Graphics Designing Certification Training

Introducing Illustrator

• Using the Welcome Screen

• Introducing Vector Based Paths

• Working with Layers in Illustrator

• Introducing Anchor Points

• Creating a New Document

• Repositioning and Adjusting View

• Saving the Document

• Utilizing Illustrator Startup Documents

Workspace & Navigation

• Setting Up Preferences

• Using Color Settings

• Configuring Pallettes & Workspaces

• Using Navigation

Symetrical Shapes

• Setting Palette Options and Using Transparency

• A Look at the Shape Tools. Creating a Circle

• Aligning & Creating Shapes

• Creating Rectangle Shapes

• Using the Flip Tool to Mirror Shapes

• Combining Shapes

• Tilde Key Function

Fill Stroke and Color

• Introduction to Fill and Stroke

• An Overview of the Color Pallette

• The Color Spectrum Bar and Dialing in colors

• Black vs. Rich Black in the Color Palette

• CMYK vs. RGB

• Creating and Saving new Color Swatches

• Filling and Arranging Objects

• Modifying and Arranging the Stroke of an Object

• Creating a fill Pattern

Transforming Paths

• Introducing Path Transformations

• Duplicating Objects

• Moving Objects in Increments

• Using the Reshape Tool

• Moving Paths

• Using the Offset Path Dialogue Box

• Working with Swatches

• Grouping Paths

• Using the Scale Tool

• Using the Rotate Tool

• Rotating Multiple Objects

• Advanced Rotate Options

Using the Powerful Pen Tool

• Using Bridge

• Creating a Tracing Template

• Drawing with the Pen Tool

• Modifying a Path

• Using and Editing Spline Curves

• Using Bezier Curves

• Creating a Cusp Point

• Modifying and Converting Beziér Curves

• Cutting, Extending, and Closing Paths

• Filling Paths

Selecting Points and Paths

• Strokes and Fills

• Appearance Palate - Transform And Tweak

• Working With Layers - Uzz Character

• Making Use of the Join Command

• Locked Layers

• Intro To Pathfinder - Intersect Shape Areas

• Precision Filling Selection

• Various Selection Commands & Methods

• Various Scaling Methods

• Lacemaking Using Shape Tool - Rotate & Fill

• Merging Strokes & Fills With Compound Path

• Lacemaking Using Direction Handles & Anchor Points

• Pucker & Bloat

Pathfinder Operations

• Touring the Project

• An Introduction to the Pathfinder Operations

• Working with the Pathfinder Palete

• Comparing Pathfinder Behaviors

• Joining Paths and the Miter Limit

• Croping, Uniting and Arranging

• Selectiing and Deselecting Paths

• Fill Options and other pathfinder operations

Liquify & Envelope

• Preparing an Image for Liquify & Envelope

• Using the Envelope Functions

• Using the Warp Tool to Liquify

• Liquify with Live Trace

Gradients & Gradient Mesh

• Applying a Gradient Using Swatches

• Expanding Appearance

• Using the Gradient Palette

• Creating a Gradient Mesh

• Using the Gradient Slider Bar

• Expanding a Gradient Mesh

• Adding Colors

• Modifying Gradient Mesh Colors

• Using the Gradient Tool

• Modifying Gradient Mesh Points and Control Handles

• Using the Eye Dropper Tool

• Applying Other Gradient Mesh Color Change

• Reviewing the Appearance Palette and Gradients on Strokes

• Adjusting Gradient Mesh Preferences

• Blending Objects into the Gradient Mesh

Blends and Masks

• Creating Simple Color Gradients

• Creating Custom Gradients via Blending

• Cropping Custom Gradient Blends

• Customizing Blends for Specific Shapes

• Creating Blends Between Two Shapes

• Changing the Shape of Customized Blends

• Masking Edges with Clipping Masks

• Masking the Shape of Customized Blends

• Changing Opacities of Clipping Mask Layers

Creating and Formatting Type

• Importing Text into Illustrator

• Selecting Text for Reformatting

• Moving Text to a New Text Container

• Reformatting Text with the Paragraphs Pallet

• Altering Text Font and Size

• Moving Text and Altering Line Spacing

• Copying Text Formats

Brushing with Vectors

• Illustrator CS 2's Brush Tool

• The Brush Options Dialogue Box

• Extending Selected Paths

• Illustrator Art Brushes

• Editing Your Art Brush Strokes

• Making a Custom Art Brush

• Finishing Up Your Art Brush and Typing on a Path

• Fixing Your Text

• Converting Text To An Art Brush

Using Transparency

• Assigning Opacity For Stroke And Fill

• Working With Knockout Group

• Creating an Opacity Mask

• Multiply Mode

• Adding Objects To Opacity Masks

• Opacity Mask With a Gradient

• Blend Mode - Multiply Mode

• Transpacency Palatte

• Blend Mode - Color Mode

• Making Translucent Gradient in Blend Mode

• Create Mask With Boundary Layer

• Printing Tips With Flattener Preview

Introducing Live Effects

• Dealing with Fills and Strokes.

