Adobe Illustrator CC Training Course Beginners

Adobe Illustrator CC Overview

You are inspired to design something. Something that will be used for business cards, brochures, magazines and on your company website. However you need to ensure that your design will appear professional and crisp even when enlarged on your printed materials such as a poster for an advertising campaign. You also need your picture to be the correct format for the web. Finally you don't want to have to repeat yourself or at least waste time converting your file from one format to the other.

This Illustrator training course will allow you to accomplish that elusive goal which is to create an image for all mediums.

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Course Duration: 1 Day

Course Prerequisites:

No prior knowledge of Adobe Illustrator is required before going on this course. However having knowledge and skills in the following wouldn't go amiss:

• Using a mouse well
• Managing files

Also it would be a good idea to use a mouse, graphic tablet or some other device rather than the touch pad that comes with your laptop. Should make the day go smoother.

Course Outline

Introducing Adobe Illustrator CC

• Apply Design Principles, Elements, and Graphics Composition
• Evaluate Graphics Scalability
• Navigate the User Interface
• Customise the User Interface

Create Documents Containing Basic Shapes

• Create Documents
• Save Documents
• Draw Basic Shapes
• Add Text to a Document

Creating Documents Containing Customised Paths

• Draw Paths
• Modify Paths

Creating Graphics Containing Customised Text

• Insert Text
• Apply Flow Text Along a Path
• Insert Bounded and Threaded Text
• Apply Text Styles
• Insert Typographical Characters

Customising Objects

• Import, Place, and Link Graphics
• Alter the Appearance of Objects

Customising Basic Shapes with Illustrator CC

• Apply Strokes and Brushes
• Fill Shapes
• Apply Graphics Styles
• Distort Text with Text Envelopes
• Pathfinder - What is it? How can I use it to create graphics?

Use Illustrator CC to Prepare Documents for Deployment

• Update Text
• Wrap Text
• Hyphenate Text
• Preparing Content for Print
• Preparing a document to be used on the web as a PDF

Classroom based Beginners Illustrator Prices from:

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Adobe Illustrator training is also available for online training via Zoom or Teams.

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Tools you will use:

Pathfinder Tool

Are your drawing skills up to scratch? Now be honest? An artist once told me that objects he draws are simply combined shapes, basically circles and squares joined together to make up a picture. That's where the pathfinder tool comes in. You can use it to create new shapes using the shape modes section. Or you can create combined paths that you can manipulate with the direct selection tool. Go to the pathfinder window then draw two circles on the page. Ensure that the circles overlap. Select both shapes with the Selection arrow then click on the Unite button to merge the shapes.Now you have a shape you could use as a binocular viewfinder or a set of cartoon eyes.

Try the same thing but this time use the divide button in the pathfinder window. Notice that it splits the shape into 3 parts. The parts are grouped however you can use the white direct selection arrow to click on the middle section and press delete to remove it. This way you can create some interesting shapes for computer logos, background graphics to use on business cards, leaflets and other stationery.

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Adobe Illustrator CC Training Course - Intermediate

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