Part One

Imagine being able to create logos, professional type effects, complex airbrush effects and colour control using Illustartor CS3 after just 2 days training!!

That's what you'll be able to do after taking this Illustrator training course from Academy Class.

Discover high quality drawing and illustration with Adobe Illustrator CS3. You will start with an overview of Illustrator and work on lessons that will step you into a greater skill level. Discover the unique features of Illustrator, including how to create logos, professional type effects, complex airbrush effects and colour control.

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based graphics program that allows beginners and experts alike to create professional quality print and web designs. In this Illustrator course, you will learn skills that allow you to take advantage of Illustrator's powerful tools to create illustrations and type effects. Learn to design advertisements and printable documents. Work with colors, gradients, layers, fonts, and photos to create eye-catching illustrations and text effects. We'll discuss both the print and web uses of this sophisticated graphics program. Through Illustrator, you will have new creative freedom that to realize your ideas quickly and powerfully, instantly converting bitmaps to vector artwork and paint more intuitively, saving time with intelligent palettes and optimized workspaces and integrate with other software allowing you to produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices.

Part Two

Imagine taking your Illustrator skills to the next level and perfecting complex logos that support PDF and PSD files ready for conversion to raster and vector graphics for posters and web graphics with full colour management after just 2 days of training.

That's what you'll be able to do after this Illustrator training course offered by Academy Class.

You have probably used Illustrator to create simple illustrations and logos. However, you may now need to create complex illustrations, print documents without any errors or colour mismatches, or prepare illustrations for the web. In this Illustrator course, you will create complex, robust illustrations that go beyond those you could create using Adobe Illustrator CS3 basic tools.

Adobe Illustrator is a vector-based graphics program that allows beginners and experts alike to create professional quality print and web designs. In this Illustrator course, you will learn skills that allow you to take advantage of Illustrator's powerful tools to create illustrations and type effects. Learn to design advertisements and printable documents. Work with colors, gradients, layers, fonts, and photos to create eye-catching illustrations and text effects. We'll discuss both the print and web uses of this sophisticated graphics program. Through Illustrator, you will have new creative freedom that to realize your ideas quickly and powerfully, instantly converting bitmaps to vector artwork and paint more intuitively, saving time with intelligent palettes and optimized workspaces and integrate with other software allowing you to produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices.

Part One

Creating basic Documents

• Explore the pre built Document Profiles
• Shortcuts to navigate the Artboard effectively
• Work in a Custom Workspace

Drawing in Illustrator

• Use the Pen tool for straight lines
• Add, delete or adjust points along a path
• Understand how Bezier Curves work, learn to draw and edit these Curves
• Freeform drawing and editing with this powerful tool
• Create Logos using simple Shapes
• Using Live Trace to transform your hand drawn sketches into vector artwork that can be further adjusted

Modifying Objects

• Lasso select and the other goodies in the Select Menu
• Transform objects with scale, shear, rotate & reflect tool
• Be precise using Smart Guides, Grids & Guidelines
• Align, Group & Duplicate to achieve better results
• Layers palette: Hide & Lock Objects
• Intro to Isolation Mode for effective editing

Working with Colours in Illustrator

• Difference between Swatches and Colour palette
• Applying colour to Stroke and/or Fill
• Adjusting Stroke with the Stroke palette
• Live Colour for perfect Complementary / Analogous colours
• Live Paint as an easy way to colour artwork
• Introducing Gradients & Patterns

Text copy in Illustrator

• Point, Area and Type on a path
• Import Body Type & fix Spelling Errors
• Find and Replace Text or Insert Typographic Characters
• Create Text Outlines to design your own fancy headlines

Outputting your Artwork

• Defining cropping area
• Saving your artwork in vector formats
• Save for Web & Devices

Part Two

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 individual 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 own 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 the 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 and Hyphenation options
• 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 colour 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

Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of your computer's operating system. For example, you should know how to launch an application, create and save files, and copy files from CD and other media.

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

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Draw and understand Bezier 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 Bezier 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 and integration of Illustrator with the rest of Creative Suite

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