Beginning Adobe Illustrator - Essential Adobe Illustrator Skills

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Simpliv Learning

Mode

Online

Duration

4 Hours

Quick Facts

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Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study, Virtual Classroom
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based
Frequency of Classes Weekdays

Course and certificate fees

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Yes

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Simpliv Learning

The syllabus

Understand the Illustrator interface – menus, windows, panels, tools, & customize the workspace

Create a new Illustrator document, set up the artboard(s)

Navigate around a document – zoom commands and shortcuts, viewing the non printing items on the page

Use the Selection and Direct Selection Tools. Use the Select Menu to select similar items

Draw Shapes: Ellipse, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Star and Polygon

Lines: Arc, line segment and pencil tools to draw straight or curved lines

Transform objects with the scale, rotate & reflect tools

Group, ungroup, lock and hide objects

TEXT: Artistic vs. paragraph text, the two ways to type in text with Type Tool

Create outlines from text. Create new font shapes to make a text based logo

Character Panel: Font, size, kerning, baseline shift, horizontal & vertical scaling

Fill and Stroke Objects: Create a new color, apply to both the fill and/or stroke

Load swatches from other documents and saved color libraries to create colors for your project

Create new Layers, change the stacking order, move an object from one layer to another, select objects or layers

Use Image Trace to turn a JPG (pixels) into Vector Art that is editable.

Save as an Illustrator file (.ai), and PDF, Export to JPG or PNG

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