Adobe Illustrator Advanced — A 2 day course

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Synopsis

Understanding how to use Adobe Illustrator's advanced features will revolutionise the way you work.

This training course will build upon the knowledge from Illustrator Introduction by taking creation of simple illustrations to definitely more complex ones.

You'll go beyond the basics with features like filters and effects, explore more in depth typographical adjustments and the printing process of your layouts.

Objectives

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

• 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
• Prepare documents for composite and commercial printing
• Accurately adjust type in an artwork
• Enhance the workflow and integration of Illustrator with the rest of Creative Suite

Contents

Advanced environment management

• Working with multiple artboards
• The 'links' and 'actions' windows

Advanced drawing techniques

• Working with compound paths
• The 'expand appearance' command
• The 'attributes' window
• The 'outline strokes' command
• Creating and using graphic styles
• Using 'envelope distort'
• Using clipping masks
• The 'live paint' colouring tools
• The width tool
• The shape builder
• Setting up perspective grids
• Transparency and opacity masks
• 3D shading with the gradient mesh tool

Creating custom brushes

• Calligraphy brushes
• Scatter brushes
• Pattern brushes
• Art brushes
• Bristle brushes

Using Live Colour

• Generating a colour group
• Recolouring artwork with colour guides

Applying special effects

• 3D effects: revolve, extrude and bevel, rotate
• Advanced blending techniques
• Photoshop effects in Illustrator

Advanced type features

• Creating character and paragraph styles
• Horizontal and vertical scaling
• Adding text to a vector path
• Adding gradients to type

Saving and exporting

• Printing your artwork
• Creating a PDF
• Editing options for PDFs
• Simulating multiple pages
• Creating separations with spot colour
• Exporting layers to Photoshop
• Using 'release to layers' for web animations
• Exporting for Adobe Flash (SWF)

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Suitable For

Graphic designers or people switching into a design job or taking on design responsibilities. They will have some previous experience with Adobe Illustrator.

Prerequisites

Have already taken the Illustrator Introduction training course or solid knowledge of topics covered in that workshop.