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Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator enables you to create complex illustrations and type effects. This allows you to extend the vector and type capabilities of image manipulation and page layout programs to produce work that is not resolution dependent.

 

This one-day course begins with an overview of how the program works and then uses exercises to show you how to get the most out of it. The first exercise will show you how logos and illustrations are created and manipulated. In the afternoon session, you will apply your new skills to another exercise, which involves drawing a map and adapting a logo.

 

The course assumes little or no experience with Illustrator and would be of benefit to anyone that needs to create images, logos, charts or maps that are fully scalable.

 

During the course you will learn how to:
 

• draw simple and complex shapes with the shape, pen and pencil tools
• fill shapes with flat colour, gradients and patterns
• draw outlines to shapes
• select and change the scale and rotation of shapes
• duplicate and move shapes
• alter the weight and style of lines
• use the type tool.

Programme

• User interface for the software
  • Working spaces
  • Tool bar
  • Using layers effectively
• Basic drawing skills
  • Pen and pencil tools
  • Line/stroke
  • Shape tools and compound paths
  • Colour
  • Fill with solid colour and fill with pattern
  • Select and repeat
  • Transform
• Vector and Bitmap images
  • Essentials of vector images
  • Essentials of bitmap images
  • Using Live Trace to convert bitmap images into vector graphics
• Graphics and type
  • Creating type
  • Paragraph typography
  • Type as an outline or object
  • Transforming type
  • Type on a line
• Saving, printing and file formats

 

Note: This course is taught using Adobe CS3.

 

Who will benefit from this course?

Marketing and design personnel who need to understand how logos are used in print, who organise any function that needs clear charts and location maps and who need to combine image and text for advertising that can be successfully rescaled. The course assumes little or no experience with Illustrator.

 

Your tutor

Meg Richardson is a freelance graphic designer, typographer, book binder and trainer who has worked for a wide range of clients, designing and illustrating anything from small booklets to large academic volumes. Meg has been a visiting lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and De Montford University. Her limited edition artists’ books are in major collections such as the Tate Britain and the British Library. Meg is an Adobe Certified Instructor.

 

 

Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.

 

 

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Dates: 7 February, 11 May, 18 August & 19 October 2011

Price: £280+VAT (a number of discounts are available).

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