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Book an Advanced Illustrator Course

illustrator logoAdobe Illustrator Advanced Course: $895

Course Description

The advanced Adobe Illustrator course builds upon the foundations established in the Essentials course and is ideal for those who have a strong knowledge of Illustrator CS3/4 or 5, such as drawing, creating and manipulating shapes, working with type, understanding how paths and anchor points work, masks, blending and basic filters. Students 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.

What you will learn

During the 2 day Advanced Illustrator course, the following topics are covered:

  • — Your Creative Workspace
  • — Designing Type & Layout
  • — Rethinking Construction
  • — Reshaping Dimensions
  • — Expressive Strokes
  • — Colour Transitions
  • — Mastering Complexity
  • — Creatively Combining Apps
Training Course Benefits

Who Should Attend and Prerequisites

This advanced Illustrator course is ideal for those who have completed the Illustrator Essentials class or for anyone who has been using Adobe Illustrator for a year or more. See the outline below for more in-depth detail:

Advanced Course Outline

Your Creative Workspace

  • Organising Your Workspace
  • Mastering Object Management
  • Managing Multiple Artboards

Designing Type & Layout

  • Type: Point, Area and Path
  • Working with Threaded Text
  • Wrapping Area Type around Objects
  • Formatting Text
  • Converting Type to Outlines
  • Using the Eyedropper with Type
  • The Glyphs Panel
  • Working with Legacy Text
  • Advanced Features of Multiple Artboards

Rethinking Construction

  • The Eraser tools and the Blob Brush
  • Shape Builder tool
  • Working with LivePaint
  • Using Live Trace
  • Aligning, Joining and Averaging
  • Draw Behind and Draw Inside
  • Compound Shapes and Compound Paths

Reshaping Dimensions

  • Warps and Envelopes
  • 3D Effects
  • The Perspective Grid

Expressive Strokes

  • Width Tool
  • The Expanded Stroke Panel
  • Brushes
  • Symbols

Colour Transitions

  • Working with the Colour and Swatches Panels
  • Gradients
  • Gradient Mesh
  • Live Colour

Mastering Complexity

  • Transparency
  • Opacity Masks
  • Blends
  • Clipping Masks

Creatively Combining Apps

  • Linking vs. Embedding in Illustrator
  • Moving Illustrator files to other Programs
  • Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
  • Illustrator and Adobe InDesign
  • Illustrator, PDF and Adobe Acrobat
  • Illustrator and 3D Programs
  • Web Graphics
  • Creating Animation with Layers
MELBOURNE January February March April May June
Illustrator Lite 23 27 — 12 23 —
Illustrator Essentials 23 & 24 27 & 28 — 12 & 13 23 & 24 —
Illustrator Advanced Currently not available as a public course in Melbourne. Private training can be organised onsite.

 

 

BRISBANE January February March April May June
Illustrator Lite — — 8 — — 4
Illustrator Essentials — —
 8 & 9
 — — 4 & 5
Illustrator Advanced Currently not available as a public course in Brisbane. Private training can be organised onsite.