Description

Create an Illustrator logo or infographic. Learn to change and customize the Illustrator workspace, create shapes, lines and type in text. Fill and stroke objects with color. Customize shapes with the selection and direct selection tools. Save and export to AI, PDF, PNG, JPG and other formats.

Course Objectives

You’ll walk away with essential skills to jump right into your first Illustrator logo or infographic. You’ll also learn tips, shortcuts that will make you work faster and smarter with Adobe Illustrator.

Target Audience

Beginning Illustrator users. No experience necessary, but if you’ve created a few graphics in Illustrator, you’ll come away from this class with new tips, shortcuts and explanations of not only HOW to do something in Illustrator, but WHY it works the way it does.

Basic Understanding

Computer skills, using a mouse, some Word, PowerPoint, or other computer program is helpful

Course Content

No sessions available.

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Beginning to Intermediate Adobe Illustrator - Essential Adobe Illustrator Skills

Session 1: The Illustrator window components

  1. Exploring the Illustrator Interface
  2. Set up and save a custom workspace

Session 2: Illustrator Panels

  1. Managing Files using Adobe Bridge
  2. Using the Navigation Tools
  3. New Document Setup
  4. Creating new Documents
  5. Create and modify Artboards

Session 3: Manipulating shapes

  1. Scaling Shapes
  2. Rotating Shapes
  3. Duplicating Shapes
  4. Aligning and Distributing shapes
  5. Using shape mode commands
  6. Using the pathfinder panel to create compound shapes
  7. Grouping and ungrouping shapes
  8. Adjusting stacking order

Session 4: Applying Colour

  1. Creating swatches of colour, save to the swatch panel
  2. Using Swatch Libraries
  3. Loading swatch Libraries e.g. pantones, tricolour and custom
  4. Applying colour to Illustrations
  5. Exploring the colour palette
  6. Saving colours
  7. Creating and using spot colours
  8. Applying colour to strokes and Fills. Stroke Options
  9. Modifying Stroke items
  10. Aligning Stroke options
  11. Using the Eyedropper tool
  12. Introduction to the Appearance Panel

Session 5: Drawing Paths

  1. Working with Images
  2. Locking and Unlocking Items
  3. Using the pen tool to create paths
  4. Using the Pencil and smooth tools
  5. Selecting and editing paths
  6. Understanding anchor points
  7. Editing Anchor Points
  8. Cutting paths using the knife and Scissors

Session 6: Working with Text

  1. Creating text
  2. Importing Text
  3. Altering text
  4. Typography
  5. Creating type on a path
  6. Position type on a path
  7. Converting text to outlines

Session 7: Layers

  1. Creating a new layer
  2. Adjusting the layer stacking order
  3. Hiding and locking layers
  4. Organising layer contents
  5. Creating duplicate layers

Session 8: Image Trace

  1. Place a scan, jpg or other image into Illustrator
  2. Use Image Trace to turn pixels into vector
  3. Image Trace settings
  4. Expanding an image trace

Session 9: Working with gradients

  1. Creating a basic gradient
  2. Adjusting gradients
  3. Using transparencies. Preparing for Printing
  4. Preparing a document for print
  5. Understanding print settings
  6. Creating an exportable file

Session 10: Exporting

  1. Export illustrations in different file formats
  2. Save Illustrator as PDF
  3. Export Illustrator artboards
  4. Export Illustrator to JPG, PNG and more

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