Illustrator advanced
Course
In London
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
London
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Duration
2 Days
A two day course designed to give more experienced users an insight into more advanced techniques and features of the application, to explore some graphic effects and to create ready for print documents.
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About this course
Advanced knowledge of the application and good knowledge of the professional printing process, web design or motion graphics.
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Course programme
A two day course designed to give more experienced users an insight into more advanced techniques and features of the application, to explore some graphic effects and to create ready for print documents.
Prerequisites
Advanced knowledge of the application and good knowledge of the professional printing process, web design or motion graphics.
Course Content File Management With Adobe Bridge
- Understanding the interface
- Previewing files in different modes
- Rating and labelling
- Assigning Keywords
- Batch Rename
- Synchronising Adobe's Colour Workspace
- Creating and managing custom Guides
- Working with Views
- Understanding Smart Guides
- Creating Illustrator Templates
- Appearance Palette
- Compound Shapes
- Working with the Pathfinder to:
- Divide, trim, merge, crop and outline object
- Creating Groups
- Applying Warp and Mash Envelopes
- Expanding and releasing
- Edit Envelope contents
- Creating custom Envelope shapes
- Creating and applying Masks
- Modifying and updating mask content
- Understanding Illustrators Swatches
- Creating Gradient and Pattern Swatches
- Working with Color Guide
- Creating Live Paint Objects
- Loading Pantone Libraries
- Saving and exporting Swatches
- Working with Gradient Mashes
- Creating Calligraphic-, Art-, Pattern-, and Scatter Brushes
- Modifying the brush options
- Updating and applying Brush Presets
- Understanding Illustrators Graphic Styles
- Creating and applying Graphic Styles
- Loading and saving Graphic Style Presets
- Understanding Illustrator's Filter and Effects menu
- Distort & Transform
- Stylize
- Effect Gallery
- Creating and understanding Layers
- Selecting and arranging Layers
- Duplicating Layer content
- Applying Layer Options
- Releasing and flattening Layers
- Creating and threading multiple text containers
- Modifying threaded text
- Modifying Area Type Options
- Type flow into a shape
- Text on a Path Options
- Using Text Wrap and options
- Using Character-, and Paragraph Styles
- Special characters with the Glyph Palette
- Setting up Hyphenations and Justifications
- Customizing Tabs
- Setting up for professional printing
- Understanding transparency flattening
- Creating Crop Marks
- Page Tiling
- Exporting Multiple Page PDF
- Using the Area Crop Tool to export pre-defined areas
- Setting up the Document Raster Effect Setting
- Placing images
- Understanding the Link Palette
- Converting bitmap into vector graphics using Live Trace
- Using bitmap filter
- Understanding Illustrator's 3D Effects
- Rotate, Bevel & Extrude and revolve objects
- Mapping artwork onto objects
- Creating and recoding Actions
- Creating Droplets
- Running a Batch
- Loading and saving Action Sets
Illustrator advanced