Duration: 1 Day
Course Overview
This course explores the advanced features available in Adobe Illustrator for creating complex designs and customised objects, and teaches techniques for improving productivity.
Whether you’re a graphic designer who creates logos and info-graphics, a web designer looking for an integrated web graphics package or an illustrator looking to streamline the drawing process, this course will teach you stunning techniques to speed up your workflows and create slick graphics.
Sessions include:
• Blending colours, lines and shapes.
• Advanced type and effects.
• Transparency and colour.
• 3D objects.
Whilst we have a standard syllabus for this course (see over), as far as possible we tailor the training to focus on the techniques of interest to the delegates in attendance. Our trainer discusses this with the group at the start of the course.
At the end of the course, we run an open session looking at topics requested by delegates, answering any questions you have and looking at areas you’re having problems with.
How can I attend my course?
Course Content
Colour Management
Introduction – principles of colour management
Calibration and profiling colour management policies
Blending colours, lines and shapes
Blend tool
Blending colours
Blending shapes
Gradient Mesh tool
Editing colours
Colour groups
Recolour artwork
Search colours and swatches
Advanced type
Spell checking
Formatting type
Style Sheets – Paragraph and Character
Using Opentype
Glyphs panel
Tabs
Fonts – searching and grouping
Distorting type
Type as masks
Using Typekit
Advanced effects
Warp tools
Live Paint – applying colour to paths and shapes in real time
Distort and Transform – Pucker, Bloat
Infographics
Graphs – importing data, creating graphs
Combining graphics with data
Bridge
Managing files through Bridge
Organising files through Metadata
Placing files
Embedding/linking files
Unembedding files
Packaging files
Multi-file place
Links panel – managing placed files
Perspective
Constructing perspective grids
Drawing in perspective
Isometric drawing
3D objects
Rotate, Revolve and Extrude
Applying surface textures
Lighting and rendering
Transparency and colour
Applying transparency
Overprinting
Overprint preview
Flattening artwork
Transparency masks
Sending to print
Colour separations
Print options
Saving for the Web
Slice tools
Using the pixel grid
Save for Web
Export to Flash
Generate and extract CSS code
Export SVG graphics styles in CSS
Automation
Variables – data-driven graphics
Actions – creating repeatable processes in Illustrator
Open session
Mixture of topics according to delegates’ requests.
COURSE MATERIALS AND CERTIFICATE
You’ll receive an e-certificate (PDF) confirming successful completion of Adobe-accredited Advanced Illustrator training.
AFTER COURSE SUPPORT
Following Illustrator training, you’re entitled to 30 days’ email support from your trainer.