Description
Understanding how to use Illustrator’s advanced features will revolutionise the way you work. This course will build upon the knowledge from Illustrator 101 by taking creation of simple illustrations to definitely more complex ones. You’ll go beyond the basics with features like filters and effects, explore more in depth typographical adjustments and the printing process of your layouts.
You will be prepared for and take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam at the end of this course
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Course Content
Advanced environment management
• Work with multiple art-boards
Advanced drawing techniques
• Use the Pen tool
• Use the Appearance panel
• Work with compound paths
• Use the Expand Appearance command
• Use the Outline strokes command
• Create and use Graphic Styles
• Use Envelope Distort
• Create clipping masks
• Use the Width tool
• Use Pathfinder
• Create Transparency and opacity masks
• 3D shading with the gradient mesh tool
• Use the Perspective Grid Tool
Blend
• Blend objects shapes and colours
• Understand how blends work
• Update blends
Graph Tool
• Create graphs
• Modify graphs
• Create and apply graph Designs
Create custom brushes
• Calligraphy brushes
• Scatter brushes
• Pattern brushes
• Art brushes
• Bristle brushes
Setup for Print
• Use the Attributes panel
• Use the Separations panel
• Use the Flattener Preview panel
• Understand print terminology
• Create trim marks
Use Live tools
• Generate a colour group
• Recolour artwork with colour guides
• Trace bitmap images
• Improve the trace result
Apply special effects
• 3D effects: revolve, extrude and bevel, rotate
• Advanced blending techniques
• Photoshop effects in Illustrator
• Shadows and shading
• Create patterns
Advanced type features
• Create character and paragraph styles
• Horizontal and vertical scaling
• Add text to a vector path
• Add gradients to type
Save and export
• Create a PDF
• Edit options for PDFs
• Create separations with spot colour