| [ PageMaker ][ Photoshop ][ Illustrator ][ Freehand ][ Fireworks ][ Flash ][ Corel Draw ] |
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• Customizing
the Illustrator environment • Creating Basic Shapes • Refining Paths • Creating Perspective Grids • Advanced Graphics Techniques • Working with the Gradient Mesh • Advanced Brush Tecniques • Rasterizing Images • Designing with Patterns • Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects • Working with Layers |
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Customizing the Illustrator environment |
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• Screen real estate • Document settings • Preferences • Modifying the startup file • Saving and naming conventions |
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Creating Basic Shapes |
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• Text Attributes • Keyboard Shortcuts • More Typographic controls • Importing and exporting text • Linking text blocks • Text wrap • Type on a circle • Text Outlining |
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Refining Paths |
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• Anchor points and segments • Path editinh tools • Path modifying tools and operations |
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Creating Perspective Grids |
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• Horizon and vanishing points • Designing methods |
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Advanced Graphics Techniques |
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• The Direct Selection Tool • Other Selecting Options • Masking • Compound objects • Troubleshooting compounding mishaps • Blend Anatomy • Blend Options • The Spline • The Blend Tool |
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Working with the Gradient Mesh |
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• What is a gradient mesh? • Anatomy of the mesh • How to create a gradient mesh • How to paint the mesh • Odd shapes and gradient meshes |
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Advanced Brush Techniques |
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• Brush Strokes • Resizing brushes and paths • Brush options • Creating a custom brush • Other brush libraries |
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Rasterizing Images |
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• Raster filters • Filter dialog boxes • Color adjusting filters • Modifying portions of a raster image • Using 1-bit images |
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Designing with Patterns |
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• How patterns work • Precision alignment of pattern objects • Defining the pattern • Patterns with colored backgrounds • Transforming patterns • Working with Expand • Advanded Expand |
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Using Appearance Attributes, Styles, and Effects |
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• Using Appearance attributes • Using live effects • Editing an effect • Using styles • Copying, applying, and removing styles and appearances • Printing and saving files with transparency effects |
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Working with Layers |
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• Creating layers • Moving objects and layers • Locking layers |