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Adobe Illustrator 1
Cyndi Reese
CIS 73.35
Summer 2005


Each chapter in the Hands-On Training includes exercises that will be specified in the posted labs on the class website.
The QuickStart Guide includes more detail than what is explored in the HOT book.
This class goes into topics beyond the scope of the HOT book.
You are responsible for the topics covered in the lecture notes.
Date--Lecture Notes--Hands-On Training--QuickStart Guide
Jun 14 Introduction to Illustrator what is illustrator. It is a vector based illlustration program. It allows you to draw objects that are able to be resized or altered without loss of eminence.
Recommended: Abode Studio
Chapter One: Introduction
Chp 3: Selecting and Arranging (Exercises 1-2)
Chp 2: How Illustrator Works
Basic Illustrator skills
Chp 2: Interface
Chp 3: Selecting and Arranging (Exercise 3)
Chp 1: Illustrator Interface Chp 3: Startup
Chp 4: Views Chp 22: Precision Tools
Document basics
Creating simple shapes
Chp 4: Basic Shapes (Exercises 1-2)
Chp 11: Pencil and Line Segment Tools
Chp 12: Paintbrush Tool (Exercises 1-2)
Chp 5: Object Basics
Chp 15: Brushes
Working with objects
Transform tools
Layers
Chp 3: Selecting and Arranging (Exercise 4)
Chp 6: Transformations
Chp 7: Transform
Chp 11: Layers
Intro to type
Quiz 1
Chp 8: Adding Text (Exercises 1-4) Chp 12: Create Type
Selection techniques
Reshaping paths
Chp 4: Basic Shapes (Exercises 3-4)
Chp 6: Select/Copy
Chp 8: Reshape
The Pen tool
Compound paths and shapes
Special effects
Chp 10: Pen and Point Tools
Chp 17: Filters and Effects
Chp 10: Pen Chp 17: Combine Paths
Chp 21: Distort Chp 22: Effects & Filters
Colors, fills and strokes
Document basics
Quiz 2
Chp 5: Fills, Strokes, and Color
Chp 9: Fill & Stroke
Chp 18: Gradients