Illustrator Masterclass - 4 day

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OFFER - If you book this course you are entitled to 1 day free training with the Flexideal^®.

 

 

 

This course can be taken as one continuous block or broken down into smaller segments, namely Illustrator Introduction - 2 day, Illustrator Advanced - 2 day. There is no extra charge to split your course and some people prefer to learn over a longer period.

 

Learn Illustrator from beginner to an advanced level in just 4 days. This fast-track class is for designers and budding developers new to the Illustrator environment, or those that have not had formal training. You’ll produce an exciting graphic project using both the classic features and the new and improved tools in Illustrator, and will leave this class with the ability to create and incorporate vector graphics for different projects. You’ll also go beyond the basics with features like filters and effects, explore more in-depth typographical adjustments and the printing process of your layouts.

Who is this course for?

Graphic designers or people transitioning into a design job or taking on design responsibilities who need to use Adobe Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements or other graphic documents. You may have little or no experience with Illustrator, although you may already use Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop.

Assumed knowledge

No experience of Illustrator is required.

What you will learn

• Draw and understand Bézier curves
• The root of drawing in Illustrator
• Create a logo using simple shapes
• Accurately place and measure objects in the Illustration window
• Trace and colour your hand drawn artwork with Live Trace
• Live Paint and Live Colour
• Save illustrations for both print and web purposes
• Further adjust Bézier curves by creating Compound paths
• Create Custom Brushes and various graphic styles
• Work with transparency and other raster effects like drop shadows
• Accurately adjust type in an artwork
• Prepare documents for composite and commercial printing
• Enhance the workflow
• Integration of Illustrator with the rest of the Creative Suite

 

Related Courses

InDesign Masterclass - 4 day

Photoshop Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

 

Training Dates

London Covent Garden Add dates to your calendar

7 - 8 & 11 - 12 June 2012

16 - 19 July 2012

…more dates

 

Cardiff Add dates to your calendar

18 - 21 June 2012

13 - 16 August 2012

…more dates

 

Bristol Add dates to your calendar

18 - 21 June 2012

13 - 16 August 2012

…more dates

 

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Included with course:

• Adobe Certificate
• 6 months support
• Tips and tricks
• Lunch and refreshments
• Satisfaction Guarantee

Illustrator Masterclass - 4 day

The Adobe Illustrator environment

• Creating new documents for print or web
• Managing a custom workspace
• Navigation and scroll shortcuts
• Outline’ and ‘preview’ modes
• Using grids and guidelines
• Using ‘smart guides’

Working with colour

• Using the ‘swatches’ and ‘colour’ windows
• Understanding ‘stroke’ and ‘fill’ attributes
• Using the ‘stroke’ window
• Gradients and patterns

Drawing in Illustrator:

• Using the shape tools
• Drawing with the line tools
• Drawing with the pen tools
• Pen tool shortcuts
• Editing a drawn path
• Understanding Bézier curves
• Transforming tools
• The ‘warp tool’ flyout
• Symbols in Illustrator
• Creating a logo
• Drawing a tin can
• Drawing a spoked wheel

Images in Illustrator

• Importing images
• Turning bitmap data into vector

Lasso select

• The align and distribute commands
• Using the ‘group’ and ‘duplicate’ commands
• Hiding and locking layer objects
• Using ‘isolation mode’
• Compund paths
• Clipping masks

Text in Illustrator

• Adding ‘point’ type
• Adding ‘area’ type
• Adding type to a vector path
• Spell check
• Find and replace text
• Creating type outlines

Outputting from Illustrator

• Saving Illustrator artwork
• Defining a crop area
• Exporting art in non-vector formats

Advanced environment management

• Working with multiple artboards
• The ‘links’ and ‘actions’ windows

Advanced drawing techniques

• Working with compound paths
• The ‘expand appearance’ command
• The ‘attributes’ window
• The ‘outline strokes’ command
• Creating and using graphic styles
• Using ‘envelope distort’
• Using clipping masks
• The ‘live paint’ colouring tools
• The width tool
• The shape builder
• Setting up perspective grids
• Transparency and opacity masks
• 3D shading with the gradient mesh tool

Creating custom brushes

• Calligraphy brushes
• Scatter brushes
• Pattern brushes
• Art brushes
• Bristle brushes

Using Live Colour

• Generating a colour group
• Recolouring artwork with colour guides

Applying special effects

• 3D effects: revolve, extrude and bevel, rotate
• Advanced blending techniques
• Photoshop effects in Illustrator

Advanced type features

• Creating character and paragraph styles
• Horizontal and vertical scaling
• Adding text to a vector path
• Adding gradients to type

Saving and exporting

• Printing your artwork
• Creating a PDF
• Editing options for PDFs
• Simulating multiple pages
• Creating separations with spot colour
• Exporting layers to Photoshop
• Using ‘release to layers’ for web animations
• Exporting for Adobe Flash (SWF)

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Illustrator Masterclass - 4 day

The FlexiDeal^® - free training

Our courses come with free training at London Covent Garden and Cardiff!

