Course Overview

Adobe Illustrator is a drawing and design package. This course will give you the experience you need to produce professional Graphics and illustrations, and will increase your levels of productivity and creativity within illustrator. Once you have completed this course you can move on to the Adobe Illustrator Advanced course.

Prerequisites

• • Good PC skills

Course Content

• Introduction to Illustrator

  Setting up general preferences
  

• Document and page set up

  Creating default documents
  Artwork and preview models

• Selection tools

  Magnification and reduction
  Drawing tools

• The Bezier curve

  Cutting and editing paths
  Creating ovals and rectangles
  Transforming tools
  The measurements tool

• The Paint attributes palette

  Eyedropper and paint bucket
  Custom colours
  Creating patterns

• Tools

  Copying and pasting elements
  Type area and type path tools
  Type fundamentals
  Tab and paragraph palettes

• Text overflow

  Linking and unlinking text
  Boxes and paths
  Wrapping text and graphics
  Outlining type

• The layers palette

  Changing layer orders
  Creating and using guide
  Using rules and zero lock

• Object drag copying

  Moving, rotating and scaling elements
  

• The gradient palette

  Graduated blends
  Gradient vector tool
  

• Creating masks

  Creating compounds
  

• Colour adjustment filters

  Shape creation filters
  Distortion filters
  Object movements
  Adobe Pathfinder filters
  Selection filters
  Stylisation filters
  

• Graph fundamentals

  Editing data and legends
  Different graph styles
  Editing graphs
  

Included with this course

• • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues
  • Telephone and Email Support
  • Comprehensive course materials and exercises