Course overview
The Adobe Illustrator Basic course is aimed at delegates with little to no experience and aims to allow them to confidently and independently create designs and layouts using vector graphics.
Topics covered
Fundamentals
- Introduction to illustrator
- Artboards
- Creating documents
- Terminology
- Navigation techniques
- Help files
Eyedropper, paint bucket and pen tool
- Tools
- Text overflow
- Paragraph pallettes
- Type path tools
- Copying and pasting elements
- Simple lines and paths
- Combining path types
- Modifying paths
Fills and colour
- Applying colour to artwork
- Colour books
- Stroke options
- Swatch libraries
- Transparency effect
- Gradients
- Distortion filters
Drawing/transforming tools
- Measurements tool
- Paints attributers palette
- Custom colours
- Producing patterns
- Magnification and reduction
- Moving, rotating and scaling
- Object drag
Delivery methodology
(Face-to-face or virtual delivery available)
Small groups
Ideally 6-8 delegates to maximise engagement and interaction levels.
One-to-one
We also provide one-to-one 90 minute support workshops to provide targeted individual support (specific topics to be selected).
Tailored sessions
Talk to us about designing bespoke workshops for your team