Illustrator Advanced Training Course Info...

Course Duration: 2 Days | Class Time: 9am - 4:30pm | Class Size: 6 Students Max

Training Room Location: Level 1, Opposite Reg. Hosp Nastech Sunyani B/A R.

Course Materials: As part of the course you will receive many useful resources and learning links to compliment your training and help you stay on track after your course.

Certificates: All students receive a certificate of achievement on completion of their course.

After Course Support: On completion of your course you will be eligible for free email and phone support*, to aid you in the development of your new skills.

FREE Course Resit: We offer you the chance to come back in the future and resit your course for FREE*, so if you want to polish your skills further or just recap on a few things this is a great option.

What you need to bring: Nothing. We supply your choice of MAC or PC computer for you to use with all software already installed and have note pads, pens etc in the training room. If you think it would be beneficial to bring some samples of your work that would be great but not essential.

Cost: GH¢ ???+GST

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About our Illustrator Advanced Training Course

Our Adobe Illustrator Advanced training course has been designed to take you to the next level making you an Illustrator power user. If you want to work fast, with ease and be in total control of your logo and illustration creation then this course is for you. We meet you half way taking your existing skills and improving your approach to design, speeding up the time it takes to get the job done. Illustrator includes many time saving features and functions that people simply aren't aware of, this course is aimed at making you aware of exactly what's possible.

COURSE DATES - SYD	MAY	JUN	JUL	AUG	SEP	OCT
Illustrator Training	14-15	25-26	12-13	6-7 23-24	3-4 19-20	4-5 18-19
Illustrator Advanced	-	25-26	2-3	23-24	19-20	18-19
Illustrator One-On-One	Numerous date available each week, please call
Illustrator Mastery	Choose your courses from any of the above dates
Illustrator On-Site	Please call to arrange suitable on-site training dates

Who should attend this Illustrator Advanced course?

- Intermediate Illustrator users with 2+ years experience

- People who have completed our Illustrator Basics training course

- Self taught Illustrator users

- Illustrator users wanting to get up to pace with new InDesign features

- Illustrator users who have never received professional training

- Graphic Designers

- Artists

- Animators

- Illustrators

- Sales and Marketing staff working with print and web based media

- People wanting to improve their workflow

- People looking to speed up the design process

Things you will do and skills you will gain by attending...

- Learn to create logos, posters, illustrations, advertising.

- Develop effective design skills

- Get text looking good by developing typography skills

- Learn how to improve your workflow and work fast

- Setup a Illustrator file cleanly minimizing over use of objects

- Learn to export and optimise your illustrations correctly

Course Outline

Adobe Bridge

Understanding the Bridge
Navigating folders
Viewing docs and folders
Resizing images
Viewing images full screen
Selecting files
Opening files
Workspaces
Important preferences
Adding favourites
Using filters

Mastering Paths with the Pen Tool

Editing path anchor points

Creating compound shapes
Utilising pathfinder functions
Joining and averaging paths
Outlining strokes
Simplifying paths
Using offset path
Removing stray paths

Appearances

Working with the appearance panel
Finding object attributes
Adding more attributes
Applying live effects to an object
Expanding object appearances
Appearance panel options
Copying existing appearances

Mastering Graphic Styles

Understanding graphic styles

Improving workflow
Defining a graphic style
Previewing a graphic style
Modifying existing graphic styles

Drawing with Brushes

Working with the calligraphic brush
Working with the scatter brush
Working with the art brush
Working with the pattern brush
Working with the paintbrush tool
Working with the blob Brush tool
Working with the eraser tool

Charts and Graphs

Creating a chart

Importing your chart data
Formatting chart data
Customising your chart
Combining chart types
Working with graph designs
Styling and updating your graph
Ungrouping your graphs

Symbols

Understanding symbols
Defining symbols
Editing existing symbols
Using the symbol sprayer tool
Using the symbolism tools

Applying Live Effects

Raster effect settings
Working with basic extrusions
Working with revolves
Basic artwork mapping
Working with stylise effects
Working with scribble effect
Working with warp effect

Creating Blends

Blending objects
Blend options
Blending anchor points
Blending multiple objects
Replacing the spine of a blend
Reversing blend direction
Releasing and expanding

Mastering Live Paint

Understanding Live Paint
Creating a Live Paint group
Working with the Live Paint Bucket tool
Using Live Paint with open paths
Detecting gaps in groups
Adding paths to your Live Paint group
Live Paint Selection tool
Releasing and expanding

Live Trace Mastery

Understanding live trace
Working with Live Trace
Raster-based adjustments
Adjusting colours
Releasing and expanding Live Trace
Saving and exporting presets

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3D Objects

3D considerations
3D Extrude & Bevel
Applying a bevel
3D Revolve effect
Changing the revolve axis
3D rotate effects
Adjusting surface settings
Mapping artwork

Distortion

Using the Warp effect
The Warp effect vs. envelope distortion
Applying the Make with Warp envelope distortion
Applying the Make with Mesh envelope distortion
Applying the Make with Top Object envelope distortion
Editing envelopes
Adjusting envelope settings
Releasing and expanding envelope distortions
Applying envelope distortions to text
Using the liquify distortion tools
Customising the liquify tools

Gradient Mesh Mastery

Understanding the gradient mesh
How you can best use gradient mest

Applying mesh to an object
Using the lasso to select areas

Things to consider

Paragraph Styles

Understanding Paragraph styles
Creating Paragraph styles
Editing Paragraph styles
Deleting Paragraph styles
Paragraph style options

Working with Layers

Making sense of layers
Adding a layer
Changing stacking order
Duplicating layers
Deleting layers
Hiding layers
Locking layers
Merging layers
Paste remembers layers

Advanced Masking

Understanding clipping masks
Layer clipping masks
Creating an opacity mask

Text wrap

Making sense of text wrap
Wrap around bounding box
Wrap around object shape
Jump objects
Jump to next column
Changing inset spacing

Working with Transparency

Understanding transparency
Understanding complex regions
Transparency flattener settings
Flattener Preview panel
Creating and sharing Flattener presets

Advanced Preflighting Techniques

What to look for
Colour separations preview
Packaging, Printing, and Exporting
Packaging for print output

Saving Work and Exporting PDFs

Understanding file formats

Best file formats to use

Understanding PDF presets
Optimising PDFs correctly
Problem free PDF creation
Reducing PDF File Size
The compression tab
Checking for spot colours
Saving PDF presets

Want to take the next step? Our Illustrator advanced training is designed to take you to the next level. Illustrator includes many advanced features that make designing more efficient and give you greater control over your artwork. This Illustrator Advanced course is ideal for those serious about vector artwork.