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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