Adobe Illustrator CS5 Essentials (2 days)

Learn how to create sophisticated artwork and graphics for print, web, interactive, mobile and motion designs. The basics of how to use Illustrator’s powerful drawing tools. Logo creation and special type effects. Experiment, create and apply colours, patterns and gradients. Streamline your workflow and manage your assets using symbols libraries & Adobe Bridge.

Course Outline
Adobe Illustrator is the industry-leading vector graphics software that enables you to produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices. It is a very sophisticated graphics program capable of creating complex illustrations and type effects. This Essentials course will give you the basics to build on plus the most effective ways to integrate Illustrator into your workflow.
Who should attend
Graphic designers, or people transitioning into design related jobs who need to create illustrations, logos, maps, graphs, diagrams, advertisements, or other graphic documents. They may have little or no experience with Illustrator. They may already use InDesign and Photoshop.

COURSE CONTENT
Illustrator boxshot Adobe Illustrator Overview
Introducing Adobe Illustrator CS4
Adobe Illustrator Creative Suite
Integration
Understanding Vector Graphics
Learning the interface
Create a Custom Workspace

Creating a new document
New Document Settings
Creating Multiple artboards
Export & print multiple artboards

Creating Simple Shapes
Draw Basic Shapes with the Shape
Tools
Draw Basic Shapes with the Line
Tools

Understanding and Applying
Colour
Colour fills and strokes
Colour swatches and libraries
Applying colour
Creating and saving new colours

The Drawing Tools
Draw Paths with the Pencil Tool
Draw Paths with the Brush Tool
Draw Paths with the Pen Tool

Manipulate Shapes, Objects and Paths
Modify Existing Shapes to Create New Shapes
Merge and divide objects
Duplicate and Resizing Objects

Using Layers
The Layers Palette
Managing your work with Layers
Template Layers

Creating a Logo
Creating a multi-use logo
Saving and exporting for multi-use

Live Trace and Live Paint
Live Trace an existing piece of
artwork
Tracing options
Converting to a Live Paint object
Colour a Live Paint object

Symbols Libraries
Using Symbols Libraries
Creating a New Symbol
Sharing Libraries

Gradients and Patterns
Creating and saving Gradients
Applying Gradients
Creating and saving Patterns
Applying Patterns
Gradient and Pattern Libraries

Creating Complex Objects
Joining Shapes, Objects and
Paths
Applying colour, gradients and
shading

Masking
Creating simple Clipping Masks
Manipulating Masks

Type
Type tools
Create Type on a Path
Create Outlined Type
Apply an Envelope Distort to
Type
Create Type Masks

Creating an Advertisement
Page Layout, Guides and
Measurements
Import a Graphic
Align Objects
Apply Colours
Import and Style Body Text
Wrap Text
Export a File

Managing Assets with Adobe
Bridge
Explore the Adobe Bridge
Environment
Apply Metadata and Keywords

This course is available on Apple Mac or Windows.

Course Price: £415+VAT per delegate

Duration: 2 days

Course book included: NO, USB stick supplied for clients to take their work away.

Exam included: No

Certificate of acheivement supplied: Yes

Classes are scheduled approximately every 6-8 weeks, however we can run bespoke courses and classes for groups outside this schedule please contact us for details.

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