Posted Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 09:03 AM
Add to Favorites
Reply »
Send this Post to a Friend »
Create both basic and complex shapes
Control your illustrations with Layers
Bend and twist graphics with powerful transformation tools
Create and control color swatches
Use Gradients effectively
Using Type
Adding images from other programs to your illustrations
Tracing scanned images: pros and cons
Working intuitively: Live Paint
Transparency
Combining Shapes
Basics of Blends
Graphic Styles
Saving and Exporting
Adobe Illustrator CS6 Essentials, A 12 hour Intro Course
Learn more at Luminous Works with this Introductory course.
For class dates, please see: Illustrator Essentials
$525 ( includes one time free refresher course if space is available)
Course led by Steve Laskevitch, consistently rated in the Top 6 Highest Worldwide in student evaluations of all Adobe Certified Instructors when Adobe released Instructor ranking information.
Register at: Illustrator Essentials
The Adobe CS6 Illustrator Essentials course will cover:
(Material always customized for the students in attendance):
- create simple, "logo-esque" shapes
- secrets of the "basic" shape tools
- know when to edit and when to redraw
- control stacking order of your illustration's parts
- organize complex illustrations (like maps)
- selecting objects from the Layers panel
- hiding, locking, and more
- the Scale, Rotate, and Reflect tools
- the Liquify tools: Warp, Twirl, Pucker, Bloat, and friends
- Free Transform
- the Bounding Box
- point by point editing
- the power and pitfalls of Illustrator swatches
- using color libraries (like Pantone®)
- the joys of Live Color: recolor whole illustrations elegantly
- surprising ways to add depth to objects
- shading and subtlety
- the Adobe type engine
- font choices
- controlling typographic features
- converting type to graphics
- flowing text along a path
- flowing text inside a path
- getting text from other applications
- take advantage of Photoshop features in Illustrator
- linking vs embedding
- line drawing to vector paths
- photos to vector forms
- taming the Live Trace feature
- from vector shape quilting to drawing the way you want
- mind the gap: pitfalls in Live Paint
- transparency risks made clear (puns intended)
- opacity, blending modes, and output
- transparency effects vs overprinting
- shape modes
- using shapes as tools on other shapes
- morphing of objects
- using blends to create subtle shading
- saving appearance attributes for later use
- make major changes globally and efficiently
- saving for older versions of Illustrator
- PDF and EPS
Register at: Illustrator CS6 Essentials in Seattle
Luminous Works offers more classes in:
Lightroom
Basic Web and Desktop Publishing Concepts
Illustrator
Dreamweaver
InDesign
Acrobat
Flash
Photography
Photoshop
and many more, visit the entire calendar at:
Luminous Works full schedule of classes
Luminous Works, Adobe Authorized Training Center since 2006
1406 NW 53rd Street
Seattle, WA 98017
Seattle Illustrator class Seattle Illustrator classes Seattle Illustrator training Adobe CS6 Illustrator class Adobe CS6 Illustrator classes Adobe CS6 Illustrator training Adobe CS6 Illustrator class Seattle Adobe CS6 Illustrator classes Seattle Seattle Illustrator workshop Seattle Illustrator CS6 class Adobe CS6 Illustrator workshop Seattle Illustrator CS6 classes Seattle Illustrator CS6 training Seattle Illustrator CS6 workshop Adobe CS6 Illustrator training Seattle Adobe CS6 Illustrator workshop Seattle
Don't get tricked by a scam! Always be careful when dealing with strangers on the internet. Beware of buyers or sellers from overseas, anything involving wiring money, and anything that seems too good to be true. Ads advertising puppies, kittens, or other animals are particularly popular among scammers. For more info, click here.
