Using Type and Symbols in Illustrator CS3


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
Adobe Illustrator CS3 allows for text and symbols to be added to various forms of electronic art. With the addition of text and symbols, Illustrator artwork can quickly be enhanced or customized to meet personal or business needs. This course will show you how to create point type, add and fill a type area, or arrange your type around an existing path in your illustration. This course will familiarize you with methods for editing, aligning, formatting, distorting, and flowing type in your illustration to achieve the styles and layout you desire. By introducing the Symbols panel and Symbolism tools, this course will show you how to create, edit, and apply individual symbol images, or quickly spray symbol sets across your artwork and collectively modify symbol instances.

Target Audience
Graphic designers and IT professionals who want to gain experience using Adobe Illustrator CS3.

Prerequisites
Familiarity with end-user computer applications such as word processing and basic graphics; some knowledge of digital imaging would be an advantage

Expected Duration (hours)
2.5

Lesson Objectives

Using Type and Symbols in Illustrator CS3

  • determine how to create type in a given scenario, and recognize the effect of modifying the area it occupies
  • identify considerations for importing type from other applications into Illustrator CS3
  • determine how to edit and format type in a given scenario
  • recognize how to apply multiple attributes to type, in a given scenario
  • recognize characteristics of outline text and rationales for converting text to outlines
  • recognize how to arrange and flow text within or between areas, in a given scenario
  • create, format, or flow text in Illustrator CS3 in a given scenario
  • recognize how symbolism tools have been used in an illustration
  • recognize key concepts relating to the use of symbols in Illustrator CS3
  • recognize how to edit symbols and symbol instances
  • recognize how to create and redefine symbols in Illustrator CS3
  • apply and edit symbols in Illustrator CS3, in a given scenario
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