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Beginning Adobe Illustrator - Essential Adobe Illustrator Skills

If you’ve tried to make a logo in Illustrator and don’t know where to start, this class is for you! Illustrator is a complex tool to create logos, infographics, postcards, ads, illustrations and more.
  • Training Type
    Live Training
  • Category
    Adobe
  • Duration
    4 Hours
  • Rating
    4.8/5
Beginning Adobe Illustrator - Essential Adobe Illustrator Skills

Course Introduction

About the Course

Create your first Illustrator logo or infographic. Learn to change and customize the Illustrator workspace, create shapes, lines and type in text. Fill and stroke objects with color. Customize shapes with the selection and direct selection tools. Save and export to AI, PDF, PNG, JPG and other formats. 

Course Objective

You’ll walk away with essential skills to jump right into your first Illustrator logo or infographic. You’ll also learn tips, shortcuts that will make you work faster and smarter with Adobe Illustrator.

Who is the Target Audience?

Beginning Illustrator users. No experience necessary, but if you’ve created a few graphics in Illustrator, you’ll come away from this class with new tips, shortcuts and explanations of not only HOW to do something in Illustrator, but WHY it works the way it does. 

Basic Knowledge:

Computer skills, using a mouse, some Word, PowerPoint, or other computer program is helpful

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28 Jun 2022 Tue (1 Day) 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Eastern Time)

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Curriculum
Total Duration : 4 Hours
Understand the Illustrator interface – menus, windows, panels, tools, & customize the workspace
Create a new Illustrator document, set up the artboard(s)
Navigate around a document – zoom commands and shortcuts, viewing the non printing items on the page
Use the Selection and Direct Selection Tools. Use the Select Menu to select similar items
Draw Shapes: Ellipse, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Star and Polygon
Lines: Arc, line segment and pencil tools to draw straight or curved lines
Transform objects with the scale, rotate & reflect tools
Group, ungroup, lock and hide objects
TEXT: Artistic vs. paragraph text, the two ways to type in text with Type Tool
Create outlines from text. Create new font shapes to make a text based logo
Character Panel: Font, size, kerning, baseline shift, horizontal & vertical scaling
Fill and Stroke Objects: Create a new color, apply to both the fill and/or stroke
Load swatches from other documents and saved color libraries to create colors for your project
Create new Layers, change the stacking order, move an object from one layer to another, select objects or layers
Use Image Trace to turn a JPG (pixels) into Vector Art that is editable.
Save as an Illustrator file (.ai), and PDF, Export to JPG or PNG