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Adobe Illustrator CS4 for Textile & Fashion Designers - Two Day Introduction training— Bespoke

Adobe Illustrator CS4 is the latest version of Adobe's industry standard vector-based illustrating tool and with the likely demise of Freehand it looks set to retain its crown for some time. It is used by graphic designers throughout the world to create a vast variety of different media including illustrations, package designs, leaflets & flyers, web graphics & animations, notice boards, billboards, and many other graphic objects. Mastering the basics then means you'll be able to produce an almost endless scope of graphic designs.

Adobe Illustrator CS4 adds some great new features that beginners can start using straight away such as Control palette, Adobe Bridge, Live Trace and expanded export options.

This 2 day course will introduce new techniques and skills in the use Illustrator to develop artwork relevant to fashion, textile and surface design. The course content will give you an introduction to those techniques which are predominantly used in the fashion and textiles industry. During the course you will create imagery for textile artwork, garment illustrations and graphic presentations.

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Adobe Illustrator CS4 for Textile & Fashion Designers - Two Day Introduction training Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Exploring the Illustrator environment
-General preferences
-The toolbox
-The palettes
-Using Basic Shapes
-Using the Pathfinder

Drawing & painting Tools
-About paths & compound paths
-Bezier paths & points
-Painting with patterns & gradients
-Drawing Bezier shapes with the Pen tool
-Drawing models/mannequins/garments & upholstery
-Converting hand drawn sketches to Illustrator files
-Editing paths created with the Pen tool
-Creating patterns & textures

Working with Patterns & Colour
-Techniques for creating simple & complex repeating patterns
-Transforming pattern tiles
-Creating & working with different colour models
-Using Gradients
-Saving & exporting custom colour swatches & patterns

Symbols
-Saving artwork as Symbols
-Working with the Symbols palette
-Creating symbols
-Defining symbols
-Symbol instances
-Using the Symbol Sprayer tool

Working with Brushes
-Using Brushes to create zips, buttons, stitching, trimmings
& textures
-Creating Scatter, Art & Pattern brushes
-Creating & saving custom strokes

Blends, Gradients & Gradient Mesh
-Using the Gradient Mesh tool to create complex textures,
fabric folds & light & shadow in textiles
-Using the Gradient Mesh for realism
-Transforming objects into Gradient Mesh
-Using different blend techniques
-Reversing, releasing & exp&ing blends
-Creating simple, complex & unified Gradients

Masks
-Using Clipping Masks to clip artwork to shapes
-Using masks to warp shapes & perspectives
-Using Masks with patterns

Transparency & Appearance
-Using transparency & blending modes to create basic & advanced effects
-Creating Opacity Masks
-Using the Appearance palette to build designs
-Creating a collection of strokes, fills, effects & transparency settings
-Multiple fills & strokes

Using Layers
-Using layers to arrange & organise artwork
I-n-depth look at the Layers palette functions
-Creating a layer
-Positioning layers
-Moving objects through layers
-Deleting a layer
-Locking & hiding layers
-Merging layers
-Copying & pasting to Layers

Live Effects & Graphic Styles
-Using the Live Trace & Live Paint tools to convert bitmap & line art to Illustrator Vectors
-Tracing & converting knits, fabric & leather
-Using the 3D effect, the Scribble effect, Warps & Enveloping
-Saving Graphic Styles

Working with Type
-Using the Type tool
-Using the Path, Vertical & Area Type tools
-Using the Paragraph palette
-Changing text to outline
-Modifying outlined text
-Creating a story board

Output
-Printing illustrations
-Creating Story Boards
-Creating PDFs from Illustrator
-Export file types
-Questions & answers

Advantages of learning Adobe Illustrator CS4 with XChangeTraining

-Our Illustrator CS4 trainers are experienced design professionals with excellent knowledge off all aspects of graphic design from creating artwork to guaranteeing successful output.
-XChange Training is an Adobe Authorised Training Centre
-It's bespoke and solutions based: before you come to XChange Training we agree the course content with you based on your needs.
-We take the time to work specifically on any files you bring along to the course, ensuring that you see benefits to your workflow immediately.
-XChange training focuses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
-On-site and off-site training is available for the whole UK.
-Free email support service for 6 months after course.
-We get consistently good feedback from our clients.
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Training Pricing

On-site course pricing
Prices include a set of course notes per trainee, 6 months telephone and/or e-mail support service after the course, all refreshments and lunch if held at the training centre.

For training onsite courses outside of London a standard return train fare and/or taxi fare may be applicable.

Training centre pricing
Pricing for training at the Clerkenwell facility:
1 person £849 for a 2 day course
2 people £949 for a 2 day course
3 people £1049 for a 2 day course
4 people £1149 for a 2 day course
5 people £1199 for a 2 day course
6 people £1249 for a 2 day course
7 people £1299 for a 2 day course
8 people £1349 for a 2 day course
All prices subject to VAT

Training Centre address
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Clerkenwell, London
EC1M 4BH

Tel: 0845 363 1130
Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk

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