Beginning to Intermediate Adobe Illustrator - Essential Adobe Illustrator Skills
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Training TypeLive Training
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CategoryAdobe
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Duration12 Hours
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Rating4.8/5
Adobe Illustrator Online Course Introduction
About Adobe Illustrator Online Course
Create an 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.
Adobe Illustrator Online 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 Adobe Illustrator Course 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.
What Basic Knowledge Required to Learn Adobe Illustrator Course?
Computer skills, using a mouse, some Word, PowerPoint, or other computer program is helpful
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Exploring the Illustrator Interface
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Set up and save a custom workspace
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Managing Files using Adobe Bridge
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Using the Navigation Tools
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New Document Setup
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Creating new Documents
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Create and modify Artboards
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Scaling Shapes
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Rotating Shapes
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Duplicating Shapes
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Aligning and Distributing shapes
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Using shape mode commands
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Using the pathfinder panel to create compound shapes
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Grouping and ungrouping shapes
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Adjusting stacking order
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Creating swatches of colour, save to the swatch panel
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Using Swatch Libraries
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Loading swatch Libraries e.g. pantones, tricolour and custom
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Applying colour to Illustrations
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Exploring the colour palette
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Saving colours
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Creating and using spot colours
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Applying colour to strokes and Fills. Stroke Options
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Modifying Stroke items
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Aligning Stroke options
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Using the Eyedropper tool
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Introduction to the Appearance Panel
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Working with Images
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Locking and Unlocking Items
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Using the pen tool to create paths
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Using the Pencil and smooth tools
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Selecting and editing paths
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Understanding anchor points
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Editing Anchor Points
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Cutting paths using the knife and Scissors
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Creating text
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Importing Text
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Altering text
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Typography
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Creating type on a path
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Position type on a path
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Converting text to outlines
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Creating a new layer
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Adjusting the layer stacking order
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Hiding and locking layers
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Organising layer contents
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Creating duplicate layers
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Place a scan, jpg or other image into Illustrator
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Use Image Trace to turn pixels into vector
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Image Trace settings
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Expanding an image trace
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Creating a basic gradient
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Adjusting gradients
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Using transparencies. Preparing for Printing
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Preparing a document for print
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Understanding print settings
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Creating an exportable file
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Export illustrations in different file formats
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Save Illustrator as PDF
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Export Illustrator artboards
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Export Illustrator to JPG, PNG and more