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Number of Classes: (2 months – 30 Hours)
Contents of Training:
What’s New
- What’s new in CS6
- Improved User Interface
- Using Image Trace | CS6
- What’s new in CS6
Getting Started tutorials
- Clipping masks
- Drawing pixel-aligned paths for web workflows
- Editing paths
- Painting with fills and strokes
Workspace
- Workspace basics
- Customizing the workspace
- Tools
- Tool galleries
- Improved User Interface
- Slicing and cutting tool gallery
- Art board overview
- Files and templates
- Recovery, undo, and automation
- Rulers, grids, guides, and crop marks
- Setting preferences
- Using multiple art boards
- Viewing artwork
- Working with Connect Now
Drawing
- Drawing basics
- Drawing simple lines and shapes
- Drawing pixel-aligned paths for web workflows
- Drawing with the Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool
- Editing paths
- Adjust path segments
- Using Live Trace | CS5 and earlier
- Using Image Trace | CS6
- About Perspective Grid
- Perspective drawing
- Symbolism tools and symbol sets
- Symbols
Color
- About color
- Selecting colors
- Using and creating swatches
- Color groups (harmonies)
- Create color themes
- Adjusting colors
Painting
- About painting
- Painting with fills and strokes
- Live Paint groups
- Brushes
- Transparency and blending modes
- Gradients
- Gradient panel and Gradient tool overview
- Apply or edit a gradient
- Stroke an object
- Meshes
- Patterns
Selecting and arranging objects
- Selecting objects
- Grouping and expanding objects
- Moving, aligning, and distributing objects
- Rotating and reflecting objects
- Layers
- Locking, hiding, and deleting objects
- Duplicating objects
- Stacking objects
Reshaping objects
- Transforming objects
- Scaling, shearing, and distorting objects
- Reshape using envelopes
- Combining objects
- Cutting and dividing objects
- Clipping masks
- Creating shapes using Shape Builder Tool | CS6
- Blending objects
- Building new shapes using the Shape Builder tool
- Creating 3D objects
- Reshaping objects with effects
Importing, exporting, and saving
- Adobe PDF options
- Creating Adobe PDF files
- Exporting artwork
- File information and metadata
- Importing Adobe PDF files
- Importing EPS, DCS, and AutoCAD files
- Importing artwork files
- Importing artwork from Photoshop
- Importing bitmap images
- Saving artwork
Type
- Importing and exporting text
- Creating text
- Creating type on a path
- Scaling and rotating type
- Spelling and language dictionaries
- Fonts
- Arabic and Hebrew type
- Character and paragraph styles
- Creating composite fonts
- Formatting Asian characters
- Formatting paragraphs
- Formatting type
- Hyphenation and line breaks
- Line and character spacing
- Special characters
- Tabs
- Text and type
Creating special effects
- Appearance attributes
- Working with effects
- Summary of effects
- Create a drop shadow
- Drop shadows, glows, and feathering
- Creating sketches and mosaics
- Graphic styles
Web graphics
- Best practices for creating web graphics
- Slices and image maps
- SVG
- Creating animations
Working with FXG
- FXG format
Printing
- Setting up documents for printing
- Change the page size and orientation
- Printing color separations
- Printer’s marks and bleeds
- PostScript printing
- Printing with color management
- Specify crop marks for trimming or aligning
- Overprinting
- Print presets
- Printing
- Printing and saving transparent artwork
- Printing gradients, meshes, and color blends
- Trapping
Automating tasks
- Automation with actions
- Automation with scripts
- Data-driven graphics through templates and variables
Graphs
- Graphs
Keyboard shortcuts
- Customizing keyboard shortcuts
- Default keyboard shortcuts