Course description
Illustrator: Ultimate Mastery
The most intense and in-depth Illustrator training course of its kind in the UK! Immerse yourself in Adobe Illustrator. Learn Illustrator from beginners to an advanced level.
The Adobe Illustrator Creative License training package includes the entire curriculum for total immersion into Adobe Illustrator. This training program features a combination of 3 Adobe Illustrator courses for a discounted price. The package does not have a schedule of its own. Each class is scheduled separately and can be taken over a year’s period so you can take the classes as quickly or as slowly as you desire. For you to have a better sense of schedule we enlisted the dates of Illustrator 101.
Training package includes:
- Illustrator 101: Yellow Belt 2 Days
- Illustrator 201: Green Belt 3 Days
- Illustrator 301: Black Belt 2 Days
Upcoming start dates
Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is intended for graphic designers, small business owners, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, prepress professionals, and marketing communications professionals. It’s focused on those creating layouts for print. Also ideal for students who want to break into the industry.
Assumed Knowledge
Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of your computers operating system. For example, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CD and other medi
Outcome / Qualification etc.
You’ll learn everything about Illustrator from start to finish. So if you have little or no knowledge of Adobe Illustrator right now then we can guarantee by the end of the Creative Licence in Illustrator training package that you will have more knowledge than most Illustrator users in the industry!
Illustrator 101: Yellow Belt
In this introductory course, even those with no formal training in illustration will be guided towards creating their own professional graphic project using Adobe Illustrator.
Illustrator 201: Green Belt
If you want it to, Illustrator can truly revolutionise the way you work.
Illustrator 301: Black Belt
If you’d like to reach the top of your field in digital illustration, you’ll need to become a master of the medium.
Training Course Content
Outline
Setting up Illustrator projects
- Identify project requirements
- Establish target audience and needs
- Define media format and publishing requirements
User interface
- Identify user interface elements
- Create and select Workspaces
- Navigate and zoom documents
Creating artwork
- Understanding difference between vector and bitmap formats
- Apply design principles to create artwork
- Using pen and shape tools to create basic geometry
- Selecting and Grouping objects
- Transform and modify elements
- Create and manipulate text
- Organise artwork using layers
- Create symbols
Colours
- Selecting and applying colours
- Creating colour swatches
- Applying and modifying gradients
- Working with spot colours
Effects and transparency
- Apply transparency to objects
- Blend elements using blend effects
- Working with bitmaps
- Placing raster images
- Using the links panel to relink and update images
- Tracing images using live trace presets
Publish artwork
- Identifying common file formats
- Choose appropriate settings to optimise graphics on the screen, print and video
- CreatingJPEG,PDF,PNG,SVG
Illustrator 201: Green Belt
Live Colour and Live Trace
- Use Live Color to create colours
- Generate a colour group
- Recolour artwork
- Live trace bitmap images
- Improve the trace result
Effects and transparency techniques
- Adjusting and applying effects such as drop shadow and 3D
- Using Photoshop effects
- Use the Appearance panel
- Create transparency and opacity masks
- 3D shading with the gradient mesh tool
Type features
- Create character and paragraph styles
- Leading, Kerning and Tracking
- Horizontal and vertical scaling
- Add text to a vector path
Create custom brushes
- Calligraphic brush
- Scatter brush
- Pattern brush
- Art brush
- Bristle brush
Drawing techniques
- Use the Pen tool
- Work with compound paths
- Use the expand appearance command
- Use the outline strokes command
- Create, use and update graphic styles
- Use envelope distort
- Blend tool
- Create clipping masks
- Use the Width tool
- Use the Pathfinder panel
- Use the perspective grid tool
- Create and manipulate patterns
- Work with layers and sub layers
Artboards
- Create and manage multiple artboards
- Export artboards
Setup for Print
- Print terminology explained
- Optimise the effect quality by adjusting raster effect settings
- Create trim marks and crop marks
- Preview artwork usingCMYKsoft proof
- Package option
Illustrator 301: Black Belt
Advanced Illustrator projects
- Create challenging projects
- Use multiple techniques and tools
- Learn to solve problems through deconstruction
- Create infographics
- Advance effects using the Appearance panel
Graph Tools
- Create and modifying graphs
- Create and apply graph designs
Blend
- Blend objects shapes and colours
- Adjust blend options
- Update blends
Actions
- Create and edit actions
- Batch process files
Document and Illustrator Setup
- Setting up and assigning colour profiles
- Colour Management techniques
Shading, lighting and texture
- Learn lighting and shading techniques
- Add texture to your artwork
- Work with blend modes and filters
Optimising artwork for print
- Preview artwork with the Flattener panel
- Work with spot and global colours
- Create overprint effects using the attributes panel
- Use the Separations Preview panel
- Use the Asset Export panel
Create artwork for the web
- Document setup essentials
- Use the Slice tool
- Adjust slices with the Slice Selection tool
- Discover the slice options
- Use automated slicing methods
- Export using the save for web option
- Illustrator forSVGoutput
- Use the Asset Export panel
3D
- Create revolve, extrude and bevel, rotate
- Map artwork using symbols
Workflows Illustrator to:
- InDesign
- Photoshop
- Animate
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