Illustrator beginner course
Price
$250
Version
22
Available
Weekdays / Weeknights / Weekends
Lenght
1
Pre-requisites
- This course requires little or no knowledge of software
Books
- Course material for Illustrator Beginner provided
About Course
Training Since
Students Trained
Students Certified
Accreditations
Delivery Method
- Instructor-led Classroom Training at our premises
- Live Virtual Online Training attend in real-time from anywhere
- In-House Training at your premises (4+ participants)
Exams
There is no exam associated with this training course
Skills Gained
- Use Adobe Illustrator
- Create customized paths
- Enter text into an Illustrator document
- Enhance documents
- Check documents to make them more accurate
- Save images for web and print
Audience
- Suitable for anyone who wants to learn the basics of Adobe Illustrator
Course Outline
- Starting with Illustrator CC 1
- Understanding vector graphics
- Starting Illustrator in windows 8
- The welcome experience
- Opening an existing document
- The Illustrator workspace
- The status bar
- Understanding artboards
- Closing a document and exiting Illustrator
- Navigating Illustrator
- Understanding panels
- Displaying and hiding panels
- Floating and docking panels
- The tools panel
- Working with the tools panel
- Understanding workspaces
- Working with workspaces
- Working with the control panel
- Navigating with the hand tool
- Navigating with the navigation panel
- Changing document views
- Using the zoom tool
- Creating and using custom views
- Working with objects
- Understanding paths and selection tools
- Selecting with the selection tool
- Working with isolation mode
- Selecting multiple objects
- Making marquee selections
- Using the direct selection tool
- Selecting with the magic wand tool
- Understanding smart guides
- Moving objects
- Copying objects
- Grouping and ungrouping objects
- Locking and unlocking objects
- The alignment and distribution tools
- Aligning objects
- Distributing objects and spacing
- Inserting images
- Deleting objects
- Setting up a new document
- Understanding templates
- Understanding document presets
- Adjusting units of measure
- Creating a print document
- Saving a new document
- Working with a document
- Understanding artboard options
- Moving and resizing artboards
- Creating and deleting artboards
- Understanding grids, guides and rulers
- Displaying and hiding rulers
- Making guides
- Locking, unlocking and clearing guides
- Viewing and hiding the grid
- Layers
- Understanding layers and sublayers
- Understanding the layers panel
- working with the layers panel
- Creating layers and sublayers
- Naming layers and assigning colours
- Grouping layers
- Reassigning objects to different layers
- Rearranging layers and sublayers
- Hiding and displaying layers
- Locking and unlocking layers
- Deleting layers
- Shapes
- Understanding the shape and colour tools
- Preparing the workspace
- Creating basic shapes
- Creating polygons
- Creating other shapes
- creating lines and spirals
- Editing path segments
- Using offset path
- Understanding drawing modes
- Colour, fill and stroke
- Understanding fill and stroke
- Understanding colour
- Understanding colour controls
- Applying colour using the colour panel
- Applying colour using the swatches panel
- Applying colour using the eyedropper tool
- Swapping fill and stroke colours
- Working with stroke weight
- Working with stroke width
- Applying dashes to strokes
- Gradients
- Understanding gradients
- Applying a linear gradient
- Changing the direction of a gradient
- Changing colours in a gradient
- Colours in a gradient
- Adding colours to a gradient
- Applying a radial gradient
- Saving a gradient
- Applying a gradient to a stroke
- Working with type
- Understanding type in illustrator
- Understanding formatting options
- Inserting and formatting point type
- Inserting and formatting area type
- Cutting and pasting text
- Formatting text
- Formatting paragraphs
- Copying formatting with the eyedropper tool
- Creating columns of text
- Text and objects
- Typing on a path
- Converting text into editable path
- Working with character objects
- The touch type tool
- Styles
- Introduction to drawing
- Understanding drawing in illustrator
- Drawing a straight path with the pen tool
- Drawing closed paths with the pen tool
- Draw curved paths with the pen tool
- Drawing objects with curved paths
- Adjusting curves created by the pen tool
- Drawing paths with the curvature tool
- Drawing paths with the pencil tool
- Add fill to closed paths
- Saving and printing
- Understanding save and export options
- Understanding file formats
- Exporting an illustrator document
- Saving for a microsoft office program
- Saving as a pdf file
- Saving an illustrator document for the web
- Printing an illustrator document
- Packaging a document
- Getting help
- Understanding the help menu
- Using help
- Searching for online help
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Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth
Course Type
- Full-Time (Weekdays)
Days
- Monday to Wednesday
Time
- 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Duration
- 3 days
Price
- $1999
Cities
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth
Course Type
- Part-Time (Weeknights)
Days
- Mondays and Tuesdays
Time
- 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Duration
- 2 weeks
Price
- $1799
Cities
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth
Course Type
- Part-Time (Weekends)
Days
- Saturdays only
Time
- 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Duration
- 2 weeks
Price
- $1799
FAQs – Illustrator Beginner Course
What is the Illustrator Beginner Course about?
The Illustrator Beginner Course is an instructor-led, hands-on training program designed to help learners build essential Adobe Illustrator skills. The course introduces vector graphics, drawing tools, shapes, paths, colours, typography, layers, editing techniques, logo design, branding graphics, icons, illustrations, and advertising design basics.
Who should attend the Illustrator Beginner Course?
This course is suitable for beginners, students, freelancers, marketing professionals, business owners, content creators, and creative learners who want to create professional vector artwork, logos, branding assets, social media graphics, posters, flyers, and digital illustrations.
What can I create after completing this course?
After completing the Illustrator Beginner Course, learners can create logos, icons, brand graphics, illustrations, advertising visuals, posters, flyers, social media designs, digital artwork, and other scalable vector graphics for print and digital use.
Where is the Illustrator Beginner Course available?
The Illustrator Beginner Course is available in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, across Australia, and Live Virtually, giving learners flexible options to attend instructor-led training in person or online.