14-02-2018 This event is being re-scheduled to a later date. If you are interested in the course or other areas of Adobe Illustrator please feel fee to contact the organiser. Thank you.

This event has been updated from an intensive event to a one day training session to offer optimum practice periods on the tools and skills we cover on this Adobe Illustrator course. The price is the same.

I am writing a new training package and am offering an exclusive opportunity to have heavily discounted training in the first roll-out of events. This event, and events booked to your schedule, will be one-to-one or class based. This opportunity is on Thursday 15th February or Friday 16th February. The course is scheduled to start at 10 and finish around 4. There will be 1 hour for lunch and a mid-morning break and a mid-afternoon break.

You will be trained on Adobe Illustrator CC 2018. The instructor is an Adobe accredited instructor.

On this fundamentals course you will learn:

Getting Started

The importance of choosing the right document for your needs
Application Frame
Control Panel
Menu
Screen Modes
Navigation
Workspace

Selection Tools

Selection Tool
Direct Selection Tool
Group Selection Tool
Select with the Layers Panel
Magic Wand Tool
Isolate selections

Pen Tool

Drawing paths
Live-Keying
Join and Split paths
Deselecting

Layers Panel

Panel Options
Creating, Naming and Arranging Layers
Locking, Unlock All and Quick Search in the Layers Panel

Objects and Shapes

Live shapes
Strokes
Shaper Tool
Shapebuilder Tool
Anchor Manipulation
Advanced Alignment functionality
Understanding Pathfinder

Colour

RGB vs CMYK
Fill and Stroke
Default
Libraries
Patterns
Gradients

Swatch and Colour Panels

Colour Modes
Colour Fields and the Spectrum Bar
Web Safe and Print Safe
Saving Custom Libraries
Eyedropper Tool

Augmentation

Appearance Panel
Transform Panel
The Effects Menu
Transparency Panel

Text

Point and Area Type
The Type Menu
Choosing Fonts and Typekit
Character & Paragraph Panels
Threaded Text
Advanced Text-to-object Alignment

Save and Export

Saving for Print:
PDF settings
Printer's Marks
Bleeds
Warnings
Flattening Artwork

Saving for Web:
Export Options
Asset Export
Export Shortcuts
Optimised Twitter Banners

About the event

This course is for new Adobe Illustrator CC users or users who are familiar with Adobe Illustrator with no formal training. This is a comprehensive fundamentals course from an Adobe accredited instructor. This course will give you the ability to use this fantastic software more confidently. The course is instructed on design industry-standard Apple hardware and on the latest version of Adobe CC.

Your training is facilitated through discovery in a relaxed and focused environment.

Pre-requisites

No previous Adobe experience required

Adobe Illustrator is the industry-standard design software for vector art such as logos and other scalable graphics.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the event!

Thank you.

Gavin Wood CTT+, ACI