to trace raster images
• Coloring artwork with Live Paint

Unit 7 covers printing illustrations

• Color management
• Printing specifications
• Color separations

Unit 8 goes over web files

• Slices
• Exporting web graphics

Appendix A - ACE exam objectives map