Illustrator ACA Jumpstart Skills Assessment
The form below will help us better understand your current Illustrator skill level. Please answer each question as objectively as possible in order for us to better tailor your training experience.
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How familiar are you with the concepts, techniques or tools below?
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Creating Basic Documents
Explore the prebuilt Document Profiles:
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Shortcuts to navigate the Artboard effectively:
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Create custom Workspaces:
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Drawing in Illustrator
Draw Paths with the Pen tool:
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Add:
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Delete or adjust points along a path:
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Understand how Bézier Curves work:
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Freeform Drawing tools:
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Live Trace to transform images or hand drawn sketches:
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Into vector artworks that can be further adjusted:
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Create Logo using simple Shapes:
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Discovering basic Blends:
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Symbols in Illustrator & Symbol Sprayer options:
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Modifying Objects
Lasso select and the other goodies in the Select Menu:
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Be precise using Smart Guides:
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Grids & Guidelines:
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Align:
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Group & Duplicate to achieve better results:
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Transform objects with Twirl:
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Bloat & other Warp tools:
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Layers palette: Hide & Lock Objects:
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Intro to Isolation Mode for effective editing:
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Working with Colours in Illustrator
Difference between Swatches and Colour palette:
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Applying colour to Stroke and/or Fill:
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Adjusting Stroke attributes with Stroke panel:
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Introducing Gradients & Patterns:
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Text in Illustrator
Point:
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Area and Type on a path:
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Import Body Type & fix Spelling Errors:
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Find and Replace Text or Insert Typographic Characters:
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Create Text Outlines to design your own fancy headlines:
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Outputting your Artwork
Defining cropping area:
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Saving your artwork in vector formats:
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Save for Web & Devices:
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Creating Complex Illustrations
Working with Compound Paths:
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Use Expand Appearance to modify individual elements:
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Keep your paths Simple & Cleaned Up:
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Outline Strokes technique & option to add:
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Multiple Attributes to an Object:
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Share the appearance attributes with Graphic Styles:
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Create Custom Brushes: Calligraphy:
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Scatter:
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Pattern or Art – to place objects along a path:
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Graphs – use your artworks instead of a simple bars:
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Modifying Artworks
Discover Envelope Distort:
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Utilize Clipping Masks for advanced design:
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Live Paint as an easy way to colour artwork:
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Learn about Transparency & Opacity Masks:
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Stylize with Drop Shadows and Outer Glows:
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Explore Gradient Mesh & its ability to add realistic:
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3D Shading and highlights to 2D graphics:
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Learn the difference between Filters & Live Effects:
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Advanced Blending techniques:
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Advanced Typographical Features
Character Palette – adjust the kerning:
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Baseline shift:
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Horizontal & vertical scaling:
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Paragraph Palette – Justification and Hyphenation options:
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Use the 3D feature to extrude text or other Illustrator objects:
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Printing your Artwork
Simulate multiple pages in Illustrator using the artboard and document setup:
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Flattening Transparency for raster effects like drop shadows:
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Glows and blurs:
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Creating separations with Spot color vs. Process colour:
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Enhancing your workflow
Live Colour for perfect Complementary / Analogous colours:
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Creating Smart objects:
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Dragging-and-dropping and exporting layers into Photoshop:
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Editing options for PDFs:
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Explore Links & Actions palettes:
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Release to Layers command for quick web animations:
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Get the best from Illustrator to Flash (SWF):
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ACA Prep
Copyright:
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Design principles, elements, and image composition:
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Adding descriptive metadata to images:
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