training:Courses:Adobe Illustrator
Private Adobe Illustrator Training Courses in London, UK
Provide yourself or your team with the best training with a bespoke, private Adobe Illustrator course, focused on your exact requirements
UNIQUE BENEFITS OF PRIVATE TRAINING
- Customise the course to cover the right topics to suit your needs
- Individual attention allowing you to learn at your own pace
- Work exclusively on your project
- Freedom to stop and ask as many questions as necessary
- No-one is held back or overshadowed by a larger group
- No external participants mean 100% focus on your business requirements
- Focus and relevance means cost-efficient training time
- Flexibility on timing, group size and location gives added convenience
INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR - COURSE SUMMARY
A Private course designed to equip you with the knowledge and confidence to use adobe Illustrator sucsefully
- Exploring the Illustrator environment
- Drawing and painting Tools
- Using the Brushes palette
- Introducing paths
- Working with text
- Working with layers
- Printing illustrations
- Editing Objects
- Distortion
- Working with Symbols
- Adding colours
Plus fantastic, exclusive FREE offers for every participant:
- FREE Illustrator book
- FREE unlimited telephone and e-mail support
ABOUT ME
I have been drawing since I was 4, I studied fine art and design at college and have been using Illustrator and Photoshop for over 18 years. My clients range from large blue chip companies to start-ups and individuals. Past clients include the BBC, Lloyd's of London and the Ministry of Defense. You can see more here. You can see some of my fine art hereCONVENIENT LOCATION
My flexible approach means your private training can be held at the most convenient location for you. I will be happy to come to your offices or home or if you want to get away from any distractions, We can meet in central london. If the location is a problem or if you are outside of the uk then we can do training over the internet with screen sharing and the session can be recoreded.Duration: 2 day.
Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of using Windows is required.
Adobe Illustrator allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium. Industry-standard drawing tools, flexible colour functions and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely, whilst timesaving features such as the easier-to-access options let you work quickly and intuitively. This intensive one day training course offers you an in-depth introduction to the software and shows you how to use the program to your best advantage. The course introduces you to the drawing and painting tools, brushes, text, layers and objects in a coherent and comprehensive manner. In addition, more advanced techniques are also covered including working with symbols and paths and how to achieve many sophisticated effects and techniques with the program.
COURSE CONTENT
Exploring the Illustrator environment
- The interface
- General preferences
- The toolbox
- The palettes
- Using views
- Using the navigation tools
- Using the Navigator palette
- Creating, saving, and closing files
- Creating a new file
- Saving a file
Drawing and painting Tools
- Drawing a rectangle and an ellipse
- Line tool
- Arc tool
- Grid
- Polar Grid
- Drawing a polygon
- Drawing a star
- Drawing a spiral
Using the Brushes palette
- Creating a new brush
Introducing paths
- Introducing Bezier paths
- Creating paths by using the Pencil tool
- Editing paths created with the Pencil tool
- Creating simple shapes with the Pen tool
- Using the Pen tool to create more complex shapes
- Editing paths created with the Pen tool
- Using the cutting tools
- Editing paths by using the
- Average and Join commands
Working with text
- Using the text tools
- Using the Type and
- Vertical Type tools
- Using the Path Type tool
- Using the Area Type tool
- Using the Type palettes
- Using the Character palette
- Using the Paragraph palette
- Altering text
- Changing text to outline
- Modifying outlined text
Working with layers
- Working with grouped objects
- Grouping objects
- Restacking objects in a group
- Using the Layers palette
- Creating a layer
- Positioning layers
- Moving objects through layers
- Deleting a layer
- Locking and hiding layers
- Merging layers
Printing illustrations
- Adjusting the print Specifications
- Making crop marks
- Troubleshooting printing problems
- Setting the printer properties
Editing Objects
- Compound shapes
- Using rulers
- Moving objects
- Arranging objects
- Rotating objects
- Scaling objects
Distortion
- Using Distort filters
- Warp effects
- Creating envelopes
- Envelope mesh
- Liquify tool
Working with Symbols
- Creating symbols
- Defining symbols
- Symbol instances
Adding colours
- Changing Fill and Stroke colours
- Using the Swatches palette
- Using the Colour palette
- Applying gradient
- Setting transparency
- Manipulating stroke options
- Altering the stroke weight
- Altering the Cap and Join options
- Creating a dashed line
- Using the Eyedropper tool
- Using the Paint Bucket tool
Alex was a fantastic trainer, full of enthusiasm and knowledge. The 1 on 1 training day allowed me to tailor the course to my requirements and focus on areas that would benefit my work. Alex not only answered all my questions but provided me with information and short cuts that would have taken me weeks to learn. He works at your speed and does not baffle you with technical jargon. I can highly recommend this type of course to any level of Illustrator user.
Gareth-Designer from London. A very good starting point. We went over everything in illustrator and had a chance to do it alone. Looking forward to using at work.
Orantez. I attended the course with no previous knowledge of illustrator and it was a daunting experience at first but I have come away feeling confident and enthusiastic about the programme.
Vokera Limited. Very interesting and enjoyable - an excellent introduction to this great package!
FIRA International Ltd. Very useful basic training for email newsletters, now I just need to put it into action!
Reindeer and Fox It was beneficial for me to have the 1-to-1 session. Being in a group session, with different abilities may have slowed things up a little. As it was I feel pretty confident in Illustrator already
My Goodness Ltd Thye course was excellent for grasping the basic of using Illistrator, Also the booklet supplied with the course was very helpful.
Kelston
Gareth-Designer from London. A very good starting point. We went over everything in illustrator and had a chance to do it alone. Looking forward to using at work.
Orantez. I attended the course with no previous knowledge of illustrator and it was a daunting experience at first but I have come away feeling confident and enthusiastic about the programme.
Vokera Limited. Very interesting and enjoyable - an excellent introduction to this great package!
FIRA International Ltd. Very useful basic training for email newsletters, now I just need to put it into action!
Reindeer and Fox It was beneficial for me to have the 1-to-1 session. Being in a group session, with different abilities may have slowed things up a little. As it was I feel pretty confident in Illustrator already
My Goodness Ltd Thye course was excellent for grasping the basic of using Illistrator, Also the booklet supplied with the course was very helpful.
Kelston