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Skill Overview

This course is recommended as a follow up to our two-day Introduction to Illustrator course or our two-day Intermediate Illustrator course, depending on existing levels of knowledge. It is also suitable for those with equivalent experience through self-learning. The course includes topics such as special effects, filters, advanced techniques with the Illustrator drawing tools, layers work and advice concerning suitable settings for high-end output. We also teach a colour control section where you will learn to master a gradient mesh and all aspects of colour control. 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.

Booking a private training session allows you to focus on your exact needs on dates that work best for you or your team.
•	Sessions can be run online or in person, on your site or at our London training centre.
•	We manage training for many of the UK’s largest companies, taking care of all the admin, working with you to ensure the perfect course.
•	Our expert trainers will first understand your requirements and then tailor each session to your exact specification.
•	We offer a free consultation service to work out every detail of your course.
Prices for bespoke sessions with our expert trainers start at £525 + VAT.

Learning Objectives

Course Outline:

Appearance and Graphic Styles
•	Understanding appearance
•	Adding new fills and strokes
•	Effects in the Appearance panel
•	Saving appearance as a Graphic Style
•	Style duplicating, overriding and breaking link
•	Style Libraries

Drawing 
•	Getting full control of the pen tool
•	Amending, splitting, joining and manipulating paths
•	Using Shape Builder to combine, edit and fill shapes
•	Simplify

Brushes
•	Practical examples of Calligraphic, Art, Pattern, and Scatter Brushes
•	Modifying the brush options
•	Editing existing and creating new brushes

Patterns
•	Advanced pattern behaviour - transform pattern, object and both
•	Editing the pattern tile

Shape Manipulation
•	Clipping Masks
•	Compound Paths
•	Transformation, Align and Pathfinder with Shape Mode
•	Blob brush, Shape Builder
•	Live Paint

Envelope Distort
•	Makes with Top object, Warp and Mesh
•	Expanding and releasing

Tools
•	Brush and pencil tool customisation
•	Distorting and warping tools
•	Using effects and graphic styles
•	Polar and arc grids
•	Group Select, Magic Wand

Opacity Masking
•	Creating and applying Masks
•	Modifying and updating mask content

Working With Colour
•	Understanding Illustrators Swatches
•	Creating Gradient and Pattern Swatches
•	Colour Guide - Recolour Art and Harmonies
•	Colour Themes
•	Loading Pantone Libraries
•	Saving and exporting Swatches and ASE
•	Gradient Options

Effects and Filters
•	Distort and Transform, Stylise and other Illustrator Effects
•	Photoshop bitmap effects
•	Effect Gallery

Perspective Grid
•	 Choosing a Perspective Grid preset
•	 The Perspective Grid tool
•	 The Perspective Selection tool
•	 Drawing new objects in perspective
•	 Attaching art to a perspective plane
•	 Mapping a perspective grid to a photo or drawing

Working With Layers
•	Creating and understanding Layers
•	Selecting and arranging Layers
•	Duplicating Layer content
•	Releasing and flattening Layers

Text In Illustrator
•	Creating and threading multiple text containers
•	Modifying threaded text
•	Area Type v. Point Type v. Area Fill
•	Text on a Path Options
•	Using Text Wrap and options
•	Character and Paragraph Styles
•	Special characters with the Glyph Palette

Symbols
•	Manipulating and updating symbols
•	Symbol sprayer and its properties
•	Other Symbol tools

The 3D Effect
•	Rotate, Extrude and Bevel, Revolve
•	Mapping Symbols onto Surfaces
•	Transparent surfaces

Print work
•	Setting up for professional printing
•	Understanding transparency flattening
•	Creating Crop Marks
•	Page Tiling
•	Exporting Multiple Page PDF
•	Using the Area Crop Tool to export pre-defined areas
•	Document Raster Effect Setting

Web Output
•	Asset Export
•	Slicing and exporting
•	Multiple artboards output
•	Separations Preview
•	Flattener Preview

Miscellanous
•	Creating and recording Actions and saving Action Sets
•	Batch Processing
•	Keyboard Shortcuts
•	Using Scripts
•	Preferences

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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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