Adobe Illustrator Level 2

Blend, Patterns, and Gradients

• Work with Gradients and Blended Objects
• Paint with patterns

To create poster use brushes

• Collaborate with brushes
• Create Brushes
• Use pattern, bristle, art and calligraphic brushes
• Work with Blob brush tool

Know about creative use of Effects and Graphics

• Use Appearance panel and live effects
• Apply raster effect
• Use graphic styles

Enhance artwork with layers

• Understand about layers
• Create layers and sub-layers
• Edit layers
• Edit objects
• Post and view layers
• Create clipping mask

Create Artwork

• Work with symbols and its tools
• Understand and work with perspective grid
• Edit symbols in perspective grid

Advanced objects in Adobe Illustrator

• Know pathfinder
• Create and modify compound shape
• Apply Pathfinder effects
• Create compound paths
• Overview of envelopes
• Reshape objects using envelopes
• Blend shapes
• Cutting and dividing objects

Effects

• Summary of effects
• Understand 3D effects
• Use Bevel effect, and 3D extrude
• Apply Outer Glow Effect, and 3D Revolve effect
• Overview of appearance panel

Tracing

• Overview of Tracing
• Image Trace panel and Using Image trace
• Expand image paths in traced image

Text capabilities of Adobe Illustrator

• Character and paragraph styles
• Work with threaded text
• Change case
• Type orientation
• Fit headlines
• Show hidden characters
• Convert type to outlines
• Customise text paths

Collaborate with data-driven graphics

• Use variable palette
• Create inbound variables
• Binding variables to object attributes
• Edit and Delete variables
• Using data sets
• Load and save variable libraries
• Save templates for Data-Driven Graphics

Outputting documents from Adobe Illustrator

• Create crop area
• Preview overprint
• Create colour separations
• Create Adobe PDF file

Use Adobe Illustrator with other Applications of Adobe

• Merge artwork
• Place image files
• Images Masking
• Colour sampling in set images
• Work with image links
• Package file

Prepare content for the web

• Save content for the web
• Save artwork as SVG

Use Transform tools

• Understand about Transform tools
• Scale and Rotate objects
• Reflect and shear objects
• Change object perspective
• Know Distortion tools
• Distort objects

Advanced colour themes for Adobe Illustrator

• Understand colour themes
• Navigate to Adobe Color
• Use Colour wheel
• Learn colour rules
• Save a colour theme
• Explore colour themes
• Follow colour guide

Export graphics for web and mobile

• Convert colours to web safe colours
• Understand to create slices
• Add more interactivity to SVG file
• Export Web Graphics for various devices
• Preview Illustration for output on Mobile