Advanced Illustrator Training Course

Adobe Illustrator CC Course

This is an advanced course for existing illustrator users have already mastered the basics in Illustrator who want to strengthen their drawing techniques. The features taught in the class are useful and practical. Move beyond the prickly Pen tool to explore gradient meshes, symbols, graphic styles, effects, and exciting features like Recolor Artworkand Image Trace.They enable illustrators manage more complex drawing and shorten the time required to accomplish the work.

Adobe Illustrator CC Course

What you’ll learn

LAYING OUT A DOCUMENT

  • Options available for importing artwork by using the Open command and the Place command

WORKING WITH SHAPES & OBJECTS

  • Transforming shapes by using the Transform tools and/or the Transform palette
  • Transforming shapes by using the Distortion tools, such as Warp, Twirl, Bloat, Scallop, Crystallize, Wrinkle, Liquify
  • Create, use, and customize brushes
  • Modify overlapping objects by using the Transparency palette
  • Change the appearance of objects by using the Styles palette and Effects menu
  • Change the appearance of objects by using the Appearance palette
  • Create graphs by using the graph tools
  • Create, use, and edit symbols by using the Symbols palette and Symbols tools
  • Create and modify compound shapes by using Pathfinder palette
  • Transform shapes by using Warp effects
  • More about selection techniques
  • Assign variables to objects

ADDING TYPE TO A DOCUMENT

  • Change the look of type by using the Envelope command
  • More about text
  • Creating columns of text
  • Making text wrap around graphics
  • Flowing text inside object
  • Setting tabs to create table
  • Change the look of type by using the Envelope command

CREATING 3D OBJECTS

  • Ways of making 3d objects :- Extrude, Bevel and Revolve
  • Fine tunning an 3d objects by setting different light sources, surface shading and mapping
  • Perspective settings

MORE ABOUT LAYERS

  • How layers can be used to help create and manage objects in a document
  • Change the attributes of objects in a layer by using the Layers palette
  • Importing and exporting Adobe Photoshop layers
  • Export objects for a Flash (SWF) by using the Release to Layers command

SCHEDULES
 
AIL4124 - 廣東話 13 Dec enrol
 
AIL4123 - 廣東話 16 Dec enrol
 
AIL5014 - 廣東話 25 Jan enrol
RELATING COURSES
  Diploma Course in Computer Graphic Design
  Illustrator
  Indesign
  Photoshop
  Professional Diploma in Graphic Design

PUBLISHING FOR THE WEB

  • Options and considerations associated with preparing graphics that will be used on the Web
  • Export Illustrator images that are optimized for publication on the Web
  • Resolution and rasterization settings in the Document Setup dialog box
  • Create slices for objects and layers by using the Slice tools