Harlequin Training

Exploring the Illustrator environment

• The Toolbox
• Control palette
• Arranging palettes
• Creating and managing Workspaces

Workflow

• Understanding bitmap and vector graphics
• Creating and saving Illustrator documents
• Using Document Profiles
• Setting up units of measurement
• Understanding the CMYK and RGB colour mode
• Modifying the Artboard
• Working with the Ruler and Grid

Navigation

• Navigator palette
• Zoom Tool
• Navigating with Shortcuts

Drawing and painting Tools

• Creating geometrical shapes with the:
• Line Segment Tool
• Rectangular-, Elliptical-, Polygon-, and Star Tool
• Freeform shapes
• Using the Pencil Tool
• Setting up the Brush Tool

Modifying objects

• Selecting and deleting objects
• Understanding the Bounding Box
• Moving and duplicating
• Rotate, mirror, scale and shear
• Aligning and distributing objects
• Arranging objects
• Modifying the Stroke
• Cutting with the Knife-, and Scissors Tool
• Delete parts of shapes or paths with the Eraser Tool
• Working with the Transformation Palette

Working with Symbols

• Creating and saving Symbols
• Updating Symbols
• Loading Symbol Libraries
• Preparing for exchange

Working with Colours

• Applying Fill and Stroke
• Understanding Adobes Color Picker and Color Palette
• Creating and saving Swatches

Compound Shapes

• Introduction into the Pathfinder Palette
• Creating more complex shapes with:
• Add, subtract, intersect an exclude shape options

The Pen Tool

• Understanding Bezier Curves
• Creating shapes with the Pen Tool
• Selecting, moving and deleting Anchor Points
• Joining line segments
• Converting Anchor Points
• Loading Swatch Libraries
• Preparing Swatches for exchange
• Creating and applying Gradients

Text in Illustrator

• Creating Point and Area Text
• Selecting and modifying text
• Basic text formatting with the Character-, and Paragraph Palettes
• Creating text on a path
• Using the Glyph Palette
• Creating Text Outlines
• Importing Word document into Illustrator

Introduction to Layers

• Understanding Illustrators’ Layer
• Creating-, arranging-, and deleting Layers
• Selecting and moving Layers
• Locking and hiding Layers

Printing

• How to set up the printer
• Creating and saving PDF files

Questions and Answers