Illustrator CC Getting Started

Highlander Ltd

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Online

£ 325 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Training

  • Level

    Beginner

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Duration

    1 Day

Adobe authorised training provider course

Are you interested in working with Adobe Illustrator? This Illustrator beginners' course is for people who are wanting to learn Illustrator from the beginning and have little or no experience.

You will learn from the very bottom up of what the difference is between vector and raster images, as well as to how to create logos and Illustrations and how to save and use them in either web or print.

With this Illustrator Getting Started course, you will learn how to customise your Illustrator interface, in order to help you work more efficiently. You will learn how to create shapes, transform shapes, use stroke and fill and effects, as well as how to save and export.

This Illustrator course is a 1 day instructor-led class which you can take at either the York or London Centre. Class size is limited to ensure proper attention is given to each delegate. The course is supplemented with 12 months access to an online learning system, which has extra course notes, video tutorials, excercises and access to an online instructor-led forum. All of which means you get more for your money.

This Illustrator Getting Started course is also available as an onsite course at your preferred location. For more information please get in contact.

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  • Illustrator Course Outline

About this course

Over two days you will learn how to work within Illustrator, understanding vectors and creating paths with the pen tool. You will cover a wide range of other tools such as the shape builder tool, live paint for recolouring objects, warping tools for adjusting and the blend tool to name just a few.

This course is aimed at users who are new to Illustrator or have relatively little experience with the product. Attendees often include graphic designers, digital marketing execs, events executives, fashion designers, marketing professionals, and packaging designers.

You should be computer literate, and comfortable with standard operating system functionality such as copy and paste or opening new files. As the course is a live online course, you will need a machine with Illustrator installed, and a stable internet connection. For the best experience we also recommend a headset and a second monitor, although the course can be completed without these.

This course is taught on the latest version of Illustrator CC by Andy Gardiner, an Adobe Certified Instructor with over 20 years experience. In addition to holding Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor status on Illustrator, Andy is also an Adobe Certified Design Master and a CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer.

Upon receiving your request you will be contacted by one of our training advisors, who will be able to answer any questions you have. They will advise on upcoming course dates, as well as other options such as private team training if appropriate.

The course runs as a regular scheduled live online course, meaning you can attend from your own desk, whilst getting a fully interactive experience in which you can chat with the instructor. It can also be delivered as a private course for groups, either online or face to face.

Yes, we offer private courses either face to face or live online. These are popular for small teams of between 3 and 10 people.

Yes, you will receive a certificate of completion to confirm you have undertaken the course.

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Subjects

  • Create shapes
  • Basic Illustrator
  • Text
  • Creating and editing shapes
  • Creating vectors
  • Adobe illustrator courses

Teachers and trainers (1)

Andy Gardiner

Andy Gardiner

Adobe Certified Instructor and MD

Andy has run Highlander for over 25 years and is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Adobe Certified Design Master, CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer and In5 Certified Professional. He specialises in delivering courses at all levels on tools including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects. In recent years Andy has delivered courses for staff from organisations including Burberry, Manchester City FC, Joe Browns, Mishcon de Reya, Bank of England, Aviva, Lloyds Banking Group, LNER, Eversheds, Interflora and a range of NHS, Police and Government organisations.

Course programme

The course typically covers the following topics:
Illustrator Overview
  • What are vectors
  • What are Bézier curves
  • The pen tools
Creating shapes
  • The pen tool
  • Primitive shapes
  • Adding/deleting anchor points
  • Creating Bézier curves
  • Combining shapes
  • Creating outlines from text
  • The shape builder tool
  • The blend tool
Editing shapes
  • Adjusting existing shapes
  • Cutting paths
  • Combining paths and shapes
  • Erasing paths and shapes
Organising your work
  • Artboards
  • Custom artboards
  • Layers
  • Sub-layers
  • Layer properties
  • Templates
  • Group Isolation mode
Color
  • Choosing a colour
  • Using swatches
  • Saving your swatches
  • Spot colours
  • Process colours
  • Global colours
Stroke and Fill
  • Creating strokes
  • Creating fill
  • Applying colour to strokes and fills
Transforming shapes
  • Duplicating
  • Moving, rotating
  • Reflecting, Shearing
  • Scaling
  • Step and repeat
  • Transform again
Effects
  • 3D
  • Stylize
  • Distort & Transform
  • Warp
  • Organising your effects
Text
  • Adding text
  • Text within a a shape
  • Text on a shape
  • Controlling text
  • Creating outlines from text
Saving and Exporting
  • Saving options
  • Exporting options
  • Exporting to pdf
  • Other export formats
  • Using Illustrator with other applications

Highlander reserves the right to adjust the topics covered in order to ensure all delegates get the maximum benefit.

Additional information

The course is backed by extensive post course support including access to over 4 hours of HD video designed specifically for this course by the instructor.

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