Illustrator Introduction
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Inhouse
Description
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Type
Training
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Level
Beginner
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Methodology
Inhouse
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Location
London
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Duration
2 Days
Adobe Illustrator is a drawing and design package. This course will give you the experience you need to produce professional Graphics and Illustrations and will increase your levels of productivity and creativity within Adobe Illustrator. Once you have completed this course you can move onto Adobe Illustrator Advanced course. Suitable for: Good Mac or PC skills
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Course programme
Exploring the Illustrator environment
• The Toolbox
• Control palette
• Arranging palettes
• Creating and managing Workspaces
Workflow
• Understanding bitmap and vector graphics
• Creating and saving Illustrator documents
• Using Document Profiles
• Setting up units of measurement
• Understanding the CMYK and RGB colour mode
• Modifying the Artboard
• Working with the Ruler and Grid
Navigation
• Navigator palette
• Zoom Tool
• Navigating with Shortcuts
Drawing and painting Tools
• Creating geometrical shapes with the:
• Line Segment Tool
• Rectangular-, Elliptical-, Polygon-, and Star Tool
• Freeform shapes
• Using the Pencil Tool
• Setting up the Brush Tool
Modifying objects
• Selecting and deleting objects
• Understanding the Bounding Box
• Moving and duplicating
• Rotate, mirror, scale and shear
• Aligning and distributing objects
• Arranging objects
• Modifying the Stroke
• Cutting with the Knife-, and Scissors Tool
• Delete parts of shapes or paths with the Eraser Tool
• Working with the Transformation Palette
Working with Symbols
• Creating and saving Symbols
• Updating Symbols
• Loading Symbol Libraries
• Preparing for exchange
Working with Colours
• Applying Fill-, and Stroke
• Understanding Adobes Color Picker and Color Palette
• Creating and saving Swatches
Compound Shapes
• Introduction into the Pathfinder Palette
• Creating more complex shapes with:
• Add, subtract, intersect an exclude shape options
The Pen Tool
• Understanding Bezier Curves
• Creating shapes with the Pen Tool
• Selecting, moving and deleting Anchor Points
• Joining line segments
• Converting Anchor Points
• Loading Swatch Libraries
• Preparing Swatches for exchange
• Creating and applying Gradients
Text in Illustrator
• Creating Point and Area Text
• Selecting and modifying text
• Basic text formatting with the Character-, and Paragraph Palettes
• Creating text on a path
• Using the Glyph Palette
• Creating Text Outlines
• Importing Word document into Illustrator
Introduction to Layers
• Understanding Illustrators’ Layer
• Creating-, arranging-, and deleting Layers
• Selecting and moving Layers
• Locking and hiding Layers
Printing
• How to set up the printer
• Creating and saving PDF files
Questions and Answers
Additional information
Students per class: 7
Illustrator Introduction