illustrator introduction
Duration: 2 Days
This is a comprehensive introduction to Adobe Illustrator. The course has been designed to teach new users how to produce professional graphics, designs and illustrations using Illustrator.
The course covers Illustrator's sophisticated drawing and text controls, creating complex shapes and using painterly effects allowing you to dramatically increase levels of productivity and creativity.
Throughout the two days the emphasis is on practical, hands-on learning including a series of exercises designed to consolidate new skills and build confidence
Course Outline
- The Illustrator interface
- Defining vectors and bitmaps
- Getting started in Illustrator
- Opening illustrations
- Using templates
- Creating new illustrations
- Tabbed document views
- Using document profiles
- Exploring panels and workspaces
- Navigating your illustrations
- Outline and Preview mode
- Using multiple artboards in CS4
- Rulers, guides and grids
- Intuitive Smart Guides
- Paths, point and handles
- Grouping objects
- Group isolation mode
- Introduction to layers
- Creating Objects
- Creating primitive shapes
- Creating polygons, stars and spirals
- Drawing lines, grids and arcs
- Snapping and aligning shapes
- Using Colour
- Colour models
- Applying colour to objects
- Spot and process colour
- Process and global process colours
- Managing swatches
- Creating colour groups
- Introduction to gradients
- Loading swatch libraries
- Sharing colour swatches across applications
- Creating Artwork
- Working with paths, points and direction handles
- Drawing freehand paths
- Tips for drawing curves
- Editing, manipulating and modifying paths
- Using the cutting tools
- Using the Average and Join commands
- Using the Eraser tool