Illustrator CS6 Certification Bootcamp

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RRP: £750.00
Web Special: £695.00

Maximum Class Size

In order to ensure every student gets the most out of the course we have a maximum class size of:

London

8 Delegates

York

5 Delegates

Illustrator CS6 Certification Bootcamp is a combination of the Getting Started and Advanced Techniques courses, offering you a complete blended learning solution that gets you from beginner to advanced user in one simple process.

About this Illustrator Training Course

Illustrator CS6 Certification Bootcamp is targeted at those who are new to the Illustrator package and wanting to learn Illustrator inside out. From drawing and manipulating simple shapes to create logos, right through to creating complex, robust illustrations that go beyond those you could create using Illustrator's basic tools.

The course is made up of 3 days of classroom based Illustrator training which can either be completed in 2 stages at our London centre or your own location. This is then supported and extended by 12 months access to our learning management system containing video tutorials, exercises, sample files and instructor led support forums.

The Instructors

Our Illustrator trainers all have extensive experience working with the product in a professional capacity and they have all gained the ACE and ACI professional accreditations.  As contributors to the Adobe beta programs they also have more than 6 months experience of using the product prior to it's general release.

The Audience 

This Illustrator course is suitable for those who want to learn to use Illustrator CS6 but have no previous experience. If you already have experience using Illustrator then you might want to consider our Advanced Illustrator Training Course instead.

If you are unsure which Illustrator courses are most suitable then why not try our free Illustrator Skills Test to help you test your current skills.

The Prerequisites

This course is a beginners Illustrator course. You should however be comfortable using a computer to perform functions such as copy and paste, and opening applications and files. You should also be comfortable using the internet, for example for browsing and interacting with websites.

Illustrator Bootcamp Course - Topics

The following modules are covered in this course:

Stage One - 1 Day

Introduction

  • What are vectors
  • What are Bézier curves
  • The pen tools

Creating shapes

  • The pen tool
  • Primitive shapes
  • Adding/deleting anchor points
  • Creating Bézier curves
  • Combining shapes
  • Creating outlines from text
  • The shape builder tool
  • The blend tool

Editing shapes

  • Adjusting existing shapes
  • Cutting paths
  • Combining paths and shapes
  • Erasing paths and shapes

Organising your work

  • Artboards
  • Custom artboards
  • Layers
  • Sub-layers
  • Layer properties
  • Templates
  • Group Isolation mode

Colour

  • Choosing a colour
  • Using swatches
  • Saving your swatches
  • Spot colours
  • Process colours
  • Global colours

Stroke and fill

  • Creating strokes
  • Creating fill
  • Applying colour to strokes and fills

Transforming shapes

  • Duplicating
  • Moving, rotating
  • Reflecting, Shearing
  • Scaling
  • Step and repeat
  • Transform again

Effects

  • 3D
  • Stylize
  • Distort & Transform
  • Warp
  • Organising your effects
  • etc

Text

  • Adding text
  • Text within a a shape
  • Text on a shape
  • Controlling text
  • Creating outlines from text

Saving and Exporting

  • Saving options
  • Exporting options
  • Exporting to pdf
  • Other export formats
  • Using Illustrator with other applications

Stage Two - 2 Days

Symbols

  • Creating symbols
  • Editing symbols
  • Saving symbols
  • Using the symbol tools

Live paint

  • LivePaint groups
  • Detecting Gaps
  • Painting strokes and fills
  • Live paint bucket and Live paint selection tools

Blob brush tool

  • Painting with the blob brush
  • Merging and keep selected options
  • Tolerances and options

Perspective grid tool

  • Introduction
  • Presets and settings
  • Drawing in perspective
  • Attaching & releasing objects
  • Bringing in objects
  • Selecting objects
  • Transforming objects
  • Adding text and symbols

Colour

  • Recolouring your artwork
  • Creating swatches from your artwork
  • Applying swatches to your artwork
  • Colour groups

Gradients

  • Creating gradients
  • Applying gradients to shapes
  • Applying gradients to strokes
  • - along the length, across the width, within the stroke

Gradient mesh

  • Creating mesh objects
  • Editing mesh objects
  • Mesh points and mesh patches
  • Using transparency

Tracing images

  • Image trace
  • Presets
  • Mode
  • Using a palette
  • advanced options

Brushes

  • Art brushes
  • Scatter brushes
  • Bristle brushes
  • Pattern brushes

Custom brushes

  • Creating your own brushes
  • Using your custom brushes

Patterns

  • Defining your pattern
  • Creating your pattern
  • Applying your pattern

The appearance panel

  • Organising your effects
  • Moving your effects
  • Multiple strokes
  • Multiple fills

Previous Feedback From Our Illustrator Courses

We thought you might like to know what some past delegates thought of our Illustrator courses:

"Very good, answered all my questions and was flexible enough to deviate from agenda to show me techniques or queries I had during the sessions."
Design Team Manager, Girl Guiding UK

"Really helpful and clear, he always goes through things if you haven't got it straight away and is very patient"
Designer, Marks and Spencer

"Very Knowlegable and helpful, keen to make sure you understand each action of the software and how they interact, great!"
Software Developer, Northgate

"The center was comfortable to work in, while the instructor was very clear and answered all our questions"
Creative Assistant, The Walt Disney Company

If you are looking for a complete Illustrator training package that covers the lot, call us on 0800 156 0777.