Lesson 1: Working with Brushes
- Getting started
- Using Art brushes
- Using Scatter brushes
- Applying a Scatter brush to paths
- Changing the color attributes of brushes
- Using a fill color with brushes
- Using Calligraphic brushes
- Using Pattern brushes
- Creating brushes
- Applying the Scribble Effect
- Exploring on your own
- Review
Lesson 2 Applying Effects
- Getting started
- Creating a banner logo with the Warp effect
- Creating the 3D cylinder
- Using the 3D Extrude effect
- Exploring on your own
- Review
Lesson 3 Applying Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles
- Getting started
- Document Startup Profiles
- Using appearance attributes
- Copying, applying, and removing Graphic Styles
- Exploring on your own
- Review
Lesson 4 Working with symbols
- Getting started
- Working with symbols
- Editing Symbols
- Creating Symbols
- Applying a symbol instance
- Using the symbolism tools
- Editing symbols
- Updating a symbol
- Breaking a link to a symbol
- Storing and retrieving artwork in the Symbols panel
- Mapping a symbol to 3D artwork
- Symbols and Flash integration
- Exploring on your own
- Review
- Review answers
Lesson 5 Combining Illustrator CS4 Graphics with the Creative Suite
- Combining artwork
- Vector versus bitmap graphics
- Getting started
- Creating a crop area
- Placing an Adobe Photoshop file
- Duplicating a placed image
- Applying Color Edits to a placed image
- Masking an image
- Sampling colors in placed images
- Replacing a placed image
- Exporting a layered file to Photoshop
- Exploring on your own
- Review
Lesson 6 Printing Artwork and Producing Color Separations
- Printing: An overview
- About printing devices
- About color
- Getting started
- What is color management?
- Printing black-and-white proofs
- Soft-proofing colors
- Using the Document Info command
- Creating color separations
- Separating colors
- Working with two-color illustrations
- Creating a trap
- Overprinting objects
- Saving and printing files with transparency effects
- Exporting and importing flattening settings
- Saving as Adobe PDF
- Review
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