Advanced
Illustrator Course: $995 
Course Description
The advanced Adobe Illustrator class is ideal for those who have completed the Essentials class or for those who have a strong knowledge of Illustrator CS3/4, such as drawing, creating and manipulating shapes, working with type, understanding how paths and anchor points work, masks, blending, basic filters etc.
What you will learn
Students will learn how to create special effects with images, type and logos, work with transparency and ‘live’ effects to generate artwork that can be used in print or screen based media.
Advanced Illustrator Course Outline
Working with Blends
- — Blending two objects
- — Adjusting blend options
- — Blending anchor points
- — Blending three or more objects
- — Replacing the spine of a blend
- — Reversing the direction of a blend
- — Releasing and expanding a blend
Using Graphic Styles
- — Applying graphic styles
- — Defining graphic styles
- — Previewing graphic styles
- — Modifying graphic styles
Advanced Masking Techniques
- — Understanding clipping masks
- — Using layer clipping masks
- — Creating opacity masks
Transformations and Effects
- — Using the Transform panel
- — Repeating transformations
- — Using the Transform Each function
- — Using the Convert to Shape effects
- — Using the Distort & Transform effects
- — Using the Path effects
- — Using the Pathfinder effects
Working with Live Paint
- — Introducing Live Paint
- — Creating a Live Paint group
- — Using the Live Paint Bucket tool
- — Using Live Paint with open paths
- — Detecting gaps in Live Paint groups
- — Adding paths to a Live Paint group
- — Using the Live Paint Selection tool
- — Releasing and expanding Live Paint groups
- — Understanding how Live Paint groups work
Creating Charts and Graphs
- — Setting expectations: Graphs in Illustrator
- — Creating a chart
- — Importing data
- — Formatting data
- — Customizing a chart
- — Combining chart types
- — Creating graph designs
- — Styling and updating graphs
- — Ungrouping graphs
Working with Live Trace
- — Introducing the trace options
- — Using the Live Trace feature
- — Understanding how Live Trace works
- — Making raster- based adjustments
- — Tracing with fills, strokes, or both
- — Making vector- based adjustments
- — Adjusting colors in Live Trace
- — Releasing and expanding Live Trace artwork
- — Saving and exporting Live Trace presets
3D
- — How fills and strokes affect 3D artwork
- — Applying the 3D Extrude & Bevel effect
- — Applying a bevel
- — Showing the hidden faces of a 3D object
- — Applying the 3D Revolve effect
- — Visualizing the revolve axis
- — Applying the 3D Rotate effect
- — Adjusting surface settings
- — Preparing art for mapping
- — Mapping artwork to a 3D surface
- — Hiding geometry with 3D artwork mapping
Working with Color
- — Managing color groups
- — Understanding color harmonies
- — Using the color guide
- — Limiting the color guide
- — Modifying color with the Recolor Artwork feature
- — Using the Edit tab to adjust color
- — Using the Assign tab to replace colors
- — Making global color adjustments
- — Using Recolor options
- — Converting artwork to grayscale
- — Accessing Kuler directly from Illustrator
- — Ensuring high contrast for color- blind people
Understanding Transparency
- — Understanding transparency flattening
- — Understanding complex regions in transparency flattening
- — Exploring the transparency flattener settings
- — Using the Flattener Preview panel
- — Creating and sharing Transparency Flattener presets
Distortion
- — Using the Warp effect
- — The Warp effect vs. envelope distortion
- — Applying the Make with Warp envelope distortion
- — Applying the Make with Mesh envelope distortion
- — Applying the Make with Top Object envelope distortion
- — Editing envelopes
- — Adjusting envelope settings
- — Releasing and expanding envelope distortions
- — Applying envelope distortions to text
- — Using the liquify distortion tools
- — Customizing the liquify tools
Working with Gradient Mesh
- — Understanding the Gradient Mesh feature
- — Using Gradient Mesh to add contoured shading
- — Using Gradient Mesh to create photorealistic effects
| SYDNEY | September | October | November | December | January |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Illustrator CS5 / CS4 / CS3 | |||||
| Illustrator Lite | - | 26 | 30 | - | 27 |
| Illustrator Essentials | 16 & 17 | 18 & 19 | 17 & 18 | 15 & 16 | 13 & 14 |
| Illustrator Advanced | 20 & 21 | - | 23 & 24 | - | - |
