A- The Illustrator Windosw

• Opening a Work File
• Screen Elements and Menues
• Defining Page Boundaries
• The Artboard and Scratch areas
• Navigating The Screen
• Using The Tool Box
• Using Palettes

B- Setting Preferences

C- Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

D- Customizing Documents Setup

E- Setting Rulers, Guides and Grids

F- Naming and Saving files

G- Print Preview and Print Procedures

H- Accessing Help

A- Making Selections

• The Bounding Box
• Working with groups and group selection tools
• Drag selecting
• Lasso and direct select lasso tools

B- Shapes and Lines

• Rectangles, Squares, Ellipses and Circles
• Complex object using the polygon and star tools
• Using the flare tools
• Creat lines and Grids
• Adding / Defining symbols

C- Creating Paths

• Using the pen tool
• using the pencil tool
• Compound paths

D- Editing Bezier Curves

• Changing objects and lines
• Editing path segments
• The liquify tools
• Path Editing menu commands

E- Painting

• Filling and stroking with color
• Color models (RGB, CYMK)
• Paletted (Swatches, Transparency)
• Custom Colors
• The Eyedropper tools
• The Paint bucket tool
• The Stroke Palette
• Offset and outline paths
• Using the paintbrush tool

F- Other Basic Graphic Procedures

• Applying Appreances and Style
• Using Transformation Tools
• Compound Shapes and The Pathfinder palette
• The Align Palette
• Blending (Types, Editing, Releasing)

A- Working with Layers

• Using and Creating Layers palette
• Moving, locking, Pasting and Merging Layers
• Targetting a Layer

B- Adding Text

• Using The Type Tools
• Setting Type Attributes
• Linking Text Block
• Placing Text on a Path
• Adjusting Text Flow
• Changing Type Orientation

C- Showing and hiding with Marks

• Clipping Masks
• Opacity Masks
• Layer Clipping Masks

D- Working With Raster Images

• Raster Effects and Filters
• Linking and Embedding
• Choosing resolution

E- Printing Illustration

• Methods of Printing
• Preparing a Document For Printing
• Producing Color Seperations

F- Inserting Charts and Images

G- Effects for Vector Artwork

H- File Formats and Platform Issues

I- Saving Illustration for the Web