Adobe Illustrator Level 1

Adobe Illustrator is a drawing and design package. This course will give you the experience you need to produce professional Graphics and illustrations, and will increase your levels of productivity and creativity within illustrator. Once you have completed this course you can move on to the Adobe Illustrator Advanced course.

Course Prerequisites

• Good PC skills

Included with this course

• Lunch and refreshments when training is delivered at our training venues

• Telephone and Email Support

• Comprehensive course materials and exercises

Adobe Illustrator Level 1 Course Content

Introduction to Illustrator

• Setting up general preferences

Document and page set up

• Creating default documents

• Artwork and preview models

Selection tools

• Magnification and reduction

• Drawing tools

The Bezier curve

• Cutting and editing paths

• Creating ovals and rectangles

• Transforming tools

• The measurements tool

The Paint attributes palette

• Eyedropper and paint bucket

• Custom colours

• Creating patterns

Tools

• Copying and pasting elements

• Type area and type path tools

• Type fundamentals

• Tab and paragraph palettes

Text overflow

• Linking and unlinking text

• Boxes and paths

• Wrapping text and graphics

• Outlining type

The layers palette

• Changing layer orders

• Creating and using guide

• Using rules and zero lock

Object drag copying

• Moving, rotating and scaling elements

• The gradient palette

• Graduated blends

• Gradient vector tool

Creating masks

• Creating compounds

Colour adjustment filters

• Shape creation filters

• Distortion filters

• Object movements

• Adobe Pathfinder filters

• Selection filters

• Stylisation filters

Graph fundamentals

• Editing data and legends

• Different graph styles

• Editing graphs