Illustrator CC – Level 2

Startup file profile

• Management of bleeds and integration of cutting lines
• Customize tool settings
• Opening a model

Illustrator production tools and palettes

• Paths converted to guides
• Advanced use of layers
• Layer groups and subgroups
• The link palette for visual update options
• Text style
• Paragraph style
• Scripts to chain repetitive actions

Advanced coloring

• The definition of global or dynamic colors
• Create your own color libraries
• Redefine the colors of the illustration
• Customize default values, including the color profile
• Create color gradients using the diffusion tool, swatches, color palette
• Transparency and blending modes: product, inlay, difference…

The design of artistic forms, calligraphic and elaborate patterns

• Create your pattern and shape libraries
• The creation of symbols and patterns

Complex drawings with Bézier’s feathers

• Transformation envelopes
• The decomposition of plots and backgrounds
• Shape gradients
• Divide an object into a grid
• Clipping masks on an imported visual
• The isolation mode

And even more so with Illustrator…

• Bridge
• Flattening transparencies
• Charts
• Creating a simple 3D object
• File exchange with other Adobe software (Photoshop, Flash, InDesign)