Adobe Illustrator Advanced

Overview

🕮 Off the shelf (OTS)

This course is suitable for anyone using Illustrator CS5, CS6 or CC

Prerequisites
Delegates should have a good working knowledge of Illustrator and be able to create and manipulate designs, including:
• Creating basic artwork using shapes
• Modify paths
• Work with colour, fills and strokes
• Use Illustrator’s Pen tool
• Save files as different formats to export from Illustrator

Overview
This one-day advanced course will cover some of Adobe Illustrator’s more advanced artwork creation tools and techniques. You will learn how to create more complex shapes and graphics, work with symbols and with masking. The course will also cover how to convert raster graphics into vectors, how to apply effects and how to work in perspective.

Course Outline
Module 1: Creating complex shapes
• The Pathfinder panel
• Compound objects
• The Shape Builder Tool

Module 2: Tracing artwork
• Vector and raster graphics
• Tracing
• Outlines

Module 3: Working with symbols
• Introducing symbols
• Working with symbols
• Symbol sets and symbolism tools

Module 4: Masking and blending
• Masking objects
• Blending objects

Module 5: Object effects
• Basic effects
• 3D effects

Module 6: Drawing in perspective
• The Perspective Grid Tool
• Custom Perspective Grids
• Creating artwork in perspective