Illustrator - Introduction

Course Details

On our courses both keyboard and mouse skills are taught. All courses are instructor led and include comprehensive notes.

OVERVIEW

• What Illustrator is

GENERAL

• opening and savings files
• menu, toolbars and palettes
• using palettes
• setting preferences

STARTING

• setting up a new image
• making layers
• saving files

NAVIGATION

• using the hand and magnifying views
• moving around a document
• changing layers

PAINT AND DRAW TOOLS

• drawing, paint and erase tools
• nudge, burn, clone and transform

SELECTION METHODS

• selection tools and menu choices
• changing selections to paths
• creating paths and changing to selections

TEXT TOOLS

• character and paragraph palettes
• vertical type and path tool
• fill and line choices

WORKING WITH PALETTES

• copy, delete, name, rearrange and show layers
• using colours, swatches and brushes
• channels, layers and paths

SPECIAL EFFECTS

• applying filters
• gradients, snd viewing tools
• design control tools
• transforming selections and layers

WORKING WITH FILES

• printing
• file management

EXAMPLE

• creating own project using scans, text and paint

Venue

Ntec Tertiary Group NZ
25 Federal St
Corner Swanson and Federal Streets
Auckland

Dates

No dates available. Please contact us for more information regarding this course.