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Beginning to Intermediate Adobe Illustrator - Essential Adobe Illustrator Skills
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Simpliv Learning
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12 Hours
Quick facts
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Medium of instructions
English
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Mode of learning
Self study, Virtual Classroom
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Mode of Delivery
Video and Text Based
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Frequency of Classes
Weekdays
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Course and certificate fees
certificate availability
Yes
certificate providing authority
Simpliv Learning
The syllabus
The Illustrator window components
Illustrator Panels
- Managing Files using Adobe Bridge
- Using the Navigation Tools
- New Document Setup
- Creating new Documents
- Create and modify Artboards
Manipulating shapes
- Scaling Shapes
- Rotating Shapes
- Duplicating Shapes
- Aligning and Distributing shapes
- Using shape mode commands
- Using the pathfinder panel to create compound shapes
- Grouping and ungrouping shapes
- Adjusting stacking order
Applying Colour
- Creating swatches of colour, save to the swatch panel
- Using Swatch Libraries
- Loading swatch Libraries e.g. pantones, tricolour and custom
- Applying colour to Illustrations
- Exploring the colour palette
- Saving colours
- Creating and using spot colours
- Applying colour to strokes and Fills. Stroke Options
- Modifying Stroke items
- Aligning Stroke options
- Using the Eyedropper tool
- Introduction to the Appearance Panel
Drawing Paths
- Working with Images
- Locking and Unlocking Items
- Using the pen tool to create paths
- Using the Pencil and smooth tools
- Selecting and editing paths
- Understanding anchor points
- Editing Anchor Points
- Cutting paths using the knife and Scissors
Working with Text
- Creating text
- Importing Text
- Altering text
- Typography
- Creating type on a path
- Position type on a path
- Converting text to outlines
Layers
- Creating a new layer
- Adjusting the layer stacking order
- Hiding and locking layers
- Organising layer contents
- Creating duplicate layers
Image Trace
- Place a scan, jpg or other image into Illustrator
- Use Image Trace to turn pixels into vector
- Image Trace settings
- Expanding an image trace
Working with gradients
- Creating a basic gradient
- Adjusting gradients
- Using transparencies. Preparing for Printing
- Preparing a document for print
- Understanding print settings
- Creating an exportable file
Exporting
- Export illustrations in different file formats
- Save Illustrator as PDF
- Export Illustrator artboards
- Export Illustrator to JPG, PNG and more