About this Course

Course Description

This course provides participants with hands-on experience to learn the features of Illustrator CC quickly and easily. Countless time saving tips and techniques are discussed in this course to help you add vitality and impact to your work.

We share indispensable suggestions and advice so that you can achieve sophisticated results with minimal efforts. You will gain new creative freedom and realise that drawing has never been this easy!

THE ESSENTIAL OF ILLUSTRATOR CC

Getting to know the work area and customising your workspace

Quick startup with document profiles

Setting up design grid with rulers and guides

Create "multi-page" files with artboards of varying sizes

DRAWING TECHNIQUES

Mastering the various selection techniques

Creating shapes and lines

Working with freeform tools including pen, pencil, and brush tools

Building new shapes with the Shape Builder tool

Reshaping and editing existing shapes

Using Image Trace to trace artwork

Improving the quality of traced artwork

Applying colours using Live Paint tool

Using Symbols for re-usable shapes

Turning 2D shapes into fully editable 3D objects

Draw behind or inside other objects without choosing layers or setting the stacking order

Using opacity to create depth

Adding non-destructive effects to objects

WORKING WITH LAYERS

Keeping track of your objects with layers

Easily locate and target an object using layers

Using inline editing to rename layers

Handling layers and sublayers

Changing stacking order

Moving art between layers

PAINTING AND COLOURS

Creating and using colour and gradients swatches

Using the Pattern Tile tool to experiment with patterns

Using Appearance panel for quick and easy editing

Creating smooth colour blends

Applying gradients to strokes

Saving colours groups for re-use

TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY

Create or import text from an external source

Working with typographic controls

Adding wavy text

Creating text and clipping mask

Create type outlines to avoid missing fonts issues

Get creative with Touch Type tool

INTEGRATING IMAGES

Importing images to reduce drawing efforts

Managing links for successful high resolution printing

Enhancing images with effects

Colourising an imported grayscale image

Packaging files for hand over to printers

Duration

2 days ( 9am – 6pm )

Target Audience

Recommended for anyone who wants to create vector graphics and are looking at the easy, short and “no-efforts” ways to creating these graphics

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