Illustrator Advanced | Course Overview

Course Description

Design is a competitive industry and design software advances at a rapid rate to help designers evolve their creativity and stand out among the crowd. If you are a confident, regular user of Adobe Illustrator who is wanting to create eye catching special effects or prepare illustrations to take into Flash or Edge to animate, then our Illustrator Advanced course is perfect for you.

Aimed at participants who have a strong understanding and application of the program, this two day course is packed with information to help you create special effects, work with 3D and perspective grids and advance your rendering techniques. In addition, you will get to learn great tips and tricks on combining Illustrator creatively with other Adobe programs. Push your creativity to the next level.

What You Will Learn

Realistic 3D effects
Using perspective grids
Preparing illustrations for animation in Flash
Advanced rendering techniques: Warps, envelopes

Patterns & manipulation of outlined type
Advanced effective use of multiple artboards
Creatively combine Illustrator with other Adobe programs

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.

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Create realistic 3D effects

Animate, Render

Illustrator Advanced | Outline

Your Creative Workspace

Advanced Features of Multiple Artboards

Advanced Rendering Techniques

Kuler Colours
Live Colour
Reducing Colour
Gradient Mesh
Contouring Mesh
Transparent Mesh

Dimensions + Perspectives

Warps and Envelopes
3D Effects
Warping 3D Blends
The Perspective Grid

Blends and Tranparencies

Transparency Grid
Opacity Masks
Extruding Blends

Advanced Type

Auto-sizing and linking text boxes
Glyphs

Creatively Combining Apps

Linking vs. Embedding in Illustrator
Placing Illustrator files in other Programs
Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop
Illustrator and Adobe InDesign
Illustrator, PDF and Adobe Acrobat
Illustrator and 3D Programs

Advanced Stroke and Brush Options

Width Tool
The Expanded Stroke Panel
Symbols
Scatter Brushes
Pattern Brushes

Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Canberra

SYDNEY Select a date to book online now	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov
Illustrator Lite	24	29	19	25	31	26
Illustrator Essentials	24 & 25	11 & 12 29 & 30	15 & 16	2 & 3 17 & 18	2 & 3 17 & 18 31 Oct & 1 Nov	12 & 13 28 & 29
Illustrator Advanced	11 & 12	15 & 16	—	2 & 3	—	18 & 19

MELBOURNE Select a date to book online now	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov
Illustrator Lite	18	11	22	11	10	18
Illustrator Essentials	18 & 19	11 & 12	22 & 23	11 & 12	10 & 11 30 & 31	18 & 19
Illustrator Advanced	—	—	1 & 2	—	17 & 18	—

BRISBANE Select a date to book online now	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov
Illustrator Lite	27	29	29	—	1	7
Illustrator Essentials	27 & 28	29 & 30	29 & 30	—	1 & 2	7 & 8
Illustrator Advanced	Custom training can be organised.

CANBERRA Select a date to book online now	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov
Illustrator Lite	—	2	—	—	—	—
Illustrator Essentials	—	2 & 3	—	—	—	—
Illustrator Advanced	Custom training can be organised.