Use shapes and formatting tools to create and edit unique illustrations and artwork.

Open participant course: £195 per person - maximum 10 people

Closed company course: £1,000 per course - maximum 10 people

Those with little or no experience of Adobe Illustrator who need to create and edit professional illustrations, published in a variety of outputs.

By the end of the course, you will gain a sound understanding of Adobe Illustrator and will be able to create and manipulate artwork for virtually any medium.

Introduction to Illustrator:

• Raster and vector images.
• The Illustrator interface.
• Working with panels.

Illustrator Documents:

• Creating documents.
• Working with artboards.
• Zooming and navigating.

Shapes and Images:

• The drawing tools.
• Adding images to a document.
• Controlling text wrapping.
• Working with layers.

Drawing Paths:

• The pen tool.
• Drawing straight and curved segments.
• Corner points and curved points.
• Reshaping paths using the anchor points and the direct selection tool.
• Grouping objects.

Working with Text:

• Working with text boxes.
• Threading text.
• Character and paragraph formatting.
• Flowing text on a path.
• Importing text.
• Creating and modifying character and paragraph styles.
• Proofing documents. 

Enhancing Documents:

• Modifying object fill and stroke attributes.
• The swatches panel.
• Working with gradients.
• Graphic styles.
• Apply text envelope effects.

Saving Images for Web and Print:

• File formats.
• Exporting for print.
• Saving for the web.
• Creating PDF documents

This course can be delivered remotely or in a classroom environment, to suit your requirements.

Delegates must have the following equipment to attend this training remotely:

• PC or laptop with a microphone and speakers (webcam is preferred but not essential).
• Access to the internet and web browser application (e.g. Google Chrome).
• An email account for file sharing.

Course attendees must be proficient with a mouse and keyboard and be able to confidently work within a Windows environment - minimise, maximise, open and close.