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Adobe Illustrator version 8
Levels: Introductory

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Duration: 1 day

This 1-day course teaches the basic features of this desktop publishing package. Delegates should be familiar with the Windows environment.

Basics
  • Overview of features
  • The Illustrator approach to drawing
  • Setting stroke and fill attributes
  • Printing documents
  • Creating basic geometrical shapes
  • Drawing straight paths
  • Drawing curved paths
  • The freehand tool
  • The autotrace tool
  • Selecting and arranging objects
Editing objects Text Handling
  • Entering and editing text
  • Text labels and text boxes
  • Entering text along a path
  • Entering text within a path
  • Creating and editing text outlines
Drawing Techniques
  • Creating your own patterns
  • Measuring and constraining
  • Guide objects and crop marks
  • Hiding and locking objects
  • The transformation tools
  • The use of compound paths
  • The use of masking objects
  • The blend tool
  • Working with layers
  • Overview of Illustrator filters
Graphs
  • Creating a graph
  • The graph types
  • Importing data

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