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Skill Overview

This intensive, hands-on training course is for graphic artists, illustrators, designers and any web or print professional wishing to expand their understanding of Illustrator. Our course teaches delegates how to create complex illustrations, manage colour across a range of devices, work with graphs and variables, create 3D images, control how illustrations appear on print and the web, and preview them on mobile devices. All our Adobe Illustrator courses are taught by industry professionals who are also Adobe Certified Professional trainers. They will share years of their industry experience with you, imparting best practice techniques as well mastery of the tools.

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Appearance and Graphic Styles
•	Understanding Appearance
•	Adding new fills and strokes
•	Effects seen in the Appearance panel
•	Saving appearance as a Graphic Style
•	Applying Styles and Style Libraries

Colour
•	CYMK vs RGB
•	Colour libraries and global colour
•	The Colour Guide panel
•	Colour Harmony Rules
•	Live Paint and Live Colour
•	Colour Management

Path Work
•	Further vector manipulations
•	Width tool and warping tools
•	Join and Average
•	Erase, Scissors, Knife tools
•	Mesh tool
•	Blob Brush

Objects
•	Further tools - polygon, star, flare, arc, spiral, grid
•	Clipping Masks
•	Transforming different ways
•	Shape Builder tool
•	Offset Paths
•	Magic Wand
•	Envelope Distort - Warp, Top, Object, Mesh

Text
•	Further text styling
•	Paragraph and Character Styles
•	Type on a path

Further Patterns, Brushes and Symbols
•	Pattern editing
•	Resizing the tile
•	Moving tile with art
•	Editing brushes
•	Art brush options
•	Patterns brush options
•	Symbol tools

Guides and Grid
•	Making and editing guides
•	Pixel Preview
•	Snapping
•	Customise Grid in Prefs

Misc.
•	Blends and the Blend Tool
•	Actions - create, save
•	Further Artboards
•	Slices
•	Simple Perspective Grid work
•	Editing Preferences
•	Illustrator objects into Photoshop

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Learners will require access to a laptop with an internet connection and access to the relevant software to enrol on this course. They should also have some previous experience in the subject.

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