Illustrator Intro Course

Get up and running with Illustrator in 1 day with

Illustrator Getting Started

Our Illustrator training courses will help you learn to make the most of this great package, and have you up and running with Illustrator in no time at all.

The Illustrator Getting Started course is the aimed at those with little or no experience using Illustrator, so if you are looking to get up to speed quickly this is a good place to start. Taught by our Adobe Certified Instructors with many years experience using Illustrator, you will learn best practice right from the start and a wealth of new techniques.

We will clarify the difference between vector and raster images, show you how to master the pen tool and create your own vectors, recreating logos and other shapes. We will show you how to edit your artwork, adjust nodes, and combine paths.

Experienced Instructors

Over 20 years experience

Post Course Support

Hours of videos & more

Closed Courses

Online, Classroom or Tailored

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£295.00 – £325.00

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The Illustrator Getting Started covers a wide range of topics and we try hard to ensure any specific requirements you might have are met. The standard topics we cover are listed below.

Illustrator Overview

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

Color

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

The Illustrator Getting Started course introduces you to the basics of creating vector artwork such as logos and technical drawings.

You will learn to

Understand the difference between vector and raster images
Be able to create artwork in Illustrator such as logos, technical drawings, typography and illustrations.
Know how to customise the Illustrator interface to improve efficiency and work better
Feel comfortable using Illustrator's tools to create shapes, lines, bezier curves (we'll explain these too) and more.
Understand and be able to organise your layers, artboards, templates, etc..
Apply colours, gradients and a wide range of effects to your illustrations
Transform your shapes by duplication, rotating, scaling, and more
Save your illustrations for reuse in both print and web using formats such as ai, pdf, svg and more.

Who should attend this course

This course is aimed at anybody wanting to get up and running with Adobe Illustrator, and looking to learn how to use the pen tool and other Illustrator tools to create scalable vector artwork. You should be comfortable using a computer to copy and past, open files and applications and other similar skills.

Comments from delegates that attended

"Really good instructor, very impressed with the overall approach who was very patient and explained everything clearly. Very friendly and energetic!"
Concept Designer, Interface

"Excellent. Always makes things easy to understand and more than happy to go back through any things found difficult. Really enjoyed learning the basics, feel as though its been incredibly useful."
Marketing Assistant, Varlink

"Fantastic tutor, patient and fun. I've really enjoyed my course and I feel much more equipped to start working with illustrator. I think the size of the class was perfect and the pace of the course was also great."
Photographer and Publicity Assistant, Reliance Precision

"Roger was very knowledgeable and approachable. He answered our questions thoroughly and well. It is obvious when the trainer is an actual user of the software."
Technical Author, Lhasa

"I enjoyed the fact that it is mostly practical and you're able to get hands on with the software. The instructor is very friendly and approachable which makes it easier to ask for help."
Marketing Administrator, Softbox

"Very good. Good, comfortable working environment"
Data Officer, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

"Really good introduction to all the basic tools of illustrator."
Valerie Hawkins, Footwear Designer

"The instructor was very friendly and always helped when i asked questions."
Litho Printer, Litmus

"Excellent, Comprehensive training for Adobe suite courses."
Owner, MGT Publications

"Very good introduction to a complex matter - it made it feel easy. It wants me to go home and play around with it now."
Content Marketing Manager, Six Degrees

"Very helpful, answered every question that I had, correctly."
Project Management Assistant, Lloyds Banking Group