Elstree Film Studios - Training Courses - Adobe Illustrator Introduction
Adobe Illustrator allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium. Industry-standard drawing tools, flexible colour functions and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely, whilst timesaving features such as the easier-to-access options let you work quickly and intuitively. This intensive one day training course offers you an in-depth introduction to the software and shows you how to use the program to your best advantage. The course introduces you to the drawing and painting tools, brushes, text, layers and objects in a coherent and comprehensive manner. In addition, more advanced techniques are also covered including working with symbols and paths and how to achieve many sophisticated effects and techniques with the program.
Also available is our Advanced Illustrator Course, if you require training in some of the more advanced techniques available in Illustrator.
You can also attend both of these courses in one discounted package in our Complete Illustrator Course, currently available at the special price of 425 for 2 days.
Duration: 1 day.
Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of using Windows and the Internet is required.
Location: 21st Century New Media Ltd, Elstree Film Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, WD6 1JG. [
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Times: 10.00am to 4.30pm. For security reasons, further details are only provided upon booking.
Software Versions: All of our Adobe courses include lessons generic to CS3, CS4 and CS5 versions of the Adobe suite: whichever version you use is covered in detail. Our Apple training courses utilise Final Cut Studio HD (also known of as version 3 or FCS 2009).
Equipment: Our fully featured training room includes six top-of-the-range iMac computers configured to work in both Macintosh (OSX) and PC (Windows) modes, ensuring you the maximum familiarity with your chosen operating system.
Accommodation: Details of local accomodation can be found
here.
Further assistance: Our
FAQ help page contains the answers to many popular questions. Alternatively please call
0844 844 2428 to arrange to speak to our training manager.
COURSE CONTENT
Exploring the Illustrator environment
- The interface
- General preferences
- The toolbox
- The palettes
- Using views
- Using the navigation tools
- Using the Navigator palette
- Creating, saving, and closing files
- Creating a new file
- Saving a file
Drawing and painting Tools
- Drawing a rectangle and an ellipse
- Line tool
- Arc tool
- Grid
- Polar Grid
- Drawing a polygon
- Drawing a star
- Drawing a spiral
Using the Brushes palette
Introducing paths
- Introducing Bezier paths
- Creating paths by using the Pencil tool
- Editing paths created with the Pencil tool
- Creating simple shapes with the Pen tool
- Using the Pen tool to create more complex shapes
- Editing paths created with the Pen tool
- Using the cutting tools
- Editing paths by using the
- Average and Join commands
Working with text
- Using the text tools
- Using the Type and
- Vertical Type tools
- Using the Path Type tool
- Using the Area Type tool
- Using the Type palettes
- Using the Character palette
- Using the Paragraph palette
- Altering text
- Changing text to outline
- Modifying outlined text
Working with layers
- Working with grouped objects
- Grouping objects
- Restacking objects in a group
- Using the Layers palette
- Creating a layer
- Positioning layers
- Moving objects through layers
- Deleting a layer
- Locking and hiding layers
- Merging layers
Printing illustrations
- Adjusting the print Specifications
- Making crop marks
- Troubleshooting printing problems
- Setting the printer properties
Editing Objects
- Compound shapes
- Using rulers
- Moving objects
- Arranging objects
- Rotating objects
- Scaling objects
Distortion
- Using Distort filters
- Warp effects
- Creating envelopes
- Envelope mesh
- Liquify tool
Working with Symbols
- Creating symbols
- Defining symbols
- Symbol instances
Adding colours
- Changing Fill and Stroke colours
- Using the Swatches palette
- Using the Colour palette
- Applying gradient
- Setting transparency
- Manipulating stroke options
- Altering the stroke weight
- Altering the Cap and Join options
- Creating a dashed line
- Using the Eyedropper tool
- Using the Paint Bucket tool
