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The Illustrator Interface
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Introduction to the Interface |
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Navigation & Zooming |
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Rulers & Guides |
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Menus, Palettes & Screen modes |
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Pasteboard |
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Raster & Vector Graphics |
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Page Set-up
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Page Size |
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Orientation |
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Documentation Set-up |
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Colour Mode |
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Type
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Creating, Editing, Manipulating |
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Bold, Italic |
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Character, Paragraph, Columns. |
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Path type, Area type, Vertical text |
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Type Filters & Effects |
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Special effects |
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Warping Text |
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Creating Outlines |
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Drawing
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Guides & Grids |
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Creating Basic Shapes |
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Constraining proportions & movement |
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Duplication |
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Generating objects using Filters & Effects |
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Working with Symbols |
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Using the Magic Wand Tool |
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LiveTrace |
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LivePaint |
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Using the Pen Tool
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Working with Curves |
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Using the Brush & Freehand tools |
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Editing paths |
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Transformation
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Rotate, Scale, Reflect & Skew |
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Manual techniques |
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Using dialogues |
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Combining transformations |
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Arranging Commands
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Layers |
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Group & Ungroup |
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Lock/Unlock |
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Move, Copy & Paste |
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Alignment |
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Colour, Line, Fill
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Custom Colour |
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Swatches Palette |
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Blends, Patterns, Gradients |
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Stroke attributes |
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Using the Eyedropper tool |
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Special Effects
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Masks |
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Compound objects |
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3D objects |
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Symmetry, Perspective, Bevelling & Stroke effects. |
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Shadows, Transparency, Exclusions |
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Photoshop filters |
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Importing and Exporting
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Generating & Editing imported images |
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EPS, PDF & other formats |
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Printing |
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Generating professional output |
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Crop marks |
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PostScript considerations |
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