• Reapplying the Transform Command

• Using the Scribble Dialogue Box

• Modifying Stroke Attributes

• Managing the Appearance Palette

• Changing the Transform Origin

• Introducing the Transform Command

• Saving and Loading Graphic Styles

Dynamic Type Treatments

• Dynamic Effects for Objects

• Applying a Stroke and Transforming the Text

• Transform Effects and Stacking Order

• Thickening the text using Path options

• Text Effects, Warnings and Selection Settings

• Creating Drop shadows & Text Effects

• Applying the Warp Effect and Editing Text

• Filling Text with Color and Gradients

Live Trace

• Reviewing Files for Live Trace

• Reviewing Trace Settings Tracing Option

• Using the Live Trace Tool

• Expanding Traced Items to Paths

• Applying Threshold and Minimum Area

• Using Tracing Options for Color

• Adjustments and View Tracing Option

• Altering Swatches in Color Tracing

Live

• Live Painting Fills

• Selecting Paths In Live Paint

• Live Painting Strokes

• Selection Tool In Live Paint.

• Live Paint-Bucket Basics

• Layering Strokes In Live Paint.

• Live Painting Update On Fly

• Live Painting A Trace

• Paint Bucket Tricks

• Gap Detection

• Live Painting Paths

• Close Gaps With Paths

• Leaving Isolation Mode

Using Symbols

• Introducing Symbols

• Replacing All Instances of a Symbol

• Accessing Symbol Libraries

• Creating Symbols. Applying Symbols with the

• Manipulating and Duplicating Symbols Symbol Spray Tool

• Altering All Instances of a Symbol

• Modifying Symbols with Symbol Tools

3D Effects

• Introduction to 3D space and 3D Effects object

• Applying and Adjusting the Extrude and Bevel

• Modifying the object and the Mapped artwork effect

• Applying and Adjusting the Revolve Effect

• Lighting, Shading and Gradation

• Using Photoshop to help with 3D Effects

• Mapping the Artwork onto the extruded

Printing & Exporting

• Setting Document Trim Size

• Preparing Printer Settings

• Creating Page Bleed

• Altering Document Rasterize Settings

• Setting Imageable Portion of Output Page

• Saving Print Settings

• Preparing General Setup Output Settings

• Exporting Documents as Different File Types

• Preparing Print Bleed Settings

Flash Animation

• Intro To SWF Animation

• Creating A Symbol File

• Animating Live Effects

• Animating A Symbol

• Exporting Flash Animations

• Animating Between 3D Extrusions

• Adding Frames To Animations

CorelDRAW Basics And Interface

• Exploring the CorelDraw Screen

• Viewing Modes

• File Management

• Customizing Toolbars

• Setting up the page

• Using Multiple Workspaces

• Inserting, Deleting and Renaming Page

• Using Shortcuts

Objects- Creation And Manipulation

• Drawing and Shaping Tools

• Arranging Objects

• Using the Freehand Tool

• Grouping and Ungrouping Objects

• Drawing Lines, Curves, Polygons,

• Using Grid and Guidelines

• Rectangles, Circles

• Using Dynamic Guides

• Selecting & Deselecting Objects

• Using Snap to

• Copying and Duplicating Objects

• Aligning & Arranging Objects

• Transforming Objects

• Combining & Breaking Objects

• Eyedropper & Paintbucket Tools ŸWelding, Intersection, Trim Objects

• Outline and Fill Tool

• About Layers

• Setting Outline & Fill Defaults

• Editing Layers

• Uniform Fill, Fountain Fill

• Setting up Master Layer

• Pattern Fill, Bitmap Fill

• Moving Copying & Locking Layers

• Interactive Mesh Fill

• Reordering Layers

• Copying Attributes

• Using Object Manager

Working with Special Effects and Texts

• Drawing with Artistic Media Tool

• Formatting Paragraph Frames

• Shaping an Object with an Envelope

• Paragraph Wrapping

• Extruding an Object

• Applying Drop Caps

• Blending & Lens Effects

• Typing Text into Objects

• Adding Perspectives

• Fitting Text to Path

• Using Powerlips

• Converting Text to Curves

• Applying Contours

• Inserting Text Symbols

• Applying Drop Shadows, Distortions

• Adding Clipart

• Using Interactive Transparencies ŸWhat is Bitmap

• Working With Text

• Importing Bitmap Options

• Editing & Formatting Text

• Adjusting Color

• Creating Artistic Text

• Applying Special Bitmap Effects

• Creating Paragraph Text

• Creating Web Images

• Flowing Text between Frames

• Advanced GIF options

Page Layout, Printing, Exporting and Advanced Features

• Creating a Greeting Card

• Managing and Using Symbols

• Print Preview the Layout

• Types of Graphic Formats

• Print Options

• About Corel Trace

• Exporting to Graphic Formats

• Tracing Images

• Creating & Applying a Style

• Importing Traced Files into CorelDraw

• Copying Properties

• Special Trace Effects

• Creating Custom Patterns

