Adobe Illustrator Introduction

Course

In London, Glasgow and Manchester

£ 487 + VAT

Description

  • Duration

    2 Days

Imagine being able to create logos, professional type effects, complex airbrush effects and colour control using Illustartor after just 2 days training. That's what you'll be able to do after taking this Illustrator training course from Certitec. Discover high quality drawing and illustration with Adobe Illustrator. Suitable for: Graphic designers, or people transitioning into a design job or taking on design responsibilities, who need to use Illustrator and Flash to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents for print and/or the web. They may have little or no experience

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Location

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Glasgow (Glasgow City)
George House, 36 North Hanover Street,, G1 2AD

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On request
London
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99 Waterloo Road, SE1 8XP

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On request
Manchester (Greater Manchester)
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Piccadilly House, 49 Piccadilly, M1 2AP

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On request

About this course

Basic computer knowledge

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About Certitec

CERTITEC is a leading Adobe Authorised Training Centre provider for Adobe Acrobat, The Adobe Creative Suite and PDF Workflows.
We were officially established in 2001 but have been training many of these products since 1986. We work with a wide range of clients ranging from blue-chip corporates and public sector bodies through to advertising agencies and small businesses.
We demonstrate our training at many events throughout the UK, Europe and the United States.
Our experience is unique - actually working closely with companies such as Adobe, it's no coincidence we are often their first choice for delivery of projects and presentations.
Our training is expertly delivered and available on either tailor-made or a scheduled basis.
We only train products to which we are certified making our standards extremely high. We even get involved in new releases of software months before official release - avid testers within official beta cycles. This allows us to train with new software as soon as its released.


Course Content
Essential Illustrator Concepts
What are Vector Graphics?
Create a Custom Workspace
Fill and Stroke Attributes
Document Settings
The Illustrator Interface
Exploring panels and workspaces
Using the Control Panel
Navigation
Smart Guides
Preview Options
Grids and Guides
The Bounding Box
Panels
Libraries
Drawing and Selection Essentials
Draw Paths with the Pen Tool
Shape Tools
The Seletion Tools
Methods of Selection
Shapes
Duplicate Objects
Mastering the Pen Tool
The Pencil tool
Path Editing
Editing Anchor Points
Compound Shapes
Pathfinder Options
Eraser tool
Manipulating and Editing Paths
Outlining Strokes
Path Options
Appearances
The Appearance Panel
Object Attributes
Multiple attributes
Applying Live Effects
Graphic Styles
Appearance Panel settings
Working with Groups and Layers
Defining groups
Editing groups
Working with layers
Layers and object hierarchy
Working with Color
Defining swatches
Creating swatch groups and libraries
Working with gradients
Working with patterns
Using the Color Guides
Live ColourFinding colors with kuler
Modifying color in artwork
Object Transformation and Positioning
Moving and copying objects
Rotating and scaling objects
Reflecting and skewing objects
Using the Free Transform tool
Using the Transform panel
Repeating transformations
Using the Transform
Each function
Aligning objects
Distributing objects
Brushes
Creating a calligraphic brush
Creating a scatter brush
Creating an art brush
Creating a pattern brush
Using Symbols
Defining and editing symbols
Editing symbols
Applying Filters and Live Effects
Minding your resolution settings
Applying the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect
Applying the 3D Revolve effects
Mapping artwork to 3D objects
Transforming Effects
Using the Stylize effects
Using the Scribble effect
Using the Warp effect
Basic Text Editing
Creating Point Text
Creating Area Text
Text Formatting
Creating Text Threads
Text on a Path
Using the Glyphs panel
Checking spelling
Using the Change Case function
Convert Text to Outlines Creating Blends
Creating a basic blend
Using a blend to create an airbrush effect
Working with Images
Placing images
Using the Links panel
The Edit Original workflow
Live Trace
Rasterizing artwork
Specialised Tasks
Creating graphs
Using Gradient Mesh
Using Envelope Warps
The Liquify Distortion tools
Saving and Printing
Saving your Illustrator document
Printing your Illustrator document
Using the Crop Area tool
Setting up page tiling

Additional information

Students per class: 2000

Adobe Illustrator Introduction

£ 487 + VAT