Adobe Illustrator Masterclass

Pearce Mayfield’s Adobe Illustrator Master Class training course provides knowledge about all the versions of Adobe Illustrator.

The Adobe Illustrator Master Class course enables delegates to enhance their illustration skills and learn to use its powerful tools and techniques and then smoothly customise the work environment.

This course will provide you with an overview of the Illustrator workspace and the program's capabilities.

The delegates can enhance their production and illustration skills such as designing a package, creating a logo and drafting photorealistic illustrations.

At the end of the course, the delegates can develop everything ranging from logos to graphics using paths, curves, strokes and fill for websites and other publications and quickly utilise them in projects such as posters, advertisements, brochures and layouts.

Also learn to compose and edit graphic images and then save them in graphics formats such as PDF, SVG, EPS or VML.

Gain an understanding of techniques used in transforming existing shapes, organising the artwork using layers, adding colors to drawn objects and discover the options for exporting Illustrator files.

At the end of this course, the delegates will be able to make use of Adobe Illustrator tools to create appealing graphics.

• Work with text, images, layers, graphs and patterns

• Enhance your image production and illustration skills using Illustrator

• Create stunning and eye-catching illustrations

Course Outline

Introduction to Adobe Illustrator

• Define Illustrator terms
• Creating shapes, lines and paths
• Customising shapes, lines and tracks
• Study Freehand tool
• Selecting the objects
• Arranging objects
• Editing objects

Drawing Techniques

• Creating patterns
• Measuring the patterns
• Constraining the models
• Hiding and locking objects
• Working with transformation tools
• Using compound path

Formatting Paths

• Working with colour
• Applying strokes and fills
• Drawing straight path
• Drawing curved path

Working with Text

• Define type tools
• Basic type formatting
• Editing text
• Working with text boxes
• Working with text labels
• Inserting text along path
• Entering text within path
• Drafting text outlines
• Modifying text outlines

Working with Images

• Merging artwork
• Placing image files
• Masking images
• Applying image links
• Color sampling in placed images
• Packaging a file

Analyzing Creative uses of Effects and Graphic Styles

• Using live effects
• Using the Appearance panel
• Applying graphic styles
• Applying a raster effect

Enhancing Artwork with Layers

• Defining layers
• Forming layers and sublayers
• Modifying layers and objects
• Viewing layers
• Pasting layers
• Applying appearance attributes to layers
• Creating a clipping mask

Export Graphics for Web and Mobile

• Techniques to develop slices
• Different document profiles
• Manage Artboards
• Add and use guidelines
• Exploring Artwork for InDesign
• Use Info panel
• Use Transform panel
• Move, Align and Group objects
• Create symbols
• Edit symbols
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Add more interactivity to SVG file
• Export web graphics from various devices
• Preview illustration for output on mobile
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• Using blend tool
• Using masking objects
• Working with layers
• Examine Illustrator filters