• Creating interactive PDF documents

Corel Draw- Web resources

• Introduction

• Exporting files

• Internet Tool bar

• Creating buttons with rollover effects

• Setting your webpage

Letting InDesign Work for you

• Introducing Document Preferences

• File Handling Preferences & Type Tool Options

• General, Type & Advanced Type Preferences

• Grouping Palettes into Clusters

• Units, Increments &Grids Preferences

• Setting Palette Options & Sliding Palettes

• Guides, Pasteboards, Spelling & Story Editor

• Showing/Hiding Palettes with Keyboard

• Preferences Shortcuts

• Display Performance & Appearance of Black

• Creating & Modifying Keyboard Shortcuts

• Preferences

• Creating New Layer & Workspace Shortcuts

Documents, Presets & Dependencies

• Creating a New Document

• Opening Files

• Saving & Editing Document Presets

• Fixing Dependencies Automatically

• Working with File Types & Extensions

• Fixing Dependencies Manually

Navigation & Adobe Bridge

• Adjusting Page Size

• Saving a Workspace, Rating & Labeling

• Scrolling the Page & Changing View Size

• Viewing, Filtering, & Sorting Files in Bridge

• Using the Navigator Palette, Zoom Tool

• Viewing Images in a Slideshow

Letting InDesign Guide you

• Creating Margins & Columns

• Understanding Guides as Objects

• Understanding Master Pages

• Customizing Guide Colors

• Setting Up Rulers. Creating Guides

• Placing Guides on Layers & Multiple pages

Beginning your Layout Design

• When Not to Turn on Allow Pages to Shuffle

• Organizing Elements in the Layers Palette

• Rectangle Tool vs. Rectangle Frame Tool

• Changing the Basic Paragraph Style

• Creating Frames for Text &Graphics

• Selecting, Adjusting & Filling Text Frames

Importing, Pouring, Flowing & Automation

• Setting up Microsoft Word Import Options

• Creating a Layout & Duplicating Text Frames

• Setting Options for Placing Imported Text

• Setting up Text Links Across Multiple Frames

• Placing & Directing Overflow Text

• Pre-Linking & Adjusting Text Frame Options

• Adding Pages to the Document

• Using Autoflow for Automatic Documents

Type & Paragraph Formatting

• Selecting a Font

• Adjusting Kerning & Baseline Shift

• Adjusting Type Size & Leading

• Hyphenating Text

• Exploring More Character Options

• Adjusting Paragraph Spacing

• Adjusting Tracking

• Indenting Paragraphs Manually

• Kerning & the Eyedropper Tool

• Using Drop Caps & Bulleted List

Typography

• Using Ligatures

• Using Small Caps & Force Line Break

• Exploring OpenType Fonts

• Exploring Glyphs

• Using Discretionary Ligatures & Fractions

• Glyph Palette Options & Applying Glyphs

Basic Paragraph Style Sheets

• Linking Style Sheets

• Redefining a Style

• The Advantages of Linked Style Sheets

• Customizing Style Sheets

Graphic Frames & Object Styles

• Creating Basic Graphic Frames

• Arranging & Aligning Objects

• Adding & Aligning a Stroke to Frame

• Editing Shape & Size of Objects

• Saving a New Object Style

• Transform Again to Duplicate Frames

• Saving a Thin Line as a New Object Style

• Converting Shapes

Importing Vector Graphics

• Importing Illustrator Files

• Fitting Content Proportionally

• Selection Tool vs. Direct Selection Tool

• Using Shortcuts to Scale a Graphic

• Scaling an Image Numerically

• Importing an Illustrator File from Bridge

• Rotating, Scaling & Moving

• Changing Image Transparency

Adobe Photoshop® Import & Creativity

• Importing & Adjusting Photoshop Images

• Nudging an Image with the Arrow Keys

• Drag & Drop from Bridge

• Accessing Layers Using Object Layer Options

• Drawing a Line & Adding an Illustrator Title

• Cropping & Viewing Layers

Layered Design & Text Wrap

• Organizing Layers & Placing a Title

• Using Photoshop Clipping Paths Using Text Wrap

• Creating an Advanced Layered Design

Creating & Storing Color

• Creating Color & Tint Swatches

• Using & Creating new Gradients

Intelligent Type Styles

• Adding & Positioning a Text Frame Next Styles

• Formatting & Aligning Text

• Duplicating a Text Frame & Replacing the

• Creating Paragraph Styles Text

• Editing Style Sheets for Automation Using

• Creating a Tint Swatch to Change Text Color

Powerful Nested Styles & Snippets

• Snapping to Baseline Grid

• Adjusting the Optical Margin Alignment

• Creating Character Style Sheets

• Introducing Snippets

• Creating Nested Style Sheets

• Working with Snippets

Compounds, Shadows & Transparency

• Setting Transparency Options

• Working with Compound Paths

• Applying a Drop Shadow. Using the Redefine

• Using the Pathfinder Palette

• Object Style Command

• Final Comments & Credits