Adobe Illustrator Advanced - course outline

This one day Illustrator course can be booked according to our course schedule, or alternatively you can book a trainer to visit you. Contact us for more details!

Adobe Illustrator CS

Advanced Level 

Illustrator might be a vector program but that doesn't restrict it to plain-looking artwork. With a little know-how you can easily put some extra life into flat graphics with creative gradients, masks, photographs, special effects, and even 3D rotations, with professional illustrative flair. 

Useful to you if:

• you need to produce or amend any basic graphic items from the list above.

Before the course, you should:

• be able to produce accurate bezier shapes;
• have some basic prior experience of the Illustrator package;
• be familiar with the main Illustrator palettes.

At the end of the day's course you will:

• have produced an iconic graph, a designed map, a stylised illustration from a photograph, and a 3D object;
• be armed with some tips on how to improve workflow;
• be comfortable with complex blends, gradient meshes, symbols and brushes.
• know some expert-user keyboard shortcuts.

Course contents (may vary slightly):

Recap of principles

• Preferences, displays and cursors
• Measurement units
• Tool palette overview with options
• Navigation

Paths

• Maximising pathfinder
• Divide objects below
• Clean up
• Splitting
• Editing

Brushes

• Painting, applying, new
• Libraries
• Options

Colour

• Patterns and tiles
• Inverting and complementing colours
• Swatch libraries
• Gradients and meshes, warping meshes
• Transparent meshes
• Trapping options
• Advanced stroke options, effects

Smart Usage

• Smart guides
• Turning shapes into guides
• Envelope distortion
• Actions: playing, editing and recording

Special Effects

• 3D extrude, 3D rotate
• Bevels, importing bevels
• Graphic styles and libraries

Images

• Using a clipping path on an image
• Sampling from an image
• Colour adjustment

Graphs

• Entering and controlling graph data
• Map conversion
• Importing Excel data
• Editing and applying 3D effects
• Applying pictographic effects

Transparency

• Object transparency, blending modes, opacity masking
• Blend isolation
• Transparency flattener

Output

• Legacy files
• With transparency
• Export options
• Exporting paths
• Best formats for inDesign import
• File formats (and transparency support)
• PDFs
• Printing: considerations
• Colour separations
• Page tiling
• Custom start-up file
• Templates
• Keyboard shortcuts

Project achievements:

• Graph with icons
• Map with graphics
• Stylised illustration from a photograph
• 3D objects

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