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Details
Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard vector graphics design tool, useful for corporate identity creation, including company logos and marketing/advertising artwork.
This introductory course will illuminate the powerful vector tool that is Illustrator. It is more than applicable to first-time users and will provide a helpful foundation for more advanced designs.
Delivery Methods
Leading Training is focusing on providing virtual training courses for the foreseeable future and will only consider in-person and classroom training on request, with a required minimum group size of six delegates. We remain committed to offering training that is fast, focused and effective.
| Delivery Method | Duration | Price (excl. VAT) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Classroom | 3 Days | ZAR 8,250.00 | Get a Quote | |
| Live Virtual Training | 3 Days | ZAR 6,750.00 | Get a Quote |
Discounts Available
Save up to 10% by booking and paying 10 business days before the course.
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Customer Testimonials
Paycorp Group
Trainer was excellent!
Malawi National Assembly
Their training is practical, the material is relevant and applicable, and the institution itself is well recognised.
Sodexo Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd
Andrew was very friendly, attentive, moved at the right pace and patient
Malawi National Assembly
I liked Leading Edge because it's trainers have the necessary expertise and experience and the training was more practical than theory. The consultants are also friendly and caring. I chose Leading Edge because I think it is widely recognized.
SAICA
Training enabled me to use extensive features of the package
Audience
Desktop publishers, graphic designers and aspiring digital artists.
Pre-Requisites
Basic computer literacy.
Course Outline / Curriculum
Getting to know the Workspace
• Choosing a workspace
• Opening a file
• The document window
• Using Artboards
• Navigating multiple artboards
• Using the new Artboards panel
• Creating New Artboards
• Switching screen modes
• Changing your view
• Preview versus Outlines
• Zooming and scrolling
• Scrolling with the Hand tool
• Changing views with the Navigator panel
• The Tools panel
• Using tools and panels
• The Control panel
• Moving the Control panel
• Panel groups and the dock
• Custom workspaces
• Saving workspaces
• Using the Manage Workspaces dialog box
Illustrator Essentials
• Using the shape tools
• Repositioning and visually resizing the rectangle
• Finding or changing the shape’s dimensions using the Transform panel
• Rotating and shearing using the Transform panel
• Constraining a shape
• Entering exact dimensions
• Selecting artwork
• Helpful keyboard shortcuts for selections
• The selection tools
• Using shape and transform tools to create artwork
• Using the transform tools
• Adding a fill color
• Viewing in Outline view
• Using layers when building an illustration
• Creating a new blank layer
• Cutting and pasting objects
• Moving objects from one layer to another
Adding Color
• Basics of the Appearance panel
• Changing colors
• Adding Effects
• Creating a colorful illustration
• Using Live Paint
• Adding a symbol to your artwork
• Expanding the symbol
• Saving swatches
• What is a Global Color?
• Selecting the Same color
• Saving a set of colors as a group
• Creating a color group from selected colors
• Using the Color panel
• Adding Pantone colors
Working with the Drawing Tools
• Working with the Pen tool
• Drawing straight lines
• Drawing curved lines
• Drawing hinged curves
• Drawing curved lines to straight lines
• Drawing straight lines to curved lines
• Shape Tools
• Using the Eraser tool
• Editing existing paths
• Adding and removing points
• Cutting and joining paths
• Working with Live Trace
• Expanding Live Traced artwork
• Working with Live Paint
• Combining shapes using the new Shape Builder tool
• Subtracting with the Shape Builder tool
Working with Text
• Formatting type
• Paragraph formatting
• Formatting imported type
• Paragraph and character styles
• Text on a path
• Warping text
• Text in a shape
• Creating outlines
• Check spelling
• Find and Replace
Working with Symbols
• Cleaning out the symbol library
• Creating symbols
• Editing symbols
• Importing a symbol library
• Using the symbol sprayer tools
• Editing nested symbols
• Replacing symbols
Saving and Exporting
• Saving using the AI file format
• Saving an illustration with layers
• Saving a layered PDF
• Integration with other applications
• Saving as EPS
• Save for Web
Whats New
• Getting into perspective
• Defining the grid
• Changing the plane
• Using the Perspective Selection tool
• Creating shapes with the
• Shape Builder tool
• To combine shapes
• To delete shapes
• To divide overlapping shapes
• New Brush Controls
• Advanced drawing controls
• Artboard panel
• Touch Type Tool
• Images in Brushes
• Font Search
• Font Sync
• Multiple-file place
• CSS Extraction
• Colour Sync
• Area and Point Type Converion
• File packaging
• On-art free transform
Schedule Dates and Booking
There are currently no scheduled dates.
Please note that this course needs a minimum of 6 delegates to schedule a course. You can choose to be added to the waiting list by clicking the button below, and we will contact you when we have enough delegates interested. Should we not get enough delegates, we will refund or credit your paid booking.
Should you need this course urgently, the following options are available:
- Pay for 6 delegates (whether you have them or not) and we will schedule the course as soon as possible.
- If you have fewer delegates and cannot pay for 6, we can negotiate a shortened course where some of the time will be spent in blended learning - watching videos and doing tutorials and exercises with some contact time with the trainer. We would want to discuss what your core needs are so that we cover those aspects. You need to have paid for 3 delegates at least.