Course Specifications
Course number: 084039
Software: Adobe® Illustrator® CS4
Course length: 1.0 day(s)
Course Description
Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 is
a sophisticated graphics application that helps you create complex and attractive
designs with type effects. You can create advertisements and other illustrations
with ease using this software. However, creating complex designs can be overwhelming
if you are not familiar with the tools and the features in Adobe Illustrator.
In this course, you will use Adobe Illustrator CS4 by drawing and manipulating
simple shapes to design a layout for your product.
Course Objective: You will use Adobe Illustrator CS4 to create illustrations that
include graphics and text.
Target Student: This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals,
marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job
or taking on design responsibilities, who need to use Illustrator to create
illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.
Prerequisites: Before taking this course, students should be familiar
with the basic functions of their computer's operating system such as creating
folders, launching programs, and working with windows. Students should also
have basic Windows application skills, such as copying and pasting objects,
formatting text, saving files, and so on.
Familiarity with basic design terminology, such as palette,
color mode, shapes, text, and paths, is highly recommended.
Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.
Hardware Requirements
- Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel® Centrino®, Intel®
Xeon®, or Intel® Core™ Duo (or compatible) processor
- 1.8 GB hard-disk space to install software, and an additional
500 MB to run the course. Color monitor with 16-bit or greater video card;
24-bit color recommended
- 1024 x 768 monitor resolution or higher CD-ROM drive
- A display system to project the instructor's computer screen
- An active Internet connection with Internet Explorer version
3.0 or later, or Netscape Navigator version 3.0 or later
- CD-ROM drive
- A printer (optional) or an installed printer driver
Platform Requirements
- Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2
Software Requirements
- Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2
- Adobe® Illustrator® CS4
- Adobe® Flash® Player
- Microsoft® Internet Explorer®
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- get acquainted with the Adobe® Illustrator® CS4
application.
- create shapes in a document.
- create custom paths.
- enter text in an Illustrator document.
- enhance documents.
- proof documents to make them more accurate.
- save images for web and print.
Course Content
- Lesson 1: Getting Acquainted with Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Topic 1A: Explore the Interface
- Topic 1B: Explore the Navigation Tools
- Topic 1C: Customize the Interface
- Topic 1D: Use Illustrator Help
- Topic 1E: Differentiate Between Raster and Vector Graphics
- Topic 1F: Explore the Adobe Bridge Workspace
- Lesson 2: Creating Shapes in a Document
- Topic 2A: Create a Document
- Topic 2B: Draw Basic Shapes
- Topic 2C: Save a Document
- Lesson 3: Creating Custom Paths
- Topic 3A: Draw Paths
- Topic 3B: Modify Paths
- Lesson 4: Working with Text
- Topic 4A: Insert Text
- Topic 4B: Flow Text on a Path
- Topic 4C: Import Body Text
- Topic 4D: Format Text with Styles
- Topic 4E: Thread Text
- Topic 4F: Apply Hyphenation
- Topic 4G: Insert Typographic Characters
- Lesson 5: Enhancing Documents
- Topic 5A: Format Objects
- Topic 5B: Apply Gradients
- Topic 5C: Apply an Envelope to Text
- Topic 5D: Manipulate Objects
- Topic 5E: Import a Graphic
- Topic 5F: Apply Graphic Styles
- Lesson 6: Proofing
a Document
- Topic 6A: Wrap Text
- Topic 6B: Find and Replace Text
- Topic 6C: Fix Spelling Errors
- Lesson 7: Saving Images for Web and Print
- Topic 7A: Export Images for Print
- Topic 7B: Export Images for the Web
- Topic 7C: Save Images as PDFs
- Appendix A: Organizing
Assets Using Adobe® Bridge
- Supplemental Lesson: Work with Adobe Bridge
- Topic 1A: Work with Adobe Bridge
- Topic 1B: Append Metadata and Keywords to Assets
- Appendix B: Adobe
Certified Expert (ACE) Objectives Mapping
- Appendix C: New
Features in Adobe Illustrator CS4