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Adobe Illustrator CS - Intermediate One Day Course

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Adobe Illustrator CS is the industry standard vector-based illustrating tool. It is used by graphic designers throughout the world to create a vast variety of different media including illustrations, package designs, leaflets & flyers, web graphics & animations, notice boards, billboards, and many other graphic objects. Such a variety of applications means that Illustrator CS is necessarily a complex tool to master. Once you have understood the basics however, you will soon be able to produce an almost endless scope of graphic designs.

This one day intermediate course is designed specifically for users who have some experience using Illustrator CS but who feel they need to deepen their knowledge of the application. Some elements of a basic course outline are suggested below, but courses are tailored before the course to focus on certain aspects of Illustrator CS that you deem more important than others.

(NB. For a fully bespoke Illustrator CS course that deals with your specific workflow needs, XChangeTraining offer advanced courses in Adobe Illustrator for specific needs (bespoke). Please see the course description for more details or contact our training department to discuss this option further.)

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Course Level:intermediate
Schedule:1 days
Training Presented in:English

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Training Program Details


General Features
-About vectors and bitmaps
-When to use Illustrator CS
-Overview of tools, palettes and window elements
-Contextual options bar and menu options.
-Navigation in Illustrator CS

Objects and Shapes
-Creating basic shapes: rectangles, ellipses, polygons and stars
-Aligning objects
-Duplicating objects
-Selection and Direct Selection tools
-Grouping sets of objects

Selections, Fills and Groups
-Selecting and modifying objects
-Applying fills and strokes
-Grouping and ungrouping objects
-Selecting objects inside groups

Colour and Gradients
-Colour modes in Illustrator CS
-The Colours vs. the Swatches palette
-Pantone/Spot colours
-Creating custom colours
-Using swatches from other documents
-Creating simple gradients

Drawing in Illustrator CS
-Using the pen tool
-Bezier curves
-Anchor points and handles
-Convert Anchor Points tool
-Adding and subtracting anchor points on a path

Other Drawing Tools
-The Brush tool
-The Pencil
-The line tool
-The Arc tool
-The Spiral tool
-The Rectangular Grid tool
-The Polar Grid tool

Path editing tools
-The Smooth tool
-The Erase tool
-The Scissors tool
-The Knife tool

Text in Illustrator
-Placing and typing text in Illustrator CS
-Using the Adobe type engine for text formatting
-Style Sheets
-Text on a path
-Converting text to outlines

Layering
-Creating layers
-making selections within layers
-Restacking elements and group elements
-Hiding, showing and locking layers and layer elements
-Tracing tool

Graphing with Illustrator
-Creating Illustrator CS graphs
-Working with graph data and Microsoft Excel
-Modifiying graphs

Transformation tools
-Rotate
-Reflect
-Skew
-Scale
-Free transform

Liquify tools
-The Warp tool
-The Twirl tool
-The Pucker tool
-The Bloat tool
-The Scallop tool
-The Crystallize tool
-The Wrinkle tool

Shape Modes and Pathfinders
-Combining, dividing, subtracting etc. with shapes
-Expanding objects

Graphic Styles/Patterns
-Creating Graphic Styles
-Applying and Controlling Graphic Styles

Symbols
-Creating Symbols
-Placing and controlling symbols
-Using the Symbols tools

General Features
-Essential keyboard shortcuts
-File formats
-Placing images in lllustrator as templates
-Layers and sub-layers in Illlustrator CS
-Graphic Styles
-Symbols
-Guides and Smart Guides
-Outline and Preview views

Preparing artwork for print
-Colours, inks, and transparency flattening

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