B.Y.O.L.: Adobe Illustrator—Tips and Tricks
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Learning Solutions Conference & Expo 2014 - March 19, 2014

Sarah Arkins
Instructional Designer
Availity
Adobe Illustrator is an underutilized and often misunderstood tool in the Creative Suite work flow. There are many wonderful things that can be done in Illustrator, including rapid prototyping GUIs, creating charts and graphs, making call-outs, and developing drawing to import seamlessly into Flash and Photoshop, to name just a few.
This session is for advanced beginners who would like to utilize more of the vector tools in this robust application. Participants will go through the processes of drawing tools, importing edited photos, using flat color and gradient, and working between Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash in a fluid work cycle.
In this session, you will learn:
- To use Illustrator to improve your workflow
- To create reusable callouts and graphics
- How to enhance Photoshop and Flash development with the drawing tools in Illustrator
- To create swatch libraries which can be shared between documents and team members
- How to “save for web” and use the appropriate file conventions
Audience:
Novice and intermediate
designers and developers who have a basic knowledge of the Illustrator
application (or advanced knowledge of Photoshop) and would like to gain more
understanding of the capabilities of the program when developing graphics for
eLearning courses.
Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe
Photoshop, and Flash.
Student technology needs:
A laptop loaded with Adobe Creative Suite 5 or later,
Illustrator, Photoshop, and Flash.
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