Importing and Tracing Images, and Applying Effects in Illustrator CS3

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
Adobe Illustrator CS3 allows users to import electronic art from other applications and combine them with vector artwork in creative ways. Once in Illustrator CS3, vector and bitmap images can be enhanced, altered, or completely changed using the special effects and filters that are built into the application. This course shows you how to place, link, and embed files from other applications into Illustrator CS3. It demonstrates the Live Trace and Live Paint features, which allow you to create full-colored vector images by tracing bitmap artwork. This course also introduces the wide variety of transparency effects, filters, 3D, and other live effects that can be applied to vector or bitmap images, and demonstrates how to use the Appearance panel to manage the application of effects and styles throughout your artwork.

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

Importing and Tracing Images, and Applying Effects in Illustrator CS3

recognize the significance of Links panel and Layers panel indicators in the context of an illustration

recognize how to import a Photoshop file into Illustrator CS3

recognize how to use Live Trace and Live Paint to convert bitmap images to vector images and color them in Illustrator CS3

recognize the capabilities of Live Trace in Illustrator CS3

import a bitmap image into Illustrator CS3, and use Live Trace and Live Paint to convert it to a colored vector image in a given scenario

recognize how to use the Appearance panel to track and assign appearance attributes to objects, groups, and layers in an illustration

recognize how to work with Graphic Styles in Illustrator CS3

determine how to apply filters or effects in Illustrator CS3, in a given scenario

distinguish between filters and effects in Illustrator CS3

recognize key transparency concepts

recognize the results of applying transparency using opacity masks and blending modes

determine which method to use in creating a 3-D object in Illustrator CS3

recognize how to map 2-D artwork to a 3-D object in Illustrator CS3

create and apply styles and effects to objects in Illustrator CS3, in a given scenario

create a 3D object and map a symbol to it

Course Number:
at_icst_a05_it_enus