Adobe Illustrator CS5 Essentials

Adobe Illustrator CS5 Essentials

This two-day Adobe Illustrator Essentials course will give you the basics to build on plus the most effective ways to integrate Illustrator into your workflow. Adobe Illustrator is the industry-leading vector graphics software that enables you to produce extraordinary graphics for print, video, the web, and mobile devices. It is a very sophisticated graphics program capable of creating complex illustrations and type effects.

Take advantage of the precision and power in new Adobe® Illustrator® CS5 software. Draw accurately in perspective, create variable- width strokes, paint with lifelike brushes, and take advantage of integration with new Adobe CS Live online services.* Move quickly from ideas to outputs—for any project.

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Who should attend this Adobe Illustrator Essentials course?

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.

Key Adobe Illustrator Essentials course topics include:

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

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Delegates of this Adobe Illustrator Essentials course will learn:

• 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

All Adobe Illustrator Essentials courses are authorised by Adobe and delivered by Adobe certified trainers.

The cost of this Adobe Illustrator CS5 Essentials course is £445 per delegate.

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 

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