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Adobe Illustrator CS3: Introduction (Level 1)

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

Scheduled Course Dates and Prices

Duration: 2 Days

Scheduled Course Price: £250
Special Concessionary Offer: Only £125

The dates below are the last confirmed dates for any subsidies applicable. Please book early to avoid dissapointment.

Scheduled Dates:

		TBC

Courses are also available as individual 1:1 tuition or small groups at your office as well as at our centre. Please click here for more information.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities, who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.Graphics professionals who need an essential understanding of vector illustrations.

Prerequisites

Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to undertake a IT skills course as to not slow down the rest of the class.

Performance-Based objectives

Course Outline

Introducing Illustrator
• Using the Welcome Screen
• Introducing Vector Based Paths
• Working with Layers in Illustrator
• Introducing Anchor Points

Shapes
• A Look at the Shape Tools. Creating a Circle, Star and Rectangle
• Aligning Shapes
• Combining Shapes

Fill, Stroke and Colour
• Fill and Stroke
• An Overview of the Colour Palette
• CMYK vs. RGB
• Creating and Saving new Colour Swatches
• Creating a fill Patter

Creating and Formatting Type
• Importing Text into Illustrator
• Selecting Text for Reformatting
• Moving Text to a New Text Container
• Reformatting Text with the Paragraphs Pallet
• Altering Text Font and Size

Transforming Paths
• Introducing Path Transformations
• Duplicating Objects
• Moving Objects in Increments
• Moving Paths
• Working with Swatches
• Grouping Paths
• Using the Scale Tool
• Using the Rotate Tool
• Rotating Multiple Objects
• Advanced Rotate Options

Using the Pen Tool
• Drawing with the Pen Tool
• Modifying a Path
• Using and Editing Spline Curves
• Using Bezier Curves
• Using Direction Handles & Anchor Points

Pathfinder
• Working with the Pathfinder Palette
• Comparing Pathfinder Behaviours
• Joining Paths
• Cropping, Uniting and Arranging
• Selecting and Deselecting Paths
• Fill Options and other pathfinder operations

Course Times

Class time is 10:00 a.m.- 4:30/5:00 p.m.
Breaks are scheduled throughout the day and lunch is typically scheduled between 1-2 pm. We provide you with Tea, Coffee, Biscuits and other refreshments on the house. We also have a fridge and a microwave available for you to store/warm up any food you wish to bring along for your lunch.

Related Courses

We recommend the following courses that relate to this class: Adobe Photoshop Introduction, Adobe Flash Introduction and Adobe InDesign

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Course Reservation Deposit

Adobe Illustrator training in London for half the price?

Yes, this course is normally £250;
By booking now you are taking advantage our *Concessionary Offer (courtesy of Part-funding from Enfield Community Learning Service) where the applicant has been resident in the UK or another European Union Country for the past 3 years and is over 19 years of age.

*The dates above are the last confirmed dates for any applicable concessions or subsidies. Please book early to avoid dissapointment.

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