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Adobe Illustrator is the industry-leading application for working with vector graphics. Illustrator's comprehensive set of tools and features provides everything you need to produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the web and mobile devices. This course is ideal for new and novice Illustrator users who needs to create illustrations, logos, maps, graphs, diagrams, advertisements and other graphics. On the course, you'll learn the key techniques needed to create and edit vector graphics quickly and effectively. The course covers the use of Illustrator's powerful drawing tools to work with shapes and layers and apply effects and styles. You'll learn how to create sophisticated artwork and graphics, create logos with special type effects and use Illustrator's powerful Image Trace and Live Paint tools. And during all of this, you'll learn the most effective ways to integrate Illustrator into your workflow. 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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Navigation
•	Moving around the interface and viewing choices

Interface
•	The tools
•	How panels work and overlap
•	The Properties panel
•	Organising panels

Basic concepts and tools
•	Vector vs Bitmap images
•	Working with Rulers, Guides and Smart Guides

Objects
•	Simple shades: selecting and manipulating objects
•	Transform, duplicate, clone, delete
•	Arrange stacking
•	Group/Ungroup and group selections
•	Locking
•	Aligning and distributing artwork
•	Pathfinder
•	Isolation Mode

Drawing
•	Vector drawing: pen tool, paths, curves, points and handles
•	Adding and deleting anchor points
•	Splitting, cutting and erasing paths

Colours and fills
•	Fills and strokes on objects and paths
•	Colours vs. swatches: global colour
•	Gradients - creating, editing and applying
•	Colour books and libraries

Type
•	Area vs point type
•	The type tool - font, size, colour, leading
•	Kerning, tracking, indents and baseline shift
•	Type on and in a path
•	Type as outlines
•	Character and paragraph styles

Layers
•	Creating layers - options and layer names
•	Locking and hiding layers
•	Moving objects between layers
•	Selecting objects via layers

Patterns
•	Creating, applying, editing
•	Pattern transform behaviour

Brushes
•	Types: Calligraphic, Art, Scatter, Creating and Editing
•	Using brushes on lines and borders

Symbols
•	Creating and applying symbols
•	The symbol sprayer

Effects and Appearance
•	Stylise, Distort & Transform, 3D

Graphing
•	How graphs and data work
•	Graph types
•	Graph limitations

Export
•	Save as AI, PDF or EPS
•	Asset Export to JPG, PNG or GIF
•	SVG

Image Trace
•	Tracing options and expanding

Miscellaneous
•	Blob brush tool
•	Perspective tool
•	Multiple Artboards

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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.

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