Illustrator - Introduction

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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

TBA

Dates

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