While we can't teach you how to draw, we can get you comfortable enough with Illustrator's fascinating features so that it'll look like you can! The Big Idea? Shapes. We explore shape-making at its finest (and most efficient) with Standard polygons, the fabulous Pencil tool, Pathfinder functions, reshaping strategies, the Bézier curve, Text on a path, masks, incorporating images, making the zesty layers palette work for you, and the menu, toolbox and keyboard shortcuts that will speed your work. We take things slowly and give you plenty of time to practice what you've learned so that you can apply it right away.

In response to popular demand, we’ve expanded this advanced Illustrator course to two days. We work intensively with Illustrator’s many new, complex tools to speed and enliven your work; as well as its many new Web and PDF features. We also spend more time on troubleshooting and properly preparing your files for predictable output. Join us as we delve deeply into shape-making shortcuts, filters and effects, appearance, styles, hatch sets, symbols, envelopes, warping, transparency issues, placed images, spot/process color danger zones, and the Photoshop & InDesign connection.