Adobe Illustrator CS5 Essentials

Basic computer literacy

Who should attend?

Graphic designers, or people transitioning into design related jobs who need to create illustrations, logos, maps, graphs, diagrams, advertisements, or other graphic documents. They may have little or no experience with Illustrator. They may already use InDesign and Photoshop.

Should you wish to take your knowledge to a more advanced level, we recommend our advanced Print Production or Web Production courses - these show you how to combine the best from a number of Creative Suite programs. A bespoke Advanced Illustrator course is also available.

• How to create sophisticated artwork and graphics for print, web, interactive, mobile and motion designs
• The basics of how to use Illustrator’s powerful drawing tools
•  Logo creation and special type effects
•  Experiment, create and apply colours, patterns and gradients
• Streamline your workflow and manage your assets using symbols libraries & Adobe Bridge

Overview

• Understanding vector graphics
• Learning the interface
• Workspace

Creating a New Document

• New document settings
• Creating multiple Artboards
• Artboards pallet
• Artboard tool
• Export and print multiple Artboards

Creating Shapes

• Draw shapes with the shape tools
• Draw shapes with the line tools
• Selecting, transforming and moving objects
• Pathfinder
• Shape builder tool

Understanding and Applying Colour

• Colour fills and strokes
• Colour swatches and libraries
• Applying colour
• Colour guide pallet
• Creating and saving new colours
• Transparency
• Blending modes

Working with Appearance

• Effects menu
• Appearance pallet
• Multiple strokes and fills

The Drawing Tools

• Draw paths with the pencil tool
• Draw paths with the brush tool
• Draw paths with the blob tool
• Draw paths with pen tool
• Strokes and multiple stroke profiles
• Manipulate shapes, objects and paths
• Modify existing shapes to create new shapes
• Merge and divide objects
• Duplicate and resizing objects
• Joining shapes, objects and paths

Using layers

• The layers palette
• Managing your work with layers
• Template layers for drawing

Live Trace and Live Paint

• Live tracing artwork/images
• Tracing options
• Converting to a live paint object
• Colour a live paint object

Symbols

• Painting and placement of single symbol instances
• Using symbol libraries
• Using the symbol tolls
• Creating symbols
• Sharing libraries

Gradient and Patterns

• Creating and saving gradients
• Applying gradients
• Creating and saving patterns
• Applying patterns
• Adjusting gradients
• Adjusting patterns
• Gradient and pattern libraries
• Creating colour mesh objects
• Creating colour and shape blends
• Stroke and stroke options

Masking

• Creating clipping masks
• Manipulating masks
• Create types masks and compounds

Typography

• Type tools
• Linking text areas
• Create type on a path
• Create type in a path
• Create outlined text
• Envelope distort text

Layout

• Page guides and measurements 
• Perspective grids (perspective drawing)
• Multiple Artboards

Saving and exporting options

• Saving and exporting for multi-use
• Save for web and devices
• Save for Microsoft office

Creating Graphs

• Graph data
• Modifying and selecting graph elements
• Custom graph designs

All courses authorised by Adobe and delivered by Adobe certified trainers.

Symbiosis offer a range of standard and bespoke courses for individuals and companies from our Authorised Adobe Training Centres located throughout the UK. Three training options are available:

• Public Courses: Our authorised Adobe courses are run from our training centres in Bristol, Leamington Spa, Leeds, London or Manchester.
• Bespoke Courses: In addition to our listed Bespoke Courses, any of our Essentials or Advanced Courses can be tailored to meet your specific needs and run as a bespoke course. Please call for pricing.
• Venue of your Choice: If preferred, a Symbiosis trainer can deliver our Adobe InDesign course at a venue of your choice using either your computers or our own mobile solution. Travel and expenses will be charged as extra. Please call for pricing. 

As part of your training package you will receive:

• Training from an Adobe Certified instructor at an authorised Adobe Training Centre
• A course manual 
• Refreshments throughout the day 
• 6 month post-training email and telephone support from your trainer
• A certificate upon completion of the course  

Symbiosis: authorised Adobe and Apple training courses

Since 1996 Symbiosis have been delivering authorised Adobe and Apple training courses  in the Midlands, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol and London areas.  

At Symbiosis the training is based on a wealth of ‘real-world’ experience and our aim is to provide appropriate, professional training in the use of the leading creative software packages - whether for print, interactive media, the web, video or mobile applications. Whether you are an individual or a company, Symbiosis's authorised status guarantees the quality of their training facilities and ensures you have access to qualified trainers, new computers, legal software, approved training materials and the provision of snacks and drinks.

Our aim - to provide great training at a competitive price from central locations, in the following areas:

            • Adobe Authorised Training Centre
            • Apple Authorized Training Center
            • Edexcel Approved
            • Filemaker Business Alliance Member
            • Quark Alliance Partner
            • Skillset Approved

Symbiosis - Look our Way... 

Whatever kind of training you are looking to achieve we can help you find your way, our accredited status can provide in-house team training to help you improve your working practice. We take pride in our authorised status and prior to accepting a booking, we take the time to check that a course is appropriate to your skill level and requirements.

Our commitment to quality means that we guarantee the following:

• Authorised Courses are limited to a maximum of 8 delegates
• All training is delivered by authorised instructors 
• All training is delivered using the most recent version of the software available (unless stated)
• Training is available on the Mac or PC platform
• Prices include a training manual

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