Adobe Illustrator CS4 Introduction Training

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Introduction - 2-day training course

Adobe Illustrator CS4 is a vector-based graphics program that allows you to create professional quality print, type effects and web designs. This Adobe Illustrator CS4 Introduction training course is designed to teach delegates how to produce good-looking, high quality graphics such as logos and advertisements that include type and graphics. Delegates will create professional looking logos, professional type effects and convert bitmaps to vector artworks through the use of colours, gradients, layers, fonts, and photos with illustrations and text effects.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 Introduction can be delivered On-Site at your location with your facilities, or with Enliten IT's mobile classroom at a time and place to suit you, and the course can be tailor-mdae to suit your requirements.

Find out more about this Adobe Illustrator CS4 Introductory training course here.

This Adobe Illustrator CS4 Introduction training course is designed for graphic designers or people transitioning into a design job or taking on design responsibilities.

Prerequitites: 

No prior knowledge of Illustrator is assumed.

Enliten IT will provide each delegate with a workbook and other useful reference materials where applicable.

This 1-day Adobe Illustrator Introduction training course covers the following areas:

· Introduction
o Control Palettes & menus
o Setting up the Page
o Artboard shortcuts
o Custom workspace
o Rulers, guides, grids, snap to

· How Illustrator Works
o Vectors and Bitmaps
o Components for Images
o Text, Shapes & Colour

· Drawing
o Drawing with the Pencil Tool
o Selecting, Copying and Moving Objects
o Rotating and Skewing Objects
o Align, group and duplicate Objects
o Hiding and Locking
o Special Effects
o Using the Drawing Tools – e.g. rectangle, ellipse, polygon, Star
o Fills and Colours
o Drawing curves
o The Average and Join commands
o Eraser tool

· Fills and strokes
o Dragging colour
o Apply a fill or stroke of black or white

· The Palettes
o Basic Colours & Stroke palette
o Types of Colour; Colour modes
o Spot v Process colours
o Colour editing shortcuts
o The Colour, Gradient, and None buttons
o Changing and editing stroke attributes
o Using Swatches
o Use the Paint Bucket tool

· Working with Paths
o Creating Paths
o Pen Tool
-Draw straight line
- Draw continuous curves
o Convert smooth points into corner
o Convert points in an existing object
o Move an anchor point or a line
o Shaping a curve
o Converting an anchor point
o Pinch a curve inward
o Add, adjust, delete points
o Bezier curves
- Freeform draw & Edit

· Using Brushes
o Draw with the Paintbrush tool
o Add/remove a brushstroke to an existing path
o Convert a brushstroke to outlined paths
o Creating and modifying brushes
o Delete a brush from the Brushes palette
o Edit a scatter, art, or pattern brush manually
o Create a new brush library

· Gradients
o Fill an object with a gradient
o Create/edit gradient
o Use the Gradient tool
o Creating and editing Gradient meshes

· Transforming
o Use smart guides to rotate, scale, or shear an object using a dialog box and by dragging
o Flip and slant objects
o The bounding box
o Squaring the bounding box
o Use the Free Transform tool

· Text
o Creating Text Objects
o Artistic and Paragraph Text
o Colouring and Filling Your Text
o Move, Resize, Reshape
o Placing Text Around Objects
o Linking Paragraphs
o Editing Linked Text
o Creating Outlines

· Editing and Styling Text
o Selecting Text & Editing Type Attributes
o Type Effects
o Find & replace
o Spellcheck

· Layers
o Creating and Editing layers
o The layers Palette
o Create a sublayer
o Hide and Lock

· Opening and placing images
o Acquiring images
o Placing images
o Editing and Framing placed images

· Using and Editing effects
o Remove effects from a layer, object, or style
o Apply a Convert to Shape effect
o Live shapes with text
o Using the Inner Glow, Outer Glow and the Add Arrowheads effect

· Using LiveTrace
o Automatically tracing artwork
o Adjusting results
o Converting objects

· Using LivePaint
o Creating groups & painting objects
o Detecting gaps
o Path editing

· Transparency
o Editing the opacity or blending mode of an object, group, or layer
o Blending modes

· Filters
o Filter basics
o Scribble or tweak
o Rough up a shape
o Twirling path points
o Punk or bloat an object
o Raster filters
o Pen and Ink filters

· Printing & Saving
o Previewing Your Work
o The Print Dialog & Printing
o Saving in Vector formats

Save for Web

On successful completion of this Adobe Illustrator CS4 Introduction training course delegates will be able to understand Bezier curves, create a logo using simple shapes, enhance logos/images, create
logos using custom paths, use layers to manage complex illustrations, create
type effects and prepare Illustrator files for print and use on web sites.

Please request information to find out the cost of this Adobe Illustrator CS4 Introduction training course.