Adobe Illustrator Introduction to Intermediate 3 Day Course

Course Includes:

• Expert teaching from practicing architects and designers

• Bespoke video tutorials to take home

• Digital reference book for revision

• Free ongoing after support

• Tailoring of syllabus and projects where possible

• LST certificate of completion

Course Coverage:

• Setting up Illustrator projects
• Identify project requirements
• Establish target audience and needs
• Define media format and publishing requirements
• User interfaceIdentify user interface elements
• Create and select Workspaces
• Navigate and zoom documents
• Creating artwork
• Understanding difference between vector and bitmap formats
• Apply design principles to create artwork
• Using pen and shape tools to create basic geometry
• Selecting and Grouping objects
• Transform and modify elements
• Create and manipulate text
• Organise artwork using layers
• Create symbols
• Colours
• Selecting and applying colours
• Creating colour swatches
• Applying and modifying gradients
• Working with spot colours
• Effects and transparency
• Apply transparency to objects
• Blend elements using blend effects
• Working with bitmaps
• Placing raster images
• Using the links panel to relink and update images
• Tracing images using live trace presets
• Publish artworkIdentifying common file formats
• Choose appropriate settings to optimise graphics on the screen, print and video
• Creating JPEG, PDF, PNG, SVG