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Adobe® Illustrator® CS4: Level 1 Course Description

Course Description: Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 is a sophisticated graphics application that helps you create complex and attractive designs with type effects. You can create advertisements and other illustrations with ease using this software. However, creating complex designs can be overwhelming if you are not familiar with the tools and the features in Adobe Illustrator. In this course, you will use Adobe Illustrator CS4 by drawing and manipulating simple shapes to design a layout for your product.
 
Course Objective: You will use Adobe Illustrator CS4 to create illustrations that include graphics and text.

Target Student: This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities, who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Prerequisites: Before taking this course, students should be familiar with the basic functions of their computer's operating system such as creating folders, launching programs, and working with windows. Students should also have basic Windows application skills, such as copying and pasting objects, formatting text, saving files, and so on. Familiarity with basic design terminology, such as palette, color mode, shapes, text, and paths, is highly recommended.
 
Performance-Based Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Get acquainted with the Adobe® Illustrator® CS4 application.
  • Create shapes in a document.
  • Create custom paths.
  • Enter text in an Illustrator document.
  • Enhance documents.
  • Proof documents to make them more accurate.
  • Save images for web and print.