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Adobe Illustrator CS5 Introduction 2 Day - Leeds

In this scheduled Illustrator course, you will learn skills that allow you to take advantage of Illustrator's powerful tools to create illustrations and type effects. Learn to design advertisements and printable documents. Work with colours, gradients, layers, fonts, and photos to create eye-catching illustrations and text effects.

Upon successful completion of this course, delegates will be able to:
-Draw and understand Bezier curves, the root of drawing in Illustrator
-Create a logo using simple shapes
-Accurately place and measure objects in the Illustration window
-Trace and Colour your hand drawn artwork with Live Trace, Live Paint and Live Colour
-Save illustrations for both print and web purposes

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A bespoke version of this scheduled
course is also available to suit
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Adobe Illustrator CS5 training at XChangeTraining
 

Price:
£450
 

Duration:
2 Days
 

Course Location:
Central Leeds
 

Course Dates:
 
11 Jun - 12 Jun
 
6 Sep - 7 Sep
 

 

  A copy of this quality manual is available to all attendees of this course:
 
 

Adobe Illustrator CS5: Visual Quick Start Guide
  Price listed is per delegate and excludes VAT.
 

XChange Training limit class size (4-8 delegates max) to ensure an excellent quality of training is provided so courses can fill up quickly. Please book up early to guarantee your place.
 

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Adobe Illustrator CS5 Introduction 2 Day - Leeds 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.

Core Illustrator Concepts
-What are Vector Graphics?
-Creating a Custom Workspace
-Fill and Stroke Attributes
-Document Settings

The Interface
-Exploring panels and workspaces
-Using the Control Panel
-Navigation
-Smart Guides
-Preview Options
-Grids and Guides
-The Bounding Box
-Panels
-Libraries

Illustrator Colour Tools
-Defining swatches
-Working with gradients
-Working with patterns
-Using the Color Guides
-Live Colour
-Finding colours with kuler

Drawing and Selection Essentials
-Draw Paths with the Pen Tool
-Shape Tools
-The Seletion Tools
-Methods of Selection
-Shapes
-Duplicate Objects
-Mastering the Pen Tool
-The Pencil tool

Editing Paths
-Editing Anchor Points
-Compound Shapes
-Pathfinder Options
-Path Options

Appearances
-The Appearance Panel
-Object Attributes
-Multiple attributes
-Applying Live Effects
-Appearance Panel settings

Working with Groups and Layers
-Defining groups
-Editing groups
-Working with layers
-Layers and object hierarchy

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Object Transformation and Positioning
-Moving and copying objects
-Rotating and scaling objects
-Reflecting and skewing objects
-Using the Transform panel

Brushes
-Creating a calligraphic brush
-Creating an art brush
-Creating a pattern brush

Using Symbols
-Defining and editing symbols
-Editing symbols

Applying Filters and Live Effects
-Minding your resolution settings
-Transforming Effects
-Using the Warp effect

Basic Text Editing
-Creating Point Text
-Creating Area Text
-Text Formatting
-Creating Text Threads
-Text on a Path
-Using the Glyphs panel

Creating Blends
-Creating a basic blend
-Using a blend to create an airbrush effect
-Working with Images

Placing images
-Using the Links panel
-The Edit Original workflow
-Live Trace
-Rasterizing artwork

Specialised Tasks
-Creating graphs
-Using Gradient Mesh
-Using Envelope Warps
-The Liquify Distortion tools

Illustrator Output
-Saving your Illustrator document
-Printing your Illustrator document
-Using the Crop Area tool
-Setting up page tiling

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Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This course is intended for graphic designers and textile/fashion deisgners, or people transitioning into a design job or taking on design responsibilities, who need to use Illustrator to create illustrations, logos, clothing design, advertisements, or other graphic documents. Delegates may have little or no experience with Illustrator.

Ahead of taking this course the trainee must have basic PC or Mac skills, including a fundamental understanding of a computer's operating system, how to launch an application and create and save files, as well as how to copy files from CDs and other media.


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Location information for this scheduled course

This course will be offered at the Leeds training centre in at:

Old Broadcasting House,
148 Woodhouse Lane,
Leeds,
LS2 9EN

The Old Broadcasting House is located at Leeds Metropolitan University on Woodhouse Lane which is easily accessible by car and from Leeds train station. If you are driving, the nearest car park is the Woodhouse Lane NCP multi storey which is close by.

Courses are run between 9.30am and 4.30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks.

  

Training Centre address
Central Leeds

Tel: 0845 363 1130
Email: info@xchangetraining.co.uk
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Advantages of learning Adobe Illustrator CS5 with XChange Training

-XChange Training is an Adobe Certified Training Centre
-Our Illustrator CS5 trainers are experienced print and design professionals with excellent knowledge of all aspects of print workflows from creating artwork to guaranteeing successful output.
-XChange training focuses on real tasks that reflect how the software is used in professional situations.
-Free Course manual provided for each trainee as excellent post-course reference material.
-Free email support service for 6 months after course included in the price.
-We get consistently good feedback from our clients.

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