Adobe Illustrator is a sophisticated graphics application that helps you create complex and attractive designs with type effects. You can create advertisements and other illustrations with ease using this software. However, creating complex designs can be overwhelming if you are not familiar with the tools and the features in Adobe Illustrator. In this course, you will use Adobe Illustrator by drawing and manipulating shapes to design a layout for your product.

We offer a 2 day class that will teach you the essential to advance features of Adobe Illustrator.

This course is intended for designers, publishers, pre-press professionals, marketing communications professionals, or people switching to a design job or taking on design responsibilities. This course helps people who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, advertisements, or other graphic documents.

Students will learn:

• What is the difference between a vector image and a pixel image while they get acclimated with the Illustrator interface.

• How to create an industry standard document in Illustrator

• How to build an illustration using basic shapes.

• How to draw objects beyond the basic primitive shapes.

• How to work with text in Illustrator

• How to use gradients to enhance the color of their illustrations and use the envelope distorts to warp objects in Illustrator.

• How to create symbols so they can reuse the illustrations created in Illustrator.

• How to use Live Trace and Live Paint to create vector graphics from raster graphics.

• How to take the artwork created in Illustrator save them for use on the web or for print.

Benefits of our course:

• 2 Full days of training.

• Affordable tuition. Some schools charge more than double for less quality training.

• Small classes allow more interaction and attention to each student.

• Taught by Adobe Certified Instructor.

• Our customize 100% hands on, lab base approach to training. Every student gets a computer to follow along, a large screen monitor, with latest Quad-Core processor. Our classrooms are a combination of Mac's or Windows's. Let us know upon registration which you would prefer to use.  

• Great Midtown Manhattan Location.

• After class individual help.

• Training manual included in course price

• A free retake if needed.

• We are 100% sure you will be happy with this course. If not let us know by the first half of the first day and we give you back 100% refund.

• Click here to view sample projects from the class

Seminar Cost: $549

Sale Price Until May 25, 2012: $299

Course will cover:

Lesson 1: Getting Acquainted with Adobe Illustrator

·         Differentiate Between Raster and Vector Graphics

·         Explore the Interface

·         Explore the Navigation Tools

·         Customize the Interface

Students will learn what’s the difference between a vector image and a pixel image while they get acclimated with the Illustrator interface.

 

Lesson 2: Creating Shapes in a Document

·         Create a Document

·         Draw Basic Shapes

·         Resize, reshape and duplicate shapes

·         Erase Shapes

·         Build a basic illustration

·         Save a Document

Students will learn how to create a document in Illustrator and how to manipulate shapes into an illustration.

 

Lesson 3: Creating Custom Paths

·         Draw Paths

·         Modify Paths

·         Create a Custom Shape Using Simple Shapes

·         Create Compound Paths

·         Offset Paths

Students will learn how to draw objects beyond the basic primitive shapes.

 

Lesson 4: Working with Text

·         Creating a type object

·         Creating a text box

·         Putting text on a path

Students will learn how to work with text in Illustrator.

 

Lesson 5: Enhancing Documents

·         Format Objects

·         Apply Gradients

·         Apply an Envelope to Text

·         Manipulate Objects

·         Apply Graphic Styles

Student will learn how to use gradients to enhance the color of their illustrations and use the envelope distorts to warp objects in Illustrator.

 

Lesson 6: Enhancing Complex Illustrations  

·         Create Symbols

·         Organize Objects with Layers

·         Create a Pattern Swatch

·         Create a Mesh

·         Create Custom Brushes

Students will learn how to create symbols so they can reuse the illustrations created in Illustrator.

 

Lesson 7: Creating a Vector Version of a Raster Graphic

·         Trace Artwork Automatically

·         Adjust the Results of Tracing

·         Create a Custom Preset

·         Convert a Traced Object to Paths

·         Apply Color Using Live Paint

Students will learn how to use Live Trace and Live Paint to create vector graphics from raster graphics.

 

Lesson 8: Saving Images for Web and Print

·         Export Images for Print

·         Export Images for the Web

·         Save Images as PDFs

Students will learn how to take the artwork created in Illustrator save them for use on the web or for print.