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Adobe Illustrator Level 1
(2 days - £450, plus VAT)
Prerequisites
Computer literacy: the ability to use a mouse and keyboard; familiarity with common computer software; the ability to open and save files.
Course Goals
To get delegates comfortable and confident with using the Illustrator tools and to acquaint them with essential techniques for creating and manipulating illustrations and layouts.
Course Outline
Getting Started
Creating a New Document
Defining Preferences
Controlling the Workspace
Defining Guides
Creating and Using Grids
Saving Files
Printing Files
Using the Control Panel
Finding Tools
Applying Stroke and Fill Colors
Relying on Smart Guides
Drawing Lines and Shapes
Drawing Lines
Drawing Ellipses and Circles
Drawing Spirals
Drawing Rectangles
Drawing Polygons and Stars
Drawing Grids
Drawing with the Pencil Tool
Drawing with the Pen Tool
Using the Eraser and Path Eraser Tools
Creating Compound Paths
Dividing Paths with the Scissors and Knife Tools
Clipping with Masks
Defining an Interactive Crop Area
Drawing with Brushes
Applying or Drawing with Brushes
Creating Calligraphic Brushes
Creating Art Brushes
Creating Scatter Brushes
Working with Pattern Brushes
Editing Paths
Selecting Path Segments and Paths
Defining, Selecting, and Isolating Groups
Selecting and Editing Anchors
Aligning Anchors
Selecting Similar Objects
Editing with the Bounding Box
Duplicating
Scaling
Rotating
Shearing (Skewing)
Distorting with Envelopes
Using Pathfinders
Creating Fills and Strokes
Using Color and Pattern Swatches
Using Color Guides and Live Color
Grabbing Colors with the Eyedropper
Defining Gradients
Formatting Strokes
Stacking Strokes in the Appearance Panel
Stacking Fills in the Appearance Panel
Creating and Merging Live Paint Groups
Applying Color to Live Paint Faces and Edges
Editing Live Paint Edges
Working with Layers
Organizing Projects into Layers
Viewing and Isolating Layers
Finding Objects in Layers
Using Layers for Transparency or Clipping
Placing and Editing Raster Images
Using Live Trace
Creating and Formatting Type
Creating Type Inserted at a Point
Creating Area Type
Defining Font and Size
Selecting Type
Kerning, Leading, and Tracking
Scaling Type
Applying Type Attributes
Using Type Styles
Using OpenType Glyphs
Outlining Type
Formatting Paragraphs
Using Paragraph Styles
Linking Type Objects
Flowing Type Around Paths
Placing Type on Paths
Creating Graphs in Illustrator
Create a Graph
Edit a Graph Using the Graph Data Window
Use the Group Selection Tool
Use the Graph Type Dialog Box
Create a Combination Graph
Create a Custom Graph Design
Apply a Custom Design to a Graph
Create and Apply a Sliding-Scale
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Illustrator Advanced
(1 day - £245, plus VAT)
Prerequisites
Familiarity with Illustrator tools, panels and basic techniques.
Course Goals
To show experienced users of Illustrator advanced techniques for creating complex drawings and the use of special effects.
Course Outline
Filters Gradient Meshes, Envelopes, and Blends
Work with Filters
Work with Gradient Meshes
Work with Envelopes
Create Blends
Working with Transparency, Effects, and Graphic Styles
Use the Transparency Palette and the Color Picker
Apply Effects to Objects
Use the Appearance Palette
Work with Graphic Styles
Custom Graphs Designs
Create a Custom Graph Design
Apply a Custom Design to a Graph
Create and Apply a Sliding-Scale Design
Tracing
Using the tracing features
Tracing a raster image
Applying tracing options
Managing tracing presets
Releasing a tracing
Converting tracings to paths
Live Paint
Creating Live Paint groups
Using the Live Paint Bucket tool
Using the Live Paint Selection tool
Reshaping Live Paint groups
Adding paths to a Live Paint group
Choosing gap options
Expanding and releasing Live Paint groups
Drawing with Symbols
Create Symbols
Place Symbol Instances
Modify Symbols and Symbol Instances
Create Symbol Instance Sets
Modify Symbol Instance Sets
Creating 3D Objects
Extrude Objects
Revolve Objects
Manipulate Surface Shading and Lighting
Map Artwork to 3D Objects
Preparing a Document for Prepress and Printing
Explore Basic Color Theory
Work in CMYK Mode
Specify Spot Colors
Create Crop Marks
Create Bleeds
Preparing Graphics for The web
Create Slices
Specify Slice Type and Slice Options
Use the Save for Web Dialog Box
Create an Image Map
