illustrator advanced
Duration: 2 Days
Designed for those already familiar with Adobe Illustrator, this two-day course is designed for those who need to get the most from the power and creativity of Adobe Illustrator.
This course covers Illustrator's advanced features including creative text effects, advanced drawing and path editing, using Live Colour, layering and masking techniques, transparency and painterly effects and advanced use of symbols.
This practical, hands-on course explores the most efficient ways of producing professional artwork for both print and the web and has been designed to enable you to realise your creative and productive potential.
Course Outline
- Advanced drawing and path editing
- The Expressive Blub brush
- Creating template layers
- Drawing complex bezier shapes
- Setting anchor point and handle display preferences
- Using the Control panel to edit paths
- Adding and deleting anchor points
- Manipulating paths, points and direction handles
- Converting anchor points
- Simplifying paths
- Cleaning up errant paths
- Outlining strokes
- Controlling eraser tool options
- Tips for drawing better curves
- Advanced LiveTrace options
- Advanced use of colour
- Editing colours using menu commands
- Extracting colours from artwork
- Replacing and merging swatches
- Using the Colour Guide panel
- Using Live Colour
- Using transparency in gradients
- Modifying colour in artwork
- Finding colours with Kuler
- Effects
- Document Raster Effect settings
- Illustrator and Photoshop filters
- Using the Scribble effect
- Using the Transform effect to create complex transformations
- Understanding appearances
- Using the Appearance panel
- Targeting object attributes
- Adding multiple attributes
- Manipulating the stacking order
- Applying Live Effects
- Editing Live Effects
- Expanding appearances