Illustrator CC Advanced

Highlander Ltd

Short course

Online

£ 495 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Methodology

    Online

  • Duration

    2 Days

  • Personal tutor

    Yes

  • Virtual classes

    Yes

Illustrator Advanced is a 2 day course aimed at existing Illustrator that want to move beyond the basics and master the more advanced aspects of Illustrator.

Over 2 days you will learn to make the most of features like symbols, work with tools like the blob brush and live paint, create and apply complex patterns, and use the appearance panel to apply multiple fills and strokes to a single path.

About this course

The Illustrator Advanced course is designed to take existing Illustrator users and enable them with all of the more advanced features of the software that will make them more efficient

This course is aimed at users who are already proficient with the basics of Illustrator and comfortable creating and editing basic paths.

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. As this course is an Advanced course you should also be comfortable working with the basics of Adobe Illustrator.

This course is taught on the latest version of Illustrator 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 contact 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

  • Illustrator
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe CC
  • Creative Cloud
  • Creating vectors

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:
Symbols
  • Creating symbols
  • Editing symbols
  • Saving symbols
  • Using the symbol tools
LivePaint groups
  • LivePaint groups
  • Detecting Gaps
  • Painting strokes and fills
  • Live paint bucket and Live paint selection tools
Blob brush tool
  • Painting with the blob brush
  • Merging and keep selected options
  • Tolerances and options
Perspective Grid Tool
  • Introduction
  • Presets and settings
  • Drawing in perspective
  • Attaching & releasing objects
  • Bringing in objects
  • Selecting objects
  • Transforming objects
  • Adding text and symbols
Colour
  • Recolouring your artwork
  • Creating swatches from your artwork
  • Applying swatches to your artwork
  • Colour groups
Gradients
  • Creating gradients
  • Applying gradients to shapes
  • Applying gradients to strokes
  • - along the length, across the width, within the stroke
  • Gradient Mesh
  • Creating mesh objects
  • Editing mesh objects
  • Mesh points and mesh patches
  • Using transparency
Tracing Images
  • Image trace
  • Presets
  • Mode
  • Using a palette
  • advanced options
Brushes
  • Art brushes
  • Scatter brushes
  • Bristle brushes
  • Pattern brushes
Custom Brushes
  • Creating your own brushes
  • Using your custom brushes
Patterns
  • Defining your pattern
  • Creating your pattern
  • Applying your pattern
The Appearance Panel
  • Organising your effects
  • Moving your effects
  • Multiple strokes
  • Multiple fills
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 6.5 hours of HD video designed specifically for this course by the instructor.

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