Adobe Illustrator-Course Content
General Features
- About vectors and bitmaps
- The Control palette
- Overview of tools, palettes and window elements
- Contextual options bar and menu options
- Navigation in Illustrator
Objects and Shapes
- Creating basic shapes: rectangles, ellipses, polygons and stars
- Aligning objects
- Duplicating objects
- Grouping sets of objects
Selections, Fills and Groups
- Selecting and modifying objects
- Applying fills and strokes
- Grouping and ungrouping objects
- Selecting objects inside groups
Colour and Gradients
- Colour modes in Illustrator
- The Colours vs. the Swatches palette
- Pantone/Spot colours
- Creating custom colours
- Using swatches from other documents
- Creating simple gradients
Drawing in Illustrator
- Using the pen tool
- Bezier curves
- Anchor points and handles
- Convert Anchor Points tool
- Adding and subtracting anchor points on a path
Other Drawing Tools
- The Brush tool
- The Pencil
- The Line tool
- The Arc tool
- The Spiral tool
- Path editing tools
The Smooth Tool
- The Erase tool
- The Scissors tool
- The Knife tool
Text in Illustrator
- Placing and typing text in Illustrator
- Using the Adobe type engine for text formatting
- Text on a path
- Converting text to outlines
Layering Creating layers
- Making selections within layers
- Re-stacking elements and group elements
- Hiding, showing and locking layers and layer elements
Transformation tools
- Rotate
- Reflect
- Skew
- Scale
- Free transform
Shape Modes and Pathfinders
- Combining, dividing, subtracting etc. with shapes
- Expanding objects
Other Features
- Essential keyboard shortcuts
- File formats
- Guides and Smart Guides
- Outline and Preview views
Saving and Printing files
- Save as… options
- Export
- Print…
General Features
- When to use Illustrator
- Overview of tools, palettes and window elements
- Contextual options bar and menu options
- Navigation in Illustrator
Objects and Shapes
- Creating basic shapes: rectangles,
ellipses, polygons and stars
- Aligning and duplicating objects
- Selection and Direct Selection tools
Selections, Fills and Groups
- Selecting and modifying objects
- Applying fills and strokes
- Grouping and ungrouping objects
- Selecting objects inside groups
Colour and Gradients
- Colour modes in Illustrator CS2
- The Colours vs. the Swatches palette
- Pantone/Spot colours
- Creating custom colours
- Using swatches from other documents
Drawing in Illustrator
- Bezier curves
- Anchor points and handles
- Convert Anchor Points tool
- Adding and subtracting anchor points on a path
Path editing tools The Smooth tool
- The Erase tool
- The Scissors tool
- The Knife tool
Text in Illustrator
- Placing and typing text in Illustrator
- Using the Adobe type engine for text formatting
- Style Sheets
- Text on a path
- Converting text to outlines
Layering Creating layers
- Making selections within layers
- Re-stacking elements and group elements
- Hiding, showing and locking layers and layer elements
This Adobe Illustrator training programme may be of interest to anyone involved in graphic design. No previous knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is required.
By the end of this course, you will have learnt about the key Adobe Illustrator features and tools that you need to begin designing attractive graphic designs and art work.
This course will help you harness the enormous power of drawing with Illustrator. You will learn to create drawings from scratch & clean up illustrations and clipart. We will use the type tools to create text objects and the transform tools to modify objects. You will be able to create simple drawings and learn how to save and export them for use in other programs. We will use the Effects and Filters and how they differ, and also the Appearance Palette to save a Graphic Style. We will draw and understand Bezier curves, the root of drawing in Illustrator. Other topics include, Layers, new type features to CS, Transparency, the new 3-D tool, Symbols and many more exciting new features to CS.
Classroom based, instructor lead, practical hands on course with Computer / Laptop per person during the session
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