Illustrator CS5 Training

Cinema 4DAdobe® Illustrator® CS5 software allows you to create sophisticated artwork for virtually any medium.

Industry-standard drawing tools, flexible color controls, and professional type controls help you capture your ideas and experiment freely, while timesaving features such as easier-to-access options let you work quickly and intuitively.

Improved performance and tight integration with other Adobe applications also help you produce extraordinary graphics for print, web and interactive, and mobile and motion designs

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Illustrator Course Outlines

  • Illustrator Level 1
  • Illustrator Level 2

Course Aims:

Illustrator can be a tricky application to get started in, but at Keyline we take you from 'zero to hero' so you can start realising your inner artist and create amazing graphics for print, web and more.

Once you've got into Illustrator, there's no turning back, users love the control it gives and the freedom over creativity. On the Illustrator Level 1 course, you'll move beyond the basics and look at advanced tools such as Live Paint and 3D Objects.

Curriculum Outline:
  • Customising Illustrator preferences
  • workspaces & keyboard shortcuts
  • working with pages
  • selection & isolation techniques
  • object and path behaviour
  • Strokes and Fills
  • Working with gradients
  • custom patterns
  • using smart guides
  • controlling dimensions & co-ordinates
  • painting
  • applying transparency
  • raster links
  • combining Illustrator & PSD
  • working with layers
  • creating clipping masks
  • transforming objects
  • power transformations
  • applying appearance attributes
  • multiple attributes
  • graphic styles & effects
  • working with type & type effects
  • ascii text
  • creating type masks
  • blending shapes and colors
  • modifying blends
  • working with symbols
  • swatches & live colour
  • creating airbrush effects
  • preparing artwork for InDesign
  • tracing & live painting
  • creating a 3d object
  • mapping a 3d object
  • prepress & flattening artwork
  • Pdf creation

 

Course Aims:

Unlock advanced creative tools with the Illustrator Level 2 course.

Curriculum Outline:
  • Navigating Illustrator
  • Advanced Path techniques
  • Drawing and Redrawing
  • Blends and Meshes
  • Transparency
  • Working with Patterns
  • Working with Type
  • Working with Images
  • Colour Management
  • Using the Liquify and Envelope tools
  • Creating Symbols
  • Creating and using Brushes
  • 3d Eects
  • Using Live Trace & Live Paint
  • Live Eects and Graphic styles
  • Live Colour
  • Illustrator Actions
  • Exploring export Options
  • Creating Flash Animations

 

 

 

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Training outlines are subject to change if Keyline deems it necessary. We often cover more than advertised dependent upon a particular class dynamic.