GRAPHICS-II

Paper Code: 
BMA 215
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
This course is a comprehensive survey of desktop publishing using Adobe Illustrator & InDesign, the leading page layout application, to create sophisticated original layouts for a variety of uses, including brochures, newsletters, books, business cards, signs, and many others, for print and digital output and distribution.
9.00
Unit I: 

Illustrator workspace and preferences, Understanding Tool panel, Understanding paths, fills and strokes, Setting up preferences and color settings, Creating basic geometric shapes, Using a grid and/or Smart Guides to aid symmetrical drawing, Applying and editing color gradients to filled regions, Creating and using swatches, tints, gradients, and patterns on filled regions, Transform tools, Using the Pathfinder panel to make complex shapes.

9.00
Unit II: 
Working with the Blend tool/command and its options, Creating a compound path, Transparency panel for blend modes and opacity, Using Layers panel to keep your art project organized, Creating clipping masks: traditional way vs. Draw Inside, Tracing a scanned image with LiveTrace, Applying warp effects and the envelope feature, Understanding the Appearance panel, Creating effects and saving Graphic Styles, Creating and manipulating type, Creating symbols and using the Symbol tools.
9.00
Unit III: 

Understanding and creating the five kinds of custom brushes, Using the Mesh tool for complex gradients, Applying 3-D effects and mapping artwork onto 3-D shapes, Using Illustrators tools to create special effects, Creating realistic shadows, Creating repeating patterns for fills and borders, Drawing 3-D artwork, Drawing using custom guides for perspective, Creating line effects for maps, LiveTrace to LivePaint to LiveColor explorations, Creating type effects, Using the graph tool to create bar and pie charts.

9.00
Unit IV: 

Introducing the InDesign Workspace and tools panel, Adding text, working with styles, working with graphics, Working with objects, Working with object styles,  Setting Up a Document and Working with Pages, Working with layers, Creating and modifying text frames, Creating and modifying graphics frames, Changing the shape of a frame.

9.00
Unit V: 

Wrapping text around a graphic, Modifying the shape of frames, Transforming and aligning objects, Flowing text into an existing frame, Editing Text, Working with Typography, Changing fonts and type styles, Working with Color, Working with gradients Working with Styles, Importing and Modifying Graphics, Creating Tables, Working with Transparency, Printing and Exporting, Creating Adobe PDF Files with Form Fields.

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
1. Adobe Creative Team, “Adobe InDesign CS6 Classroom in a Book”, Adobe Press; 1 edition (25 May 2012).
2. Ann Fisher, “Adobe InDesign CS6 (Illustrated)”, Course Technology Ptr (Sd); Ill edition (11 September 2012).
3. Adobe Creative Team, “Adobe Illustrator CS6 Classroom in a Book”, Adobe Press, 1 edition (27 May 2012).
Academic Year: 
2017-18
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