Become a digital artist with an Adobe Illustrator Training Course
Adobe Illustrator Training when you need it
Adobe Illustrator is an industry-standard vector graphics application that lets you create logos, icons, drawings, typography, and many other complex illustrations for any medium. Illustrator designs can be used in websites, magazines, annual reports, fashion and product design and elements such as infographics.
One of the advantages of creating images using Illustrator is that they are scalable, meaning you can resize them with no loss of quality.
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Standard 1 day Adobe Illustrator Courses
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Adobe Illustrator Courses
Comprehensive training manual with exercise files. Lifetime post-course support.
Pricing from: $470 / per participant for Public courses.
Adobe Illustrator is the way to go if you need to create vector images. Learn to create illustrations such as company logos, promotional catalogues, brochures, and posters in print and digital formats.
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Take your skills up a notch and delve deeper into Illustrator, working with libraries and transform tools. Then explore brushes, symbols and effects. Clipping masks and image tracing are also covered along with live paint.
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Any of our Adobe Illustrator training courses can be tailored to the unique requirements of your team. Our Off the Shelf courses are modularised with this option in mind, which means that you could mix and match from a selection of existing topics, or we can work with you to develop something specific to your organisation. Either way, we are here for advice on the best way to structure your customised training course.
To help you with your customised Illustrator option, you can choose from our extensive list of course topics. We can then help you to assign the appropriate amount of content based on your training timeframe, and the best order of topics to ensure your training flows well.
Our aim is to help every participant gain valuable knowledge and skills.
Adobe Illustrator FAQ's Frequently Asked Questions
Adobe Illustrator FAQ's
Who uses Adobe Illustrator?
Adobe Illustrator is a program used by artists and graphic designers, as well as anybody who needs to create vector images. These images can be used for company logos, promotional catalogues, brochures, and posters, both in print and digital form.
It is typically used to create illustrations, charts, logos, diagrams, cartoon renderings of real photographs, and much more.
Illustrator is part of Adobe’s Creative Cloud, which also includes Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, Lightroom and several other tools. Illustrator integrates tightly with these other Adobe products. Learn more about Creative Cloud.
Key features of Illustrator:
- Precise Photo Editing
- Graphics Creation
- Website Design
- Project Layout
- ePub Support
These are just some of the features in Adobe Illustrator, but keep in mind that it is a huge application that you can use for years and still not know everything about it.
Should I buy an Adobe Illustrator for Dummies book or attend a Training Course?
Have you ever wondered why the Dummies books are so popular? Well, it’s probably because so many of us are self-taught, using Google to find out how to use a function, or we are shown how to use software by someone at work.
Although this can be useful, it also means we tend to spend a lot of time with trial and error, or we are just picking up somebody else’s bad habits. Trial and error, unfortunately, involves a lot of error, and the bad habits you pick up will probably be passed on to the next person, so soon they spread across the business, meaning entire teams can end up working inefficiently.
At this point, you might head to the bookstore or do an online search to find an Adobe Illustrator for Dummies book to help solve some of those tricky issues. That’s a step in the right direction, and we sometimes use reference manuals ourselves. The problem is that trying to learn by trial and error may cost you many times the cost of a good training course.
Our Adobe Illustrator courses are designed to target the key features and tools included in the application to help you get back to work and apply them right away.
Why should I attend an Adobe Illustrator Training Course?
Attending an Adobe Illustrator course can help you to save time right away. You will be shown the best ways to use the application and you will learn shortcuts and tips that will continue to be of use long after your training course with Keystroke Learning has finished.
Typically, one of our experienced trainers will walk you through the features and functions of the software, then you will try them out on your own, with tips and guidance on getting the best out of the features. We also encourage participants to ask lots of questions to help you get the most out of your learning experience.
You’ll receive a manual to take away at the end of the course, as well as exercise files so you can practice later, or just to jog your memory when you need.
What’s a Vector Image?
Creating vector images allows you to create artwork that can be scaled up and down infinitely without any loss of quality. You have probably seen resized images that are pixelated and look horrible. If the image was too small, to begin with, you may need to start all over again.
This is not the case with Adobe Illustrator. Unlike the familiar formats such as gif, jpeg, tiff, etc. vector images are not made up of pixels. Instead, they are instead created by paths. These paths relate to each other using mathematical formulas, allowing them to be scaled infinitely.
This makes Adobe Illustrator an ideal program for creating images and logos that can be small enough to fit on a business card or large enough to appear on a billboard.
What’s the difference between a layer and a group?
Technically there is very little difference between a Layer and a Group. They both create a parent object that can contain one or more child objects. The main difference is in the purpose of each element.
Groups are generally used to bundle artwork items that you want to keep together when scaling or moving. Layers are normally used for managing visibility and stacking order of objects. Layers can also be used to control the visibility of parts of an image.
Can I create a table in Illustrator?
To create a table in Adobe Illustrator, do the following. First, draw an object such as a rectangle using the rectangle tool. Make sure the shape is selected, then go to the object menu and select the path, split into a grid.
In the Split into Grid dialog box, use the spinners to choose the number of columns and rows required, along with any other options such as width, height, gutter etc. Then click on the OK button.
How can I use the exact colour of one object on another?
This is a common task. Maybe you have an image sitting open in your desktop, but it’s outside of your Illustrator window. You want to use one of the image colours in your text, but you don’t know exactly what the colour is. No problem, Eyedropper tool to the rescue!
Select the eyedropper tool, then click and hold down on the document window. While the mouse is still held down, drag over the area of the screen you want to sample the colour from and then release. The eyedropper is loaded with the external colour, ready to use.
I have a scanned image that I want to use to start a new one. Do I have to draw it all over again?
No way, if you want to base a new drawing on an existing piece of artwork, you can trace it. For example, you can create a graphic based on a pencil sketch drawn on paper or a raster image saved in another graphics application and tracing over it.
The easiest way to trace artwork is to open or place a file into Illustrator and automatically trace the artwork with the Live Trace command. You can control the level of detail and how the tracing is filled. When you are satisfied with the tracing results, you can convert the tracing to vector paths or other objects as needed. This technique can be a huge time saver.
Where to from here?
Your learning doesn’t stop once you have completed your course. We hope you will continue your experience by taking some time to practice what you have learned and apply it to your own situation and environment.
If we have done our job well, you may be inspired to learn even more by attending another course. If you are looking for something other than Adobe Illustrator, we have a comprehensive range of courses available for you to choose from.
We are here to help, so please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need any further advice.
