Topic 1 More Drawing Techniques

Topic Objectives
Modifying strokes
Adjusting the stroke alignment
Adjusting the cap or join options
Creating dotted or dashed lines
Stroke styles gallery
Adding arrowheads to lines
Drawing arcs

Drawing spirals
Drawing rectangular grids
Drawing circular (polar) grids
The Info panel
Using Smart Guides
Measuring the distance between objects
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Topic 2 Live Trace and Live Paint

Topic Objectives
About tracing artwork
Tracing artwork
Changing the display of a tracing object
Adjusting the results of a tracing
Controlling colours in a tracing
Adjusting the Tracing options
Creating a tracing preset
Managing tracing presets
Converting a tracing object
Releasing a tracing object
About Live Paint

Limitations of Live Paint groups
Creating a Live Paint group
Painting Live Paint faces and edges
Live Paint Bucket options
Setting Live Paint gap options
Adding paths to a Live Paint group
Selecting items in Live Paint groups
Expanding or releasing a Live Paint group
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Topic 3 Combining and Reshaping Objects

Topic Objectives
Methods of combining objects
About compound shapes
Creating a compound shape
The Pathfinder panel
Modifying a compound shape
Releasing and expanding a compound shape
Pathfinder effects
Overview of the Pathfinder effects
Pathfinder options
About compound paths
Making a compound path
Filling compound paths
Changing the fill rule for a compound path
Changing a hole to a filled area in a compound path
Releasing a compound path
About blends
Colours in blended objects

Creating a blend with the Blend tool
Creating a blend using Make Blend
Adjusting blending options
Changing the spine of a blended object
Reversing the stacking order in a blend
Releasing or expanding a blend
Envelopes
Distorting objects using an envelope
Editing the contents of an envelope
Resetting an envelope
Releasing or expanding an envelope
Envelope options
Distorting objects with the Free Transform tool
Distorting objects using the liquify tools
Liquify tool options
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Topic 4 More on colour

Topic Objectives
About colour groups
Color Guide panel overview
Creating a colour harmony using the Color Guide panel
Setting the type of colour variations
Setting the number and range of colour variations
Colouring artwork with colours from the Color Guide panel
Saving Color Guide colours into the Swatches panel
Live Color overview
Opening the Live Color dialogue box
Working with the Colour Group list
Creating a colour group in Live Color
Editing colours in the Live Color dialogue box
Editing a colour group using the colour wheel
Editing a colour group using the colour picker
Editing an individual colour in a colour group
Randomly changing colour order or saturation and brightness
Globally editing saturation, brightness, temperature, or luminosity
Adding or removing colours in a colour group
Deleting a colour group
Assigning colours to your artwork
Assigning new colours to selected artwork

Viewing original colours in your artwork as you assign new colors
Randomly changing saturation and brightness in all colors
Reducing colours in your artwork
About colour models
About RGB
About CMYK
About HSB
About Lab
About Grayscale
Changing the colour mode of a document
Blending colours
Adjusting multiple colours at the same time
Converting colours to grayscale
Converting grayscale images to RGB or CMYK
Colourizing grayscale or 1-bit images
Adjusting the saturation of multiple colours
Mixing overlapping colours
Mixing colours using Hard Mix or Soft Mix
Copying attributes with the Eyedropper tool
Copying attributes from the desktop
Changing the attributes affected by the Eyedropper tool
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Topic 5 More Advanced Type Controls

Topic Objectives
Changing the margin around a text area
Adjusting the first baseline in a text area
Creating rows and columns of text
Fitting a headline across the full width of a type area
Scaling type
Rotating type
Threading text between objects
Working with text threads
Wrapping text around objects
Underline, caps and other text features
Checking spelling
Finding and replacing text
Changing capitalization styles

Using smart punctuation
Working with Tabs
Character and paragraph styles
About OpenType fonts
Using the OpenType panel
Using superscript and subscript
Choosing a number style
Ligatures and contextual alternates
Using ligatures and contextual alternates
Using swashes, titling alternates, or stylistic alternates
Using fractions and ordinals
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Topic 6 Working with Effects and Filters

Topic Objectives
Effects or Filters?
Applying an effect or filter
About raster effects
Rasterization options
Effects for reshaping objects
Offsetting Paths
Adding arrowheads
Creating drop shadows

Feathering the edges of a shape
Applying an inner or outer glow
Rounding corners of objects
Applying the Scribble effect
Modifying or deleting an effect
Availability of effects and filters
Improving filter and effect performance
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Topic 7 Appearance Attributes and Graphic Styles

Topic Objectives
Appearance attributes
The Appearance panel
Targeting items
Setting appearance attributes for new objects
Changing the stacking order of appearance attributes
Duplicating an appearance attribute
Removing appearance attributes
Copying appearance attributes between objects
Copying with the Eyedropper tool
Creating Multiple Fills and Strokes
Multiple Strokes on Groups or Layers
Graphic styles

Creating graphic styles
Applying a graphic style
Working with graphic styles
Using the Graphic Styles panel
Breaking the link to a graphic style
Replacing graphic style attributes
Graphic style libraries
Creating a graphic style library
Adding graphic styles from a library to the Graphic Styles panel
Importing graphic styles from other documents
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Topic 8 More about Transparency & Blending Modes

Topic Objectives
Displaying the Transparency Grid
Changing the colour of the artboard
Opacity masks
Creating opacity masks
Working with opacity masks
Clipping or inverting opacity masks
Using transparency to shape a knockout

The Knockout Group option
Isolating blending modes to a group
Applying transparency to groups or layers
More on blending modes
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Topic 9 Flattening Transparent Artwork

Topic Objectives
Printing and exporting transparent artwork
File formats that keep transparency
Transparency flattening options when printing
Transparency flattener presets
Creating or editing transparency flattener presets
Transparency flattening options
Previewing which objects will be flattened

Flattener Preview panel highlight options
Exporting and importing transparency flattener presets
Flattening transparency for individual objects
Rasterizing all artwork during printing
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Topic 10 Mesh Objects

Topic Objectives
About mesh objects
Creating mesh objects

Editing mesh objects
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Topic 11 Web Graphics

Topic Objectives
Issues to consider
The Save For Web & Devices dialogue box
Optimizing and saving web graphics
Estimating download time for web graphics
Compressing a file to a specific size
Resizing web graphics
Previewing optimized images in a web browser

Creating or deleting optimization presets
Web File Formats
Optimization settings for GIF and PNG-8 formats
Optimization settings for JPEG format
Pixel preview mode
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Topic 12 More about printing

Topic Objectives
Creating, editing, and deleting crop areas
Using crop area rulers
Crop area options
Specifying how to crop artwork for printing
Print dialogue box options
General Options
Setup Options

Marks and Bleeds Options
Output Options
Graphics Options
Colour Management Options
Advanced Options
Summary
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Appendix A Review Projects
Appendix B Index