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Illustrator Level 1

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Date Location Duration Cost
16 Sep 2010 (Thu)
17 Sep 2010 (Fri)		 Washington 2 £ 395
29 Nov 2010 (Mon)
30 Nov 2010 (Tue)		 Washington 2 £ 395
15 Feb 2011 (Tue)
16 Feb 2011 (Wed)		 Washington 2 £ 395
14 Apr 2011 (Thu)
15 Apr 2011 (Fri)		 Washington 2 £ 395
23 Jun 2011 (Thu)
24 Jun 2011 (Fri)		 Washington 2 £ 395

Please contact us to discuss private course dates and locations

Course Overview

Adobe Illustrator is a drawing and design package. This course will give you the experience you need to produce professional Graphics and illustrations, and will increase your levels of productivity and creativity within illustrator. Once you have completed this course you can move on to Adobe Illustrator Advanced course.

Prerequisites

Follow on Courses

Training Options

  • Scheduled public courses at one of our training venues
  • Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at one of our training venues (Durham, Newcastle or Washington) or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • Bespoke course written to your specific needs, at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
  • For further information please contact us on 0191 377 8377

What's Included

  • 1 delegate per computer
  • Relaxed refreshment area at our training venues
  • Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venue
  • Comprehensive course manual and exercises

Course Content

Introduction to Illustrator

    Setting up general preferences

Document and page set up

    Artwork and preview models
    Creating default documents

Selection tools

    Drawing tools
    Magnification and reduction

The Bezier curve

    The measurements tool
    Transforming tools
    Creating ovals and rectangles
    Cutting and editing paths

The paints attributers palette

    Eyedropper and paint bucket
    Creating patterns
    Creating custom colours

Tools

    Tab and paragraph palettes
    Type fundamentals
    Type area and type path tools
    Copying and pasting elements

Text overflow

    Outlining type
    Wrapping text and graphics
    Boxes and paths
    Linking and unlinking text

The layers palette

    Using rules and zero lock
    Creating and using guide
    Changing layer orders

Object drag copying

    Moving, rotating and scaling elements

The gradient palette

    The gradient vector tool
    Creating graduated blends

Creating masks

    Special effects with compounds and masks
    Creating compound

Colour adjustment filters

    Stylisation filters
    Selection filters
    Adobe Pathfinder filters
    Object movements
    Distortion filters
    Shape creation filters

Graph fundamentals

    Editing graphs
    Using different graph styles
    Editing data and legends