Learning Module One

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Intro to Course, Grading, Projects and Attendance Policy

Chapter One - Illustrator Book

Intro to Course: Objectives, Grading, Projects, Homework, Lab Assignments, Web Site, Contact Professor, Lab Work, Portfolios

Lecture: Getting to Know Illustrator - Chapter One

  • •Explore the Illustrator workspace
    •View and modify artboard elements
    •Work with objects and smart guides
    •Create basic shapes
    •Apply fill and stroke colors to objects
    •Select, move, and align objects
    •Transform objects
    •Make direct selections
    •Work with multiple artboards

Illustrator CS5 Tools Handout in PDF

 
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Chapter One in PPT

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Lab Assignments:

You assignment is to recreate the object as closely as possible - not just the outer border - recreate the object !

To see how you are doing, you can hide the layer with the object on it by turning off the eye icon in the layers palette.

These are JPG Files - so right click or Control Click to save them to your Hard Drive or USB drive. Create a new layer in Illustrator and then use the Place command on the file menu. Lock the layer and then start to copy the design on a layer on top of the locked layer.

Please save each of these illustrations as their own file. Save the files for future use.

You will submit the files to the GCC Elearning Web Site at http://elearning.gccnj.edu.

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Quiz One on Chapter One

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Homework:

1) Please send Professor Malinconico (mmalinconico@gccnj.edu) an email from your primary email address (this is the email you check most often). Please write a brief introductory paragraph about yourself. Due By September 9th at 5 PM.

2) Purchase Textbook and supplies for class – see Syllabus.

3) Read Chapter One, Complete Skills Review, Complete Quiz One on Chapter One