Illustrator Introduction
Course
Inhouse
Description
-
Type
Course
-
Level
Advanced
-
Methodology
Inhouse
-
Duration
2 Days
-
Start date
Different dates available
The course aims to equip new users with the skills necessary to create illustrations, web graphics and designs by using Illustrators comprehensive suite of drawing tools and effects. This is a practical, hands-on course with plenty of opportunities to practice the techniques being learned by actually creating artwork relevant to your own work.
Facilities
Location
Start date
Start date
Reviews
Subjects
- Illustrator
- Drawing
- Export
- Adobe Illustrator
- Drawing Techniques
- Editing Objects
- Illustrator on-site training
- Illustrator in-house training
- Illustrator training
- Arrranging objects
- Text labels
- Text boxes
Course programme
Overview of features, Illustrator’s approach to drawing, Setting stroke and fill attributes , Printing documents , Basic geometrical shapes, Drawing straight paths , Drawing curved paths , The freehand tool , Selecting and arranging objects , Editing objects
Text handlingEntering and editing text , Text labels and text boxes , Entering text along a path, Entering text within a path, Creating and editing text outlines
Drawing techniquesCreating your own patterns, Measuring and constraining, Guide objects and crop marks, Hiding and locking objects, The transformation tools, The use of compound paths, The use of masking objects, The blend tool, Working with layer, Overview of Illustrator filters
Setting object attributesDefining colours, Saving colours as swatches, Spot and process colours, Setting stroke attributes, Adding arrows, Setting fill attributes, Creating gradients, Applying gradients
Manipulating objectsMaking selections, Moving objects, Duplicating objects, Aligning objects, Changing the stacking order, Grouping and ungrouping, Locking and hiding, Graphs, Creating a graph, The graph types, Importing data, Tagging items for XML export, Selecting elements for export, Setting export options
Additional information
Illustrator Introduction