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Illustrator - 4 days
masterclass

 

Scheduled training

• 5 day Design Masterclass
• 4 day Masterclass
• 2 day Introduction
• 2 day Advanced
• 1 day Introduction
• 1 day Advanced

Private training

• 2 day Introduction
• 2 day Advanced

 

 

 

 

 

 

scheduled training.

4 day Masterclass.

 

 

Creating Complex Illustrations

• Make use of Outline Strokes technique
  
• Explore Shape Modes and Pathfinder palette - create Compound Paths for trendy grunge effects
  
• Use Expand Appearance to modify elements
  
• Create your own Custom Brushes: Calligraphy,
  Scatter or Art, to place objects along a path
  
• Keep your paths Simple & Cleaned Up
  
• Graphs - use your artwork instead of a simple bar
  

 

Modifying Artworks

• Envelope Distort & other forms of Warping objects
  
• Clipping Mask for advanced design
  
• Transparency for more polished look
  
• Create drop shadows, glows and more using the
  Stylise Live Effects
  
• Share appearance attributes with Graphic Styles
  
• Explore Gradient Mesh & its ability to add realistic 3D shading and highlights to 2D graphics
  
• Learn the difference between Filters & Live Effects
  
• Blend shapes or groups for advanced compositions
  

 

Advanced Typographical Features

• Character Palette - adjust the kerning, baseline
• shift, horizontal & vertical scaling
  
• Paragraph Palette - Justification/hyphenation
  
• Use the 3D feature to extrude text and other Illustrator objects
  

 

Printing your Artwork

• Simulate multiple pages in Illustrator using the artboard and document setup
  
• Flattening Transparency for raster effects like drop shadows, glows and blurs
  
• Creating separations with Spot vs. Process colour
  

 

Enhancing your workflow

• Explore Links & Actions palettes
  
• Export to Flash (SWF)
  
• Use Symbols to create elements used repeatedly in animations and complex artworks
  
• Use the Release to Layers command to distribute all of the objects on a layer onto separate, individual layers for quick web animations
  
• Creating Smart objects, Dragging-and-dropping and exporting layers into Photoshop

Essential Illustrator Concepts

• What are Vector Graphics?
  
• Create a Custom Workspace
  
• Fill and Stroke Attributes
  
• Document Settings

 

The Illustrator Interface

• Exploring panels and workspaces
  
• Using the Control Panel
  
• Navigation
  
• Smart Guides
  
• Preview Options
  
• Grids and Guides
  
• The Bounding Box
  
• Panels
  
• Libraries

 

Drawing and Selection Essentials

• Draw Paths with the Pen Tool
  
• Shape Tools
  
• The Seletion Tools
  
• Methods of Selection
  
• Shapes
  
• Duplicate Objects
  
• Mastering the Pen Tool
  
• The Pencil tool

 

Path Editing

• Editing Anchor Points
  
• Compound Shapes
  
• Pathfinder Options
  
• Path Options

 

Appearances

• The Appearance Panel
  
• Object Attributes
  
• Multiple attributes
  
• Applying Live Effects
  
• Appearance Panel settings

 

Working with Groups and Layers

• Defining groups
  
• Editing groups
  
• Working with layers
  
• Layers and object hierarchy

 

Working with Color

• Defining swatches
  
• Working with gradients
  
• Working with patterns
  
• Using the Color Guides
  
• Live Colour
  
• Finding colors with kuler

 

Object Transformation and Positioning

• Moving and copying objects
  
• Rotating and scaling objects
  
• Reflecting and skewing objects
  
• Using the Transform panel

 

Brushes

• Creating a calligraphic brush
  
• Creating an art brush
  
• Creating a pattern brush

 

Using Symbols

• Defining and editing symbols
  
• Editing symbols

 

Applying Filters and Live Effects

• Minding your resolution settings
  
• Transforming Effects
  
• Using the Warp effect

 

Basic Text Editing

• Creating Point Text
  
• Creating Area Text
  
• Text Formatting
  
• Creating Text Threads
  
• Text on a Path
  
• Using the Glyphs panel

 

Creating Blends

• Creating a basic blend
  
• Using a blend to create an airbrush effect
  
• Working with Images

 

Placing images

• Using the Links panel
  
• The Edit Original workflow
  
• Live Trace
  
• Rasterizing artwork

 

Specialised Tasks

• Creating graphs
  
• Using Gradient Mesh
  
• Using Envelope Warps
  
• The Liquify Distortion tools

 

Saving and Printing

• Saving your Illustrator document
  
• Printing your Illustrator document
  
• Using the Crop Area tool
  
• Setting up page tiling