Adobe Illustrator course for Working professional by Palium

Introduction
o Custom workspace
o Control Palettes & menus
o Smartguides
o Rulers, guides, grids, snap to
o Outline & Preview modes
o Navigation & Scroll shortcuts
How Illustrator Works
o Vectors v Bitmaps
o Components for Images
o Text, Shapes & Colour
Drawing
o Using the shape tools
o Drawing with the line tools
o Transforming tools
o The warp tool flyout
o Symbols in Illustrator
o Creating a logo
o Drawing a tin can
o Drawing a spoked wheel
o Selecting, Copying and Moving
o Rotating and Skewing Objects
o Align, group and duplicate Objects
o Hiding and Locking
o Special Effects
o Drawing Tools e.g. rectangle, ellipse,
polygon, Star
o Fills and Colours
o Drawing curves
o The Average and Join commands
o Eraser tool
Images
o Importing & placing images
o Turning Bitmap into Vector
Colour
o Basic Colours & Stroke palette
o Types of Colour; Colour modes
o Spot v Process colours
o Gradient and Patterns
o Dragging colour
o Understanding & using stroke and fill attributes
o Using Swatches
o Use the Paint Bucket tool
Text
o Creating Text objects
o Artistic and Paragraph text
o Colouring and Filling text
o Adding point type
o Adding area type
o Adding type to a vector path
o Creating type outlines
o Placing Text Around Objects
o Linking Paragraphs
o Type Effects
o Find & replace & Spellcheck
Lasso select
o Using Align and Distribute
o Using group and duplicate
o Hiding and locking layer objects
o Using isolation mode
o Compound paths
o Clipping masks
Working with Paths
o Creating & Editing Paths
o Pen Tool
Draw straight lines
Draw continuous curves
o Convert smooth points into corner
o Convert points in an existing object
o Move an anchor point or a line
o Shaping a curve
o Converting an anchor point
o Pinch a curve inward
o Add, adjust, delete points
o Bezier curves
Printing & Saving
o Previewing
o The Print Dialog & Printing
o Defining a crop area
o Saving in non-Vector formats
o Save for Web
Using Brushes
o Draw with the Paintbrush tool
o Add/remove a brushstroke to an existing path
o Convert a brushstroke to outlined paths
o Creating and modifying brushes
o Edit a scatter, art or pattern brush
o Create a new brush library
Gradients
o Fill an object with a gradient
o Create/edit gradient
o Use the Gradient tool
o Creating and editing Gradient meshes
Transforming Objects
o Rotate, Scale or shear
o Flip and slant
o The bounding box
o Use the Free Transform tool
Layers
o Creating and Editing layers
o The layers Palette
o Create a sublayer
o Hide and Lock
Using and Editing effects
o Remove layer effects
o Apply a Convert to Shape effect
o Live shapes with text
o Inner/Outer Glow & Add Arrowheads
Using LiveTrace
o Automatically trace artwork
o Converting objects
Filters
o Scribble or tweak
o Rough up a shape
o Twirling path points
o Punk or bloat an object
o Raster filters
o Pen and Ink filter