training:Courses:Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator Training Courses
"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.
Orantez.
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.
"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.
Duration: 2 day.
Vokera Limited.
Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of using Windows and the Internet is required.
"Very interesting and enjoyable - an excellent introduction to this great package!"
FIRA International Ltd.
FIRA International Ltd.
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