Adobe Illustrator Introduction

Available Start Dates: Please call

Cost: £495 per delegate

Duration: 2 days

The Introduction to Illustrator course gives a comprehensive introduction to using the essential features of illustrator.

Design high qualtiy logos
Trace maps
Create illustrations

Course Outline

Day 1

Example

Introduction to Illustrator
About vectors and bitmaps
What Illustrator is used for
Illustrator and other graphics programs
About anchor points, segments and paths

Basic drawing and colouring
Using the grid
Using the Pen tool
Applying strokes and fills
Illustrator's interface
Navigating around a page
Closed and open paths
Customising strokes
Applying and modifying gradients

Illustrator fundamentals
Creating basic shapes
Aligning objects accurately
Duplicating objects
Grouping objects
Working with groups and subgroups
Understanding Illustrator's selection tools
Using smart guides
Basic transformations

Using layers
Placing artwork
Tracing over imported artwork
Template layers
Showing, hiding and locking layers
Specifying layer attributes
Duplicating layers
Moving objects between layers
Creating symbols
Placing instances of symbols

Working with text
Specifying character and paragraph attributes
Placing text on a path
Aligning text with other objects
Copying text attributes

Day 2

Using pathfinder
Combining shapes to form new objects
Expanding compound shapes

Artistic techniques
Creating more complex shapes
Creating and modifying patterns
Masking objects
Turning text into outlines
Modifying outline text
Warping objects

Transformation tools
About transformation tools
Transforming objects numerically
Scaling and rotating objects
Changing the origin of a transformation
Transforming and duplicating at the same time
Using the Transform Again command

Working with Bezier curves
About Bezier curves
Understanding anchor points and handles
Drawing accurate curves
Creating 'hinged' corners
Using the Convert Anchor Point tool
Adding and deleting points on a path

Colour in Illustrator
Choosing a colour mode
Working with Pantone, spot and web colours
Deleting unused colours
Using swatches from another document
Saving for print
Saving for web

Live Trace and Live Paint

Creating logos
Using transformation tools
Using type
Dividing objects from other objects