Advanced Illustrator training course

Advanced Illustrator training - 2 days - private courses from £1190 + vat

Advanced Illustrator Training uk

Generally most digital designers only scratch the surface of Illustrator. This advanced Illustrator training course will take you below the surface of Adobe Illustrator challenging you and enabling you to master high quality design and illustration techniques for both print and screen.

If you've mastered Illustrator basics and you're ready for the next level, this course is for you.

Advanced Illustrator Training Course Objectives

This Advanced Illustrator training course begins by filling in the gaps in your knowledge and examining those areas that are often overlooked in Illustrator, and then goes much further, covering a range of powerful techniques aimed at both print and the screen.

Real artwork and design projects are discussed to demonstrate efficient production methods. Delegates are encouraged to bring projects in to explore specific areas of interest. On completion of this Advanced Illustrator training course, delegates will discover the hidden depth that Illustrator has to offer.

Delegates will gain the confidence to use Illustrators more advanced features helping to speed up and improve workflow as well as releasing their true creative potential.

Advanced Illustrator Training Course Content

Advanced typographical controls and effects Including:

  • Paragraph and character styles
  • Glyphs
  • Open type
  • Tabs
  • Composition methods

Symbols

Reusing elements

3D effects and visualising

Graphic styles and the appearance palette

Opacity masks

Clipping masks

Automating tasks

Applying envelope transformations

Compound paths

Pathfinder options

Graphs

Complex gradient mesh and mesh objects

Printing artwork Including:

  • Marks and bleeds
  • Crop marks
  • Printing gradients, mesh objects and blends
  • Tiling artwork
  • Transparency and flattening options
  • Setting output / seperation options
  • Annotating objects

Producing colour separations Including:

  • Separating artwork
  • Calibrating your monitor
  • Trapping

Creating web graphics Including:

  • Designing artwork for the web
  • Pixel preview
  • Slicing artwork
  • Creating image maps

Advanced Illustrator Course Prerequisites

Completion of our Adobe Illustrator training course or equivalent.

Advanced Illustrator Training Recommended Reading

How to Do Everything with Illustrator CS - David Karlins – buy from amazon

Professional Designers, Photographers, Film Editors and 3D Animators make up our team of design trainers. From Adobe Photoshop training to Adobe Acrobat training we are sure you will enjoy learning new design skills on our training courses.