GD 201 – Digital Vector Graphics

C – GD 201 – Digital Vector Graphics – Weekly hours: 2+2, ECTS: 6
During this course the students will learn the basis of digital vector graphics, and how to use vector based editors Adobe Illustrator and Corel Draw (essential tools in Graphic Design). The course contains the following topics: creating vector artworks for virtually any project and across multiple media: print, websites, interactive projects, and video. Creating complex repeating patterns, apply gradients to a path, edit and apply custom and preset stroke profiles, add custom and preset live arrows, use improved live trace, work with Bristle and Blob brushes, add transparency to mesh and gradients, create 3D with the perspective grid, manage multiple artboards, crop with clipping masks, control transitions with opacity masks.