Participants are introduced to the Illustrator environment, the parts of the window and how to navigate Illustrator. Students are exposed to vector and raster graphics, learn how to edit paths, create and edit objects, mix and apply colors, and work with gradients, layers, and text. Students also learn how to work with text, and fit to a path, within an area, and how to copy text formatting.
Students learn how to use compound paths, and create masks with paths and type.
Distortion and arrowheads filters, calligraphy effects using brushes and expanding paths, advanced editing topics include splitting and duplicating paths, transformation tools including rotating. Beginning Photoshop is a very powerful, complex program that can be used to create and manipulate photographs. This one day course introduces the basic skills and techniques for image processing. Course topics include tools, modes, filters and graphic manipulation. A discussion of the use of channels and the retouching of black and white photographs are also covered.