Course Info

Duration

1 to 2 Days

Class Size

Max 7 – 8

Course Times

9am to 4pm

Computers

Macs & PCs

After Course

Book included

Phone

9516 1715

Location

Level 7, 89 York St

Download

Course PDF

Price

$445 1 day / $895 2 day

Illustrator Advanced Techniques

Upcoming Classes | Course Outline

Course Description

The advanced Adobe Illustrator Techniques class is ideal for those who have completed the Essentials class or for those who have a strong knowledge of Illustrator CS2/3, such as drawing, creating and manipulating shapes, working with type, understanding how paths and anchor points work, masks, blending, basic filters etc. A short prerequisite test needs to be completed to book into this course.

Free 1 Gig USB

City Desktop Training provides students with a free 1 Gig USB Flash Drive with their first course, to be able to take their class files away with them.

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. See course outline below for indepth course content.

 

Upcoming Illustrator Training

	January	February	March	April
Illustrator CS3 Introduction	15 & 16	9 & 10	10 & 11	8 & 9
Illustrator CS3 Advanced		27*		20 & 21

 

Illustrator Advanced Techniques Course Outline

Illustrator Special Effects

Emphasis is on understanding the process and how to use a combination of functions to generate the effect. The following is a brief description of the types of effects that will be covered:

• How to create an Embossed effect within a vector program — by applying live effects to a logo/type.
• Recreating a scan into a realistic ‘artistic’ hand drawn sketch.
• Creating text effects, from simple manipulation like perspective, through to more complex effects like creating shadows or surface textures, creating 3D extrudes.
• Exploring Symbols as a way of drawing a poster that has repeated artwork.
• Turn a flat web page design into a web ready file that includes slicing and links to internal pages, external sites and email.
• Combine two or more images or vector illustrations together with a soft edge.

Functions used

The emphasis will be on exploring various approaches to creating special effects and many of the special features of the program will be used. Such as the use of Layers, Opacity Masks, Blending, Transparency and Appearances, Flash SWF, 3D Extrude. Manipulating editable and non-editable type. Using custom Brush Stroke Libraries and Path brushes. Using keyboard shortcuts to simplify processes and applying several key filters — Distortion Vector based filters, as well as using Adobe Photoshop filters on vector artwork etc.

Advanced Course Itemised

Live Trace & Live Paint

Students will take a scanned pencil sketch and use live trace to reproduce it as vector artwork with editable paths.

Live Paint will be used to colourise the artwork and gap detection will be looked at and how to get the best result.

3D Effects

3D objects will be created from scratch. Rotating and modifying 3D objects.

Surface options and how to add shading and lighting effects.

Mapping Symbols onto 3D Art

Map a symbol onto a 3D object so that it appears to have perspective.

Create a piece of artwork that will be used as a label for a can drink and then map to a particular surface of the can. This creates the effect that the label is wrapping around the can.

3D Rotation and Revolve Effects

The revolve effect can be used to create 3D objects also. This is where dimension is added to an object by rotating a 2D shape around its axis. Changing the axis and angle will effect the result or outcome of the 3D object.

Appearance Panel

Apply multiple strokes and fills to a single object and edit them using the appearance panel.

Envelope Warp Effect

Apply warp and distortion effects to type and images.

Opacity Mask

This effect is used to blend two objects together through a transparency mask. The two images appear to merge or blend together. We look at applying it to vector images and raster images.

Flash Animation (SWF)

Exporting Illustrator artwork as a Flash Animation File (SWF). This can then be incorporated into web pages or used in multimedia.

Generating Artwork for Web

Prepare vector artwork and save it ready to use on the web.
The slice tool is used to divide the page into sections – these sections can be used as links or can have individual optimisation settings applied so certain sections to load quicker in the web browser. Hyperlinks are generated and attached to the various slices. We set up links for navigating to internal pages, external sites and emails.