Adobe
Illustrator Essentials Course $895 $795 
Course Description
Students follow 15+ examples and complete exercises to explore Illustrator’s most important features such as drawing, creating logos and graphics, creating special effects, manipulating type, creating charts and producing complex fashion & architectural designs. Graphics can then be used for importing into InDesign, Photoshop and Flash.
What you will learn
During the 2 day Illustrator Essentials course, the following topics are covered. See outline below for more indepth detail:
- - Illustrator's Tools & Workspace
- - Shape Tools & Selections
- - Colour & Gradients
- - Working with Paths
- - Pathfinder
- - Live Color
- - Live Trace
- - Masking
- - Creating Patterns & Symbols
- - Transparency, Filters & Effects
- - Blending
- - Creating & Formatting Type
- - Exporting Artwork from Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator Essentials - Course Outline
llustrator's Interface
- — Using panels
- — Setting and customising artboards
- — Customising and saving workspaces
- — Application Bar
- — Smart Guides
- — Smart Cursor
- — Tools
- — Rulers and ruler guides
- — Setting Application & Document Preferences
- — Tabbed Windows / Multiple Documents
- — Screen modes
- — Zooming, panning and document navigation
- — Viewing defaults / Fit in window / 100%
- — Display performance
- — Contextual Menus
- — New and Improved Status Bar
Selections
- — Shift selection
- — Marqueeing
- — Select all
- — Group and ungroup
- — Shift to constrain horizontally and vertically
- — Alt/Opt for duplicating objects
- — Arrow keys to nudge
- — Eye dropper tool to sample
Creating objects
- — Rectangle / Ellipse / Polygon
- — Creating and customising starbursts
- — Strokes and fills
- — Shift to constrain
- — Alt/Opt to create from centre out
- — Moving objects
- — Resizing objects
- — Locking and unlocking objects
- — Rotating objects
- — Scaling objects - scaling strokes and fills
Transforming objects
- — Selecting reference point on control panel
- — Positioning items using X & Y
- — Arrangement Order / Send to back or front
- — Step and Repeat
- — Aligning objects / using smart guides
- — Distributing objects / using smart guides
- — Creating Lines
- — Adding arrow heads
Working with Layers
- — Adding layers / Hiding
Creating Logos
- — Create a logo using the object tools and transform commands
- — Create a logo using the object tools pathfinder panel
Colours & Swatches
- — Importing spot colours
- — Creating swatches: CMYK, RGB, Spot,
- — Using preset gradients
- — Creating and customising gradients
- — Saving gradients into swatches panel
- — Applying gradients to objects and type
- — Blending
Transparency, Filters and Effects
- — Adjusting the opacity of an object
- — Distorting objects or type by applying special effects or filters
Mastering the Pen Tool
- — Create straight paths and curved paths
- — Editing points and segments using the Direct Selection tool
- — Working with anchor points
- — Adding and deleting anchor points
- — Converting anchor points
- — Create an illustration using the pen tool
- — Working with compound paths
- — Creating and working with masks
- — Freehand drawing with pen anc pencils tools
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Pathfinder
- — Combine, isolate and sub- divide objects
- — Use Pathfinder commands, eg Add, Exclude, Divide, and Merge
- — Exploring Compound Paths to create transparent areas
Patterns
- — Using preset patterns
- — Creating custom patterns
- — Adding patterns to swatches panel
Symbols
- — Using the symbols panel and creating symbols
- — Blending objects and using the blend tool
Live Trace Introduction
- — Use live trace to convert raster images to vector artwork
Brushes
- — Calligraphic, Scatter, Art and Pattern
Animation
— Create & export an animated .SWF from Illustrator
Working with Text
- — Frames and text frames
- — Entering text
- — Selection processes
- — Editing and formatting text
- — Kerning, Tracking & Leading
- — Character & Paragraph Formatting
- — Vertical Text
- — Hyphenation
- — Fonts - Serif & Sans Serif
- — Flowing type along a path
- — Placing type inside a path
- — Creating outlines - converting type to paths
- — Ascenders & Descenders
- — Using the glyphs panel
- — Check boxes
- — Importing text
- — Paragraph & Character styles
Exporting Artwork from Illustrator
- — Export Artwork for InDesign, Photoshop & Flash
- — Create PDFs
| 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 | - | - |
| MELBOURNE | September | October | November | December | January |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Illustrator CS5 / CS4 | |||||
| Illustrator Lite | - | 21 | - | 1 | - |
| Illustrator Essentials | 29 & 30 | 21 & 22 | - | 1 & 2 | - |
| Illustrator Advanced | - | - | Please Call | - | - |
| BRISBANE | September | October | November | December | January |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Illustrator CS5 / CS4 | |||||
| Illustrator Lite | 7 | - | 22 | - | - |
| Illustrator Essentials | 7 & 8 | - | 22 & 23 | - | - |
| Illustrator Advanced | - | Please Call | - | - | - |
| ONLINE COURSES | September | October | November | December | January |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Illustrator CS5 / CS4 | |||||
| Illustrator Essentials | - | - | Please Call | - | - |