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London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
Online | £499 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
Online | £499 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
Online | £499 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
Online | £499 + VAT | |||
London Bridge | £499 + VAT | |||
Online | £499 + VAT |
Day One
Get to grips with the essentials in no time
• Understand Illustrator's unique role in the design industry
• Explore, adjust and personalise Illustrator's interface to suit your work
• Learn speed tips, shortcuts and good practice
• Edit existing Illustrator documents
• Create Illustrator documents of any size, with any number of artboards optimised for print, video, web or mobile devices
Create original graphics with shapes
• Explore ways to select and edit artwork
• Explore the building blocks of great art
• Combine simple shapes to make complex shapes
Fill your world with colour
• Understand and work with RGB and CMYK colours
• Mix, apply, update, and organise your own branded colours and tints
• Add depth to your work with gradients
• Experiment with simple pattern fills
Create original artwork with drawing and painting tools
• Create freeform and straight paths with the Pencil tool
• Draw straight lines and smooth curves with precision and ease
• Manipulate, edit and refine your artwork
• Join artwork together by combining paths
Magically create art with Illustrator's AI features
• Create editable graphics using simple text prompts
• Experiment with settings to create patterns, icons, or scenes
• Transform your designs by referencing the aesthetics, colours, and design elements of a sample artwork.
Cut a dashing line with Illustrator's stroke options
• Introducing stroke options
• Draw attention with dots and dashes
• Create new shapes from paths
Learn how to save time and effort as you manipulate your artwork
• Rotate, reflect, and skew your artwork
• Speed up your workflow by transforming multiple elements simultaneously
• Cut, reshape, and combine with other artwork elements
Day Two
Create eye-catching headlines and text
• Explore Illustrator's powerful typographical controls for formatting text
• Manipulate letterforms to create attention grabbing headlines or copy which beautifully complement your graphics
Take full control of complex graphics
• Learn how to use rulers, guides, and smart guides to work effectively and accurately
• Lock, group and hide content
• Rework grouped elements
• Control object hierarchy
• Align content for visual appeal
• Take control of complex graphics with powerful layer functionality
Create pixel-perfect artwork for web and social media
• Explore digital design tools and workflows
• Design artwork assets for mobile, web or social media using artboards
• Add multiple designs and versions with artboards
• Keep artwork precise with a grid
• Seamlessly align your artwork with the pixel grid
• Save your design elements or even whole artboards to JPG, SVG and PNG file formats for use on the web, social media, in-app content, and more
Manage your design assets and your time
• Build a reusable custom library of icons, illustrations, designs, graphics, and colours, and use them anywhere, even in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign
• Save time and make friends by sharing your custom assets with colleagues
Present and share your projects
• Turn your Illustrator layouts into press-ready PDFs for your printer, and ultra-compact PDFs optimised for your customers to download and print
Questions & Answers
"Very helpful, patient and helped me with specific things that I needed to use Illustrator. Everyone was also very friendly and it was a pleasure to do the course here!!"