General
What’s new in this version
Using Adobe Bridge
Choosing colour settings and ensuring compatibility with Photoshop, InDesign and Acrobat

Creating Artwork
Compound paths
Envelope distortion techniques
Working with Beziér curves - understanding the principals, tips and tricks for efficient creation of complex paths
Transparency effects
Clipping Masks: creating and editing
Using Pathfinders to generate complex elements
Expanding complex elements and appearances
Transformations - tips and tricks, scaling strokes and effects, creating perspective effects
Creating graphs (optional)

Colour and Attributes
Creating Colour Groups
Working with Live Colour: recolouring artwork, working with colour schemes
Transparency and Blending modes
Understanding Global colours
Complex patterns and gradients

Layers
Making the best use of layers and sublayers
Copying and moving elements between layers

Effects and Special Features
Using Live Trace - selecting tracing styles, customising output
Effects - applying to elements and Layers
Live Paint - colouring artwork, gap detection options
3D elements - creating from complex objects, lighting and rendering properties, transparency, mapping artwork, transforming
Working with Blends and Gradient Mesh objects
Applying multiple appearances - creating complex fills and strokes
Creating graphic styles
Rasterizing and filtering artwork

Production
Creating web elements - designing a page layout and cropping elements
Transparency flattening options
Creating templates
Creating PDF files
Creating colour separations and other printing issues
Integration with Photoshop, Flash and other applications