It's very simple: just book a day of private training or one of our 3-day, 4-day or 5-day scheduled courses (or any combination days) and you'll qualify for additional free training at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres – that's the FlexiDeal^®.

And as long as you take these additional courses within 6 months of your first qualifying booking, you can even accumulate your FlexiDeal®.

Collecting FlexiDeals^®

• Book a 1-day private course – get 1 day free
• Book a 3-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
• Book a 4-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
• Book a 5-day scheduled course – get 2 days free
  
  

See below for courses you can claim for free in the FlexiDeal^®

Acrobat

• Acrobat Essentials (1 day)
• Acrobat Introduction (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Advanced (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Forms (1 day)
• Acrobat ACE (2 day)

After Effects

• After Effects Introduction (2 day)
• After Effects Advanced (3 day)
• After Effects Masterclass (5 day)

Dreamweaver

• Dreamweaver Web Building Introduction (3 day)
• Dreamweaver Web Building Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Dreamweaver ACA Prep + Exam (1 day)
• Dreamweaver ACE (2 day)

Flash

• Flash Introduction (2 day)

Illustrator

• Illustrator Introduction (1 day)
• Illustrator Introduction (2 day)
• Illustrator Advanced (2 day)
• Illustrator Masterclass (4 day)
• Illustrator ACE (2 day)

InDesign

• InDesign Introduction (1 day)
• InDesign Interactive (1 day)
• InDesign Print Production (1 day)
• InDesign Introduction (2 day)
• InDesign Advanced (2 day)
• InDesign ePub (1 day)
• InDesign iPad+Android (1 day)
• InDesign Masterclass (4 day)
• InDesign ACE (2 day)

Photoshop

• Photoshop Introduction (2 day)
• Photoshop Advanced (2 day)
• Photoshop Masterclass (4 days)
• Photoshop Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Photoshop ACE (2 day)

Premiere Pro (Cardiff only)

• Premiere Pro Introduction (3 day)

• Premiere Pro Intermediate + Certification (2 day)
• Premiere Pro Masterclass + Certification (5 day)

How to book

Just email us confirmation of your valid booking(s) that qualified for the FlexiDeal^®.

Terms and conditions

• FlexiDeal^® is applicable only if the full RRP is paid for your course(s). Any discounting invalidates the FlexiDeal^®. If discounting has been applied you can pay back the difference in order to qualify for the offer
• The FlexiDeal^® offer lasts for 6 months from the first date of your qualifying bookings
• The FlexiDeal^® is not available to funded individuals although we might apply at our descretion depending upon the number of training days booked under the particular scheme

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Illustrator Masterclass - 4 day

London Covent Garden Add dates to your calendar

7 - 8 & 11 - 12 June 2012

16 - 19 July 2012

28 - 31 August 2012

24 - 27 September 2012

19 - 22 November 2012

 

Cardiff Add dates to your calendar

18 - 21 June 2012

13 - 16 August 2012

8 - 11 October 2012

3 - 6 December 2012

 

Bristol Add dates to your calendar

18 - 21 June 2012

13 - 16 August 2012

8 - 11 October 2012

3 - 6 December 2012

 

 

If you don't see any suitable dates here, it might be more economical to deliver a private training course for you

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Illustrator Masterclass - 4 day

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No questions, no quibbles, no problem! Should you ever need to take your course again, just let us know. Find out more…

Requirements

• Basic knowledge of Windows or Macintosh.
• Understand how to launch an application and save files.
• For web courses you will need to have knowledge of web browsers.

General information

• Courses start at 10am and finish at 5pm. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the course on the first day.
• We operate a casual dress code.
• We supply all computers, software and courseware, pads, pens, lunch and refreshments.
• We have both Apple OSX Lion and Windows 7 systems.
• Bring along a USB/Flash drive so you can take away your course files.
• Following your course, we will email you an Adobe Authorised Course Completion Certificate.
• Each course comes with either on-line assets (electronic book/PDF or movies) to download or a high-quality Visual Quickstart 500-page training book. We are migrating most course assets to on-line downloads during 2012.
• Access to a secure section of our site that offers useful tips and tricks.

Lunch

London Covent Garden and Cardiff - Flexible lunch vouchers are used and redeemable at outlets nearby such as Bella Italia, Eat, Nandos, Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, Starbucks, Sainsbury's and Tesco to name but a few.

Bristol - Look out for our designer cold buffet lunch.

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