Adobe Illustrator Beginners Course

Adobe Illustrator beginners one day course

Design Trainers are offering this Abobe Illustrator course for beginners as an introduction to the basics of illustration and design.

This Adobe Illustrator beginners course will teach you the basics of graphic design and illustration with Adobe Illustrator to allow you to create simple artwork and designs.

This course is available on a one-to-one basis, or in small groups on-site in Birmingham and Midlands areas and around the UK. A two day Adobe Illustrator course is also available to cover Illustrator in more detail and allow time to look at your own designs and artwork.

This course is aimed at beginners and it is necerssary that you have good general computer skills, and
some previous knowledge of design software would be helpful, but not essential.

This Beginners Illustrator course covers the following areas:

1) Creating a new Illustrator document

• Starting a new document
• Viewing the document and working in artwork or preview modes
• Grids, guides, and other features to help you accurately position objects
• Adding and using guidelines - locking and unlocking, positioning accurately

2) Illustrator workspace

• Floating palettes
• Opening, shrinking and expanding to see extra options
• Hiding palettes
• Zooming in and out
• Zoom tool, keyboard shortcuts, menu
• Moving around the document

3) Selection tools & basic shapes

• Selection Tools - Selection - Direct Selection - Group Selection
• Shape tools
• Creating shapes (rectangle, ellipse, star or polygon)
• Specify shape dimensions
• Set a fill colour for an object
• Set stroke colour and stroke weight
• Drawing with the pencil and paintbrush tools

4) Modifying shapes and selected objects

• Shape Modifying (transform, rotate, scale, shear)
• Duplicating selected objects
• Grouping selected objects
• Locking objects
• Align objects
• Using the Transform Palette to resize objects and re-position objects

5) Custom shapes

• Using the pen tools to create custom shapes and modify shapes
• Use pathfinder to modify shapes
• Compound shapes (e.g. a hollow ring)

6) Colours

• Picking RGB, CMYK & Pantone colours
• Using the eyedropper
• Gradients and blends
• Saving and modifying colours

7) Pictures and graphics

• Placing photographs and other artwork into Illustrator
• Choosing whether to link or embed image files
• Checking linked images with the Links palette
• Tracing the outlines of scanned artwork or photograph

8) Text & typography

• Text Tools
• Create type on the page
• Set type colour
• Flowing type between two text frames
• Basic typography (Leading, Kerning, Tracking, etc.)

9) Layers

• Using Layers to organise images, graphics and text
• Creating, deleting, and changing stacking order
• Visibility and locking layers
• Moving selected objects between layers

10) Saving Files

• Saving a document and organising files
• Exporting artwork for use in other applications

Prices start at £400 (including discounts) but vary for on-site training. Please 'request information' for pricing specific to your requirements.

Design Training provides one-to-one and small group computer training courses for professional design software in Birmingham, the Midlands and around the UK.

Most courses can be customised to your requirements and intermediate or advanced courses will usually be based around working with your own projects and designs. Whether you and your organisation require training on-site at your own office, or you would prefer to come to our training centre, we will help you with your training requirements. Design Training offer you the following:

• Short intensive courses for design software
• One to one training and training for small groups
• Custom courses - tailored to your requirements available for most design software
• On-site computer training - delivered at your offices in Birmingham, Solihull, Redditch, Warwick and Midlands areas. On-site training can be arranged with trainers around the UK including in London, Yorkshire, Manchester and Bristol
• Training for one or two people are available at our premises in South Birmingham (PC based training)
• Workplace training on all systems.
• Experienced trainers with good design skills. Certified trainers are available for some courses
• One month of after-training support

Design Software Training Courses

Design Training specialises in short courses for professional web design, image editing, desktop publishing and graphic design software (including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign).

Training Locations

Most of the computer training courses are available at client's premesis - on-site in Birmingham and Midlands areas and around the UK, including : Birmingham, Solihull, Redditch, Bromsgrove, Worcester, Driotwich, Malvern, Hereford, Stourbridge, Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Telford, Stafford, Shrewsbury, Lichfield, Derby, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Coventry, Warwick, Leamington Spa, Stratford upon Avon, Evesham, Banbury, Oxford, Northampton, Leicester, Nottingham, etc.. Many of these courses may also be arranged with trainers in other areas of the UK, including Yorkshire, Manchester and London.

Additionally, most of the design courses are aso available for one or two trainees at our premises in Cofton Hackett, South Birmingham.

Customised Courses

Design Training offers customised courses for most applications, and most intermediate and advanced courses are intended to be customised to include working with some of your own designs and projects. Also, Design Training can help you with specific projects - if you are working on a project, training can be based on doing all the things you need to achieve the end result of a finished project.

Design Training offers intensive short courses in the following areas:

• Web design courses
• Photo editing courses
• Desktop publishing courses
• Graphic design courses

If you are interested in design courses and training for you and your business please 'request information'.