Adobe Illustrator CS2: Basic Study Guide

1-4188-6101-4 © 2006 Publish date: October 11, 2005 186 pages

 

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CBT Planet brings you the Adobe Illustrator CS2: Basic study guide to teach you the fundamental concepts, techniques, and skills you need in order to use Illustrator CS2 to create artwork. You can use Illustrator CS2 for creating artwork suitable for both print and the Internet. We'll show you the basics of getting started with this program including the creation of simple and complex shapes, adding color and text to illustrations, modifying and grouping items, and much more.

Use the Adobe Illustrator CS2: Basic courseware to become familiar with the ins and outs of illustrating with this fine product. You'll enjoy using our computer training books to assist you in mastering software applications because they are written by experts who demonstrate the steps in an easy-to-understand manner.

The seven units follow a logical progression, making the learning intuitive. The Adobe Illustrator CS2: Basic courseware contains exercises and reviews to help you learn each concept before moving on to the next topic. You can use this study guide as a standalone, self-study product or you can use it to enhance your learning while you participate in classroom study or other methods of learning. Either way, having the courseware as a reference both during your studies as well as when you use the software is a terrific idea.

Objectives

Upon completing the course you will be able to explore Illustrator's environment, successfully navigate through Illustrator documents, get help from Adobe's Help Center , create new documents, draw simple shapes, make complex shapes by manipulating simple ones, and export illustrations. You will also be able to adjust stroke options and colors, use the eyedropper tool, and adjust the fill colors of shapes.

You'll learn to embed raster images so that you can trace them in Illustrator, use the Pen and Pencil tools to draw shapes and paths, and be able to select a path and edit it. We'll show you how to insert, manipulate, and covert text, create layers and use the Layers palette, and how to manipulate layers.

You'll also learn about importing and exporting swatch libraries, opening swatch libraries, creating and adjusting gradients, and adjusting an object's transparency.

Course Contents

Unit 1 covers getting started

• Adobe Illustrator's environment
• Navigating Illustrator
• Help Center

Unit 2 covers how to create simple illustrations

• Creating new documents
• Basic shapes
• Manipulating shapes
• Exporting illustrations

Unit 3 discusses applying basic color

• Applying color
• Setting stroke options
• Eyedropper tool

Unit 4 goes over drawing paths

• Raster images
• Basic drawing
• How to select and edit paths

Unit 5 goes over working with text

• Adding text to a document
• Altering text

Unit 6 covers Layers

• Layers
• How to manipulate layers

Unit 7 covers working with fills and colors

• Swatch libraries
• Gradients
• Transparency