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UP 503: Physical Planning

UP 503: Physical Planning. Tutorial 1: Adobe Illustrator. Scope. Introduction to digital graphic formats Familiarization with Adobe Illustrator CS5. Contents. Concepts Vocabulary Components of Adobe Illustrator Hands on practice. Concepts. Digital Graphics Images

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UP 503: Physical Planning

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  1. UP 503: Physical Planning Tutorial 1: Adobe Illustrator

  2. Scope • Introduction to digital graphic formats • Familiarization with Adobe Illustrator CS5

  3. Contents • Concepts • Vocabulary • Components of Adobe Illustrator • Hands on practice

  4. Concepts • Digital Graphics • Images • Composite effects of colors or a composition of dots • Raster graphics • Diagrams • Composite effects of shapes • Vector graphic

  5. Concepts • Vector and Raster

  6. Concepts • Vector and Raster

  7. Contents • Concepts • Vocabulary • Components of Adobe Illustrator • Hands on practice

  8. Vocabulary • In the real world • Shapes • Lines • Points • Text, etc. • In Adobe Illustrator • Illustrations made of Vector graphics

  9. About Vector Graphics • Lines and curves defined by mathematical operations – vectors • Move, resize or transform without losing the quality of the graphic • Also resolution independent – can be printed or viewed at any scale

  10. About Vector Graphics • As you draw – resulting line is called a path • Path made up of one or more straight or curved segments • Beginning and end of each segment marked by anchor points • Can change shape of paths by editing the anchor points • Control curves by dragging the direction points at the end of direction lines that appear at anchor points

  11. About Vector Graphics • Other concepts also – but these should suffice for the beginner • Explained in more detail in the Adobe Illustrator Help menu

  12. Adobe Illustrator CS5 Control Palette Palettes Tool Panel Scratch Area Status Bar Non-imageable Area Imageable Area

  13. Adobe Illustrator CS5 • Details about working with palettes • Working with palettes under Work Area menu in “Help” • To make your work easier – • Rulers, grids and guides under Work Area menu in “Help” • Measure distances between objects – get familiar with the tool • Rulers, grids and guides under Work Area menu in “Help” • Most important – Recovery and Undo • Recovery and Undo under Work Area menu in “Help • Leave Adobe Bridge, stock photos & version cue to more experienced users

  14. Using Illustrator Help Function • Learn how to use the Help function effectively • Most problems and how-do-I-do-this? questions can be worked out • The following slides show some examples

  15. Adobe Illustrator CS5 – Tool Panel • Variety of tools to choose from • Small triangle next to a tool depicts hidden tools • For viewing – hold down mouse button on visible tool • To select–holdmouse button-drag pointer over wanted tool and release

  16. Drawing Objects

  17. Drawing Objects – cont’d

  18. Painting Objects

  19. Selecting Objects

  20. Reshaping Objects

  21. Reshaping Objects – cont’d

  22. Typing in Adobe Illustrator

  23. On an end note… • Rush through the following in the “Help menu” of Adobe Illustrator • Drawing, Color, Painting, Arranging Objects, Reshaping Objects and Type • Tons of information – sift through what you think will be needed immediately • Suggestion – get comfortable with the basic tools and how to use them • Do not go into details yet • For later in semester • ‘Copying appearance attributes between objects’ under the ‘Creating Special Effects’ menu might help

  24. Finally • Familiarize yourselves with the basics • For practice go to the ‘Tutorials’ menu under the Help Topics • Create sample graphic

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